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Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
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#31
RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 12:39 pm
"I come to bring you life in all it's fullness"

Sae, a tip.. you need to take off those hate tinted glasses first Wink
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#32
RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I'd rather have a good life that will benefit others... than live a full life all for myself.

I may wear hate tinged glasses (I must have been wearing them a long time, because the world looks normal to me)... but behind those glasses are the kindest of eyes Smile
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#33
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October 6, 2009 at 12:54 pm (This post was last modified: October 6, 2009 at 12:54 pm by fr0d0.)
That's what a full life would entail Sae.

I have no doubt about your kind eyes Heart Tongue
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#34
RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 1:01 pm
(October 6, 2009 at 12:10 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The man made (& inspired by God Tongue) manual is as perfect as it can be. It is superbly logically coherent and explains concisely the nature of God. Using it you can achieve a full life.

This man made book is full of contradictions and superstision. Nothing in it is clear. It doesn't leave you in awe after you've read it. It tells the story of an very nasty God (especially in the OT), not that he NT is any better...I can't see how this can be "as perfect as can be". If God wrote a book it would have left us in awe. He would have predicted things to happen in future and kept things simple so that us mere mortals could also understand it. I honestly can't see how you can use the Bible as a base/guide for Christianity

Using our noodles we can logically work out things. We can know God's will, we can know what is needed to get to heaven.

As stated before. If God exists he will be to complex for us to understand. Can we try and use the Bible to explain God will? No. Sorry to repeat myself but again, the Bible is man made based on other human opinions/experiences.

Or have I got it al wrong? Feel free to use your noodles to explain God's willThinking
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October 6, 2009 at 1:17 pm
God is too complex for us to fully understand. Using logic you can understand some. Or are you saying it is impossible for humans to conclude anything logically? It seems so.
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October 6, 2009 at 1:21 pm (This post was last modified: October 6, 2009 at 1:33 pm by Violet.)
FSM Grin Agrees, Craveman Smile

Well, if that is all a full life entails: I'll do my best to live it Smile But I'll live it doing what's right by me ^_^ God might have the perfect manual... but I'll learn what's right by finding it myself (It'll have a greater impact upon me that way). Smile
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RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 1:32 pm
You assume Sae, that referring to a manual requires no input from yourself. This manual requires a hell of a lot of questioning and self searching and would be an admirable feat for any person to achieve alone with all the anti personal requirements.

Great to have to back by the way! Wink
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#38
RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Wow... and that's a perfect manual? Joke All the good manuals I ever read just told me step by step how to do something Smile

I'd like to think myself as well on the way to achieving the feat Wink Well, I'd like to at the least Wink
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#39
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October 6, 2009 at 1:46 pm
(October 6, 2009 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God is too complex for us to fully understand. Using logic you can understand some. Or are you saying it is impossible for humans to conclude anything logically? It seems so.

I never said humans can't conclude anything logic. Of course we can! Is it logic though to base my religion on a man made book that is not written by God in the first place? Not for me...
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RE: Question for anyone with the knowledge to answer.
October 6, 2009 at 1:53 pm
The other manuals doing it all for you are just demonstrating their huge inadequacy. This manual takes you way way further to the real end Tongue

So you may understand your manual, but then you will find an addendum pointing to the huge chasm beyond.
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