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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 3:19 pm)robvalue Wrote:
(June 10, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Lek Wrote: Even if God knows it, why would God tell Rekeisha what the four digit number you're thinking of is?

To provide some evidence?

God has provided the evidence that he wants us to have. Please don't take this as a personal insult Rob, but I'm trying to illustrate a point. God doesn't need to to kowtow to the specific demands of those who insult and deny him.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
If he wants a relationship with me, I'll be waiting. He presumably knows where I live.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 3:30 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: If he wants a relationship with me, I'll be waiting.  He presumably knows where I live.

You must first want a relationship with him. The problem is, that means you must put him above yourself.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
He needs me to put him above myself? That's pretty arrogant of him. And why can't he come tell me that himself? All it would take is literally a two-second "Hey I'm real" message or sign.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
If god wants to continue to do an impression of something that doesn't exist, it's no skin off my nose. I'm not putting anyone above me, thanks very much. He's already a god, what more could he possibly want? If he wants to sit on my head, there's not much I can do about it.

If this is the evidence god wants me to have, then he should understand that it's not good enough for me. His problem, again.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Lek Wrote:
(June 10, 2015 at 3:30 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: If he wants a relationship with me, I'll be waiting.  He presumably knows where I live.

You must first want a relationship with him.  The problem is, that means you must put him above yourself.

Why would I want to have a relationship with him? Why would he be so picky about the type of relationship he wants that putting him above me is a requirement for that? I'd rather start at being acquaintences, then work our way up from there. I could take it or leave it, personally, much like any relationship I have with people I don't live with.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Lek Wrote:
(June 9, 2015 at 1:11 am)robvalue Wrote: How are we doing on that four digit number? Does God know what I'm thinking, or not? Here's a chance to demonstrate everything you are saying actually has some weight behind it.

Even if God knows it, why would God tell Rekeisha what the four digit number you're thinking of is?

Better question: why wouldn't he?
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 4:05 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:
(June 10, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Lek Wrote: Even if God knows it, why would God tell Rekeisha what the four digit number you're thinking of is?

Better question: why wouldn't he?

He's an asshole, strutting around, planting dinosaur fossils everywhere and refusing to interfere with physical reality

What a dickweed Angry
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 10, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Lek Wrote:
(June 10, 2015 at 3:30 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: If he wants a relationship with me, I'll be waiting.  He presumably knows where I live.

You must first want a relationship with him.  The problem is, that means you must put him above yourself.

In my mind, you've all proved me right here!
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
In my mind I'm an action hero, beloved by all, and filthy rich. Unfortunately reality is different for me.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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