RE: Post number 1
March 23, 2012 at 12:47 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2012 at 12:50 am by Drich.)
(March 22, 2012 at 3:42 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: No,Yes! As I said if God wanted a single denomination He would have set Christianity up like He did the Jews. As it is we have two Great Commands Love the Lord God with all of our being, and love our neighbor as ourselves. the first allows us to express our love in what ever gifts we have been given. Because we are all different our worship will look different. This division results in different denominations.
Quote:people formed all the autonomous religious branches within the Christian Church that we recognize today each having its own organization. I'm not aware of any god. Why is it that you Christians lack the same faith in the same creator? Logically, you can't all be right, but you can all be wrong.No matter how Wrong we are we all unite under one principle. The forgiveness of sin through the shed blood of Christ. That mean if there is forgiveness for open rebellious sin, there is forgiveness for a worship that includes the all encompassing love we have for God.
Quote:This is another separate topic, though curiously I feel the need to address this - WHY would a creator want his creation to love him?The same reason a good parent want their child to love them. The answer you seek is built in the relationships we foster with our children. With our spouces.
Quote:What difference does that make? Nothing. A perfect immortal being has no want or need for love or devotion from finite perishable beings.The question should be ask are we all made to be finite? or just the one who do not elect eternal life?
Quote:Besides, what God *wants* isn't happening in any case. There are people who are alive now and were alive before who don't love him at all, and some who have never loved him. So what?Which is exactly the reason we have been given this life. To have the opportunity to decide for ourselves whether we wish to spend eternity with God. Can we love Him? When you are standing at your final judgment you will know for sure what you have decided in this life. and although you do not want to go to hell you know it is what you choose. there will be no doubt.
(March 22, 2012 at 7:07 pm)padraic Wrote:Classify it any way you wish. in the end it is a command that we will all answer to.Quote:Remember God wants us to Love HIM with all of our being,
--and is so insecure,that if we do not,he will hurt us in one or several quite inventive ways .
THAT is called 'Hobson's choice" or 'coercion'.
He has never seemed all that fussed about us loving our neighbours. I don't think he's serious about that admonition.
