RE: Understanding the bible
May 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2012 at 8:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 30, 2012 at 6:06 pm)Godschild Wrote: Why, Satan and the fallen angels knew God, they still know He exists, they have rejected who He is, not His existence. All the Christians in my church know God is real, they do not need physical sight to believe, through the Holy Spirit we see God as plain as we see the church building when we enter the parking lot. Faith in God leads to believing ie. knowing. Once a person truly experiences God that person knows God exists, once a person knows God exists that person can never truly deny He doesn't.
Not a oxymoron, rather a rejecting of who God is. I do not know many who have rejected who God is, it's rather rare, even to the point of being extremely rare. This is why I can know that those who say they were Christians and say God is not real, never truly believed He does exist.
What color tiara does your god sport? Every believer of every faith "knew" their god was real, you cant all be right, but you can all be wrong. Way to cheapen the painful experience of those who have utterly lost the faith they once held as deeply (and who's to say, perhaps more deeply) than yourself.
Speaking of Satan and his fallen angels. As you say, the story tells us that they knew god. Still, they decided he was a big enough douche for a hostile takeover. Now, we could imagine that the large majority of these angels were absolute dumb-asses (god has a bad track record in the smarts dept) but at least a few of them likely would have had legitimate gripes. Now, we don't know anything at all about this god (despite your babbling to the contrary) and we already have legitimate gripes. All it would take for a full blown rebellion is that god did exactly what he did all day every day....and clicked his tongue incessently-and many human beings would be driven to murder.
Thankfully, this is all fairy tale bullshit and adults don't swallow fairy tale bullshit like it was a documentary, do they? Honestly, take just a half step back here and consider what you're proposing. A magical war between mythical creatures.......
(at what point does it become "okay" in a normal conversation between sane people to invoke monsters as elaboration upon a point of contention?)
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