RE: Ask, Seek, Knock
October 13, 2012 at 10:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2012 at 10:56 pm by Darkstar.)
(October 13, 2012 at 6:40 pm)Drich Wrote: [Because if your 'mind' is seeking what it wants, and God offers something we do not know we want or need and that works while what we want only leaves us wanting more. Then how is it all in our head if we we find contentment if we are not seeking it in what God is offering?
You find contentment because it is in your head. God somehow offers every theist exactly what they want because they can make up anything. If anything good happens in your life, it was god. Anything bad happens, well, he can't be expected to do everything, right? (Though there would be no way to distinguish between his doing it and it occuring due to ther factors.)
God offers us nothing. If god offered us something, then why doesn't he answer prayers? (And don't say because we are asking for something selfish; If I pray for the starving kids in Africa they will still be starving).
(October 13, 2012 at 12:40 am)Drich Wrote: Do you not know the story of God and Aberham? God was the God of the Jews. (the sons of Aberham) He did not care what the others did. Again not all who live are the 'sons' of God. Meaning God does not love everyone equally. There are even some He hates.
Uhh...Let's look at this again. "God was the god of the Jews"...
Now, what does that tell you? It tells you that the Jews worshiped him as their god. It does not explain why god offered Judaism to only a small portion of the world, and why he let them worship false gods for a long time before revealing himself. By your logic (and, in fact, from what I understand) god arbitrarily revealed himself to the Isrealites and helped them decimate the world in his name. Why them? Why didn't he show himself before paganism took hold? Or is it because he wouldn't have had a [weak] justification to spill some blood?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.