RE: Ask, Seek, Knock
October 14, 2012 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2012 at 4:01 pm by Drich.)
(October 14, 2012 at 2:05 pm)Darkstar Wrote: It doesn't matter if you do it right. God can still arbitrarily decide you have to pray more, or decide he doesn't want to answer it.what makes you an expert on the Mind of God?
Quote:Even if you do it 'right' your whole life, prayers may never be answered because god wants you to wait longer or doesn't feel like answering them, and you would never know.Have you ever even made the effort to 'pray correctly?' Then how can you say your prayers will never be answered?
Quote:Yours. Air conditioning and supermarkets are irrelated to human nature.Lol, You do not understand Human nature. Super markets and A/C are pacefiers. If you take these things away then you have the makings of an angery mob. This is the real reason for goverment give away programs. to keep people docile, to control them with the 'luxury' of a pacifier like
Quote: People fought in the past for survival. Now that people don't have to fight, they don't want to nearly as much.Says the guy a few years (if that) out of his mom's house. Discontentment or the need to accumilate the things we do not need, is what drives the western way of life. it is the reason we need SUPER Markets, a new car model every year, Mega box electronic stores, the reason for the Iphone 5, the reason communisim does not work in the face of excess. At best you have confused yourself with an ideology that is forgotten the further you get from campus life, or a life at home.
Quote: If given the choice between peace and an unnecessary war, all but the most bloodthirsty would choose peace.That is why all wars are tied to the soceities ever changing morality. So that the masses feel Obligated to move against another country.
Quote:The bible condones slavery...So? The question wasn't does God condone slavery. I asked who actually physically owned slaves?
(October 14, 2012 at 3:42 pm)Tino Wrote:(October 14, 2012 at 1:23 pm)Tino Wrote: How much do you typically donate?
(October 14, 2012 at 1:55 pm)Drich Wrote: less than 1/2 of what I should.
What is the "should" level?
Everything that I am.