(October 6, 2014 at 5:10 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I know when it comes ro crossing the road ill check both ways but it cleary states in the Bible to not test God.
Why, from your behavior, it's almost as though your God doesn't, you know....exist.
Also, in the Bible, there is that bit about Elijah *seriously* testing God in a duel between the priests of Baal and Yahweh.
Quote:1 Kings 18:25-29New International Version (NIV)
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.” 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it.
Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
SPOILER ALERT: Later on, God shows his marvelous magical powers and Boom!, take that suckers! God is real, see! Bet you weren't expecting that, you devil-worshiping Baal mo fos! And then all the priests of Baal were slaughtered, and there was a big feast and everyone lived happily ever after. The end.
So I ask *you* C4RM5 is your god deep in thought, or busy, or traveling? Shout louder C4RM5! Can't your god *do* anything tangible?
We see no evidence from your god. Haven't seen anything, well, ever.
Clearly, this is yet another one of those vexing bible contradictions. On the one hand, the Bible makes a *point* of God being tested *in a tangible, demonstrable, visible manner*, and later, when God seems to fade into the woodwork, now it's all "don't test mah power bitch!, lest ye not hear nothin' nohow!"
But we never hear anything, regardless.
Just as we would expect from a non-existent thingy.
