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Understanding the bible
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 4:22 pm
How about the time after drowning most of the world, god gave us the rainbow as a symbol to promise to never flood the world again. We got rainbows cause god fucked up.
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 4:31 pm (This post was last modified: May 28, 2012 at 4:33 pm by Cyberman.)
So well worth global genocide then. And there I was thinking ol' Yahweh was a bit of a rascal.
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 4:44 pm
(May 28, 2012 at 4:06 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(May 28, 2012 at 3:58 am)Tobie Wrote: That means he is not all-powerful. An all-powerful being has the ability to do everything, including making mistakes, so either your god can and does make mistakes or he is not all-powerful.

Now that is a stupid statement, being all powerful, God's plan is perfect and needs no changes, actually you're being ridiculous, an all knowing and all powerful God does not make mistakes. To make a mistake would be a contradiction to omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. I guess you answered my question, you do not know what perfect means, I thought you to be smarter than this.

I'm ridiculous? You're the one who can't see the logical contradiction between not making mistakes and being all-powerful. Then again, you are blinded by your delusion.

Also, if god doesn't make mistakes, why did he regret creating us, to the point of wanting to wipe us off the planet?
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 4:48 pm
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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May 28, 2012 at 4:52 pm (This post was last modified: May 28, 2012 at 4:53 pm by Tobie.)
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 4:59 pm
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm
The god of the bible would make the absolute worst comic book character. There is ZERO interesting about the hollow Mithras impersonator.
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 5:01 pm (This post was last modified: May 28, 2012 at 5:30 pm by Godscreated.)
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 5:03 pm
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RE: Understanding the bible
May 28, 2012 at 5:05 pm
(May 28, 2012 at 4:59 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(May 28, 2012 at 4:44 pm)Tobie Wrote: I'm ridiculous? You're the one who can't see the logical contradiction between not making mistakes and being all-powerful. Then again, you are blinded by your delusion.

Also, if god doesn't make mistakes, why did he regret creating us, to the point of wanting to wipe us off the planet?

I understand clearly two things in this, you like to play with words and not be honest in your approach to this discussion, and that you are delusional in your thinking.
Yes, you're being ridiculous.
God was sorrowful for man's condition, it saddened Him that man fell so far. God's love is so intense for man, even though He knew man would fall to great depths of sin, it still saddened Him.

How is my thinking delusional? I point out a contradiction in your belief, so it is automatically delusional? If you really want to see a delusion, just pick up your fucking bible.
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