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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2014 at 11:30 am by *Deidre*.)
Funny thread is funny! 
The trouble with religion is it makes a lot of excuses for an "almighty" "omnipotent" being.
Religious people speaking on "his" behalf as if they know why he does what he does and doesn't do.
Go to the Christian camp, you'll get their version of god, go to Islam, another. Go to eastern religions, another.
Wait a minute...Maybe there's MORE than one god? :p
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 11:30 am
(March 20, 2014 at 11:29 am)Deidre32 Wrote: Religious people speaking on "his" behalf as if they know why he does what he does and doesn't do. They alternate between that and telling us that it's impossible to know the mind of god.
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 11:33 am
(March 15, 2014 at 10:06 pm)Brakeman Wrote: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone? Because He gave people the rational capacity and resources to find it ourselves.
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 11:38 am
(March 20, 2014 at 11:33 am)ChadWooters Wrote: (March 15, 2014 at 10:06 pm)Brakeman Wrote: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone? Because He gave people the rational capacity and resources to find it ourselves.
So, what is the purpose of prayer? If "God" gave us the ability to think for ourselves, why do people pray?
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 11:43 am
(March 20, 2014 at 11:33 am)ChadWooters Wrote: (March 15, 2014 at 10:06 pm)Brakeman Wrote: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone? Because He gave people the rational capacity and resources to find it ourselves.
Did Jesus have anything to do with the disappearance? He's a crafty bugger that Jesus bloke.
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 12:13 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 1:58 am)Godschild Wrote: What I'm saying is that if God did reveal what happened to the airliner then everyone would know of His existence an faith would be out the window. Being that faith is a first step to coming to know God He want reveal Himself in this way. Besides God created man to help man and that's what's being done.
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Really Godschild? That kind of position holds no credibility whatsoever, even within your own religion. Your god showed himself half a dozen times in the Old Testament, performed approximately one metric fuckton of miracles and acts of wrath, and Jesus performed miracles and rose from the motherfucking dead in the New Testament. You're going to have to do better than that.
(March 20, 2014 at 11:33 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Because He gave people the rational capacity and resources to find it ourselves.
So he's a lazy "pass the buck" git then?
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 1:18 pm
He has been busy polishing his nails
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 4:01 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 11:38 am)Deidre32 Wrote: So, what is the purpose of prayer? If "God" gave us the ability to think for ourselves, why do people pray?
Some people have the ability to think for themselves. For the rest, there's prayer.
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 4:11 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 4:01 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: (March 20, 2014 at 11:38 am)Deidre32 Wrote: So, what is the purpose of prayer? If "God" gave us the ability to think for ourselves, why do people pray?
Some people have the ability to think for themselves. For the rest, there's prayer.
I used to say similar things and so now looking back at it, I wonder why people assume they know how a god "operates." And then when asked about why this or that, I'll get another spin.
Just doesn't make sense why we feel we need to believe that "something else" is in control. But yet he gives us the ability to solve our own problems. I guess that's the answer we give when we can't make sense of tragedy.
How about we don't try to make sense of it and just accept that there are bad things that just happen? It's like we need to talk to an invisible being to cushion the blows of reality?
I dunno. 
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RE: If jesus knows where the missing Malaysian airplane is, why won't he tell someone?
March 20, 2014 at 6:41 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: (March 20, 2014 at 4:01 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Some people have the ability to think for themselves. For the rest, there's prayer.
I used to say similar things and so now looking back at it, I wonder why people assume they know how a god "operates." And then when asked about why this or that, I'll get another spin.
Just doesn't make sense why we feel we need to believe that "something else" is in control. But yet he gives us the ability to solve our own problems. I guess that's the answer we give when we can't make sense of tragedy.
How about we don't try to make sense of it and just accept that there are bad things that just happen? It's like we need to talk to an invisible being to cushion the blows of reality?
I dunno.
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