Zone1 Belief in God drops to 81 percent

[ding]

Not looking good for God

His believers are down ten percent.
Maybe if he could perform a miracle for us

I'm pretty sure everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I'm pretty sure everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be.

Well that's part and parcel of the delusion, isn't it?

 

[ding]

Well that's part and parcel of the delusion, isn't it?

How so? Do you believe things should be magically different than they are?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

How so? Do you believe things should be magically different than they are?

How so? Can't exactly have an all powerful God, and also have the world not in its control. Seems simple.

 

[ding]

How so? Can't exactly have an all powerful God, and also have the world not in its control. Seems simple.

Maybe if you are a polytheist. That's not how monotheism works.

 

[Redfish]

*literally the entire basis of your religion

wrong, "in his image" does not say he would show up in human form. We were created "in his image" not the other way around. However, Jesus did show up in human form. He was/is God incarnate. and it does not matter to me if you believe or not. What happens to you is up to you and no one else.

 

[surada]

many catholic priests are in jail for just that, as well as protestant "preachers" their perversions are not tolerated by Christians, but you libtardians want perverts to walk free, because you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel sorry for them, liberalism is a mental disease.

The Baptists have covered up cleric pedophiles for decades.

 

[rightwinger]

wrong, "in his image" does not say he would show up in human form. We were created "in his image" not the other way around. However, Jesus did show up in human form. He was/is God incarnate. and it does not matter to me if you believe or not. What happens to you is up to you and no one else.

So, “in his image” means we look nothing like God

 

[Meriweather]

So, “in his image” means we look nothing like God

It is speaking of traits, not physical likeness.

 

[rightwinger]

It is speaking of traits, not physical likeness.

No it is speaking of a God that looks just like humans

If you go back 6 thousand years, people were not going to worship some obscure being that they can’t identify with. God as a concept was not going to work

So they were told God looks just like you. All art work shows a human like God

 

[Meriweather]

No it is speaking of a God that looks just like humans

If you go back 6 thousand years, people were not going to worship some obscure being that they can’t identify with.

So they were told God looks just like you. All art work shows a human like God

The people who wrote about image were not to make art work of him. Your artwork came later--and not by people who wrote the account.

 

[rightwinger]

The people who wrote about image were not to make art work of him. Your artwork came later--and not by people who wrote the account.

The men who wrote the Bible were looking for followers. Followers who were uneducated and couldn’t understand a God that was strictly spiritual.
So, God was given human form that followers could relate to.

Same thing with the Greek and Roman Gods

 

[Meriweather]

The men who wrote the Bible were looking for followers. Followers who were uneducated and couldn’t understand a God that was strictly spiritual.
So, God was given human form that followers could relate to.

Too cynical. There was much more to it.

 

[rightwinger]

Too cynical. There was much more to it.

Not really
All ancient religions had Gods with human like forms

 

[BreezeWood]

It is speaking of traits, not physical likeness.

not true they created a universal physiology and spiritual content irregardless the forgery ridden c bible ... that could be any and all the lifeforms that evolved on planet earth.

also which god might appear than if there is a mr big could very well be a disaster and must be forbidden ... otherwise its for whoever completes the journey and passes judgement. not happening on earth.

 

[ding]

Not really
All ancient religions had Gods with human like forms

That's quite a leap from polytheism mythology to historical Jesus.

 

[ding]

The men who wrote the Bible were looking for followers.

Who were these men? It sounds like you have a conspiracy theory without any conspirators.

 

[ding]

No it is speaking of a God that looks just like humans

If you go back 6 thousand years, people were not going to worship some obscure being that they can’t identify with. God as a concept was not going to work

So they were told God looks just like you. All art work shows a human like God

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As Maimonides said, "If you remove all anthropomorphic content from your conception of God: you remove all content of any kind. In the end, you are left with a God whose essence is unknowable and indescribable. Of what possible value is such a conception either to philosophy or religion?"

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

wrong, "in his image" does not say he would show up in human form

Not saying that.

I am saying he DID show up in human form. And it's the entire basis of your religion.

Else you would be celebrating Hannukah.

So an expectation he will show up in human form again is not bizarre, in this context.

Oh wait, that's also the basis of your religion.

Why do I have to tell you guys this?

 

[ding]

I am saying he DID show up in human form.

Correct. To testify to the truth and suffer death to reconcile justice with mercy.