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Styles of dress often quickly change, and are dependent on the whims of the masses. You claim religion is always the same, and unchanging. I'll give you one thing. the areas where each religion is practiced seems consistent.Why should differences in religion be any more interesting or amazing than differences in styles of dress?
....Keep your religion to yourself and move on. ....
You must be mistaking me for someone else. I've never made such a claim for I have never thought that religion is always the same and unchanging. Not much, if anything, in this life is.You claim religion is always the same, and unchanging.
Really? How odd. Even in my own family that has not been the case.I'll give you one thing. the areas where each religion is practiced seems consistent.
When you tell people that you are going to destroy the world in 120 years if they don't get their act together and stop doing evil, yes, it's due process.No, that's what due process is at all.
And if you tell people "I'm going to blow up your city in a year's time" and then you do it, does that make you any less evil?
He doesn't. You don't like judgement, I get it. That doesn't change the fact that God has to do it, and He has authority you simply don't.Again, God can do whatever he likes. He can do EVIL THINGS. Should God do evil things just because he can?
Of course, it is. Don't tell me you resent it.The Bible teaches that we should not kill. We CAN kill. That's why we say "don't kill". Just because we CAN, doesn't mean we SHOULD. This is a TEACHING FROM THE BIBLE.
I'm not, and if you think I am, you need to reread some things.And you're telling me that God thinks this is a little stupid.
That's stupid. Again you're ignoring authority. God CAN kill because He is the creator with the power to do it if He needs to. He also is very patient and waits a LONG time before bringing judgement. Again, something you ignore. You want to focus solely on the judgement and ignore everything that caused it to be necessary. Oh, and quote the line you think is there that excuses you from murdering.Oh, great. Well, I'm not going to listen to the Ten Commandments, I'm going to follow the line that killing is okay... because I can interpret it that way easily, thank you very much.
No, He brings judgement when people IGNORE Him and His warnings. You know, like what they're doing now.God might have a reason or a purpose.
Get this. God made humans. God then tested humans. The humans, that God made, didn't do as God wanted. He wanted his humans to be (get this) MORAL. So God then kicked them out of Eden, then killed the descendants. So... er... the moral of the story is that God will do IMMORAL things to people he made, and made badly.... Go figure.
People of the Christian God? Who are those people and how do you know they follow God and not just pay lip service to His name?And since then, the descendants of Noah have been totally IMMORAL and God's done NOTHING about it. In fact, the people of the Christian God have the highest murder rates in the WORLD.
Sure, I was told of it as a child, but that was before I was able to read much of the Bible for myself. My introduction to God was through Little Golden Books.
Only if one takes a wrong and twisted turn. Which we humans are apt to do being such a whiny species. "All someone else's fault. Never my fault." And, "Since they do that, I can do this." Not to mention twisting a simple story to mean something else entirely.
That's how you expect everything to unfold?Which is still a book, still someone else telling you "look, there's a God" rather than you sitting then then suddenly God says "Hey, mate, I'm your God"
Again, a rather odd way of looking at it. What is a reason for not liking violence? Isn't it because violence launches further violence? Again, violence is like gravity. It doesn't take God to launch violence. We do all that on our own. Remember middle school science where one action results in an equal but opposite (direction) of the reaction. In other words, set violence in motion and it is going to come right back towards you.What is a "wrong twisted turn"?
God spoke about "violence" as the reason for killing EVERYONE. In other words, he used violence. Doesn't that strike you as a little weird?
"I don't like violence, so here's some violence to punish you for violence"
Not to mention insects! People kill insects! They are totally oblivious to a dying worm struggling to get off the sidewalk and back into the earth. We step on ants without noticing, let alone giving them any thought. Woe! Woe! Whoa.
The topic is humans killing humans. Based on the type of reasoning presented in this thread (Someone else kills humans, so it should be alright for humans to kill humans.) By this reasoning, since scorpions, black widows, lions, tigers, and snakes kill humans it follows humans should kill humans, too!
The other faulty reasoning is, "Let's blame a natural disaster on God and then rush to the conclusion God kills babies!" This type of reasoning reminds me of the old saying of, "A conclusion is the point where someone stopped thinking."
How many wars have you, personally, been in? I doubt that it was "countless". Countless people having chicken pox is far different from one person having chicken pox countless times. Simply because you learned by doing, why scoff at all others who were and are also learning by doing?
What about stillborns?Because they weren't ripped out of the womb.
When you tell people that you are going to destroy the world in 120 years if they don't get their act together and stop doing evil, yes, it's due process.
He doesn't. You don't like judgement, I get it. That doesn't change the fact that God has to do it, and He has authority you simply don't.
Of course, it is. Don't tell me you resent it.
I'm not, and if you think I am, you need to reread some things.
That's stupid. Again you're ignoring authority. God CAN kill because He is the creator with the power to do it if He needs to. He also is very patient and waits a LONG time before bringing judgement. Again, something you ignore. You want to focus solely on the judgement and ignore everything that caused it to be necessary. Oh, and quote the line you think is there that excuses you from murdering.
No, He brings judgement when people IGNORE Him and His warnings. You know, like what they're doing now.
People of the Christian God? Who are those people and how do you know they follow God and not just pay lip service to His name?
What makes you think God is NOT going to bring judgement? In fact, He will, and those of your mindset will be completely surprised and will complain about it, and once again completely IGNORE what they've been doing this whole time to bring judgement. They will, like you, focus only on the fact that they're being judged and forget what brought it on.
And yes, God's people face discipline for what they do in God's name.
That's how you expect everything to unfold?
Again, a rather odd way of looking at it. What is a reason for not liking violence? Isn't it because violence launches further violence? Again, violence is like gravity. It doesn't take God to launch violence. We do all that on our own. Remember middle school science where one action results in an equal but opposite (direction) of the reaction. In other words, set violence in motion and it is going to come right back towards you.
The problem is that so many of us do not see the Bible anywhere close to the way you see it. It is hard to have a discussion with someone who hasn't a clue about God.No. I'm not religious. I'm have a conversation as if all this were true.
God was the first to us the "If she would just do what I say, I wouldn't have to hit her" excuse.This topic is humans killing humans AND God killing humans. That doesn't mean we don't use analogies, doesn't mean we don't look to other things to explain things.
God setting up a system of a food chain is surely very important here. God said "thou shalt not kill/murder"
You say "let's blame a natural disaster on God" and yet God said
“I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out."
I mean, it's like a murderer saying live on TV "I'm going to kill people with my knife" and then blaming the knife on the murder.
The problem is that so many of us do not see the Bible anywhere close to the way you see it. It is hard to have a discussion with someone who hasn't a clue about God.
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God was the first to us the "If she would just do what I say, I wouldn't have to hit her" excuse.
are you really comparing an ancient myth to abortion....get a drink of booze fast dearwhen God killed ALL babies in the great flood of Noah's Ark flood fame?
I write this not to anger people, if you're not interested in discussing it, then don't. Keep your religion to yourself and move on. I write this because I've had a conversation in another thread and thought it might be a good question to ask for those who want to test their religion against my lack of religion.
