Zone1 Why do you need gods?

[Meriweather]

I sense your "religion"

Do you?

 

[Meriweather]

an all loving God

That says it all.

 

[Meriweather]

Was there any THEOLOGICAL reason you prefer Catholicism and "reject" (your word) other faiths?

Asked and answered.

 

[Meriweather]

how do YOU propose we figure out which are real

Already noted. Start with God loves all. Integrate Biblical teachings that address what is happening in one's life and watch what happens.

 

[BreezeWood]

You guys should all just read the Bible entirely and like it.

Don’t worry about whether God exists or not. Just learn God’s character from the words of the Bible. Then there is no arguing. Everybody will know what God is like.

howabout as far as can be believed or without prejudice ... as forgeries and falacies on nearly every page -

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

and better yet live the true prescribed religion to its fullest - the triumph of good vs evil - to free one's spirit for judgement when accomplished. a sabbath. for admission to the everlasting

- the desert religions without their books will cease to exist.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Because it contains important truths that went entirely over your head. For example, the fall of man.

NFBW: what basis or knowledge allows you to assert that the Biblical fall of man can be associated with truth? END2208280816

 

[NotfooledbyW]

The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer.

NFBW: The only fruit the white Republican Christian guns n Jesus hillbilly religious experience has produced is Trump brand racism, election denial, attacks on democracy, state aggression and oppression to control fertile wonen’s bodies. It’s some rotten shit and all Republican voters are responsible in practical terms even when they are not hillbilly Trump Christians themselves. END2208280847

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Already noted. Start with God loves all. Integrate Biblical teachings that address what is happening in one's life and watch what happens.

That's great. It's not the God of the entire Bible. It's our favorite God.

In the end I realize THAT is the goal: a god that comports to our desires. And I'm glad that the god you have created takes the best bits from the Bible.

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Do you?

I have now asked the question a couple times but you have failed to answer it:

Is there specific stuff one must do to be saved by God?

What specifically are those things?

Thanks.

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

That says it all.

1 Sam 15:3

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Asked and answered.

Then my point stands. Thanks.

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Already noted. Start with God loves all. Integrate Biblical teachings that address what is happening in one's life and watch what happens.

So take the bits you like and pare out the bits you don't like.

Got it.

Let us make a God that pleases us.

 

[ding]

Thou shalt not bear false witness.

Amen

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Amen

Thou hypocrite.

 

[ding]

Methinks you have created a very personalized version of "Christianity" made up your best hopes.

Methinks she is not bound to an outsider's interpretation who has conflicting motives. It's her faith. Not yours. You wouldn't be expected to understand it. She would.

 

[ding]

Thou hypocrite.

You need to see it that way. Every argument you make is a moral argument. I can't think of better evidence for God than that.

 

[ding]

Hey, ding, why don't you just sit this one out. You aren't particularly well versed in the Bible or theology or philosophy so you're just going to make a mess of it like your attempts to talk about earth science (or science in general).

You just aren't set up for it.

Your narratives are hilarious. You should be afraid of me.

 

[ding]

You guys should all just read the Bible entirely and like it.

Don’t worry about whether God exists or not. Just learn God’s character from the words of the Bible. Then there is no arguing. Everybody will know what God is like.

Incorrect but even that way would have been superior to how you read the Bible. Your problem is that you can't marry your observations of the world to a belief in a Creator. So you dismiss any attempts at understanding the relationship between man and God as folly. The jokes on you, bub, worshiping the created rather than the creator is folly.

 

[ding]

NFBW: what basis or knowledge allows you to assert that the Biblical fall of man can be associated with truth? END2208280816

The fact that man knows right from wrong and when he violates it rather than abandoning the concept he rationalizes he didn't violate it. It's a universal truth.

 

[ding]

NFBW: The only fruit the white Republican Christian guns n Jesus hillbilly religious experience has produced is Trump brand racism, election denial, attacks on democracy, state aggression and oppression to control fertile wonen’s bodies. It’s some rotten shit and all Republican voters are responsible in practical terms even when they are not hillbilly Trump Christians themselves. END2208280847

That's nice. You are a hammer looking for a nail. To you everything is political. That's your religion.