so you really believe you are your own GOD? did you make yourself? can you catch the wind? a star? can you breathe life into another?
No. But I can catch wind with wind turbines, study stars in this vast beautiful and very messy universe, and I have the capability of making life with another. I'm content with that. No need to strive to be a god-- most people don't understand that living forever would be a horrible curse.
yes there are some awful things in the Bible, they are put there for us to learn - as examples.
Precisely. Like stone your kids to death if they talk back to you or sell your daughters into slavery. Ohhh the lists go on and on and onnnn....
NOT SURE WHERE U READ FROM BUT IN DEUT 23:1 MY BIBLE SAYS...
Different version. I assure you it should be around that chapter unless they edited it out.
Neither did they wish to hear it in the Bible, some heard & were saved. while others went into hell. that is not my opinion but the words of the Bible. I had rather seek my favor with GOD, not man
So your god wants you to walk around and be a pompous nuisance to freethinkers and a fearmongerer to the weak-minded? Wow, great deity ya got therrrr
If you're gonna seek favor with your deit...i mean GOD, maybe you should just be quiet around man. It's the decent thing to do.
YES THIS WAS ORDERED AS A WARNING OF PUNISHMENT... This nauseous piece of cookery he exercised publicly so that they might be more effecged wiht the calamity approaching. To show in teh extremity of a famine approaching, that they will not have any thing good, but nothing clean. This was meant to be a warning. There are many warnings in the WORD, our problem is we either choose or we are blinded to the warnings. There are conditions for living in light and shalom for all eternity and the earth is a testing ground. We either wise up or we walk in darkness.
Nice try walking around the point. It's contradictory to preach about a book when it talks about having to eat poop in such a serious and detailed manner.
guilt trip? not really. encourage other to read the WORD of GOD, learn for themselves rather than fall blindly into the pit.
If you think telling people they'll burn for eternity if they don't read your ancient writings and bend over for your god is encouraging, you're deluding yourself. That's a threat that you just don't want to accept the definition of.
why is the way I speak any different than yours? you may accept or not. Not my problem, I am told to be gentle as a dove yet wise as the fox... "pity" is a slant for compassion and my feelings have not & will not change. I began my message with I pity you. and I do pity you for getting so upset over what I said. would you be a dictator? Yes, I think you would if you think you have the right to stop what I say in favor of your message? Would you use your whip on me because of what I believe, if you could? Yes, I think you would
I'm sure your god loves how you're being so pompous and evil in the face of reason. Remember-- when you ASSUME, you make an *bleep* of U and ME. So go ahead and pity me for calling you out on your naive belligerent behavior. I'm not the one raising the whip here for no good or real reason-- that's you. I'm just snapping back in a weaker manner to show you what you're doing. I've explained this already, but you're obviously incapable of understanding the reality of it. If one could argue rationally with the religious, there would be no religious people.
Again, I've been with chrisitianity before. Though I'm probably not as well-versed as you are with it consdiering your age, I have studied the bible quite a lot in the past. But you know what I'm currently studying? Jainism. After that I'm not sure-- maybe native american beliefs. Am I going to join a religion? No! I'm starting to find that other religions are far more fascinating and interesting than your own. And admirably more deserving of respect.
HAVE A GOOD LIFE, it may be all the good you ever know because after you breathe your last breath, your choice will end.
You do realize your god's power does not even allow for choice, right? I know it says so in the bible, but it's completely contradictory given your god's all-knowing omniscience. They weren't really thinking too hard when they wrote that down now, were they?