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Topic: Does God even care?
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Mon 01/03/11 10:49 AM



So you try to tell that God needs allegories and parables to talk
to people instead to manifest his existence in the most clear and undoubted for each one way ??!
Spidercmb wrote:



That's called a strawman fallacy. I didn't say God couldn't appear to each of us, but it would violate God's purpose in creating the world in the first place. If each of us knew, without a doubt, that God existed, how many people wouldn't serve God? A big fat 0. But God wants to know who WANTS to worship him. God wants to know who will put the necessary effort into answering the question that we all ask "Is there a God?"


God and his manifest and purpose doesn't need any parables
or allegories to make all of us to be sure that He exist .
All these parables and allegories are people's invention
and they have nothing to do with God and faith in God.

Parables and allegories mislead the truth and they are tools
of manipulation of people to people.




and the talking serpent is first important points in the bible which changed the relation Man - God and in the same time
till now ppl continue to discuss, doubt or even laugh at it because this is "allegorical" way.


So you would believe it, if it said "A beautiful, deceitful, dangerous, intelligent and wise-seeming angel", instead of "serpent"?



Nope ,
I'm not gonna believe in any bible stories /or other holy books / because God can't be shaped and presented as ppl want.
Their imaginations and delusions have nothing to do with God.

So.... did you give your customers your ready , in a proper way done product or you gave them new parables and allegories ?



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Mon 01/03/11 11:02 AM
Cowboy wrote:



Actually we know the earth is round because noone has fallen off of it yet.laugh




ermm.. the logic is that the objects fall down from round places , not from flat one ...




How do you know they haven't? If they fell off the earth, it would be kinda hard for them to come tell us lol >.<



the tax -collectors will gonna find them bigsmile


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Mon 01/03/11 11:38 AM

Nope ,
I'm not gonna believe in any bible stories /or other holy books / because God can't be shaped and presented as ppl want.
Their imaginations and delusions have nothing to do with God.

So.... did you give your customers your ready , in a proper way done product or you gave them new parables and allegories ?


I give my clients complete (usually), stable (usually) applications, but they cannot understand how they work, without allegories. They know how to use the application (front end user interface), but what is going on in the back end is a mystery to them.

It's sort of the same way with our world. We can see and understand many of the things going on in the physical universe around us. But for us to understand the spiritual world, we need parables and allegories.

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Mon 01/03/11 12:09 PM


Nope ,
I'm not gonna believe in any bible stories /or other holy books / because God can't be shaped and presented as ppl want.
Their imaginations and delusions have nothing to do with God.

So.... did you give your customers your ready , in a proper way done product or you gave them new parables and allegories ?


I give my clients complete (usually), stable (usually) applications, but they cannot understand how they work, without allegories.


Thank you , I see you don't give them parables or allegories abt "eating" ,"punishing" or "rewarding " buttons but the real, properly working applications and correctly recommendations abt the way how to deal with them and each page or stuff has placed absolutely correct at their place.

and since your work works perfect for them they not gonna come and ask you what is it behind the application.

So you put your logical way with dealing with your products but you underestimate the God's ability to show His power, presence or whatever there in the most proper and understanding for people way.





They know how to use the application (front end user interface), but what is going on in the back end is a mystery to them.





Which all of the people want - to know Him, not how/what He has done or doing



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Mon 01/03/11 12:59 PM

Which all of the people want - to know Him, not how/what He has done or doing


God is largely unknowable, because God is a spirit. Humans can't know the spiritual, because we have such limited experience with the spiritual. So God communicates those concepts through parables and allegories.

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Mon 01/03/11 02:35 PM


Which all of the people want - to know Him, not how/what He has done or doing


God is largely unknowable, because God is a spirit.

Hence -according to you he is not our Creator ????
Because the spirits can't create matter .



Humans can't know the spiritual, because we have such limited experience with the spiritual. So God communicates those concepts through parables and allegories.


According to your words God created something/matter/ from nothing/spirit/ and to be all process finished instead to use clear signs and make all ppl know abt His existence by clear and simple way ,He ordered to be used parables and allegory..

There is no logic at all





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Mon 01/03/11 03:06 PM
Edited by Abracadabra on Mon 01/03/11 03:08 PM
Cowboy wrote:

God couldn't care less about "religious" beliefs. God only wants the best for us and for us to follow his few simple laws he has set out before us. You say God should forgive anyone with a sincere heart, how is God to give the forgiveness when he wasn't even asked for it?


Well if God has nothing to do with "religious" beliefs, then where do you get off suggesting that forgiveness was never asked for? huh

Also, as an example, gay person would not need to ask for forgiveness for being gay. From their perspective there's no sin in being gay. It's the natural way that God made them. So it would be utterly foolish for them to ask God to forgive them for the way that God made them.

I realize that your "religion" taught you that God hates homosexuality.

But as you point out that's religion, not God. whoa




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Mon 01/03/11 04:23 PM
what makes one think that God does not care? Is it because a loved one doesn't get acceptable results from prayer or expected results for something? and, does that indicate that God does not love you. Or , does it represent God's knowledge of the future and what will be good for each person, on their own.?

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Mon 01/03/11 04:54 PM



Which all of the people want - to know Him, not how/what He has done or doing


God is largely unknowable, because God is a spirit.

Hence -according to you he is not our Creator ????
Because the spirits can't create matter .



Humans can't know the spiritual, because we have such limited experience with the spiritual. So God communicates those concepts through parables and allegories.


According to your words God created something/matter/ from nothing/spirit/ and to be all process finished instead to use clear signs and make all ppl know abt His existence by clear and simple way ,He ordered to be used parables and allegory..

There is no logic at all







One of us isn't understanding the other. Your summation of what I said and your conclusions don't match what I've said. This discussion doesn't feel productive at all, I think I'll bow out.

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Mon 01/03/11 04:56 PM

Cowboy wrote:

God couldn't care less about "religious" beliefs. God only wants the best for us and for us to follow his few simple laws he has set out before us. You say God should forgive anyone with a sincere heart, how is God to give the forgiveness when he wasn't even asked for it?


Well if God has nothing to do with "religious" beliefs, then where do you get off suggesting that forgiveness was never asked for? huh

Also, as an example, gay person would not need to ask for forgiveness for being gay. From their perspective there's no sin in being gay. It's the natural way that God made them. So it would be utterly foolish for them to ask God to forgive them for the way that God made them.

I realize that your "religion" taught you that God hates homosexuality.

But as you point out that's religion, not God. whoa







I realize that your "religion" taught you that God hates homosexuality.


Don't know what religion you're speaking of. But my father our god has told me that homosexuality is a sin.

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Mon 01/03/11 04:58 PM
There is NO god...the universe doesn't care...it will give you what you give others!

Such a simple concept, so sad it's all been preverted!!

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Mon 01/03/11 05:01 PM

Cowboy wrote:

God couldn't care less about "religious" beliefs. God only wants the best for us and for us to follow his few simple laws he has set out before us. You say God should forgive anyone with a sincere heart, how is God to give the forgiveness when he wasn't even asked for it?


Well if God has nothing to do with "religious" beliefs, then where do you get off suggesting that forgiveness was never asked for? huh

Also, as an example, gay person would not need to ask for forgiveness for being gay. From their perspective there's no sin in being gay. It's the natural way that God made them. So it would be utterly foolish for them to ask God to forgive them for the way that God made them.

I realize that your "religion" taught you that God hates homosexuality.

But as you point out that's religion, not God. whoa







Also, as an example, gay person would not need to ask for forgiveness for being gay. From their perspective there's no sin in being gay. It's the natural way that God made them. So it would be utterly foolish for them to ask God to forgive them for the way that God made them.


Homosexuality is a choice, a decision. God didn't make them any way, he made them just the same way he made you or I.

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Mon 01/03/11 06:45 PM
Edited by Abracadabra on Mon 01/03/11 06:48 PM
Cowboy wrote:

Don't know what religion you're speaking of. But my father our god has told me that homosexuality is a sin.


So you're denying your religion now?

Interesting.

By the way, I can't say I blame you. I recognized the fallacy in it too when I was about your age. Maybe a little younger; in my late teens.

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Mon 01/03/11 06:47 PM

Cowboy wrote:

Don't know what religion you're speaking of. But my father our god has told me that homosexuality is a sin.


So you're denying your religion now?

Interesting.



Yes I do not believe and or worship a "religion". I believe and worship our father.

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Tue 01/04/11 11:21 PM
I didn't wade through all the pages, but OP, you speak of deism as opposed to theism.

Deists basically believe that a deity created the world then walked away.

Theists believe in a personal god who watches over them and cares about whether they wipe their noses or not.

It is my understanding that Christian gnostics were deists, but they were branded as heretics and stamped out by Pauline Christianity.

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Tue 01/04/11 11:23 PM
Yes I do not believe and or worship a "religion". I believe and worship our father.


This is the problem with anthropomorphizing deity: if there is a "father," then by default, there is a mother. The Virgin Mary does not qualify.

Humans make gods in our image and give them names, faces, and personalities. The god of the Christian Scriptures, even more so than the Hebrew Scriptures, is male because it is a male dominated religion.

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Wed 01/05/11 08:42 AM
Spidercmb wrote:




Which all of the people want - to know Him, not how/what He has done or doing


God is largely unknowable, because God is a spirit.

Hence -according to you he is not our Creator ????
Because the spirits can't create matter .



Humans can't know the spiritual, because we have such limited experience with the spiritual. So God communicates those concepts through parables and allegories.


According to your words God created something/matter/ from nothing/spirit/ and to be all process finished instead to use clear signs and make all ppl know abt His existence by clear and simple way ,He ordered to be used parables and allegory..

There is no logic at all







One of us isn't understanding the other. Your summation of what I said and your conclusions don't match what I've said. This discussion doesn't feel productive at all, I think I'll bow out.


That is debates for .. to reach a point of understanding and usually in debates both sides claim that other side doesn't understand them.
Ok I try to push you beyond the words ...I asked /ask you logical questions out of the stoned religious matrix and I hope that you
gonna try to give me your ideas abt it.


So I asked you simple quetions:

If God is a spirit how then He is ours and all the universe's material life/substance a creator?

And how you know that he is a spirit ?






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Wed 01/05/11 09:01 AM

Yes I do not believe and or worship a "religion". I believe and worship our father.


This is the problem with anthropomorphizing deity: if there is a "father," then by default, there is a mother. The Virgin Mary does not qualify.

Humans make gods in our image and give them names, faces, and personalities. The god of the Christian Scriptures, even more so than the Hebrew Scriptures, is male because it is a male dominated religion.


It's not necessarily male dominated. The man is to treat the woman with the utmost respect and to love her as himself. To care for her, to provide for her, to love her unconditionally.

And no there is no mother necessarily. You're thinking with a secular mind set. God didn't have sex to have us, he created us. He didn't "make" us, he created us and everything that has ever been in existence.

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Wed 01/05/11 09:03 AM
CowboyGH wrote:


Don't know what religion you're speaking of. But my father our god has told me that homosexuality is a sin.


Wooow ... we are the witnesses of a miracle - new born prophet CowboyGH !

Hallelujah !

Because till now God has talk to 4 persons-prophets only: Abraham, Mosses,Jesus and Mohammad.


CowboyGH either you are the newest born prophet or with this claim you said the biggest and arrogant lie about God and his partiality for the part of people. And this is one of the biggest sins.




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Wed 01/05/11 09:06 AM

CowboyGH wrote:


Don't know what religion you're speaking of. But my father our god has told me that homosexuality is a sin.


Wooow ... we are the witnesses of a miracle - new born prophet CowboyGH !

Hallelujah !

Because till now God has talk to 4 persons-prophets only: Abraham, Mosses,Jesus and Mohammad.


CowboyGH either you are the newest born prophet or with this claim you said the biggest and arrogant lie about God and his partiality for the part of people. And this is one of the biggest sins.






Our father has told everyone. Some don't listen, some ignore, some just flat out lie and say he didn't say as such. I'm nothing special.

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