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Topic: A curiously familiar story...
BillingsDreamer's photo
Sat 12/08/07 05:59 PM

You know, I'm not a Christian. I chose to be not one because of this way of thinking. We all have it within us, that is our free will to choose in the first place.


Of course you have been given free will to chose, but I predict that before it is all over, you will say, I made a bunch of wrong choices. You don't have to make those wrong choices. The Bible gives you the answers to every question, and it gives the history of those who went a different way. You could benefit from its experience.

You know you can fix a car without ever reading any instruction book. You can diddle around, poke at things, and sometimes fix it. Most of the time if you don't really know what you are doing you do damage. Ultimately you take it to a mechanic who knows how it works.

It is the same with the Bible. It is God's instruction book. It is not telling you "don't think" It is tellomg you to think. Think past your greed. Think past your sex drives. Think past your selfishness. Think! Study life, learn from others, then make your decision and educated one. The problem today is that people want to cast out the bible and then make decisions. It always leads to painful results.

Best to you my friend, watch out for the speed bumps in life.

Art

yzrabbit1's photo
Sat 12/08/07 06:06 PM



In reply to art

No matter what my children do for the rest of there lifes good or bad I would not want them to spend eternity in a burning hell. I guess that makes me more loving then your God. I can only assume you didn't have parents if you think that kind of love is out of the ordinary


My friend, you don't know my God, and so you speak with out knowledge. The God of the Bible states that the wages of sin is death. It is not immortality in eternal suffering. That dear friend is a fable created by Dante in his Greek play called the inferno.

It has been pounded into the brains of millions, and even you believe that is what the Bible says. Sad,

Art


Ok very good Art. I'll go with your interpretation. If I had the choice to keep my children alive or let them die for the bad things they did. I would let them live. I would never let my children die. Imagine me some average guy much more loving then your God.

ArtGurl's photo
Sat 12/08/07 08:45 PM

Wouldee wrote ...

It reminds me of a saying

Those without the law are a law unto themselves.




And that reminds me of a saying...

Without the tao,
Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice;
Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

(Lao Tzu)



There are many eyes with which to see...flowerforyou

Jess642's photo
Sat 12/08/07 08:46 PM



In reply to art

No matter what my children do for the rest of there lifes good or bad I would not want them to spend eternity in a burning hell. I guess that makes me more loving then your God. I can only assume you didn't have parents if you think that kind of love is out of the ordinary


My friend, you don't know my God, and so you speak with out knowledge. The God of the Bible states that the wages of sin is death. It is not immortality in eternal suffering. That dear friend is a fable created by Dante in his Greek play called the inferno.

It has been pounded into the brains of millions, and even you believe that is what the Bible says. Sad,

Art



'The wages of sin, is death.'

So trees sin?

Birds sin?

Butterflies sin?

Fowers?



Pppppffffftttt!!!


Everything dies, as in this mortal body... I don't need a book, nor a g-o-d to figure that out...

There's a reason, a season, a lifetime for everything...


And the whole sin trip is just a manipulative form of grading, rating, and sorting, who gets to go where....a load of hogwash, in my opinion. grumble

damnitscloudy's photo
Sat 12/08/07 08:57 PM
oh sure, the story excludes cats...prolly cause they didn't care and was mad at the creator cause he/she/it didn't feed it on time. laugh

Abracadabra's photo
Sat 12/08/07 09:39 PM
~ A New Plateau ~

I’ll have to follow Jess
to the conclusions that she makes
Her deductions make more sense to me
than burning witches at the stakes

The fallacies of rumors
and the travesty of lies
the bigotry of hypocrites
is the Holy Book’s demise

Those who claim its power
are deficient in their minds
They pretend to have a knowledge
yet they’re clearly wearing blinds

They won’t consider other sources
they refuse to look at truth
They’re drunken by a fable
they feel is sweeter than vermouth

Children trust in Santa Claus
because their parents told a lie
Fanatics trust in Bibles
cause they fear to question why

Fables and old folklore
superstitions and some ghosts
Keep the people praying
to imaginary hosts

Yet no one’s seen an angel
and no one’s seen a God
They continue to proclaim them
never thinking that it’s odd

If a God can talk to Moses
and communicate with Job
then surely he can speak to men
from all around the globe!

Fairytales and legends
from eons long ago!
It’s time to move along now
so we can reach a new plateau

~~~

flowerforyou

Abra (12/9/07)

ArtGurl's photo
Sat 12/08/07 09:49 PM
lovely (((James))) flowerforyou flowerforyou flowerforyou

creativesoul's photo
Sat 12/08/07 10:36 PM
Awwww...

James...


Ugh...


Zat mean we can't have no more marshmallow roasts? Fooey!!


Where's my old stake at?


Kinda looks like a trident... with the end all burned up... :wink:


flowerforyou


ArtGurl's photo
Sat 12/08/07 10:38 PM
poke devil


laugh

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