Your bible and
god are meaningless to me, but you have the right to believe whatever you wish... Mr. Mohler is actively trying to legislate away YOUR freedoms and dictating by law what YOU need to believe... Do you not get that?
Otherwise the assertion of the love and forgiveness of
God is meaningless, for in Jesus» thought love and forgiveness are not ideas but are real events in the life in time of concrete men
but if there is not a broken and crushed and humbled heart before
God it is meaningless!
Fred only a believer would think life without
God is meaningless.
An «anticipated» kingdom of
God is meaningless and useless.
Not exact matches
If «soon»
is that different to
God, and according to the Bible it
is, then the statement
is rendered essentially
meaningless for purposes of human understanding.
Of course, if you want to call whatever the explanation for the universe happens to
be «
god» then the word becomes
meaningless and everyone believes in
god by definition.
Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will
be nothing more than trite and
meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of
God in flesh?
if your so called
god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and
meaningless prayers, don!t you think
god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really
was a
god, which there
is not, I do not believe in
god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I
am wrong I
am going to hell because that
's where all my friends
are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.
It
's meaningless if you
're going to say
God is too nice to send people to hell.
In Christianity, for example, it
's taught that people wouldn't do good things without belief in
God, or that their good deeds
are somehow «
meaningless» without first believing in
God.
If
god is going to require us to certain standards,
god himself would have to adhere to standards or they become
meaningless.
'' If
God is going to require us to certain standards,
God himself would have to adhere to those standards or they would become
meaningless.»
Austin, until you can prove that your
god, your devil or any
god for that matter actually exist, then your argument
is meaningless.
What I have to wonder
is, if we, as a Church, trust
God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end
are meaningless, the money spent on them might
be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).
I think perhaps that everyone
is getting caught up in «proving a negative» when in fact the focus should
be on the fact that «there
is a
god»
is an un-falsifiable hypothesis, and thus
meaningless.
My argument wouldn't
be that I
am offended so much... but that the oath becomes
meaningless when it must
be attached to bearded father figure sky
god that will punish me for breaking the oath.
Sometimes the wound
is apparently random and
meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting
is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of
God, which
is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.
The
God that created the universe
is meaningless to me.
If by
God is meant the Ground of
Being, the Essence of
Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply
is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason
is also absolutely
meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).
Saying «
God did it»
is essentially
meaningless.
All the errors and stuff you trip on, they
're meaningless to me, they
're stumbling blocks you get to trip on, so you can
be happy in rejecting
God, because
God gave you what you wanted, and it made you happy... for now.
And if I said, «If
God sent everyone to hell he would not
be loving,» then that would also say that his love
is without effect because no one
is saved in spite of his love, again
meaningless to humanity but only meaningful to
God.
If I say, «If
God sent everyone to hell he would still
be loving» that means that
God's love
is without effect, and it depends on our response...
meaningless to humanity but meaningful to
God.
45:6 b - 7)-- or there
is no
God and thus there
was no «creation,» and all
is a
meaningless accident.
For example, EVERY
god - based religion says morality
is external, so using that as a basis for choosing any specific one of them
is meaningless.
With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about
God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can
be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made
meaningless for those to whom the gospel should
be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.
Then the organic complex will have
been constituted of
God and the World, the Pleroma — the mysterious reality that we can not do better than call simply
God, since although
God might dispense with the world we can not regard it as
being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the Passion of Christ
meaningless and our own struggle uninteresting.
Thus it
is meaningless to call the Kingdom of
God the «highest value,» if by this
is meant the culmination of all that men consider good.
If all values
are compossible, and
are all actual in
God, then it
is meaningless to say that some values
are only possible.
It should
be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what
is peculiar to this or that writer, what
is central from what
is peripheral, what
is essential from what
is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of
God in Christ which will
be intelligible, or at least not
meaningless, to the contemporary mind.
~ The concept of, «
God is Love»
is not clear, and ultimately
meaningless to me (and you).
But to the man whose idea of
God is nebulous to the point of negligibility the invocation of «
God's Law»
is quite
meaningless.
Reason could fall into the temptation of going back to the security of its concepts, proclaiming that
God - talk
is meaningless.
«Everything - in -
God» tells us that
God is not so exalted that he becomes
meaningless to human life, but rather
is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.
If the fourth event
is only the stuff of dreams, the three preceding events around which the whole story revolves
are meaningless, and the
God who speaks and in speaking acts in these events
is not only dead — he never
was.
We wish to
God that baptism
were meaningless, because it proclaims and gives a meaning which cuts to the core the selfish, materialistic values of our consumer culture.
What I have shown
is that how the relative nature of
God is presented in neoclassical theism may have to change, not that there
is no
God, nor that all conceptions of
God are impossible or
meaningless.
This
is God's «actuality,» never fully perfected, for that
is a
meaningless idea, but always fully inclusive.
To claim that
God in his transcendent
being foreknows all future contingencies has the inevitable effect of rendering his objective relationships with the world
meaningless.
If they can not provide verifiable evidence for the existence of
God, or any god, their words are completely and entirely meaningle
God, or any
god, their words are completely and entirely meaningle
god, their words
are completely and entirely
meaningless.
God himself speaks harshly of
meaningless religious practices in his word, so your comment «your religion...»
is also
meaningless.
It
's more important to
God that we
be able to choose between good and evil (if he chooses for us, the choice
is meaningless) than that he prevent us from doing evil.
If
God overcomes our will, then our will
is meaningless.
They
are like a Wall St. business and people
are meaningless, as
is God, to them.
They say that «
God is love» which
is an absolutely
meaningless, nonsensical statement, not to mention the problem with equating love with a
being that would let anyone spend even one millisecond in a place like hell.
To simply say that the Bible
is the word of
God, without explaining that,
is meaningless rhetoric.
These and many other promises would
be meaningless and false if
God replayed our sins and shamed us publicly in heaven.
To talk in that fashion
is not to speak of a kind of
meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it
is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where
God knows and experiences (if that word
is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has
been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must
be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who
is worshiped and served by
God's human children.
A portrayal of
God which would see him as in no sense thus affected would
be alien to the general biblical picture, and would reduce human activity to a
meaningless and irrelevant series of events.