Let me re-word that so you can understand: How can an infant believe there are no gods if they've never
heard of gods?
Only if atheism was solely composed of people who have never
heard of gods.
Let me re-word that so you can understand: how can an infant believe in gods if they've never
heard of gods?
God's «perfect justice and mercy» means that Hitler COULD be in heaven right now while the nicest person who NEVER
heard of God is in Hell.
Think about it, if this book was written today, and nobody had ever
heard of God, would we believe it as fact?
But if we mean by Christianity
a hearing of God's word to human beings, then it is not comparable to any religion.
You only
heard of a god because of the bible; it is the foundation of your religion and hence your belief.
You've
heard of God's might because you've sung about it!
Are there BILLIONS of people who died without ever
hearing of God and therefore were sent to hell?
Man is born into original «sin», so all those, 5 billion or so, that never
heard of your god are never going to be or can be saved because they see Jesus Christ as sheer bull sh!t.
And all the millions of people who never
heard of God, no matter how good the people were, end up in Hell.
Mike L, you do realize that MOST of the people on this planet have never
heard of the God you speak of.
Had you been born in the US in the 1500 you would have believe in animal spirits and never have
heard of god or Jesus in your lifetime.
His mode of reflection constitutes a paradigm for those concerned with a theology in service of
the hearing of God's word.
The prophets stood in the divine council,
heard of God's intended work, and urged Israel to repent and to have faith, not on the basis of the past, but on the basis of the future.1
much of the world does not believe in your god or has never
heard of your god.
This all - too - brief statement concerning interpretation, on the one hand, that sees its task as thoroughly grasping historical content, and, on the other, interpretation that hopefully comes to
a hearing of God's Word addressing the interpreter is not intended to lead the reader to a choice and to prejudice him in that choice.
With the above insights gained through this corporate
hearing of God's Word in Acts, I went to the drawing board to shape the sermon.
If you are one of the unlucky billions of people who never
heard of God, he will send you to hell no matter how good of a person you are.
If you had never
heard of a god or gods and suddenly someone started preaching Christian mythology to you, you'd think they were out of their mind!
Did anybody ever
heard of God?
This same process is seen in the New Testament in 1 Thessalonians 2:13 where Paul says, «When you received from us the word of God «s message [literally, «the word of
hearing of God»], you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.»
So we must make sure to be ready in our hearts, and to press on in the field of evangelism, so that all nations will
hear of God's infinite love for all of us and what He did for all so that we would have eternal life.
We make the family a substitute for salvation, as if we had never
heard of God's family, the church.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have
heard of God: this did not Abraham.
For those of you who never
heard of God Wars before, it's a tactical RPG set in ancient Japan, that allows you to explore the untold history of the country.
It's so inviting and a cozy place that feels like a safe place to meet new friends and
hear of God's love.
Not exact matches
I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll
hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty
of dancing as a spiritual offering
of love to
God.
In these moments
of heartache and darkness, we hold on to
God's word in Scripture: «I have
heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you.»
«Every event you
hear of sounds different, or happens in a different way... There's all these things you and you think, «My
God, how do I get my arms around that whole risk and what are the consequences?
I was taught as a child to pray to
God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that
God hears all
of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.
Pray harder, I don't think your non existent «
god» is
hearing you... he doesn't seem to care about any
of you.
Listening to
God includes reading the Bible — one
of the clearest ways we have to
hear God's voice speaking to us.
For those who never ever
heard of Jesus, and never ever had the chance their justification is by faith in
God.
In reading some
of the comments, I would just like to say that I would rather take a chance
of being wrong in my belief in
God as well as my faith in Jesus Christ as to be one that says there is no
God only to stand before Him in the final judgement to
hear the words «depart from me» and be cast into the lake
of fire...
I know for certain that no human being
hears the voice
of God simply because I never have.
Together we can
hear the heart
of God for the church and the heart
of the church for
God.
I am still trying to find out why these schools
of thought have to be mutually exclusive — neither side has in fact
heard from
God, and it is preposterous to believe any
God would demand his subjects remain in ignorance.
Is the entire point that this woman
hears the voice
of god as Garrison Keller?
For if
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains
of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald
of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world
of the ungodly; if by turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example
of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct
of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and
heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day
of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust
of defiling passion and despise authority.
When someone who believes in nothing but themselves, no one answers because it's too difficult for
God to
hear over the loud level
of self pride in the room.
Now grant it that is how most
of us
heard about a
God.
The common image
of Calvinism — and I
hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion
of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty
God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion
of the human race to eternal suffering.
my greatest concern is this «new teaching» on cussing is that I don't see it throughout the life, ministry or teachings
of Jesus or any
of the disciples or really any man
God uses in the word... What I do
hear Him say is that we will be «judged by every careless word» and that's not legalism, that's red letter.
But again,
God is just, so questions as to «What about the baby that is born to a society that has never
heard of Jesus?»
Hardly, after man came up with then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000 or so
gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became
of all the people who had never the chance to
hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?
What is she, commie / socialist in addition to needing medications to stop
hearing «the voice
of god»?
I would not scoff the voice
of God so much it there were not so many who think they have
heard it and now want to tell the rest
of us how to live.
If I told someone I was
hearing the audible voice
of god they would put me away on 51 - 50 in a padded cell.
Crixus — HUGE logical falllacy in your argument,» I know for certain that no human being
hears the voice
of God simply because I never have.»