But that kind of God doesn't really fit our definition of «God.»
I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what
kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses
but What
kind of god does your life serve?
Not exact matches
A steadily increasing number
of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin
does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any
kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome
of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by
God, who
does not appear to have any interest in making any more
of it.
There are the odds
of any
gods being real to begin with, then the odds that yours is the correct
god, then the odds that this
god feels about atheists as you
do, and then the odds that this
god supports the
kind of fate for us that you support.
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any
kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been
did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging
God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in
God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs out
of curiosity but could not belief in other than that
God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
WHY
do they believe that their
God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some
kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation
of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?
if the first pair would nothave sinned they would still be here and all human
kind would know is the ways
of almighty
God and existing on a paradise earth — wich still is comming.the reason he didn't destroy Satan immediately is because he posed a Question as to almighty
Gods right to sovereignty..
Sure we now think that these other
gods were just inventions, and you don't believe that any
of these other
gods were ever real, but with
gods having that
kind of track record how can you just assume that your
god is the one in a million exception?
It doesn't happen that often, and I'm sure there's a crowd
of people behind me that I've somehow turned off to Jesus inadvertently — but slowly, through these
kind of experiences, I'm figuring out how to love people well, and I'm continuing to learn how to love
God more in everything I
do.
It
does not bother me that you might not believe, but it seems strange to me when someone throws insults at me for my having faith in
God when your atheism is just you having faith that there is no god of any ki
God when your atheism is just you having faith that there is no
god of any ki
god of any
kind.
it cracks me up that people would be respectful to any
god that would offer up their own son in blood scarifice, not a
kind and benevolent, all knowing
god, an evil and hateful
god, we would be better off overing respects to santa clause, to my knowledge all he
does is disappoint from time to time ive never known him to kill and destroy mankind by divers and sundry forms
of cruel punishment.
Real
gods don't need church leaders
of any
kind.
And for those
of you who think
of themselves as the» know it all
kind» and everyone else is ignorant, whether you like it or not
God created you and the universe, now if you don't see that then that is the ultimate ignorance.
This is the thing: when you start to hit 28 or 30, everything starts to divide, and you can see very clearly two
kinds of people: on one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find
God and themselves and their deep dreams, people who know what works and what doesn't, who have pushed through to become real live adults.
If you believe your belief is falsifiable, tell me what
kind of scientific study I can
do to prove your
god false.
He isn't mighty enough to leave any
kind of verifyable trace, and the stories in the bible that claim he
did this and that are clearly false, so which
god do you mean?
We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication
of man
kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead
of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a
god who has never been proven to exist.
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that
kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a
god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea
of it, which would give life a sense right?
«
god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any
kind of «divine inspiration» regardless
of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.
God was telling her to
do all
kinds of things.and she was just following orders.
@Herbert What
kind of empirical evidence
do you have for your belief in
god?
@CP: before the age
of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what
kind of an evil monster
god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with
god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)
If Warfield is not concerned with Catholicism, then why in his discussion
of the
kind of «faith healing» promoted by men like A. J. Gordon
does he claim that it creates a class
of «professionals» who stand between the soul and
God and that «from this germ the whole sacerdotal evil has grown»?
In this sense it is true that anyone who
does not know
God even though he may entertain all
kinds of hopes, is ultimately without hope, without the great hope that sustains the whole
of life (cf. Ephesians 2:12).»
Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion
does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is
doing is wrong or anything, I think what there
doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been
done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong
kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in
god fine, but don't put it in our laws.
What
kind of name
did they make with
God during the course
of their life?
show kindness to one another this is the greatest Law
of all even if you don't believe just be
kind to people, if your unable to
do it then you know why you
do not believe in
God and if you can not show kindness then you will not receive it either.
Or simply come to the realization that Abraham
did not exist nor
did Moses and that Jesus was insane and so was Mohammed as both talked to mythical
gods, angels and devils and
did all
kinds of things insane people
do.
While convergence
does happen in religion from the perspective
of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery
of the same
kind of scripture stemming from a singular
God.
Well, given that divorce rates are highest amongst evangelicals Christians, it
kind of means that many relationships
do not survive the
God belief.
Also, it gets
kind of annoying when people imply that you need to believe in
god to be a good person or want to
do anything for the betterment
of society.
«We're not trying to make a chimera just because we want to see some
kind of monstrous creature... We're
doing this for a biomedical purpose... I don't consider that we're playing
God or even close to that.
I guess if
God authored the Bible, He
kind of did say it?
«It's not about same - gender relations — it is about se.xual idolatry and worshipping false
gods» ---------- It
does refer to certain
kinds of idolatry, sure, but you have to remember, all sin is idolatry, therefore when using the word ar.senokoitai, it refers to the idolatry (sinful act)
of same gender s.ex.
Well, if you don't have a direct uninteruppted pipeline to the Creator yourself, regular audiences and such to discuss things, then it is
kind of pointless to say this is or isn't
God's will.
I think the Israelite's
did not think much more or less
of «their»
God then the surrounding nations
did, they where all under some
kind of influence from one and the other.
In ancient days, when stars and planets were thought to be capricious
gods, this
did make some
kind of sense.
Allah, or Yahweh, or Christ, (whatever anyone wants to call
God) I
do not believe, would require that
kind of kil ling.
I just don't see that Jesus reveals this
kind of God, a
God that is vindictive toward His enemies, who inflicts pain and punishment on people because they go against His will.
Let's face it — you don't have to be a scholar
of any
kind to know that no real
God would have given such bizarre, tangled, contradictory and downright weird books as his Word on Earth.
I could see someone that's Catholic and not using birth control getting stressed out and starting to wonder if this
kind of life truly is required by
God or if it truly
does make any sense.
America is
doing more than any other nation to spread the
kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for
God's ultimate work
of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety
of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.
I now believe it
does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden
of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the
kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change
God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any
of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack
of an affirmative answer.
The point that I was making though, which apparently
God failed to help you grasp, is not that Christians don't have answers for these
kinds of questions.
The same
kind of abuse would be like the bragging criticized by
God through Jeremiah, «
Do not trust in deceptive words, and say «This is the temple
of the Lord, the Temple
of the Lord, the Temple
of the Lord.»»
Did God give us the kind of book He wanted, or did He give us a book that we would have to make into the kind of book we want
Did God give us the
kind of book He wanted, or
did He give us a book that we would have to make into the kind of book we want
did He give us a book that we would have to make into the
kind of book we wanted?
Don't for one minute think you're not a troll or any
of the «chosen people»
of a
God or think for one minute that you're making any
kind of point with your «fun»
The Psalms offer all
kinds of catchy truths about the glory
of God, but the book
of Esther doesn't even mention the Almighty.
Writers, how
do you honor
God with your work without making him sound like some
kind of cosmic literary agent?