Not exact matches
So you're saying that it took
God 4000
years to realize he made a mistake when creating
man and, to make things easier, he threw us a mulligan named Jesus?
A group of people, a little over 2000
years ago, said that a
man called Jesus was the Son of
God, based on what he was said to have done, including rising from the dead.
But there's a joke: A
man exclaims to
God, «
God I heard that a million
years to you was but a mere second, and a million dollars to you was but a mere penny.»
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain
mans creation and «fall» from
God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «
Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000
years old), I believe
God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
Come on Stacey doesn't it seems a little odd that
God would create
man imperfect only to send most of them to an eternal hell after a breif few
years on Earth...
In other words,
God takes 14 billion
years to place the Universe into existence and
men's lives are like unto a «vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.»
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.
The father of Moses wife was a prophet of
God named in Arabic as Shouib and was old
man and had only two daughters to herd the goats but needed a honest and strong
man to hire for many
years and the only hire wage he was able to give him was his doughtier as wife towards his time period work which reached more than 10
years...!
See how Judas dealt with Jesus his
years on earth — read the Poem of the
Man God — a journey presented to us as a great gift but not accepted.
Years ago, I was told that «only when
men failed, did
God use women».
I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of
God (contrary to John 1:18: No
man hath seen
God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any
man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175
year old
man and 127
year old woman...
It is a comfy couch for the mentally lazy, a one stop shop for all your answers, written just for you several thousand
years ago by
men who kept slaves and believed in monsters and jealous
Gods.
I am a little astonished at the ease with which a
man who spent so many
years immersed in serious theological dispute should suppose himself able to discern the hand of
God at work in our world.
Ten
years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of
men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy
God.
A
man in Russia could go to prison for up to a
year for saying «there is no
God» in an online argume... More
I have struggled for
years to reconcile
God's omniscience with
man's free will.
Why did the christian
god have to wait until
man made boats and refined navigation techniques enough to make it to the New World, 1500
years after Christ supposedly lived?
In short,
God allowed Israel's destruction as a judgement against their faithlessness; then almost 2000
years later,
Man decides to recreate it in some misguided sense of justice due to the suffering the Jews felt at the hands of Nazis.
Psalm 90:4 - 6 shows the contrast between
God and the life of
man: «For a thousand
years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple of thousand
years ago an invisible
man in the sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half -
god / half -
man son who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then rose from the dead and is now constantly watching all of us to see if we'll get pie in the sky when we die?
God Almighty, I am sick to death of all this speculation about a
MAN who lived over 2000
years ago!
God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat ear
God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of
years; a
man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower
god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat ear
god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan
god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat ear
god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually
god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat ear
god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.
Think about it, on day 1
God separated light from darkness, just as
man and
God were separated in the 1st thousand
years of human history.
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion
years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion
years old, I believe
man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first
man who
God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison
man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of
God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says
God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
God has allowed over 6,000
years to pass since the first
man's creation, but also has an «appointed time» to remove all bad conditions in the near future and make way for a paradise earth for «meek» ones.
Yet, some 3,600
years ago, a
man named Job was inspired to says that
God «is stretching out the north over the empty place, hanging the earth upon nothing.»
Frankly, it seems rather convenient that during
man's long, hardscrabble struggle over the last 100,000 plus
years,
God only saw fit to intervene (and what an intervention it was!)
Over a little more than 2000
years man has developed his own idea of a religion that he claims pleases the
God represented by the Bible.
For example, a
man named Job, who lived some 3,600
years ago and was «the greatest of all the people of the East», made a startling statement, saying that
God «stretches out the northern sky over empty space, suspending the earth upon nothing.»
mandarax Or, as Hitchens pointed out, sentient
man existed for about 200000
years before
God supposedly stepped in and offered him spiritual aid, and then in the backwaters of the world and not in one of the civilizations, like China or even Egypt.
And some 4,000
years later, a lawyer told an audience in Athens, Greece, that
God «made out of one
man every nation of
men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of
men.»
Or how was a
man named David, a simple shepherd at one time some 3,000
years ago, able to specify that we are formed by means of a set of detailed instruction within our DNA, that makes each of us unique, saying: «Your (
God's) eyes saw even the embryo (up through 56 days after conception) of me, and in your book (the instructions in DNA) all its parts were down in writing, as regards the days when they were formed and there was not yet one (organ) among them»?
In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a
year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a
man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put
God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.
I see a 62
year old
man, devotes his life and throat to blaspheming
God, die with a throat cancer.
I see a 93
year old
man, servant of
God walk out of the hospital.
As a
man who struggled for
years to find and accept
god, I'm going to raise a HUGE personal rejection of one important point.
So I got down on my knees and prayed for
God to teach me to love like Christ loved and that's when it started less than an hour later I was given the chance to love someone that I would call unlovable like christ loved this
man was lying about me to the point it could have ruined my career of 10
years.
As Robert Calhoun said many
years ago in
God and the Day's Work, «
Man is by nature - and not by choice - a worker..
Of course if anyone looks up, «No
man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming
Gods,
God was once a
man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14
year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.
Hindus believe
god revealed truths to wise
men who passed them on for thousands of
years through a rich oral tradition.
John, actually
man has been around close to 100,000
years longer than he has been drawn to the
God you are speaking of.
Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last
Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like
God,
Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or
Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of
years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course
man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of
years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of
God again was presented to them, another
man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand
years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that
God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion
years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue,
man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
And the gay
man I was talking with in the hot - tub: there were tears of grief,
years of trying to change, hating his condition, begging for help, loving
God in the face of incredible opposition, trying to follow Jesus, looking for fellowship and community support.
For
years they had preached about the fundamental rights of
men, that governments were the result of a compact, that disloyalty to the compact or its laws called for adjustment, and that all people were responsible to the laws of
God.
I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this
god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless
god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000
years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a
man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?
According to this view,
God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old
men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as
God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen
year old girls as spoils of war (Numbers).
It has taken Christianity nineteen hundred
years to discover that the
God who is distinct from
man and the world no longer exists, says Altizer.
After
years of dating the wrong guys, I'm finally with a
man who shares my morals, values and love for
God.
Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500
years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of
God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that
man had the right to decide the true nature of
God?