Act of God.
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That's your interpretation, and an extreme one it is...
Whenever you are building anything you expect waste, you even plan for it. So yes I do believe he knows who will respond and who will not from before the beginning and chose to pursue the creation for the sake of the few who would return love.
Value is a completely arbitrary thing, one mans trash is another mans treasure.
It's your decision whether you are trash or treasure to God -- and that is the only decision that matters... everything else is "Vanity" as Solomon says.
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The Big Dealer, Peoples opium.
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’Jeff H’. Wrote: „[so i guess god controls my beliefs?
or are you saying he (why a he anyway? he has a penis or something?).. or are you saying he controls everything except wether or not i believe he's real?..]”God controls everything, but He enable us to choose, He do not imposes us what we must commit...!
We are not predestined, but we have the freedom to select, so we are responsible for our decisions. The threat of freedom and our happiness comes not from the sovereignty of God, but from sin and from our desire to act independently of God. When Adam decided to do only what he wants, he lost his freedom. To do what we want, apart from God, is slavery ...Re. sexual organs of a spiritual being, it is too childish... You (J.H.) have to rethink...
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@jason_maranto said:
So yes I do believe he knows who will respond and who will not from before the beginning and chose to pursue the creation for the sake of the few who would return love.
So humanity's a masturbation toy? I feel defiled.
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‘Alan F’ wrote: “[. Because if he (God) does control everything that happens in nature then he can just as easily prevent catastrophes as cause them...he can micromanage who lives and who dies.]”
Yes Alan, our lives are in Creator’s hand, and He “can micromanage who lives and who dies”.
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‘Marian’ wrote: He (God) finds many silly things inacceptable and many horrendous things acceptable.”
Poor thinker, do not be ridiculous! Teach you God, ‘wise guy’, how to behave...?!!
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right....true god. Then at least he's not the Christian god, that one has almost nothing to do with truth.
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I have the feeling there exist only believers in the world. Some believe they know and some believe they don't know and search.
Some have demonstrated that belief can not be fully and logically understood and "known". So what, otherwise it wouldn't be "belief"?
Why do things happen that are not good for for people?@unknownuser said:
God does just what he wants
If we understood why the universe/God/Gods/fortune/nature condone things that appear with no doubt evil in the short term, then we would have to know what the intention is in the long term. My mind doesn't claim to have an answer.
For me now is the time to quit the discussion as it's getting silly on both sides.
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Voila Solo’s wrong interpretation: “[Yet God condones slavery.]”
I said that a person, rather to serve/obey God, chooses slavery..., without realizing it!
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‘TIG’, in your dissertation on page 2, you actually treated God as a superman...
I am not ‘Marian’ or 'jason_m', to be fooled by such philosophy...
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@unknownuser said:
‘TIG’, in your dissertation on page 2, you actually treated God as a superman...
I am not ‘Marian’ or 'jason_m', to be fooled by such philosophy...
'Cornel', that's some solid 'reasoning'.
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@unknownuser said:
‘TIG’, in your dissertation on page 2, you actually treated God as a superman...
I am not ‘Marian’ or 'jason_m', to be fooled by such philosophy...
BUT isn't God even better than Superman or any human 'hero' - by the very definition of God - God is supernatural, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, all-knowing, all-powerful, the creator of absolutely everything, there is nothing he can't do [if he were to put his mind to it], and so on... BUT if he's not these things, then what use has he ?
And if he's a lesser 'demi-god', then by definition, again he's not God.
He's either God or he's not God: you can't have it both ways; unless you accept Quantum mechanics as the truth when all things are possible.
An absolute all-powerful being == God
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'TIG', you correctly define God, but you want Him to act according to your thinking...
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But am I not made in his image? So if my thinking is awry, then surely he has made me somehow incorrectly, or at least in such a way that I am 'faulty' - which he of course should have anticipated as he should know where he original designs will lead... If he intended me to be like this then why all the hoo-ha ? Why'd he make it so difficult to become 'perfect', he knows how it is - he designed the whole system that produces these results. I really can't revere a being who represents himself to us with such obliqueness and obscurantism - which he surely knows is all but impossible to penetrate, so we will all but always fail to meet his exacting standards, which of course he seems to have devised to be unachievable to most - having made us all too fallible. In my book setting anyone a tasking knowing that they will almost certainly fail, is not the loving kinda guy I want MY God to be.
I can understand Jesus [and other men of good heart and mind] but why fuzzy the issue with this supernatural God dude who's forever messing with our lives and minds: just what planet is he on ???
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I'm not sure you actually get the concept of Grace... but it is the opposite of Works -- which is what you seem to be under the misconception that God demands.
Romans is an excellent book to read on the topic of Grace vs Works.
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TIG wrote: “[But am I not made in his image? So if my thinking is awry, then surely he has made me somehow incorrectly...]”
Is true, God created man like His image, but NOT IDENTICAL..., and, after that, man have fallen, because of sin...
Satan lied to Adam and Eve that if they become independent from God, they will be exactly like God, and deceived them ...
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@unknownuser said:
‘Alan F’ wrote: “[. Because if he (God) does control everything that happens in nature then he can just as easily prevent catastrophes as cause them...he can micromanage who lives and who dies.]”
Yes Alan, our lives are in Creator’s hand, and He “can micromanage who lives and who dies”.
He can, of course, accept/prevent/limit... all catastrophes, and so on, because He is Omniscient, is Almighty, is Omnipresent...So you are admitting that he does deliberately kill people in natural catastrophes, or at least fails to save them when he could choose to do so. Most of these people are just innocent people, just going about their lives, trying to do the best they can. Some of them are truly admirable people, many are children, many are infants. Many die in protracted agony...alone and afraid. If these were the actions of a human, we would justly regard such a person as a sociopath...someone who demonstrates a complete lack of empathy and concern for his fellow man.
And this is the all-loving being we are supposed to worship?Please don't insult my intelligence by telling me that it isn't our place to judge the Lord, or that he works in mysterious ways. That's just code for saying that you don't have an answer for this apparent contradiction. And if these really are the ways of the Lord then he's in serious need of a good PR man. Let's face it, he sent his only son down to earth nearly half of recorded history ago, to spread the good news and it's still only reached a tiny fraction of humanity. The Harry Potter books have had greater success.. If he is genuinely interested in saving mankind (from whatever he's supposedly saving us from) he's doing a piss-poor job of it.
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@unknownuser said:
Please don't insult my intelligence by telling me that it isn't our place to judge the Lord, or that he works in mysterious ways. That's just code for saying that you don't have an answer for this apparent contradiction. And if these really are the ways of the Lord then he's in serious need of a good PR man. Let's face it, he sent his only son down to earth nearly half of recorded history ago, to spread the good news and it's still only reached a tiny fraction of humanity. The Harry Potter books have had greater success.. If he is genuinely interested in saving mankind (from whatever he's supposedly saving us from) he's doing a piss-poor job of it.
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