Act of God.
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Re: Use of the Bible.
When you reduce the Bible to it's core message about how we ought to live, it's love your neighbor as yourself.
Basically that means that in any interaction we should put the needs of others before our own wants. Not always so easy to do. If we don't, the failure is ours, not God's or the Bibles. As the saying goes, I'm not perfect, just forgiven.
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Here's Richard Dawkins commandments....
Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you
In all things, strive to cause no harm
Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty, faithfulness and respect.
Do not overlook evil or shrink from administering justice, but always be ready to forgive wrongdoing freely admitted and honestly regretted.
Live life with a sense of joy and wonder
Always seek to be learning something new
Test all things; always check your ideas against the facts, and be ready to discard even a cherished belief if it does not conform to them.
Never seek to censor or cut yourself off from dissent; always respect the right of others to disagree with you.
Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others.
Question everything
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The wisdom of God's Word becomes evident when a person genuinely and diligently studies them.
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The charred steel frame reminded me of this:
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@dropout said:
When you reduce the Bible to it's core message about how we ought to live, it's love your neighbor as yourself.
If that's its core they should have just wrote a pamphlet and not a collection of books (incomplete at that) which are filled with incest, murder, genocide, human and animal sacrifice, rules that everybody ignores on what to eat, wear and how and with whom to have sexual relations, god acting like a mean kid and then in the new testament they can't even get the story straight.
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Pete, you should post the first image on 'some funny pictures' thread. No comments needed.
An act of God,
Should we start writing about the deepest meaning of the word "hubris" ? As Oxford dictionary suggests, read about some ancient greek theatrical tragedies. -
I would say God was an art critic in this case. How was that a statue of Christ? The pose is more like Moses...or some giant drowning in that pond.
Then again maybe it was a miracle the statue protected the stupid little building behind from the strike. What was that thing made of? Styrofoam?
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@pbacot said:
I would say God was an art critic in this case. How was that a statue of Christ? The pose is more like Moses...or some giant drowning in that pond.
I have to agree there. It reminded me of that ubercheesy statue of Crazy Horse being built in S. Dakota.
BTW...slightly off topic...am I alone in thinking that there's not enough mountain to deal with that flowing mane on top of his head? Not without several hundred tons of reconstituted stone, at any rate.
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You aren't alone Alan
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BTW...slightly off topic...am I alone in thinking that there's not enough mountain to deal with that flowing mane on top of his head? Not without several hundred tons of reconstituted stone, at any rate.
By the time it is finished he will be an old man and will have lost all his hair. Someone was thinking ahead
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Whale fossils in the desert? Quick, make it a religious debate. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/ancient-whale-bones-discovered-desert-parents-outraged-hooters-165721306.html
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@marian said:
Whale fossils in the desert? Quick, make it a religious debate..
Ah! the Good Old Days....I bet Pete really misses arguing with Cornel.
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Solo wrote: „I get this but personally I'd call it an act of Nature.”
Call it “An act of God”, to be more precise..., because God controls everything that happens in the Nature!
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@alan fraser said:
I'd hope so. You'd think they'd get the message about indulging in idolatry.
kidding aside. i agree with Alan on that "idolatry". that's one issue that has been rolling around among those claiming themselves as Jesus follower. yet, they don't really do what they said.@unknownuser said:
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
Exodus 20:4-5athat verse and many other verses from most scriptures of Abrahamic religions agrees on the issue, literally and allegorically.
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@‘Marian’.
You wrote that the Bible presents “god acting like a mean kid...”
Bravo, Marian! You judge God... You are greater than He is ...!?At 1 Thessalonians 5:21 is written: “Test all things; hold fast what is good!”,
and at Ephesians 5:10 is written: Find out what is acceptable to the Lord!”
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@unknownuser said:
.., because God controls everything that happens in the Nature!
cool.. a spillover thread...
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?..or i guess i mean (since you're obviously going to say that no, that's my choice)… what exactly does 'everything that happens in the nature" actually encompass?
let's see what fancy bible quote you come up with to talk yourself out of this one..
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@ ’Marian’
Besides the multitude of good advice, the Bible presents a number of negative aspects, for people to not repeat them.
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Call it “An act of God”, to be more precise..., because God controls everything that happens in the Nature!
That's just plain silly. I've no problem with people believing that God might be in some way ultimately responsible, because he set the ball rolling. But that's like blaming someone on a Ford production line for an auto accident that was the result of driver error, simply because he built the car.
The idea that anyone would still believe that a divine being is directly reponsible for a golfer being struck by lightning, like Zeus sending out his thunderbolts, is both scary and laughable at the same time.And it is an all or nothing situation if you take that stance. Either he was the original creator and everything from there pretty much runs on automatic; or he personally strikes down every person that dies in a natural catastrophe. Because if he 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.
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