Sometimes we are concerned with major questions of existence,
but ONE IS BASIC,
is crucial...

What do you think it is,
and which,
if we can not answer/respond,
we have no ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE ?!

'TomDC', I'm sorry for your affliction!

It is well known that many artists die young !
Counting me among them, I put in advance my soul to a ‘secure shelter’…
The Death tried to pick me up in evident and multiple times,
but I was saved miraculously…

Especially CHILDREN, they recognize not only the FACE of someone,
but also the ‘state of the SOUL’
and ‘state of the SPIRIT’ of a person...!

For example, a bad man smiles almost in vain to a child,
because a baby can not be easy tricked.

Thanks Mike for that link!

I was a bit confused, because in a visit trough U.S.A., I saw written over a cashiers, this text:

“In God we trust; all others pay cash!”

Apropos of previous images presented by 'Alan F.':

Pals, is the case to give up U.S. dollars,
because you will become very TIRED,
reading always on them the sentence ”In God we trust!”…!

Is that an U.S.A. motto, just a slogan, a falsehood, or what else?!

I used a lot "Camtasia Studio". It is powerful, intuitive, friendly…, and convenient regarding price.

@ Mike L.

I have not expressed that some'form of faith' do not be RESPECTED, but to be CHECKED/tested...

@andybot said:

hmmm, TIG, logical enough. So why was the title of the thread changed to "and Gods"? With multiple Gods, it seems that some of them can be personal, kind of like the ancient Greek gods.

God exists, because His work is perceptible, and tells us greatly...! Each of us believes that his/her own God is the true one (is That Who created and controls everything), but, because there can be Only One (others are false gods, idols...), means that each of us must check the veracity of respective faith.
If your faith do not provide your salvation, and not changed your life, you have to change that useless faith!

@michaliszissiou said:

The Ten Commandments state GOD is a jealous god
zygmunt freud's quotes? An egoist then?
OK then, to call a god 'egoist', any god, it's somehow...

It's another kind of JEALOUSY...(a divine one)! See for example James 4:5(TNIV):
“Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?”()
"Footnotes: () Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously"

@daniel said:

The Ten Commandments state GOD is a jealous god. And, there are instances of HIM being angry and vengeful. Yet, HE must have love, too, for HE "gave his only begotten son" for us. How can you claim he doesn't have playful or comic emotions when he has displayed a range of other emotions?

Daniel, do you judge God as a man?!?!
"The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14)

@mike lucey said:

"But You, O Lord, shall laugh at them;... " (Psalm 59:8, NKJV)
Thi is not an "example of Jesus sense of humour"!
The meaning of "laugh" is different than "humor" or "comic", because God is spirit...!

Bible does not use vague and confusing terms, like “HUMOR” ...!
From God, through His spirit, we receive such (well defined) gifts/'fruits': love, JOY, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, etc.
The JOY can be easy combined with GLADNESS (but not with “humor”…). See verses like:
Deuteronomy 28:47, Esther 8:16-17, Psalm 51:8, 105:43, Isaiah 35:10, 51:3, 51:11, etc.

@michaliszissiou said:

So he didn't create humor. At least there is something god didn't create.
What is this? Humor.
How do you know all these cornel?

God is not playful, comic, ironic, etc.
In addition, He gives us the full and eternal joy, not an occasional one..., not just a little and temporary ...

@elmer said:

May be a new question, did god creates humour?

@mike lucey said:

Good question! I recently read that it was thought only humans possessed the ability for humour but it seems this is not that case as chimps and dolphins also some other animals that I can't now remember do also. I often think that my dog shows some form of humour when he tries the get me to play with him!
Funny thing humour! It has kept me going in dark times!

God didn't create humour, but created JOY, GLADNESS, etc.

@charly2008 said:

I would suspect that the majority of the Sketchucation members attended the forum to learn about 3D technologies. I have chosen the SketchUcation forum to exchange ideas and experiences about SketchUp and related topics.

If souls and spirits of the Sketchucation members are limited by “3D technologies”, the ‘picture’ becomes desolate...!

In the Bible, children are blessed!
For example, at Numbers 6:23-27, it is written:

23 “…'This is the way you shall bless the CHILDREN of Israel. Say to them:
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
25 The LORD make His face shine upon you,
and be gracious to you;
26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
and give you peace.'
27 So they shall put My name on the CHILDREN of Israel,
and I will bless them.”

God Is Good to His People! See, for example, Psalm 127, re. laboring and prospering with the Lord...:

"1 Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders work for nothing. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the men who watch over it stay awake for nothing. 2 You rise up early, and go to bed late, and work hard for your food, all for nothing. For the Lord gives to His loved ones even while they sleep.
3 See, CHILDREN are a GIFT from the Lord. The children born to us are our SPECIAL REWARD. 4 The children of a young man are like arrows in the hand of a soldier. 5 Happy is the man who has many of them. They will not be put to shame when they speak in the gate with those who hate them.

@bob-designer said:

"The end of the world, is not just near, it happened yesterday" Bob

The reality is that practically we already go in parallel with the end...

"Humans are naturally good" at FACIAL EXPRESSIONS recognition, when the image is dynamic (mimics...), and combined with words and intonations.

@solo said:

11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
......................................
16 Ephraim is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will slay their cherished offspring.”

The text of Hosea 9:11-16, if presented isolated, may confuse those who know the Bible superficially. Read at least the entire chapter, and you begin to enlightened!

Hebrew people has pledged that they will fully comply with the Law of God. Moreover, they demanded that unless they comply, to come upon them a series of CURSES... The people, despised and rejected God repeatedly, and, because of that, prophet Hosea warns them that punishments will come upon them, in accordance with those curses...

@solo said:

Abraham and old guy hearing voices in his head decides to kill his kid, only to have a change of mind in the end.

Abraham knew the voice of the Lord in many previous experiences...

@solo said:

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

...It does not refer to facts, but allegorically, about "little ones " of "daughter of Babylon". The message is other than interpreted by 'solo'...!