@ Alan F.
I know that topography of the Earth (land and water) HAS CHANGED SUBSTANTIALLY..., and will be changed again soon, during Tribulation period, according to biblical prophecies. All God’s words are trustworthy!
I also know that the Atmosphere had before a different composition, density and thickness!
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 ...
When human bodies of ‘born again’ people will be glorified, the situation will change again... Believers will be metamorphosed, regenerated, restored...
'TIG', you correctly define God, but you want Him to act according to your thinking...
‘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...
Voila Solo’s wrong interpretation: “[Yet God condones slavery.]”
I said that a person, rather to serve/obey God, chooses slavery..., without realizing it!
‘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...?!!
Marian, you have not realized that I talked about true God, not about the one you imagined...
‘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...
’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...
@ ’Marian’
Besides the multitude of good advice, the Bible presents a number of negative aspects, for people to not repeat them.
You are wrong, sayng that the Scripture promotes evil...
@‘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!”
Have you complied?!
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!
@ 'Solo'.
Socialism “require beliefs”... You think you are your own god, and, by through your advice, your will, your energy, your time, your money, etc., you can help others, “when and where you can”... You are based on YOU, instead to be based on God...
In fact, Humanists, Illuminists, Socialists, Communists, etc., all think about the same (different ‘color’ only), and they do not realize that they are actually various forms of Apostasy, and Antichrist will bring them together, in one ideology, because he will come with the same slogans...
Atheism is an huge illusion - everyone believes in something...
What you put in your first place, to be the most important, vital for you, that is your god...!
‘Solo’, to believe in both, that socialists say and that atheists say, you have to be a great believer, a very religious guy,
manifesting faithful devotion...
“Seems to fit”, and does NOT..., because the ‘healthy’ meaning of that term is now degenerated... For many, being a Fundamentalist means to be narrow, fanatic, and so on.
I am just a Christian, without ‘tail’...!
How about you, 'Solo' ?!
@ ’Solo’. I’m a simple realistic Canadian, not a “strange fundamentalist”...
@ ’Solo’. I’m not an U.S. citizen.
Promote someone who has respect for God, for people and to himself (in a good way....)!
Rather he was under the influence of alcohol, or else...
Maybe he wanted to imitate a communist leader...
Ask him!
@ ’Solo’. “He who is not with Me is against Me”, only God can say, because He is omniscient...
When a person/a group uses such a formulation, it is a “scary” monster.
Communists used it, Antichrist will use it...
‘srx’ wrote: “I don't think this is IF AND ONLY IF statement...”
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.”, Jesus Christ said...
“I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”, Jesus Christ also said...
(Conclusion need not!)
@ ’Box’. Many blessings to you!
“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith…” (1 Peter 5:7-9)… and the reward will be great!