Food for thought.

[bhsmte]

And you too shall be ignored by me from here on out. So please do not address me publicly in these forums. If you do, your posts will be ignored.

I wish you the best.

That's the way to welcome other people's opinions.

 

[bhsmte]

Soon the stock market will be the least of people's concerns. Trust.

Why is that?

And based on what objective evidence?

 

[Davian]

If only they could predict the stock market, as well as they claim to read the minds of others.

With access to an all-knowing deity, playing the stock market should be breeze. Unless that access is only imagined.

 

[Davian]

Soon the stock market will be the least of people's concerns.

maybe next week

• Davian
• Dec 1, 2014

Trust.

Not in the absence of compelling evidence, or rational arguments. Pretend that you are in a philosophy forum.

 

[anonymous person]

Why is that?

And based on what objective evidence?

If I deem what you write to me to be worthy of a response, you will receive one. Until then, I wish you the best as well.

 

[bhsmte]

If I deem what you write to me to be worthy of a response, you will receive one. Until then, I wish you the best as well.

I completely understand.

Even the most simple questions, can pose a significant risk.

 

[quatona]

That's the way to welcome other people's opinions.

I guess it´s modeled after the way God welcomes people´s "free will" that he has given them out of love.

 

[bhsmte]

I guess it´s modeled after the way God welcomes people´s "free will" that he has given them out of love.

Just rudimentary defense mechanisms.

When the questions becoming too risky to address and or the points others post make too much logical sense - run for the hills!!!

 

[David Colin Gould]

It is His love for you that allows for your freedom to question His love.

No, it is the claims of his believers - if I accept for the sake of argument that the deity that they are describing exists - that force me to question his love.

 

[Hikarifuru]

And you too shall be ignored by me from here on out. So please do not address me publicly in these forums. If you do, your posts will be ignored.

I wish you the best.

Sorry but how does it go "I could care less what godless people think of me" and I could care less what rude egotistical door to door snake oil salesman ask of me. Except you don't even confront people to their face and actually have a real conversation you just log in and type all sorts of word salad between hot pocket binges. That feeling of accomplishment and divine inspiration you think you feel.... that's redbull, not the anointing.

 

[quatona]

I could not care less...

 

[Hikarifuru]

If I deem what you write to me to be worthy of a response, you will receive one. Until then, I wish you the best as well.

you don't wish us the best if you don't even care to respond to all their questions or about their approval. You don't actually care about us you just care about Jesus.

 

[anonymous person]

No, it is the claims of his believers - if I accept for the sake of argument that the deity that they are describing exists - that force me to question his love.

What's your point again?

 

[David Colin Gould]

What's your point again?

My point is that quite a few Christians say that the Bible is true. However, in that Bible, we see God doing things that, if they were done by a human, we would consider abhorrent. It is difficult to see such a deity as loving - indeed, it often seems to me that the notion of God as a loving entity in the way that modern people understand the term is a pretty recent thing. We are also told by quite a few Christians that if we do not believe that the Christain deity exists, after we die we will be tortured forever. Now, we are told that God wants to save us from this horrible fate, which may well be an expression of love were it not for the case that he built the torture chamber and created the rules that dictate who will be sent there.

Can you understand how this does not resemble love? It is the claims that Christians make about their God that cause me to think that he is not a loving god at all - again, assuming for the sake of argument that this entity exists. Christians do not paint him as being a very loving being at all.

 

[anonymous person]

My point is that quite a few Christians say that the Bible is true. However, in that Bible, we see God doing things that, if they were done by a human, we would consider abhorrent. It is difficult to see such a deity as loving - indeed, it often seems to me that the notion of God as a loving entity in the way that modern people understand the term is a pretty recent thing. We are also told by quite a few Christians that if we do not believe that the Christain deity exists, after we die we will be tortured forever. Now, we are told that God wants to save us from this horrible fate, which may well be an expression of love were it not for the case that he built the torture chamber and created the rules that dictate who will be sent there.

Can you understand how this does not resemble love? It is the claims that Christians make about their God that cause me to think that he is not a loving god at all - again, assuming for the sake of argument that this entity exists. Christians do not paint him as being a very loving being at all.

Hmm...

Yahweh is not a human. Do you agree?

 

[David Colin Gould]

Hmm...

Yahweh is not a human. Do you agree?

If he exists, then he is not a human.

 

[anonymous person]

If he exists, then he is not a human.

Ok.

Then according to the Bible, who is God?

 

[David Colin Gould]

The creator of the universe.

I do not know if this is the answer that you are looking for; Jesus might be the answer if that is where you are heading. Note that many Christians are not in perfect agreement about who God is - if you are after character - as they have different interpretations of the Bible.

 

[anonymous person]

The creator of the universe.

I do not know if this is the answer that you are looking for; Jesus might be the answer if that is where you are heading. Note that many Christians are not in perfect agreement about who God is - if you are after character - as they have different interpretations of the Bible.

Well, stay with me. Don't jump out of the car, we're going somewhere...

Is that all God is, according to the Bible, The Creator?

Is there nothing else it tells us about Him?

 

[bhsmte]

Well, stay with me. Don't jump out of the car, we're going somewhere...

Is that all God is, according to the Bible, The Creator?

Is there nothing else it tells us about Him?

You mean, he should keep answering your questions and not deem them unworthy of response?