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There is only one race of people: the human race.God is not racist!
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There is only one race of people: the human race.God is not racist!
There is only one race of people: the human race.
And God is not a respecter of persons. At least, not during the Age of Grace (which is just about over). After the Age of Grace, He's going to turn His eyes once again on the holy people He chose, Abraham's direct descendants.
Even right now RL, there's a call for Jews to return to Israel, and you got lots of rabbis saying that the Messiah is very close to arriving.
¡¡¡ JERUSALEM !!!There are probably more Christians concerned with Israel than Jewish people living in the rest of the world who just want to live their lives and don't want to be a part of a race divided by religion.
There is a love in my heart for the Jewish people!¿¿¿ Yerushaláyim ???
Not me. I think most wars are driven by our desires for money and power over others....I'm convinced that it is religious thinking which has always led to wars...
I'm willing to take the text as it is: God told people to spread out over the earth, and when they refused to do it he forced them. The tower-building ceased when the builders could no longer communicate with one another.True, I'm not trying to take our responsibility from us when we act in a racist manner. I would never suggest that any sane individual is not responsible for his own actions. But that doesn't mean that there is never an outside source exerting force on our actions. So the question isn't about what we chose to do as a result of God's actions, it is what did God want our actions to be as a result of His actions. And I would say that he wanted us to not get along so well, according to the story.
Yes, but I think there's an even bigger picture to see: as I read the NT, sin itself will not go away until this age has been completed.Again, true. But isn't it too late for that? In all practicality, there's no ending racism completely. Even though this is likely what God wants Christians to strive for, there's no turning back for the world from the road that we've been on for 3000 years. Since not every person is going to be a Christian, and let's face it, not everyone who claims to be a Christian is not going to be a racist, the divisiveness that God started will never go away completely.
For someone who identifies as Non-Denominational, those are some pretty strong and strict beliefs. It's no wonder that so many people can't take religion seriously.
I'm convinced that it is religious thinking which has always led to wars. Which inspired the Nazis. Which has led to the modern nation called Israel and the conflicts in that region. It's all the same thing.
There are probably more Christians concerned with Israel than Jewish people living in the rest of the world who just want to live their lives and don't want to be a part of a race divided by religion.
I can agree that not spreading out could be part of it. He said spread out, they didn't spread out, so He spread them out. But in order to take the text as it is, you have to consider all of the text. And this being the theory, that the only reason He confused the language and scattered them was because they didn't scatter, ignores Him stating their working together as a problem.I'm willing to take the text as it is: God told people to spread out over the earth, and when they refused to do it he forced them.
I'm going to have to agree with our Christian friends. It isn't religious thinking that drives people to war, money is probably the largest cause. That isn't to say that people don't use religion to support their claim that war is necessary, or that God wants them to go to war, but it isn't religion's fault.I'm convinced that it is religious thinking which has always led to wars.
I'm going to have to agree with our Christian friends. It isn't religious thinking that drives people to war, money is probably the largest cause. That isn't to say that people don't use religion to support their claim that war is necessary, or that God wants them to go to war, but it isn't religion's fault.
I always found the story of the Tower of Babel to be strange and I wanted to inquire what other thoughts about it might be.
It's the fault of greed which is practically synonymous with politics and religion. Fear and greed are what cause men to want money and power. It's what causes them to create a god in their image to justify war. Religion is the ORIGIN of all war.
Do you really think that people have never gone to war because their "god" told them to.
Have you never read the book of Joshua?? Or any of the OT stories?? Have you listened to the Republicans lately??
When I look at the wars of which I have some knowledge such as WWI, WWII, the Korean war, the American Revolutionary and Civil wars, the Spanish-American war, the population purges of Stalin and Mao, etc., I don't see them driven by religion. They're driven by a desire for territory, power, or wealth.It's the fault of greed which is practically synonymous with politics and religion. Fear and greed are what cause men to want money and power. It's what causes them to create a god in their image to justify war. Religion is the ORIGIN of all war.
Do you really think that people have never gone to war because their "god" told them to.
Have you never read the book of Joshua?? Or any of the OT stories?? Have you listened to the Republicans lately??
When I look at the wars of which I have some knowledge such as WWI, WWII, the Korean war, the American Revolutionary and Civil wars, the Spanish-American war, the population purges of Stalin and Mao, etc., I don't see them driven by religion. They're driven by a desire for territory, power, or wealth.
Sure, some wars do have significant religious justifications such as the Thirty Years War and the current Sunni/Shia civil war in the Mideast. But from what I can see, they are the exception, not the rule.
Have you ever read about a scientist named Thomas Malthus?Have you never read the book of Joshua?? Or any of the OT stories?? Have you listened to the Republicans lately??
Not according to Mr. Malthus.radhead said:Religion is the ORIGIN of all war.
I have read a lot of those stories, yes. But because I don't believe in God I don't believe God told them to do those things. I believe that they wanted more stuff, saw more stuff over there, and used religion to motivate their people to go get said stuff for them.Have you never read the book of Joshua?? Or any of the OT stories?? Have you listened to the Republicans lately??
I'm glad we are not a religion.No one seems to understand what I'm saying. Religion makes greed and hatred okay. If God is shown to be hateful and bigoted, then they should be that way too. It's written in the book that their God wrote. Their God gives them a license to be the same way that he is. They all agree together that God wrote certain things, so they can be bigoted and hateful because it is considered "holy".