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Dave Ellis

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Why not just forgive everyone? Why all this complicated blood shedding and need to believe certain things?


Well, if that was how it worked they wouldn't be able to guilt trip or make emotional appeals to you!
 
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Only to proud fools who think they need not the forgiveness of GOD.

Appeal to emotion and non-sequitur.

Besides, I note you have not addressed my points still. I therefore consider them to be accepted by you.
 
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GOD has supernaturally revealed HIMSELF to me time,and time again. I need no proof of HIS existence. I'm sorry that HE hasn't done that for you'll. I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove the existence of GOD to you'll. That's HIS job,not mine. I know HE exists. I'm at peace with GOD. You'll are the one's who fret over entertaining the thought of GOD. I LOVE thinking upon GOD. As a matter of fact. I was once without GOD,and i have far more peace,and freedom with HIM than i ever did before. You see,I've been on your side of the fence. Shoot me,and GOD are best friends. You'll don't know what your missing out on.



You know, they lock people up for revealing themselves to other people time and time again, right?

I'm kidding, I'm kidding....
 
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No...but you,and i are hardly JESUS. The need of Divine forgiveness is infinitely greater than our need of human forgiveness. You probably just used your wits to set me up for that question??
Human forgiveness is a great place to start though. Especially if it comes from ones heart. It's also just as important to thankfully accept the forgiveness from another.

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Down to the infants, like with the Amalekites? How can an infant be a terrorist?

this is the third time you have changed the bars after I have answered your question.

firstly "Afghan police have intercepted 41 children whom insurgents were planning to use as suicide bombers, an Interior Ministry spokesman...."

from:
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-21/...ice-suicide-bombers-kunar-province?_s=PM:ASIA

secondly.....what about abortion? Are you stating that this is wrong too? I mean you can't say it's okay for people to have a choice but not okay for God.
 
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this is the third time you have changed the bars after I have answered your question.

firstly "Afghan police have intercepted 41 children whom insurgents were planning to use as suicide bombers, an Interior Ministry spokesman...."

from:
Afghan police intercept suspected suicide bomb children - CNN

secondly.....what about abortion? Are you stating that this is wrong too? I mean you can't say it's okay for people to have a choice but not okay for God.



You're still tossing out Red Herrings.

God is supposedly infinitely loving, humans aren't. Therefore you can't hold them to the same standard.

You have not addressed how a perfectly loving being can kill one, let alone millions of people. How does it work?
 
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You're still tossing out Red Herrings.

God is supposedly infinitely loving, humans aren't. Therefore you can't hold them to the same standard.

You have not addressed how a perfectly loving being can kill one, let alone millions of people. How does it work?

Not to mention omnipotent, so there is always another way than simply genociding an entire civ's worth of babies. Humans operating under their own strength don't have that option.

It's simply remarkable how many people explain away God's atrocities with the equivalent of a "well, what else could he have done?"

Which part of "omnipotent" needs explaining, again?
 
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You're still tossing out Red Herrings.

God is supposedly infinitely loving, humans aren't. Therefore you can't hold them to the same standard.

You have not addressed how a perfectly loving being can kill one, let alone millions of people. How does it work?


The only issue with this line of reasoning I have is that, when you get right down to it, if theists are right then God kills everyone. Unless any of you have a mate who has been hanging around for the last 30,000 years or so? :p
 
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You're still tossing out Red Herrings.

God is supposedly infinitely loving, humans aren't. Therefore you can't hold them to the same standard.

You have not addressed how a perfectly loving being can kill one, let alone millions of people. How does it work?

so your saying that a dictator can kill millions of people and God can't touch him? And these are not red herrings they are pivotal to a point I am trying to make.
 
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Not to mention omnipotent, so there is always another way than simply genociding an entire civ's worth of babies. Humans operating under their own strength don't have that option.

It's simply remarkable how many people explain away God's atrocities with the equivalent of a "well, what else could he have done?"

Which part of "omnipotent" needs explaining, again?

the amalekites... God commanded them to be slayed. See He will protect His children even if it means killing.
 
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so your saying that a dictator can kill millions of people and God can't touch him? And these are not red herrings they are pivotal to a point I am trying to make.


They are because we have already addressed that point. The answer is, no, God can not be infinitely loving and kill that person.

Especially since God made the person that way. He was just carrying out God's plan, right?
 
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so your saying that a dictator can kill millions of people and God can't touch him?
I think when you say "can't touch him" isn't how I'd put it. When looking from the lens of Love ...especially "Godly Love", there's not much room in that kind of Love for hate and anger because that space that is God is being totally filled with Love and Forgiveness and Compassion for His Creation.

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GOD has supernaturally revealed HIMSELF to me time,and time again. I need no proof of HIS existence. I'm sorry that HE hasn't done that for you'll. I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove the existence of GOD to you'll.
That's not quite the way this discussion went, but fine. That's up to you. No-one was ever forcing you to post here.

That's HIS job,not mine. I know HE exists. I'm at peace with GOD. You'll are the one's who fret over entertaining the thought of GOD.
"Fret over entertaining the thought of God"? We're talking about this is a fairly general way. We're not remotely as you imagine us.

I LOVE thinking upon GOD. As a matter of fact. I was once without GOD,and i have far more peace,and freedom with HIM than i ever did before. You see,I've been on your side of the fence. Shoot me,and GOD are best friends. You'll don't know what your missing out on.
Uh, okay.
 
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so your saying that a dictator can kill millions of people and God can't touch him? And these are not red herrings they are pivotal to a point I am trying to make.
No, he can.

What he's doing is comparing a dictator to a God. He's asking why it is okay for God to commit genocide. He's asking how that is loving.
 
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GOD has supernaturally revealed HIMSELF to me time,and time again. I need no proof of HIS existence. I'm sorry that HE hasn't done that for you'll. I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove the existence of GOD to you'll. That's HIS job,not mine. I know HE exists. I'm at peace with GOD. You'll are the one's who fret over entertaining the thought of GOD. I LOVE thinking upon GOD. As a matter of fact. I was once without GOD,and i have far more peace,and freedom with HIM than i ever did before. You see,I've been on your side of the fence. Shoot me,and GOD are best friends. You'll don't know what your missing out on.
I'm also a Lover of God...I totally get what your saying here.

But from the on going discussion of this thread, I think you can see how many might be turned off by the image of God that they see coming out of the Old Testament with Christian theology.

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