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God does not require anyone to believe in Him. God communicates with everyone, all of the time, and He is not separate from anyone or anything, but is present everywhere. The Father is the All in All, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.
God is needless, and therefore does not need anything from human beings. The Father does not ask to be served, but is the Servant of all of Life.
God is unconditionally loving, non-judgemental, non-condemning, and non-punishing.
 

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I am so confused! You say that God does not want anyone to believe in Him? How can we have a relationship if we don't believe He exists? You also say that God does not judge. So we can do whatever we want and it will be overlooked? Thank you for your help.

God respects our Free Will, and that's why He never wishes to force us to believe in Him. But if we do make the Free Will choice to believe in Him, then a conscious relationship with God will be beneficial to us.

God communicates with everyone, including the people who do not believe in Him; it's just that the latter are not conscious of that communication. God never forces people to do anything, because that would be an infringement on their Free Will. The Law of Free Will is one of God's universal Laws.

Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged." Since God asks us to not judge, then it follows that God does not judge either. Why would He ask us to not do what He Himself does (that is, judge)?

We can do whatever we like, but there is also a Law of God that says, "You reap what you sow." In other words, it is the Law of Cause and Effect. This means that all thoughts and actions create consequences. God does not judge nor punish, but harmful thoughts and actions create harmful consequences.
 
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Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged." Since God asks us to not judge, then it follows that God does not judge either. Why would He ask us to not do what He Himself does (that is, judge)?

This means I could hunt people down like animals while holding the Bible, steal cars, ransack the grocery store, steal laptops and smart phones from electronic shops, and as long as I never judge anyone, I will never be judged by God?

Perhaps we should push the Congress to have similar laws passed ASAP!

Since criminal laws are already modeled after the Christian or Mosaic Law, why not include this belief too?? As long as we don't judge anyone, the judge cannot judge us too! Crimes will no longer be crimes!:thumbsup:
 
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God does not require anyone to believe in Him. God communicates with everyone, all of the time, and He is not separate from anyone or anything, but is present everywhere. The Father is the All in All, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.
God is needless, and therefore does not need anything from human beings. The Father does not ask to be served, but is the Servant of all of Life.
God is unconditionally loving, non-judgemental, non-condemning, and non-punishing.

Would you call that Pantheism or just Theism/Deism?
 
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It looks like Deism except that it supposes that God cares for us on an ongoing basis. That would be what's called "Theism." But then again, that part about him being in everything sounds more like Pantheism or Animism than the Omnipresence of God believed in by Christians.
 
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Would you call that Pantheism or just Theism/Deism?

It sure is a LIE! I'm not saying the OP lied because he didn't say it was biblical or Christian teaching.
 
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I call it baloney.
God is a jealous God. He asks to be worshiped above all, and desires 100% devotion.
Further, the world is about to know His punishment for rejecting the gospel.

Jealousy seems to be, to Paul, an emotion not associated with love, which God is.(1 John 4:8)

Galatians 5:
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.- NIV

1 Corinthians 13 defines love:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 
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God does not require anyone to believe in Him.

God is Love, and He does require all to, in the end,try Love, and see it is the best way for all to live , the only way for all to be happy IN LIFE ... so God resurrects all who die sinners in this earth [Rev 20:13] , they are NOT under any terminal condemnation as many hypocrites claim [who are just as much or more sinners than those they condemn]... clearly God would not resurrect billions if they were already condemned , there would be no point in repeating their judgement if that is what it were for ... and billions died before Jesus came, what justice in God's Love if they have no chance of salvation, let alone stillbirths and young deaths...

no, as Jesus proves, mass religion is lies about God -Rev 13:3-4, all the few saved now [Matt 7:13-14] are taught by God Himself in spirit baptism, not by the fake sinner priests dressed up in comfortable churches ... no, the saints are the few , tens of thousand spread out over two millennia , about two thousand alive at any one time then... [Jude 1:14, Rev 7:3-4] and SEALED by spirit baptism to KNOW FROM God all Truth , but persecuted to death by sinners worldwide in their task set by Jesus of finding the next generation of saints lest they die out completely and man be lost in sin ... Jesus says it will not happen, he came to destroy sin, but not NOW!

so Satan wins the whole earth [Rev 13:3-4] with politics of fear and religion of lies about salvation of sinners... but the scripture is clear, sinners cannot be saved until they Love, no more sin... it is not what sinners teach, dressed up as OT priests because the NT has no uniform for the priesthood of God's new covenant ... so you should know who are the fakes, ironically they condemn the Levites whose uniform they put on to fool themselves and the masses, ironic indeed! [Jesus and teh saints wear no garb, they wear Love as their office to God, their SEAL is no sin , which no sinner can match until the three stages of baptism spoken of by John the baptist , whgich no church of men follows, only the church of God and Jesus Christ :-

Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

no sinner even understands what baptism of fire is, the perfection of Love in Life as a saint, a TRIAL to PROVE one's Love is not a fake to oneself...!

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

faith in what? ... faith in Love which is God, NOT fauith in what men say - because ALL saints are taught by God, that is the SEAL on the Truth, no sinner even CAN face God in spirit baptism !

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity

no matter then the lies of sinners in 'the cloth' , God's Truth is SEALED to saints only, none still sinning, none committing sin like the priests of man-made religion of the masses -Rev 13:3-4 ... Jesus and saints never dressed up yo fool men of holiness, holiness is one's Love one cannot hide nor fake , not sin, sin is unloving abuse ... obvious , but you should hear the words worldwide in mouths of billions the lies about salvation of men still committing sin , lies about grace :-

Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

what is so hard to understand? ... sin is NOT Love, Love is not sin... one either obeys God and Jesus and Loves in all things or one listens to one or other of Satan's lies that sin is good enough, pretending that sins are forgiven without stopping sinning, without repenting and dying to sin in water baptism... what a clever lie because men want to believe salvation can be had without changing from sin , just by saying, saying lies to oneself and others for the spirit knows , the conscience tells, the mind sees but DENIES even what it sees to keep sinning even as sin destroys life on this earth... God did not command Love in vain, but because Love is the ONLY way for all to be happy IN LIFE ... so god must even restore life in the new earth before men see the lies they believed now, except afew find the way to love, not sin any more, now -Matt 7:13-14... mass religion is DESTROYED by its own sin... not just justice, but freeing men from it -Rom 6:7, to start again in the kingdom [Rev 20:13] and many be saved [Rev 7:9-10] by works [Rev 20:13] not grace because death frees men from sin [Rom 6:7]

So God begins His Love of ALL as God of love of ALL , by redeeming billions to Love in the new earth kingdom come of the Christ , Jesus... but Jesus also says He COMPLETES the task of convincing all men to accept Jesus' rule by Love :-

Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

thus God is not just words like the fake mass religion of sinners [Rev 13:3-4] , God PROVES His Love of all by persuading men BY LOVE alone, that Love is the way for all to be happy, and there is no other way for this ... we try them, they fail, but Love does not fail ANYONE... in the end

that is why we know God as love, God is Love , real love beyond even beyond life and death in redemption to spirit of all creation, return to the creator of all creation B MEANS of Love, to become whole, one, to have peace with all... agree with the one true God who commands Love , of all

God communicates with everyone, all of the time, and He is not separate from anyone or anything, but is present everywhere.

God is our very spirit without which there can be no life , one spiroit of love, but most men live whole lives in denial of their own spirit of Love that would have made them happy if they listened to it...

but the spirit is indeed holy [separate , incorruptioble] in the sense that everything in life is TRANSIENT , the whole universe is just a CREATION, begins and ends and God makes another to complete Jesus' work... so the creator is NOT part of the universe, but makes it [so where was the creator at creation, NOT in the universe because it did not exist! ... understand then that the physical is unreal, virtual, to God, a mere virtual reality...of countless many , and God is EVERYTHING that is not created , one spirit, God is not IN creation, creation is in God like a dream is in our minds but NOT REAL to us... we can control a dream perhaps but we are not real in the dream... so God is not everywhere because everywhere is just a 'dream' to God... all God is is the one spirit of ALL the source of the dream, our selves and bodies and the universe are the virtual part, not God... God does not bein and end, we do, the spirit is undivided ,whole, not individuals, our resurrection then is from 'memoiry' by the spirit... just another virtual reality, our being is immortal and 'remembered' all we did as human beings, but our reality is the one spirit , not the self which is as-it-were just a dream by the spirit...

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ... the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

the soul is just the transient resurrectable physical life, the dream of individual self... by the spirit whch cannot divide, does not exist in space to be able to divide, which CREATED space and time and selves as virtual realities...

Psalms 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

The Father is the All in All, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.

indeed, and as the ONE spirit is ALL that exists, then the physical is NOT REAL , just a transient vreation of endless creations, like dreams, virtual realities, which alone are the meaning of God [one cannot Love but in LIFE, in the dream]

God is needless, and therefore does not need anything from human beings. The Father does not ask to be served, but is the Servant of all of Life.
God is unconditionally loving, non-judgemental, non-condemning, and non-punishing.

God creates, whether one calls it a need or not is irrelevant... the need is only in the creation and God has said His requirement of creation that [in up to three lives] all men come to accept Jesus and his RULE by Love... that creation becomes ONE in the dream by means of Love of all, no more sin against one another, becomes as God, ONE, undivided... eligion is divided so we know its source -Rev 13:3-4 and by logic know it simply cannot be ONE Truth of God, thus we can DIVIDE the truth from the lies of religion ... but we know too that few do in this life [Matt 7:13-14] many do in the next universe [Rev 7:9-10] ... thus salvation is in stages and mass religion is indeed false and we should realise it MUST be false , as Jesus also told us it must...
 
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I call it baloney.
God is a jealous God. He asks to be worshiped above all, and desires 100% devotion.
Further, the world is about to know His punishment for rejecting the gospel.

Jealousy is a harmful human emotion. How can an unconditionally loving, perfect God ever feel such an emotion? If He did, He would be as imperfect as so many imperfect, jealous human beings. How can a sinless God commit the sin of jealousy?

One of the greatest Christian leaders, who was loved and admired in many countries, was the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond who wrote a Christian classic called "The Greatest Thing In The World." He wrote, "What God does all day is not to sit waiting in churches for people to come and worship Him."

You say that the world will be punished for rejecting the Gospel. Surely you are being judgemental when you say such a thing. "Judge not, that you be not judged," said Jesus. If a Buddhist man dedicates his entire life to loving and serving human beings who are poverty stricken, but he does not accept the Christian Gospel, how can God punish him? God is Love, and since the Buddhist man was practising love for poor people, this means that God (Love) was expressing through him!
 
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Jealousy seems to be, to Paul, an emotion not associated with love, which God is.(1 John 4:8)

Galatians 5:
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.- NIV

1 Corinthians 13 defines love:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Well spoken, Phantasman!
 
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It looks like no one took my post in the first page seriously.

If the OP's beliefs can be made to completely replace country laws, would anyone love such move?

Free crime anyone? Murder or steal, etc not get judged, not get punished :wave:

Let loose of human nature on Earth without any consequences anyone?:wave:

god is love eh? who's god are you serving?
 
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Jealousy is a harmful human emotion. How can an unconditionally loving, perfect God ever feel such an emotion? If He did, He would be as imperfect as so many imperfect, jealous human beings. How can a sinless God commit the sin of jealousy?

One of the greatest Christian leaders, who was loved and admired in many countries, was the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond who wrote a Christian classic called "The Greatest Thing In The World." He wrote, "What God does all day is not to sit waiting in churches for people to come and worship Him."
God lives according to His law. While He hopes all people will come unto Him, if they sin and don't repent, they will experience the consequence, or else He is not God. When I give my children consequences for not obeying the house rules it is not because I don't love them. It is because I love them that I guide them and teach them.

You say that the world will be punished for rejecting the Gospel. Surely you are being judgemental when you say such a thing. "Judge not, that you be not judged," said Jesus. If a Buddhist man dedicates his entire life to loving and serving human beings who are poverty stricken, but he does not accept the Christian Gospel, how can God punish him? God is Love, and since the Buddhist man was practising love for poor people, this means that God (Love) was expressing through him!
I am not being judgmental - just stating the facts. The world is about to experience the 7 plagues of Egypt.
 
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God is wrathful, but not the wrath the fiends have. God is jealous but not the jealous insanity that humans possess. we humans of the world dwell in mere shadows of reality or distorted truths. instead of flying high we decide that God is like we are, a thrower of mud, a murderer, a thief, a selfish politician and a greedy judge. we are a people who loves not his neighbor as himself or we do love them as our self, but we hate ourselves so much that we do not put on Christ and we cut ourselves ( and thus others ) with sharp stones. we are in need of salvation to this day, not knowing this kind of stuff happens within our own souls. the insane man does not believe himself to be insane.
 
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