Would you want God to interfere?

[keith99]

I'd pray that I was the right person, in the right place, at the right time, and did something incredibly risky/stupid and lived, and then got the medal of honor for it. If you can manage a medal of honor unpostumously, you have it made for life.

Enjoy your life with ba bag attached to you to catch your feces. Alive, whole, in good physical condition and unscathed are all different things.

So far many of the 'prayers' show people here would ask carelessly and have a good chance of very undesired results.

 

[TeddyKGB]

Yes, actually, I do. Moreso, in fact.

In the Bible, God makes it very clear that He takes the use of His name and His character very seriously. And why shouldn't He? His name and His character are holy.

This is the god you find worthy of worship? The one who apparently gets mad about linguistics?

There's a reason the Christian God is often characterized as superman with a child's temperament.

No.

Yeah, dumb question.

 

[PastorJim]

This is the god you find worthy of worship? The one who apparently gets mad about linguistics?

It has nothing to do with linguistics. It has to do with representation.

There's a reason the Christian God is often characterized as superman with a child's temperament.

Only by his enemies.

 

[TeddyKGB]

It has nothing to do with linguistics. It has to do with representation.

We're trying to represent a disembodied all-powerful something-or-other using a method inherently poor at representing abstractions. One might reasonably expect God could forgive mistakes of the ilk that even humans don't usually take all that seriously.

Only by his enemies.

If I was really God's enemy, I don't think he would wait for you to figure out how to fight his battles.

This conversation, by the by, continues to put the God-as-powerful-human motif into fantastic relief.

 

[quatona]

This is a question that non-theists and theists alike can answer... Can we work under the premise that the Christian God exists, but she doesn't interfere with life whatsoever.

So, would you really want your prayers answered if it were possible? If so, to what extent?

If talking about an omniscient god I would conclude he has known my wishes for all eternity.

 

[SiderealExalt]

If I was really God's enemy, I don't think he would wait for you to figure out how to fight his battles.

This conversation, by the by, continues to put the God-as-powerful-human motif into fantastic relief.

You aren't kidding. Course, even attempting to give another being the status of an enemy of God seems rather futile if one says such a deity is omnipotent. Sort of defeats using the word at all.

If the bible is any indication of the character of the God I am assuming is in question, my answer is an emphatic no. I do not like the idea of mass murderers involving themselves in my or anyone else's life.

 

[PastorJim]

We're trying to represent a disembodied all-powerful something-or-other using a method inherently poor at representing abstractions. One might reasonably expect God could forgive mistakes of the ilk that even humans don't usually take all that seriously.

But that's just the point: His name and His character are holy and you don't take them seriously. That's called blasphemy.

If I was really God's enemy, I don't think he would wait for you to figure out how to fight his battles.

1) the Bible says that you really are an enemy of God
2) God doesn't need me to do anything for Him. He'll punish your blasphemy just fine on His own.

 

[cantata]

2) God doesn't need me to do anything for Him. He'll punish your blasphemy just fine on His own.

I'll set my deity on you!

Does God have a sense of humour?

 

[PastorJim]

I'll set my deity on you!

Does God have a sense of humour?

Not when it comes to slandering that which is holy, no.

 

[cantata]

Not when it comes to slandering that which is holy, no.

Gosh.

Why not?

 

[TeddyKGB]

But that's just the point: His name and His character are holy and you don't take them seriously. That's called blasphemy.

That's called God being a crybaby tyrant. Or you making him look like one. Where in the Bible does it label gender pronoun mistakes as "blasphemy"?

1) the Bible says that you really are an enemy of God
2) God doesn't need me to do anything for Him. He'll punish your blasphemy just fine on His own.

It's almost like having a super daddy standing behind you.

 

[keith99]

I'll set my deity on you!

Does God have a sense of humour?

I don't know about God, I would hope so. But it seems many who claim to he his followers do not.

 

[keith99]

Not when it comes to slandering that which is holy, no.

So she = slander.

Does not God embody all that is male and all that is female? Did not God make man is his image, male and female he made them, right?

An insult ONLY if such statement is made to deny that God also has all that is male.

 

[PastorJim]

So she = slander.

When God consistently describes Himself as male, yes.

Does not God embody all that is male and all that is female? Did not God make man is his image, male and female he made them, right?

When the Bible says that God made man in His own image, it doesn't mean a physical image.

 

[cantata]

So, er... does God have a penis? It's a serious question.

 

[TeddyKGB]

When God consistently describes Himself as male, yes.

Where in the Bible does God say, "Thou shalt not refer to me using feminine pronouns"?