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Would you forgive God?
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The 'Good *cough* Book' says, ...it is appointed unto a man once to die, and then the judgement.
Suppose that, as it turns out, God's daddy decided to turn the tables and put God on trial, appointing you as judge and jury instead. Would you send your only begotten to die on a cross in an attempt to reconcile God's mistakes . . . or better yet, condemn God to an eternity of torment for His failure to get it right in the first place?
Suppose that, as it turns out, God's daddy decided to turn the tables and put God on trial, appointing you as judge and jury instead. Would you send your only begotten to die on a cross in an attempt to reconcile God's mistakes . . . or better yet, condemn God to an eternity of torment for His failure to get it right in the first place?
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//God is full of twisted ideology//
Wrong,You have history establishes that the inquisitors tortured those accused of heresy in order to extract a confession. In an effort to minimize the Inquisition’s guilt, Catholic commentators have written that at the time, torture was commonplace in secular tribunals too. But does that justify such activity by ministers who claimed to be representatives of Christ? Should they not have shown the compassion that Christ showed for his enemies? To view this objectively, we might reflect on one simple question: Would Christ Jesus have used torture on those who differed with him on his teachings? Jesus said: “Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you.”—Luke 6:27.
This does not mean that the problem will always go away or that it will be solved immediately, but that we will be able to take the course that will do good, spiritually, for us and for others concerned. We will endure the trial to the end and come through it better true Christians than we were when we went into it. And others who observe us, and who have a right heart, will be helped.
Wrong,You have history establishes that the inquisitors tortured those accused of heresy in order to extract a confession. In an effort to minimize the Inquisition’s guilt, Catholic commentators have written that at the time, torture was commonplace in secular tribunals too. But does that justify such activity by ministers who claimed to be representatives of Christ? Should they not have shown the compassion that Christ showed for his enemies? To view this objectively, we might reflect on one simple question: Would Christ Jesus have used torture on those who differed with him on his teachings? Jesus said: “Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you.”—Luke 6:27.
This does not mean that the problem will always go away or that it will be solved immediately, but that we will be able to take the course that will do good, spiritually, for us and for others concerned. We will endure the trial to the end and come through it better true Christians than we were when we went into it. And others who observe us, and who have a right heart, will be helped.
//“Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you.”//
Love is an emotional response to that which one perceives as a value. I love others, not in spite of their actions, but because of their potential, through reason, to know what they can and should do from which they derive the will to do it . . . not because of who their daddy is.
Love is an emotional response to that which one perceives as a value. I love others, not in spite of their actions, but because of their potential, through reason, to know what they can and should do from which they derive the will to do it . . . not because of who their daddy is.
//I'd just ask him what he was thinking of when he invented spiders//
Well,spiderweb silk is stronger than steel and more durable than nylon. Scientists are studying the silk in hopes of making fibers stronger than Kevlar, the substance used to make bulletproof vests. However, the complex manufacturing processes of the spider are as yet beyond human duplication.
“Spiders produce silk using water as a solvent in the open air, at ambient temperatures and pressure, and it goes through all these stages to become a stable, water-resistant web of great strength,” noted Dr. Christopher Viney of the University of Washington in Seattle. “Yet to produce a tough fiber like Kevlar, you have to make it under high pressure using concentrated sulfuric acid.” Thus, this scientist admits: “We have a lot to learn.”
Think about it. If the best of human technology is unable to produce what lowly sea creatures and spiders can, doesn’t it seem reasonable to believe that these creatures are the product of a superior intelligence? Wisely, we will give credit to the Great Designer—whose work today’s scientists are striving to imitate—for his incomparable ingenuity in filling the earth with his productions.—Psalm 104:24.
Well,spiderweb silk is stronger than steel and more durable than nylon. Scientists are studying the silk in hopes of making fibers stronger than Kevlar, the substance used to make bulletproof vests. However, the complex manufacturing processes of the spider are as yet beyond human duplication.
“Spiders produce silk using water as a solvent in the open air, at ambient temperatures and pressure, and it goes through all these stages to become a stable, water-resistant web of great strength,” noted Dr. Christopher Viney of the University of Washington in Seattle. “Yet to produce a tough fiber like Kevlar, you have to make it under high pressure using concentrated sulfuric acid.” Thus, this scientist admits: “We have a lot to learn.”
Think about it. If the best of human technology is unable to produce what lowly sea creatures and spiders can, doesn’t it seem reasonable to believe that these creatures are the product of a superior intelligence? Wisely, we will give credit to the Great Designer—whose work today’s scientists are striving to imitate—for his incomparable ingenuity in filling the earth with his productions.—Psalm 104:24.
Goodlife, yet again you’ve ignored the question, but I can certainly see the connection you’re making between God’s twisted personality and the Spanish Inquisition.
Mick-Talbot, //Wow ... naomi, that reads to me like you do believe in the great man after all. //
I do - in a way. ;o)
DT, //I can't forgive somebody who does not exist.//
Good point – but we are only ‘supposing’. :o)
Mick-Talbot, //Wow ... naomi, that reads to me like you do believe in the great man after all. //
I do - in a way. ;o)
DT, //I can't forgive somebody who does not exist.//
Good point – but we are only ‘supposing’. :o)
Goodlife - “... [from Naomi] //God is full of twisted ideology//... Wrong,You have history establishes that the inquisitors tortured those accused of heresy in order to extract a confession...”
You appear to have answered a question that no one has asked and which spectacularly fails to address the issue of God's savage and cruel methods that are recorded in the Bible. The bizarre tests of faith that He needlessly performs on the likes of Abraham and Job for instance.
You appear to have answered a question that no one has asked and which spectacularly fails to address the issue of God's savage and cruel methods that are recorded in the Bible. The bizarre tests of faith that He needlessly performs on the likes of Abraham and Job for instance.
Goodlife - “... However, the complex manufacturing processes of the spider are as yet beyond human duplication... If the best of human technology is unable to produce what lowly sea creatures and spiders can, doesn’t it seem reasonable to believe that these creatures are the product of a superior intelligence?...”
No. It is not 'reasonable' to believe that these creatures are the product of a superior intelligence. The fact you think that spiders and other creatures are 'lowly' demonstrates rather nicely your inherent arrogance that human beings are somehow special in the eyes of a benevolent creator.
As for '… the best of human technology...' not being able to artificially replicate spider-web silk, we've only been really attempting to do so for the last 30 or so years. Since spiders have had several hundred million years of evolution to perfect their silk-making abilities, I don't consider our current inability to reproduce it as the crushing failure that you seem to think it is.
No. It is not 'reasonable' to believe that these creatures are the product of a superior intelligence. The fact you think that spiders and other creatures are 'lowly' demonstrates rather nicely your inherent arrogance that human beings are somehow special in the eyes of a benevolent creator.
As for '… the best of human technology...' not being able to artificially replicate spider-web silk, we've only been really attempting to do so for the last 30 or so years. Since spiders have had several hundred million years of evolution to perfect their silk-making abilities, I don't consider our current inability to reproduce it as the crushing failure that you seem to think it is.
