"Americans, you deserve exactly what is about to come down on your heads."
No, I don't. I have strived to live a simple life. I stay out of debt. I drive old cars until they finally die. I live well within my means. I don't harm others and let others live their lives in peace. I love my wife and my children and I have always supported the…
"Americans, you deserve exactly what is about to come down on your heads."
No, I don't. I have strived to live a simple life. I stay out of debt. I drive old cars until they finally die. I live well within my means. I don't harm others and let others live their lives in peace. I love my wife and my children and I have always supported them only from the labors of my own hands. Other than imbibing a hard drink once in awhile and cursing from time to time I live a pretty good, moral and decent life. I believe in God and try to govern my actions according to those beliefs.
I'm also a pure blood, no covid vax for me.
I don't deserve what is coming. I didn't create the system. I didn't ask to be born in this system. Neither did my parents. Many Americans do deserve what is coming because of the decadent, false and debt burdened lifestyles they live. But I don't.
Sending bears to maul kids to death. (4 Kings 2:23-24)
Turning women into salt for breaking a rule she didn't know existed. (Genesis 19:26)
Not wanting Blind people, the lame, those with flat noses, dwarves, people with scurvy, people with bad eyes, people with bad skin, and those that "hath their stones broken" coming into his churches (Leviticus 21:17-24)
Ordering His Underlings to Kill Their Own Children (Genesis 22:1-12)
Killing Egyptian Babies (Numbers 16:41-49)
God is so infuriated that Onan did not fuck his sister-in-law to completion that he kills him. (Genesis 38:1-10)
Helping Samson Murder People to Pay Off a Bet. (Judges 14:1-19)
God killing People for Complaining About him Killing Them. (Numbers 16:1-49)
God makes a bet with Satan..... God tells Satan he can mess with Job all he wants. Satan does. He kills all of Job's children and animals, burns down his house, destroys his wealth, and then covers him in boils. (Job 1)
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.” - Carl Sagan
Rest assured, Dennis Merwood, I am not out raping, pillaging, murdering, enslaving, abusing children, killing babies, thieving, robbing, committing genocide, etc. I try to live by the basic tenets of Christianity. You know, "love your neighbor as thyself" or the "golden rule" or the basic 10 commandments of "thou shalt not steal" or "thou shalt not commit adultery." I don't make any attempts to try to understand the Old Testament. Too weird. Too complicated.
Jesus gave us two commandments, Love God above everything and love your fellow man. PERIOD!
Cankerpuss. If people follow these two commandments, that about covers the 10.
The Old Testament is God’s attempt to control evil’s hold on people, by direct control, “Follow the Law”, ie Works. The sinful nature of Man makes the Follow the Law approach impossible.
The New Testament teaches that by having faith in Jesus, ie God, and following His two commandments, your heart is in the right place and your “goodness” comes from your heart, it is part of you.
My old book says that Jesus gave us two commandments: Love God above everything and love your fellow man.
Written about 300-years after this guy Jesus was supposed to have existed.
How can we be absolutely sure Jesus exactly said this? We can't, eh?
I won't debate the validity of your last claim. It gets people here all mad!
But it did not take the Christian New Testament to teach man these things.
These had been obvious to man for many years before Jesus came along.
All pagan religions taught these two common sense things involving their "Gods".
After all, they are hardly rocket science eh! LOL
And BTW, isn't everybody's heart in the right place, LOL, and how does a muscular organ which squeezes and relaxes to pump blood around your body produce "goodness"?
Isn't "Open your heart to Jesus" just code for: you can convince yourself a non-existent being is real if you try hard enough?
God is the Supreme being, however you look at Him. He is perfect by definition, because He sets the rules. You have to believe that He is MUCH bigger than you are. You folks, whose egos are so big that you cannot believe in a higher spirit than yourselves, so be it. If you believe that you are right and God is wrong, good luck!
Got any credible proof of that my friend? Betcha don't!
After that we can chat about him being perfect by definition because he sets the rules. A perfect example of a logical fallacy! Setting rules and being perfect are not related in any way!
Why do I have to accept that he is MUCH bigger than me?
And if the Bible is God's word, as you insist, he was WRONG on a ton of things!
"Americans, you deserve exactly what is about to come down on your heads."
No, I don't. I have strived to live a simple life. I stay out of debt. I drive old cars until they finally die. I live well within my means. I don't harm others and let others live their lives in peace. I love my wife and my children and I have always supported them only from the labors of my own hands. Other than imbibing a hard drink once in awhile and cursing from time to time I live a pretty good, moral and decent life. I believe in God and try to govern my actions according to those beliefs.
I'm also a pure blood, no covid vax for me.
I don't deserve what is coming. I didn't create the system. I didn't ask to be born in this system. Neither did my parents. Many Americans do deserve what is coming because of the decadent, false and debt burdened lifestyles they live. But I don't.
"I believe in God and try to govern my actions according to those beliefs."
Like stoning adulterers to death. (Leviticus 20:10)
Committing genocide, keeping the virgins for yourself (Numbers 31:18)
Condoning slavery. (Exodus 21:2-11. Genesis 12:16)
Sending bears to maul kids to death. (4 Kings 2:23-24)
Turning women into salt for breaking a rule she didn't know existed. (Genesis 19:26)
Not wanting Blind people, the lame, those with flat noses, dwarves, people with scurvy, people with bad eyes, people with bad skin, and those that "hath their stones broken" coming into his churches (Leviticus 21:17-24)
Ordering His Underlings to Kill Their Own Children (Genesis 22:1-12)
Killing Egyptian Babies (Numbers 16:41-49)
God is so infuriated that Onan did not fuck his sister-in-law to completion that he kills him. (Genesis 38:1-10)
Helping Samson Murder People to Pay Off a Bet. (Judges 14:1-19)
God killing People for Complaining About him Killing Them. (Numbers 16:1-49)
God makes a bet with Satan..... God tells Satan he can mess with Job all he wants. Satan does. He kills all of Job's children and animals, burns down his house, destroys his wealth, and then covers him in boils. (Job 1)
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.” - Carl Sagan
Rest assured, Dennis Merwood, I am not out raping, pillaging, murdering, enslaving, abusing children, killing babies, thieving, robbing, committing genocide, etc. I try to live by the basic tenets of Christianity. You know, "love your neighbor as thyself" or the "golden rule" or the basic 10 commandments of "thou shalt not steal" or "thou shalt not commit adultery." I don't make any attempts to try to understand the Old Testament. Too weird. Too complicated.
Jesus gave us two commandments, Love God above everything and love your fellow man. PERIOD!
Cankerpuss. If people follow these two commandments, that about covers the 10.
The Old Testament is God’s attempt to control evil’s hold on people, by direct control, “Follow the Law”, ie Works. The sinful nature of Man makes the Follow the Law approach impossible.
The New Testament teaches that by having faith in Jesus, ie God, and following His two commandments, your heart is in the right place and your “goodness” comes from your heart, it is part of you.
My old book says that Jesus gave us two commandments: Love God above everything and love your fellow man.
Written about 300-years after this guy Jesus was supposed to have existed.
How can we be absolutely sure Jesus exactly said this? We can't, eh?
I won't debate the validity of your last claim. It gets people here all mad!
But it did not take the Christian New Testament to teach man these things.
These had been obvious to man for many years before Jesus came along.
All pagan religions taught these two common sense things involving their "Gods".
After all, they are hardly rocket science eh! LOL
And BTW, isn't everybody's heart in the right place, LOL, and how does a muscular organ which squeezes and relaxes to pump blood around your body produce "goodness"?
Isn't "Open your heart to Jesus" just code for: you can convince yourself a non-existent being is real if you try hard enough?
Well said, JohnAZ.
Isn't the 10 commandments in the Old Testament?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRy-UfUYYGk
A perfect "God" doesn't get a do-over, eh Cankerpuss.
Take care
God is the Supreme being, however you look at Him. He is perfect by definition, because He sets the rules. You have to believe that He is MUCH bigger than you are. You folks, whose egos are so big that you cannot believe in a higher spirit than yourselves, so be it. If you believe that you are right and God is wrong, good luck!
Nice "Presumptive Argument" John! LOL
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10503-016-9419-1
You are presuming God exists!
Got any credible proof of that my friend? Betcha don't!
After that we can chat about him being perfect by definition because he sets the rules. A perfect example of a logical fallacy! Setting rules and being perfect are not related in any way!
Why do I have to accept that he is MUCH bigger than me?
And if the Bible is God's word, as you insist, he was WRONG on a ton of things!
What he's saying doesn't necessarily apply to you and me.