Is God competent or incompetent?

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  1. Renee

    Renee Well-Known Member

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    What social engineering are you mocking? Silly things like science and history?
     
  2. FreedomSeeker

    FreedomSeeker Well-Known Member

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    Ladies, good news(!), "Greatest I am" is more "intimately experienced" than Jesus, the Dalia Lama, and the Pope put together!!!! Wow! And apparently he's very very very available, having lots of free time, because he, like me, spends lots and lots and lots of time on internet forums!!! You know what to do, ladies!! [Must be 21 to apply (and probably not have a magic invisible friend in the sky, I assume.)]

    [There, you're welcome. Ok, sorry, but no more pimping for you....especially because you apparently like "girls".....Mohammad liked girls too.....] :)
     
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    God is beyond competent. HE knows what HE is doing.
     
  4. ARDY

    ARDY Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It is a little odd that god would create a religion that requires reading....bat a time when the vast majority of people were illiterate
     
  5. Renee

    Renee Well-Known Member

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    It’s like the game telephone...you whisper something to one person and it goes around and the last person gets a totally different message
     
  6. One Mind

    One Mind Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If you read what christ said, the kingdom is within, and one needs to seek it this is all that is needed. So all that is needed is for someone to tell you that, what he taught, and you would not need to read a damn thing after that. You only need a book, and to read, if someone wants to form a religion and insert himself as an authority, for power and profit. Then since he can read, and you cannot, he can teach you anything he wants to, as the RCC did for a long time when the bible was in latin which only scholars could read. lol Or the religious class. Clever.
     
  7. Greatest I am

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    Point taken.

    I hope Republicans note your good advice and leave girls alone.

    Theirs is not just a linguistic gaff.

    Regards
    DL
     
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    Greatest I am Well-Known Member

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    You might wonder why your faith can be so easily mocked.

    I know why.



    What I don't know is why you adore a genocidal son murdering prick of a God.

    Care to enlighten us?

    Regards
    DL
     
  9. Greatest I am

    Greatest I am Well-Known Member

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    With Yahweh, Hitler, etc.

    Nice bunch you want to hang with.

    You cannot feel shame even if you should can you?

    Regards
    DL
     
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    Christianity took God from within us and put him up there somewhere.

    Gnostic Christianity on the other hand preach/teach what you put.

    Perhaps that is why intelligent and moral people say that the only good Christians are Gnostic Christians.

    Gnostic Christian Jesus said, "If those who attract you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you.

    If they say to you, 'It is under the earth,' then the fish of the sea will precede you.

    Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside of you, and it is outside of you.

    [Those who] become acquainted with [themselves] will find it; [and when you] become acquainted with yourselves, [you will understand that] it is you who are the sons of the living Father.

    But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."


    As you can see from that quote, if we see God's kingdom all around us and inside of us, we cannot think that the world is anything but evolving perfection. Most just don't see it and live in poverty.

    Regards
    DL
     
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    Oh yes, I am well schooled in Gnosticism. I like the new Gnosticism you see today. And if I were to decide to be a christian, the Gnostic way is the way I would go. I really can relate to the Gospel of Thomas. And it is my opinion that the original teachings of christ were very gnostic in essence. I even think this may have been the original true understanding. It got corrupted so it could be used by men who wanted a position in the church, and to make it amiable to be the religion of the roman empire. A gnostic understanding of christ would of course, not allow that.
     
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    This is especially true if different members in the transmission chain have explicitly different agendas, as was the case in early Christianity. For example, the Christian message in Rome needed to be differently tweeted from the Christian message in jerusalem
     
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    Creating many tribes is a strange manuever as well.
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No...snowflake 101, prejudice studies etc. you know.
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Did I trip over Beezlebubs den or what!!!!:shock:
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The above post has the undeniable smell of sulpher eminating from it.
     
  17. Renee

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    What is snowflake 101? My course in prejudice is very in-depth requires lots of reading, lots of research etc. Prejudice is not only about race or religion it is about aging it it’s about disabilities it is about class, it is about life styles etc. I think I learn more from my students than they do from me
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's also about saying Yabbers hates immigrants when I never said anything that alludes to that and.....you don't know who I hang with every day.
     
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    Are YOU competent, or incompetent ?
     
  20. Renee

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    Did I say you hate Immigrants ? You’re right I don’t know who you hang with every day and you could lie and tell me anything you want. I have to run now because George Clooney is coming over. That guy won’t leave me alone
     
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    I'm glad George is finally interested in women!
     
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    Depends on which God you are referring to. I can prove that God created man if you like :) so long as I get to choose my own definition of God :)
     
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    No it could not as the Gnostic Christian Jesus preached freedom of thought and neither Christianity nor Rome wanted a free thinking society.

    That is about how America is today.



    Regards
    DL
     
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    IOW, you do not know why you follow such a prick.

    Why do you not do the honest thing and admit that?

    Regards
    DL
     
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    Please do and show and tell.
    I love to learn something new.

    Regards
    DL
     

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