Oh aren't you the bright one in the room. All that matters is money or prestige. And to hell with the truth and God and what happens later when we die. Keep going brother. You still have maybe 20 or 30 more years to joke around.
What does that mean? Is the world going to end in 30 years?
No. Your life will. So will mine.
Only then as you near the end might you rethink what's it all about. Maybe only then will you come to realize that God is very real and so is eternity. Maybe then you will understand what is important and how the devil has distracted the world from doing what really matters.
I don't know about you, pal....but I've got another 40 or 50 left. And..the last 30 or so will be spent thinking about how much fun I can have....not what shit will go down when I croak.
By the way, can I have 1% of god's annual advertising budget, please? I'd like to retire early. You'd think that such an all powerful being would be able to speak for himself.
But God does speak for Himself. In many different ways. It appears you have simply chosen to close yourself off to it all.
[Matthew 13]
"Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
"In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,
‘You will keep on hearing but will not understand;
You will keep on seeing but will not perceive;
For the heart of this people has become sluggish,
With their ears they scarcely hear,
And they have closed their eyes,
Otherwise they would see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart and return,
And I would heal them’.
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[Why the Lord speaks in parables. Because too many people have a sluggish heart (read: they do not really care to know or try to know) preventing them from seeing or hearing.]
I might suggest that you do an HONEST and thorough research of all of the scientific studies on the Shroud of Turin. Then tell me it is a forgery. Then tell me how anyone can even produce such a miraculous image even today, much less back in medieval times. Science cannot explain all of the incredible characteristics of this image on this cloth. That is because it is clearly from God.
