Zone1 Why is it so tough to believe in God?

[hobelim]

mentally ill

I think he was living in the wilderness among the wild beasts doing what wild beasts do in the wilderness. I know this because I spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness living among the wild beasts and survived a lions den.

I had a blast!

And I was also tempted by the devil, while living in the wilderness, who tried to get me on my knees and admit to being a worthless piece of sinning shit, beg for forgiveness, and accept the Antichrist as my God and savior.

I asked myself, "What would Jesus do?", so I told him to **** off. And he fucked off.

A miracle!

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You tell me. Are you suggesting God comes from the same place? That would be like me suggesting since I came from Idaho, all people must come from Idaho.

We Are All Boys from Boise

You converted me. Where can I send my donation? When I die, I want to be buried in a holy potato farm.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The above are your own conclusions about the Bible. The Bible addresses truths in a number of ways. People are contradictory, history is contradictory, lives are contradictory, but many contradictions fall into place when the differences in each event are studied.

God is also portrayed as loving, good, merciful, and just. Why dismiss and ignore those traits?

God Is Santa Claus for Adults

 

[hobelim]

God Is Santa Claus for Adults

Then who does an adult turn to on a foggy Christmas Eve?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You are not God's child. That's why you can't see. The devil is your father

 

[Meriweather]

lol as if. I have explained my disdain. That isnt just going to go away.

It may not have been disdain you explained, but incomprehension. Choosing not to comprehend is common enough. I can't comprehend my oldest daughter's thrill for skydiving....So, I'll always miss out on jumping out of a plane and falling towards earth, floating to a safe (most of the time) landing.

 

[Meriweather]

I suspect there are supernatural things, like God, that you accept but there are also supernatural things you reject. How do you pick and choose? Do you believe the universe is riding on the back of a turtle? Why not, other people do and they might be more perceptive than you.

Do you know why Native Americans chose the story of a turtle supporting the earth? (It has to do with the traits of a turtle. It paints a picture...one worth a thousand words.)

 

[Meriweather]

Your nephew can run experiments to prove there is a difference between colors without having to see them for himself. I don't know of any experiments that will reveal God.

Then you haven't tried very hard.

 

[Meriweather]

You converted me.

Fake news.

 

[hobelim]

I don't know of any experiments that will reveal God.

Try this.

Purify your own mind by cleansing it from every unsubstantiated assumption, bias, and all the bullshit other people profess to believe about scripture, comply with the Law, which is not about what you eat what you wear snipping weenies or getting down on your knees and then with a clear mind God will make himself known to you.

If you let other peoples ignorance dictate your thoughts about God, that he is a cruel and capricious petty tyrant, you will never "see" he who truly is God.

 

[alang1216]

Try this.

Purify your own mind by cleansing it from every unsubstantiated assumption, bias, and all the bullshit other people profess to believe about scripture, comply with the Law, which is not about what you eat what you wear snipping weenies or getting down on your knees and then with a clear mind God will make himself known to you.

If you let other peoples ignorance dictate your thoughts about God, that he is a cruel and capricious petty tyrant, you will never "see" he who truly is God.

I assume you did this, what do you now know about God?

 

[hobelim]

I assume you did this, what do you now know about God?

What I know is that my God, an unknown God, doesn't give a shit about what people eat, what they wear, or the sexual preferences of consenting adult bipeds. I see the hand of God intimately involved in the daily minutia of human existence reigning over the minds of all people either granting or denying comprehension, life itself

 

[alang1216]

What I know is that my God, an unknown God, doesn't give a shit about what people eat, what they wear, or the sexual preferences of consenting adult bipeds. I see the hand of God intimately involved in the daily minutia of human existence reigning over the minds of all people either granting or denying comprehension, life itself

Why?

 

[hobelim]

Why?

The purpose and wisdom of God hidden like treasure in the Divine commands is to give humanity simple instructions about how to live a blessed life on earth in preparation for eternal life in his realm of existence and avoid insanity and confusion that had reigned on earth for billions of years before Law like a light came into this world.

 

[alang1216]

The purpose and wisdom of God hidden like treasure in the Divine commands is to give humanity simple instructions about how to live a blessed life on earth in preparation for eternal life in his realm of existence and avoid insanity and confusion that had reigned on earth for billions of years before Law like a light came into this world.

Why would your God grant or deny comprehension. Are we not all God's creations?

 

[hobelim]

Why would your God grant or deny comprehension.

Why? Would you give the keys to eternal life to a sadistic low life narcissist who only loves and practices deceit?

"So he drove the man out, and to the east of Eden he stationed the Cherubim, with a flaming and flashing sword, that turns in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life."

Are we not all God's creations?

No.

Some people are perversions of what a human is supposed to be, sapiens. Some people have the form and shape of a human being but an intelligence just slightly above that of a monkey for which there is no excuse.

People make choices, to remain blind or educate themselves. No one is standing in the way except themselves

You must have noticed.

 

[alang1216]

Why? Would you give the keys to eternal life to a sadistic low life narcissist who only loves and practices deceit?

"So he drove the man out, and to the east of Eden he stationed the Cherubim, with a flaming and flashing sword, that turns in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life."


No.

Some people are perversions of what a human is supposed to be, sapiens. Some people have the form and shape of a human being but an intelligence just slightly above that of a monkey for which there is no excuse.

People make choices, to remain blind or educate themselves. No one is standing in the way except themselves

You must have noticed.

Sounds like you believe in the OT (the NT too?) but have an interpretation of it I've never heard before. Are you a congregation of one?

 

[hobelim]

Sounds like you believe in the OT (the NT too?) but have an interpretation of it I've never heard before.

Time was when many were aghast at you, my people, and so now many nations recoil at sight of him, and kings curl their lips in disgust; for they see what they have never been told and things unheard before fill their thoughts.

Are you a congregation of one?

Now thats funny. Do I seem like I am trying to attract a congregation, lol, or give people their marching orders.

I assure you that I have not come empty handed or alone.

 

[alang1216]

Time was when many were aghast at you, my people, and so now many nations recoil at sight of him, and kings curl their lips in disgust; for they see what they have never been told and things unheard before fill their thoughts.

Do you really think these words are profound and not just a cry for help?

Now thats funny. Do I seem like I am trying to attract a congregation, lol, or give people their marching orders.

I assure you that I have not come empty handed or alone.

You certainly seem like a lone voice in the wilderness.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Religioners think something becomes evidence by simply stating that it is. Or by stating it convinced them.

This of course is PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE of how evidence works. Objective evidence is evidence for anyone and everyone, regardless of which of the 1000s of gods they worship.