fresco
 
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Reply Mon 3 Dec, 2012 12:41 pm
@spendius,
Meekness and belief in a superior "being" are co-extensive irrespective of whether that being is a human or a mythical entity.
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Spreader
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 03:29 am
@cicerone imposter,
Hundreds of millions people own a copy of the Bible. But there is a difference between owning a Bible and loving God’s Word. Can a person rightly claim to love God’s Word if he seldom reads it? In contrast, some who once had little regard for the Bible now read it every day. They have learned to love God’s Word, and like the psalmist, they now make God’s Word their concern “all day long.”—Psalm 119:97.

It is the only book that gives mankind an authentic account of its beginning and of its history for more than four thousand one hundred years. Furthermore, some of its many predictions or prophecies which have not yet been fulfilled carry us right down into this twentyfirst century and even for a thousand years from today. Rightly, this marvelous Book tells us much about man’s rule and how it would work out. It is the only book that assures us that man’s rule is now about to give way to God’s rule. This is because this book was written under the inspiration of God’s invisible, directive active force or spirit and hence comes to us from the hand of God the Creator, who has preserved it to this day for our salvation.

So unlike the animals, we humans have the capacity to worship. This is part of our makeup from birth. We also have a moral sense, a conscience to guide us as to what is right and what is wrong. In various ways all of us follow that conscience, and in doing so, many look to a god or gods for guidance.
Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 04:17 am
@Spreader,
Man, the Christians love to claim that humans are separate from, and superior to animals. Maybe that's why sex makes them uncomfortable. Spreader, you're a manure spreader.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 05:29 am
Do animals got burp guns? I rest my case.
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 05:42 am
@Setanta,
The so-called atheists I have debated with find sex to be very uncomfortable.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 05:58 am
@spendius,
That's cause you make it seem nasty.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 06:12 am
@edgarblythe,
Well--it is a bit ed--that's the whole point.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 4 Dec, 2012 05:05 pm
@Spreader,
Spreader wrote:

Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.......(Matt 5:3)

I agree, but our interpretations of the phrase are probably different.
Spreader
 
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Reply Wed 5 Dec, 2012 02:12 am
@JLNobody,
Well,when man goes like Unreasoning animals were not made to live forever but to die. That is why the wicked are likened to them: “But these men, like unreasoning animals born naturally to be caught and destroyed, will” suffer destruction. “Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.” The Bible holds out no hope for the brute creation.—2 Pet. 2:12,so you have choice.
Telamon
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 04:27 am
@Spreader,
Swimming in a pool of kool-aid this one ^
spendius
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 07:00 am
@Telamon,
One might just as easily say that about your post Tel.
Telamon
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 08:34 am
@spendius,
One might say all sorts of things about any number of things,
relavance?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 08:37 am
@Spreader,
Reading god's words is so confusing with all those contradictions, omissions, and mistakes, how do you arrive at anything compelling to be the truth?

One needs to rationalize almost everything the bible says; it's like fool me a hundred times, and I'll still come out with the "right" answer. How?

That's a miracle for someone like me!
JLNobody
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 10:12 am
@cicerone imposter,
Well put, C.I., except that you might have put "god's words" in quotes.
spendius
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 02:47 pm
@cicerone imposter,
You might say that the OT is an attack on the god/s prior to the God of the NT.

Attack the God of Jesus. He is, just about, still with us. When He's not is another matter. As is when He wasn't.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 7 Dec, 2012 07:53 pm
@JLNobody,
Rolling Eyes Mr. Green
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Sat 8 Dec, 2012 03:45 am
@JLNobody,
naaaah, C.I talked to God himself I bet, lots of complains to ! God send him to do some more traveling if he behaves well and C.I agreed he won't tell God is dyslexic...now you know the all story ! Mr. Green (C.I I am only joking not mocking here)
JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 8 Dec, 2012 09:16 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Are you saying that C.I. is dyslexic? Regarding his travels that would mean that he doesn't know whether he's coming or going Wink
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2012 09:26 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil, have you visited my travel blog? It's at www.travelpod.com/members/c.i.222 See if by my travels, I'm suffering from any psychological ailments. Maybe, less than 10? Mr. Green Drunk

BTW, My wife and I are now in Austin to visit our son who works for UOT. We had a Meet in Houston yesterday, and we had PDiddie, his wife, edgarblythe, my wife, our son, my "travel" friend from Houston, and your's truly. We had dinner at the River Walk in San Antonio before driving back to Austin. It was a very long day.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2012 07:47 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Hi CI ty for the link, will take a look with pleasure ! Wink
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