nightlion wrote: And yet if somebody does something really stupid all the world will hear about it. It goes viral. People cannot stop talking about it. But when the truth gets told everyone shuts their mouth and refuses to discuss it and turn away and hides and pretend it never happened.
And you blame God..................hmm?
By me God is proven daily. Have you not heard? Has nobody ever told you? How many have made inquiry?
And you blame God..............and think he does not exist.
It all boils down to choices. People chose poorly.
The idea that a god would use one human being to inform another human being is just plain loco. It has never worked and it never will. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over believing it will turn out differently. (IMHO)
Of course it has worked many varied times in the past. It does not work when all the world denies God. In such a day as today it is plain crazy to try. But another generation can arise with faith and trailing clouds of glory from where they come from God who is their home. Shameless plagiarism there
just me wrote: Nothing "went viral" until very recently...and even then it has it's limits. Bet the little tribes without electricity don't get the "viral" news.
Things have always gone "viral". Communication of any kind (mostly gossip) has the ability to go "viral", always has and always will. Even in Joseph's day there were many opinions about his character, visions, goals, achievements, prophecies etc. etc. ad nauseum. Many would say anything to anyone who would listen (John C. Bennett). Happened then, happens now only the choice of vehicles have changed/improved.
Then saith He to Thomas... be not faithless, but believing. - John 20:27
just me wrote: Nothing "went viral" until very recently...and even then it has it's limits. Bet the little tribes without electricity don't get the "viral" news.
Things have always gone "viral". Communication of any kind (mostly gossip) has the ability to go "viral", always has and always will. Even in Joseph's day there were many opinions about his character, visions, goals, achievements, prophecies etc. etc. ad nauseum. Many would say anything to anyone who would listen (John C. Bennett). Happened then, happens now only the choice of vehicles have changed/improved.
Did anyone in Ethiopia know about Smith or Bennett? China? Tibet?
Come on people! Do I really have to spell it out? It is a huge ass world.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
just me wrote: Nothing "went viral" until very recently...and even then it has it's limits. Bet the little tribes without electricity don't get the "viral" news.
I know you got my point. See? You simply refuse to admit it. What's up with that? Why is man so rrrrrepressed spiritually when it gets real. Stupid spiritual sells because people like goofy caricatures. Why do men instinctively avoid the gospel? Oh, I know. Because it will make them a new creature. That scares the crap out of them and they really would rather not. Too bad. Their loss.
People aren't as bad as you seem to think they are. I have been made a new creature and there are lots of people who have. There are people who don't need to be. There are people who are struggling just to survive.
It is a luxury to sit in a comfy room pondering the things of "god."
A luxury that much of the human race does not have...
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Nightlion wrote:Of course it has worked many varied times in the past. It does not work when all the world denies God. In such a day as today it is plain crazy to try. But another generation can arise with faith and trailing clouds of glory from where they come from God who is their home. Shameless plagiarism there
I know, I had to memorize that poem in high school. I thought it was a sign the church was true.
It has never worked in the long term, else why would there be new "dispensations?" Ever think people may deny God for a reason? It's not wickedness. It's just the way things are.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater
Lucretia MacEvil wrote: It has never worked in the long term, else why would there be new "dispensations?" Ever think people may deny God for a reason? It's not wickedness. It's just the way things are.
The only reason man has for denial of God is to enhance human pride. Notice how your words are ONE with all humanity and expect the whole of it to be best served or phooey?
The Apostle Paul call preaching foolishness. Even back in the day when my preaching was with full on power in the Holy Ghost nobody cared. I think it interesting that man contends with God rather than one on one but as an entire humanity as a whole they decry the iniquity of God's chosen few.
So the Lord laughs at their folly knowing how he rolls out all of eternity and keeps the spheres in perfection day to day and all life abundant and refreshed with every needful thing at the ready for man to discover and utilize as they will and yet they honor him not in the least neither do they spend the day long in his praise. So he only saves a few and they complain?
People aren't as bad as you seem to think they are. I have been made a new creature and there are lots of people who have. There are people who don't need to be. There are people who are struggling just to survive.
It is a luxury to sit in a comfy room pondering the things of "god."
A luxury that much of the human race does not have...
You kidding me? Not so bad huh? And you say that YOU have been made a new creature? By what power I must wonder?
I am not a liar about what I know and have done. When someone can take God so lightly and even blaspheme as you constantly do and speak of things they know nothing of as if just saying so equals anyone else saying so it all falls to the account of human pride. When will anyone be humble and seek to be healed of their pride? It is putrid and loathsome and a high crime with those who know better.
Pride is damnation itself and the stuff of which it is made.
Lucretia MacEvil wrote: It has never worked in the long term, else why would there be new "dispensations?" Ever think people may deny God for a reason? It's not wickedness. It's just the way things are.
The only reason man has for denial of God is to enhance human pride. Notice how your words are ONE with all humanity and expect the whole of it to be best served or phooey?
The Apostle Paul call preaching foolishness. Even back in the day when my preaching was with full on power in the Holy Ghost nobody cared. I think it interesting that man contends with God rather than one on one but as an entire humanity as a whole they decry the iniquity of God's chosen few.
So the Lord laughs at their folly knowing how he rolls out all of eternity and keeps the spheres in perfection day to day and all life abundant and refreshed with every needful thing at the ready for man to discover and utilize as they will and yet they honor him not in the least neither do they spend the day long in his praise. So he only saves a few and they complain?
That's an awfully dim view of God.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater
