Buffalo wrote:What can I say? I'm anti-douchebag. My position is firm on that issue.
You think children are worth more than women. (I noticed you didn't quibble about the woman/women that died...) Good to know.
Buffalo wrote:What can I say? I'm anti-douchebag. My position is firm on that issue.
harmony wrote:Buffalo wrote:What can I say? I'm anti-douchebag. My position is firm on that issue.
You think children are worth more than women. (I noticed you didn't quibble about the woman/women that died...) Good to know.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
Buffalo wrote:Yes. And worth more than men too. I'm very ageist that way.
Hoops wrote:Buffalo wrote:God also wanted their baby to survive for a while, but then die of head injuries, for some reason. He also wanted the neighbor, Jason Miller, to barely survive.
That God. What a prankster!
Please provide evidence for this assertion.
Hoops wrote:Drifting wrote:
I would have him stop taking the credit when things go well and stop leading to believe He will intervene when clearly He has no intention of doing so.
Now, do you think a persons prayers can make a difference to wether God acts or not?
So you don't like what He didn't do, but you can't offer what He should do. How exactly would God satisfy you in this specific instance?
Buffalo wrote:Nightlion wrote:What a bunch of cry babies! Just because you know that God can do anything does not justify our demand that he do anything at all. Do you want a world filled with inconsolable wooses?
God COULD prevent every harm. Got a booboo? Scream to high heavens against God for allowing you to get a tiny little booboo on your precious skin, awe, kism better?
Do you get my drift fellas? I a little embarrassed like everyone in the room is gay but me.
Oh, geeze, not that there is anything wrong with that........just, ya know, sayin.
Buffaoney, Christ owes nothing to nobody who does not come in at the gate and get established upon his rock which is his gospel. We are commanded to obey before the promises. Doo you all want to hear me innumerate all my blessings? hmm? Well, do ya?
Cry babies, huh? These kids are dead.
And you're an asshole.
Tobin wrote:IF you want to make the case that the Bible should be read literally, then I think you should make it with someone that views it that way. I do not. I view the Bible as merely instructive and that should be read with a critical eye, some knowledge and understanding, and reason. Otherwise, you can be literally lead by it into believing a number of rather absurd and false notions.Chap wrote:Ah. That which seems preposterous to you cannot possibly have not seemed preposterous to early Christians, so even if they seem to be saying something you find uncomfortable, they can't have meant it really.
An excellent way of learning the truth. I wonder why you need the New Testament at all, since your own sense of what you find acceptable and what not is such a clear and reliable guide.
The clear statements I quoted from James and Jesus about the results to be expected from a believer's prayer were certainly not allegories, by the way. They were not even parables (which, I think you will find, are usually taken to be rather different things from allegories).
harmony wrote:Buffalo wrote:Yes. And worth more than men too. I'm very ageist that way.
Thus the product is more worthy than the materials... without which the product could not be produced.
I don't agree. I don't think children are more valuable than adults. I don't think adults are more valuable than children. I don't think the elderly are more valuable than those that are younger or vice versa.
I'm very non-ageist that way. (but then, I have birthed and raised 8 children who are now no longer children but adults. What could I possibly know about anything?)
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
Panopticon wrote: If God exists, they are obvious lies.
Jason Bourne wrote:How about sucking the funnel of the tornado back in the the heavens and thus stopping the storm in from its destructive path. Sort of like Jesus did when he calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Hoops wrote:Yes, I understand that may seem reasonable. But where to go from there? Does mean that there can be no tornadoes where people are? Because I'm fairly certain that people will be praying. You've read the rest, you know where I'm going with us.