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God plans on not existing.
It's an oddly self-fulfilling plan for something that doesn't exist. But the evidence for the plan is overwhelming. |
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It's okay, the diclaimers can be small, and easy to miss. They ought to make it larger and put it in more parts of fictional books. Maybe have the cashier read off the discalimer to customers making a purchase. Cause there are a certainly a large amount of people who can't tell fact from fiction.
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24th November 2011, 10:53 PM | #176 |
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Again I ask Jude, who were Asherah and Anath?
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And Baal and Molech. Also....consider this verse Genesis 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. Who is this "God Most High"???? If YHWH was the God of Abraham and was not even known in Canaan....how did the king Melchizedek become a priest of God the most high???? Who is this god??? And if it was YHWH then what makes Abraham special???? Also why would YHWH make Abraham go to TAKE and POSSES the land of his priest. Also obviously if he was a priest it follows that there were worshipers....so why did YHWH see it necessary to GENOCIDE these worshipers of his in favor of the future seed of Abraham from Jacob???? And if they were bad worshipers….how does that make them any worse than the “stiff necked” Jews (Exodus 32:9) who kept worshiping Baal and Ashirah every time YHWH stopped clobbering them and making them eat their children. If it was not YHWH then why is YHWH (the bible is his autobiography …no) calling this OTHER GOD the "God Most High"???? Also consider the name.... Malchi-Tsedek ( מַלְכִּי-צֶדֶק )......two words... the first one means King.....the second one means Truthful... Righteous... True... Fair... Honest... JustSo go figure...... |
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So Jude.....is this new avatar supposed to be a MORPHED Obama and Bush???? I keep calling Obama.....Bush Lite.....so this (if it is what I think) is a pretty good avatar..... but I liked your previous one (Thinker) better even though it was not very appropriate for you.....joking |
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From what I can tell, Jude quoted the bible to show that there are verses in it in which god declares he is the only god and besides him, there is no other. So the bible does say god is the only god.
This does not, of course, affect the possibility that other gods are mentioned elsewhere in the bible. In fact, there are several references to other gods, as well as commands not to worship them. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/gods.html |
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I hope everybody had a good weekend and Thanksgiving, and acuallly thanked some one and God for all they have if you wished to.
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For our money "IN WHICH GOD DO YOU TRUST" Much worse than the Question not asked, is the Answer not Given Don't accept an answer that can't be questioned - God is Surperfluous A society fails when ignorance outweighs knowledge Science doesn’t know everything, but religion doesn’t know anything Life is so horrent and also so beautiful, but without it there is nothing |
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There are plenty of parts of the Bible that acknowledge the existence of other Gods. The God of the Jews just likes to assert that He is the bestest.
Even in the 10 Commandments, God doesn't say there are no other gods. He says not to worship other gods, with the clear implication that other gods exist. But the idea that Christianity is monotheistic is a fraud. Aside from top God, there are lots of lesser Gods comparable to the pantheistic Gods of ancient Rome and Greece. All these angels and devils and Satan, how different are they than the gods of pantheistic religions? And in ancient Rome, royals were expected to be promoted after death to Gods themselves. How different is that from being promoted to a Saint in the Catholic religion? The only difference is they don't use the G word for them. |
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Re. God's Plan, it appears to be:
1) Make a Universe with creatures He orders to love Him. Give them free will and powerful temptations such that they will indulge in behaviors He abhors. 2) Punish them hideously for yielding to the temptations He programmed them to be irresistibly attracted to, or reward them with eternal bliss for loving Him. 3) Erase all evidence that He existed, and add evidence that he never did exist, but punish His creations most severely for believing He doesn't exist. What kind of douche bag God is this? Friggin stupid plan. (and bad fiction) |
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The bible mentions (and even names) other gods but doesn't say they exist.
For the most part, it is idolatry that christians are warned about. Although idolatry is about worshiping statues, the bible extends that concept to include love of money and all forms of greed. |
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