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Matthew 9
13But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Hosea 6
5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Originally posted by heyo
Ya know, lol, if you think about it like that, this world makes a bit more sense.
Apparently God hates religion too!
Originally posted by redoubt
reply to post by troubleshooter
Apparently God hates religion too!
Perhaps God DOES hate religion... at least, some forms of it. Religion is a man made means to gather and concentrate the human value under one roof.
But none of this is to say that one absolutely must adhere to any specific religion to believe in God or to follow His word. It is a point I have tried to make many times here at ATS... that religion is not the work of God, but of man and so too, the acts of religion should be attributed to man and not God.
Originally posted by 2000 Yards
The Gnostic Christians were of the opinion that the thing some people like to define as "God," the infinite creator entity, was far beyond our understaning in any way, shape or form, and that there was no way we could deal with it. Praying to such a thing was a complete and egotistical waste of time. To think one pathetic human could influence God was ridiculous.
They concluded that we were essentially trapped in an insane existence of torment and fear, and one way to deal with it was by trying to be nice to each other and not make the torment worse by being mean and cruel. It doesn't matter in the end, of course, since we all die. But at least while we're alive if we can make it a tiny bit better, why not?
A religion that helps us make it through life with the minimum amount of pain makes sense, but it doesn't have anything to do with the will of some incomprehensible, unfathomable, transdimensional creator/driver "thing."
LIG, LI, LY- bindligament, oblige, religion, liable, liaison, lien, ally
Originally posted by Danbones
god hates?
*sigh*
one doesn't even know where to start on that one...
religion is to prevent wisdom and replace it with obedience
from root words
LIG, LI, LY- bindligament, oblige, religion, liable, liaison, lien, ally
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I see the root word lie in there too