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Originally posted by novastrike81
reply to post by Cuppy
I understand your position and it makes sense that God would hate Esau based on his actions during his lifetime. However, Romans 9:11 clearly points out that "Even before they had been born or done anything goood or bad..." Both Jacob and Esau had done nothing wrong prior to being born, yet God had already chosen who to love and who to hate.
I can't think of any other way to spin it.
Originally posted by Cuppy
I guess that means he's omnipotent. Still doesn't seem like favoritism, more like knowing what's going to happen.
No, if there were no god we'd still be doing exactly what we're doing now. Why? Because the idea exists.
Omnipotent, yet iron chariots were enough to defeat him.
You make these claims, yet you have absolutely no evidence to back up the claim that (essentially) the strong and weak forces as well as gravity are all dependent on your deity.
So if God = Love does that mean God is really just in all of our heads? Since love is an emotional experience of an individuals state of mind based upon their biochemistry and environmental stimuli; then it's safe to say by your admission that God is just a figment of our mind. Nothing more, nothing less.
How Can There Be Real Love? The image you have about a person, the image you have about your politicians, the prime minister, your god, your wife, your children - that image is what we are looking at. And that image has been created through your relationship, or through your fears, or through your hopes. The sexual and other pleasures you have had with your wife or your husband - the anger, the flattery, the comfort and all the things that your family life brings - have created an image about them. With that image you look. Similarly, your wife or husband has an image about you. So the relationship between you and your wife or husband, between you and the politician, is really the relationship between these two images. Right? That is a fact. How can two images, which are the result of thought, of pleasure and so on, have any affection or love? So the relationship between two individuals, very close together or very far, is a relationship of images, symbols, memories. And in that, how can there be real love? J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
Originally posted by Uncle Gravity
reply to post by MrXYZ
I was wondering when you would turn up!
Pure love is probably the closest way to describe something that is pretty much incomprehensible. Just because you don't understand it or believe in it does not mean that it doesn't exist. After all at the end of the day we are not half as smart as some people would like to believe! Are we?
If you define as god as love, then all the creation stories fall flat on their faces. Love didn't create the world or universe
Ok, you want the SIMPLE version of the REAL PROOF OF GOD???????
here it is...
The fact that it takes intelligence to create something such as the universe is FACT ALONE that there is a higher source/creation/god.
IT DOES NOT mean that this ONE source is the key to all, but multiple similiar sources acting with each other, or combingin infintitely into one.
let me put it even more simple.
the fact that we are alive and flesh and blood creatures MEANS there is some sort of INTELLIGENCE involved
....WHATEVER you want to call it.
/thread.
Originally posted by HispanicPanic
Ok, you want the SIMPLE version of the REAL PROOF OF GOD???????
here it is...
The fact that it takes intelligence to create something such as the universe
is FACT ALONE that there is a higher source/creation/god. IT DOES NOT mean that this ONE source is the key to all, but multiple similiar sources acting with each other, or combingin infintitely into one.
let me put it even more simple. the fact that we are alive and flesh and blood creatures MEANS there is some sort of INTELLIGENCE involved....WHATEVER you want to call it.
/thread.