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Originally posted by aceto
If god is in everyone and most the world believes in god.. of course god isn't love. most of the world and the people in it are #. So how could god be love when he represents 98% of prison inmates and terrorist (abortion clinic bombers and such).. So I'm not sure how anyone could think god has anything to do with love.
Keeping an open mind about these sorts of things is what brings wisdom, not close-mindedness based on your own personal review of the bible. Inconsistencies don't exactly equal proof positive God does not exist. It just proves those who wrote about it might not of seen things as clearly as they would like to have.
Originally posted by Soldier of God
reply to post by madnessinmysoul
Your name says it all... there is no madness in my soul, only peace.
Originally posted by smithjustinb
1 John 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God in the NT is love, God in the OT is more like hate. This is because God is everything, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End. God is the nothing that is something, the darkness that is light. God is the OT and the NT When Jesus arrives in the NT, God is Love.
The Bible is an intriguing piece of art. Truly, God is the Bible.
Truly, in a higher dimension, we ARE God. Therefore, the Bible is also a story of our evolution. When Jesus arrives, everything will be light again. Right now we are at a crossroads. We experience dark and light. We are about to arrive or should I say create (as our higher selves (God)) at a place where we envelop our reality as the NT.
Originally posted by aceto
If god is in everyone and most the world believes in god..
Originally posted by EspyderMan
reply to post by madnessinmysoul
So because of inconsistencies, you decided God doesn't exist at all?
That nothing in it held any truth at all?
That those who wrote it, in their times were correct but as time waned on things changed, rules changed?
Keeping an open mind about these sorts of things is what brings wisdom, not close-mindedness based on your own personal review of the bible.
Inconsistencies don't exactly equal proof positive God does not exist.
It just proves those who wrote about it might not of seen things as clearly as they would like to have.
Atheists to me are the worst kinds of non-religious believers.
At least Agnostics determine that there is not enough evidence to totally prove God but realize it is still possible he exist and very possible he disliked organised religions and encourages everyone to read and learn for themselves, because the journey is what will bring you inner peace, not just being handed the answers and believing them as i suspect you have.
The BIG LIE is trying to tie the Old Testament and the New Testament together. The old testament god, is a jealous and vengeful god. Says it right there. Demands sacrifice. Rejects Cain cause he grew some plants, while Abel killed some animals. This "God" liked the death and blood better. Hmmm....
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by CaptChaos
The BIG LIE is trying to tie the Old Testament and the New Testament together. The old testament god, is a jealous and vengeful god. Says it right there. Demands sacrifice. Rejects Cain cause he grew some plants, while Abel killed some animals. This "God" liked the death and blood better. Hmmm....
So what? Who doesn't like the smell of barbeque? It's intoxicating.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by smithjustinb
To use an internet turn of phrase "Lol wut?"
I'm sorry, but the Bible is a contradictory book and to say that this contradiction somehow captures an all-encompassing being is...well...bizarre to say the least.
Why would an all-encompassing being change?
Huh? I didn't even reply to Madness.
Originally posted by gabby2011
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by CaptChaos
The BIG LIE is trying to tie the Old Testament and the New Testament together. The old testament god, is a jealous and vengeful god. Says it right there. Demands sacrifice. Rejects Cain cause he grew some plants, while Abel killed some animals. This "God" liked the death and blood better. Hmmm....
So what? Who doesn't like the smell of barbeque? It's intoxicating.
???? making a really stupid joke like that as christian really doesn't help others to see you in a good light.
madnessinmymind makes so much logical sense...and some of you Christians just can't seem to handle it.
Originally posted by czygyny
reply to post by NOTurTypical
Not only is death the penalty for disobedience, God made provision to circumvent the sinner's death by the death of an innocent animal, and later by the blood of Messiah.
Not all sacrifice was for the atonement of sins, which was a whole burnt offering, but many other sacrifices were appointed that the giver of the animal participated in the eating of it, yes a big barbecue to be eaten and shared at the Temple.
It seems that we are so far removed from the fact that innocent animals die by the millions every day for our appetite that end up as tidy, anonymous cuts of flesh wrapped in plastic that the thought of taking a live animals someplace to honor God and consume it before Him is abhorrent, when the animals sacrificed at the Temple were treated with far more care and concern than our slaughterhouses do, today.
To describe God as only love is ignoring the bulk of Scripture, there is so much more to His nature than just love.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
(I know)
I was mocking skeptics.
Sowiiieeees!