Halcon

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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

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  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Tonus -If we are incapable of properly assessing our long-term outlook, that is a pretty glaring design flaw on God's part.

  Actually, all signs point to the great possibility that God does NOT want us to have a clear comprehension of our future beyond the next few weeks. He is clearly intentional in hiding the details of our future from us.

  It would seem to me that he expects a lot of us to fail, which is in direct contrast with his desire for all of us to be saved.

  I would mostly say yes, indeed he does expect a lot of us to fail (the wide vs the narrow gate). But what actually happens does not negate what would be his desire.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Tonus -If we lack an eternal future, then I agree. But if this life is a microscopically tiny portion of my overall existence, then its importance is equally minor.

  Perhaps if we were God this statement would be true. However, as human beings our present is always most urgent and most literally relevant. We simply don't have God's capacity to weigh our present, however great or not, against our unknowable future.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Nicolaou -God on the other hand gets a free pass from unthinking, fundamentalists on this forum for behaving like an arsehole.

  Ultimately, it's not about giving God a pass. It's about recognizing that we are unable to change things because we are the creation and not the Creator.

  It's difficult to see that man is not at the center of the universe, that our past present and future is out of our hands.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Tonus -I said "we should want to know." It is natural to want to know what you are about to get into, especially if it's a decision that will last for an eternity. It is also natural to think well of someone who prepares us, but to be highly suspicious of someone who will not quite explain the most important and crucial facet of our lives.

  I would say the most important and crucial facet of our lives is the present, the here and now. 'Should want to know' seems more of a personal preference. Maybe not everyone wants to know. I personally don't concern myself with the afterlife since whatever it is I seem to have no say so in it.

  If our defintion contrasts with that of God, we are wrong, aren't we?

  Yes we would be, because God is a separate person from us, which was the point of my comment.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Tonus -Thus, the word "good" is meaningless in this context. God could decide to send all heavenly souls to hell for a period of a million years, just because he felt like it. And it would be good. There would literally be nothing wrong or bad about that action.

  When Job said "good" here, he was contrasting it with the "bad" he was experiencing. Meaning that as human beings we can still define something as good or bad, apart from how God defines it. This is possible because we are not the same person as God (aka two different perspectives).

  If there is one thing we should want to know clearly and unambiguously, it's what heaven and the afterlife are.

  "We should know" implies we deserve to know. And when this expectation is not met we become frustrated. The scriptures repeatedly show God declining special requests. And the reaction of those who were declined is varied.

  I believe that the Bible places a much greater emphasis on what our minds and hearts should comprehend in the present than indeed the very ambiguous (literally and physically) afterlife will be like.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Joey- life on this planet is the same. Everything around us wants to take our energy for itself, just like we do with animals and plants that sustain us. Eventually we give up the energy we have and it changes state and becomes something else.

  Right, not all is as it seems.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  @jefrro

  hehehe... indeed... here's another fun Bible verse I cherry picked for you, Proverbs 27:15
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  Tonus-Based on these descriptions and explanations, there is no reason to expect that the afterlife will be pleasant for anyone. We cannot earn heaven.

  What is heaven? What is the afterlife? We don't know what these things are...much less begin to assess them as good or bad from a human standpoint. It's true that man tries to understand these things, but they are interpretations at best.

  You have no reason to believe that he will treat you in a way that you would define as good, or kind, or merciful. These terms are meaningless when applied to him.

  There are plenty of reasons to believe it. Job himself said "will we accept only the good from God?" If it happened as the Bible describes it, since we're going by the Bible, then there's at least a 50/50 chance for "good" in the future.

  But even if you were right, that there was zero reason to believe otherwise, what could we do about it? Absolutely nothing.
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

  by minimus in

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  good pick?

  bad pick?

  helpful to president biden?

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  Anony Mous -remember when the polls had Trump at a 10% chance to win over Hillary. Right now Kamala has it good because she hasn’t been asked a question by the media in 4 weeks.

  This refusal to speak to the media this long, even left propaganda media, is so blatantly demonstrative of how dumb the Left believes American people are. Both parties are guilty of gaslighting to various degrees for sure. But this fiasco by Kamala and her team is so laughable.

  The silver lining is that there is indeed a very strong possibility that her team has assessed that she herself is in fact too dumb and cringe to be placed before the media, so risky it has the real potential to derail it completely. She hasn't been kept in the basement by Biden's team all this time for nothing after all.
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  God won't lift a finger to help you.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

  if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

  pathetic diversion.

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  jeffro -How very predictable. But in addition to failing your Christian obligation at 1 Peter 3:15, you’ve also demonstrated that the Bible is used by ‘believers’ as a tedious ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ of contradictory cherry picking. Well done.

  ... imagine me accepting I've 'failed' because jeffro said so ...