Adam, God can't be a product of MY imagination. I'm a terrible chess player, and I can't predict even two moves ahead.
Nice piece of naive art, though.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
I didn't, but thanks for the input, betsy ;)
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
besty, please tell me that you were born instructed?
Edit: Perhaps you should find interesting to read something about Open Theism.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
Cofty, let me go back to what I said previously. God CAN know everything if he chooses to become familiar with such thing. Doesn't mean he is informed at all times of everything taking place in every corner of the physical universe. After all, he also has a spiritual realm to deal with. Hence why he decided to come down and personally appraise the situation with Sodom after hearing many unfavorable reports about it. So if he chooses to, there is no subject, no person, no knowledge that is impossible for God to know or not see. Again, if he chooses to get familiar with said person / subject.
What seems rather obvious to me is that God stepped aside from the scene and decided to stop interveining in the human affairs after Christ's resurrection, handing over all authority to the Son. Still, the Hope that He made available makes Him worthy of my worship.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
How would I know that, zound? For what I can tell in the Bible God isn't entirely "all-knowing", in the sense of being all the time aware of everything that goes on everywhere.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
If God can't deny himself then, by definition, he isn't "all-powerful".
Why do we, humans, assume that God's business is to look after us 24/7/365 ? Is God our personal concierge service, by any chance? If you regard God in that way, no wonder you feel disapointed.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
caliber,
I'm actually capable of controlling myself pretty well, but inside I'm far from a calm person, sadly. Sometimes it surfaces, and I get too emotional for my own good.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
zound,
Do you deny that competition, selfishness and mercilessness are predominant features in nature?
How can you expect with a simple crossline over a word ascribe them to God?
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
It's the hope that he offers that makes Him worthy of awe
Wouldn't this by number 15?
15. Suffering will be unimportant compared to eternal rewards
No, because involuntary suffering cannot be unimportant, no matter how great the "eternal reward" is.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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EdenOne
zound
Just go down to a local childrens hospital then come back here and tell us all about how god is completely moral by not intervening.
I don't need to go that far to see that kind of scene. The non-interventionism of God doesn't make him moral; doesn't make him amoral either. It's the hope that he offers that makes Him worthy of awe; It's the fact that we, humans, can show empathy, compassion, selfless interest in others, something we hardly see in nature, where the norm is competition, selfishness and mercilesness, that reveals that God operates within and through each one of us, even those who don't believe He exists.
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