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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
01-31-2010, 01:30 AM
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No no not at all, I'm just always sort of confused which parts of the Bible to put more weight on when it seems to say something different somewhere else. I'll work on it though! There is always room for improvement, I figure, so I'll keep trying to figure it out!
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I think you have a very good attitude, Alex. I am glad you are devoted to studying Christianity in its entirety. Yes, it takes patience to really read (and reread) ALL of the Bible. It was written so long ago, and writing styles have changed. But whatever work you put into reading the Bible and acting on its instructions returns to you 100 fold.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
01-31-2010, 02:11 AM
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No no not at all, I'm just always sort of confused which parts of the Bible to put more weight on when it seems to say something different somewhere else. I'll work on it though! There is always room for improvement, I figure, so I'll keep trying to figure it out!
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2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Matthew 5:18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
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We are to follow EVERY WORD of the Holy Bible, friend.
What church do you attend?
Please make a thread of your own in the " Introductions" section of the forum, so that we can properly greet you. Tell us about yourself, your church, and how you came to find Jesus.
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
01-31-2010, 04:00 PM
Can we please get back to proof of my existence?
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I genuinely cannot tell whether this post is a joke or not.
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These people are not joking. I have been observing them for a while and they have graciously answered the questions I have asked of them.
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Also: fitness requirements, safety, and ratings of self-crucifixion, flagellation, stoning, destroying enemies of GOD utterly, without mercy, and other activities inherent in Christianity
That is not Christianity.
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Have your READ the Bible? Just to clarify, I am an atheist. I HAVE read the Bible and I can assure you that these good folks at LBC have done so as well. The things you cite above as not being part of Christianity are ALL included in the Bible MULTIPLE times and all endorsed by their God.
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Christianity is loving one another and showing compassion to your fellow humans and through your LOVE and COMPASSION perhaps they will think you are on to something. Anything less than love, understanding, and compassion for all and God will turn his cheek to you.
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But also, anything less than 100% utter submission to his whims, no matter how mean or capricious they are and he will burn you for all time. In fact, God supposedly knew what everyone would EVER do since BEFORE he created the universe, yet he still decided to create those people who would end up in Hell. Why did he create them? I couldn't be because he wanted to see what would happen since he knew that already. (Let's ignore for a minute that the Bible depicts God as being suprised by things several times...)
Now, tell me how Christianity "all about love" again?
I respect the LBC people because they are logical about their faith. They make one assumption: The God of the Bible is real. After that, they simply read the text of the Bible and follow what it says. Every other Christian pastor/priest/follow I have EVER met seems to skip all the unpleasant stuff and when you press them about ti, they start stammering and quoting John 3:16 as if it was the only thing in the Bible. Those people are desperately searching for meaning in life and think that they will find it in mythology written when that wheelbarrow would have been viewed as a wonder of engineering. Somehow, these people are actually surprised when they discover that their bronze-age fairy tales include heavenly sanction of rape, murder, slavery, a God who destroys innocent people en masse just to nail a few guilty ones, and eternal torture by a maniacal and vicious petty jealous God.
Take a look at the scripture cited in the first post. These desert-dwelling scribblers were saying that their god was as powerful as a unicorn. What does that say about this book?
"And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." - Judges 1:19
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
01-31-2010, 05:44 PM
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But also, anything less than 100% utter submission to his whims, no matter how mean or capricious they are and he will burn you for all time. In fact, God supposedly knew what everyone would EVER do since BEFORE he created the universe, yet he still decided to create those people who would end up in Hell. Why did he create them? I couldn't be because he wanted to see what would happen since he knew that already. (Let's ignore for a minute that the Bible depicts God as being suprised by things several times...)
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I think it is here that Satan comes in.
It is just a vague guess, i have not read the bible myself, nor do i intend to.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
01-31-2010, 05:46 PM
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It is just a vague guess, i have not read the bible myself, nor do i intend to.
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And that makes the value of your opinion..... 0.
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Be wary of false Kumbaya Christians who use a highlighter and scissors to read the Bible. God wants us to read the lines, not between the lines. False Christians will go to Hell:
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Asking a Christian to prove God exists is like asking him to prove his phone rings because yours doesn't. Make that call yourself! Dial 0800-get-on-your-knees-and-pray.
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02-01-2010, 07:31 PM
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And that makes the value of your opinion..... 0.
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So why DID god make some people evil? Or non-believers?
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-01-2010, 07:47 PM
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So why DID god make some people evil? Or non-believers?
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Satan lures people into doing evil things, not God.
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Be wary of false Kumbaya Christians who use a highlighter and scissors to read the Bible. God wants us to read the lines, not between the lines. False Christians will go to Hell:
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Asking a Christian to prove God exists is like asking him to prove his phone rings because yours doesn't. Make that call yourself! Dial 0800-get-on-your-knees-and-pray.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-01-2010, 08:30 PM
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I think it is here that Satan comes in.
It is just a vague guess, i have not read the bible myself, nor do i intend to.
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Your "guess", in other words you are speaking out of your' behind. By your own admission don't know what the heck you are talking about when it comes to Christianity, yet you have the seer audacity to present your uninformed opinion as "fact". Doubtless you find us TRUE Christians "arrogant" because we bother to read the Bible and refuse to pander to your uninformed nonsense.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-01-2010, 10:03 PM
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So why DID god make some people evil? Or non-believers?
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He did not. He gave us free will. We did the rest.
Freedom means voting for Donald Trump!
To most "Christians" The Bible is like a license agreement. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". All those "Christians" will burn in Hell!
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 12:22 AM
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Jesus did not discriminate or turn people to His word with hatred and "nuh uh! I'm right I'm right you're wronnngggg" type statements.
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I agree with you that Christianity is about love, and I'm as appalled as you are by the attitudes of the Landover Baptist Church. However, I'm not so sure that Jesus didn't engage in that sort of behavior himself. Consider Matthew 3:7, in which Jesus described the Phairsees and Sadducees this way:
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Matthew 3:7
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He exemplified the positive attributes being close to God gave him (can't get much closer than he was!), such as love and compassion for other people.
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And yet he told the Canaanite woman who asked him to heal his daughter: It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. Matthew 15:26
That is not what the Bible says. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.... But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. Matthew 11:20-24
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IF only we could be so virtuous.
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Jesus was a man of great virtue, and we would all do well to emulate him, but he was a man who had human flaws just like the rest of us do. Why can't we take the good in Jesus's message and make it our own, while rejecting those things he did and said that do not accord with our sense of morality and fair treatment for all of God's creatures--which seems to be the exact opposite of Landover's stance.
...as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14 (emphasis mine)
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 01:18 AM
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I agree with you that Christianity is about love, [...]
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Your absence from this forum was much appreciated, however, the vacation does not seem to have done much to focus your views.
Let me tell you of the Time Traveler's Paradox: What would happen if you traveled into the past and killed your grandparents before they could give birth to your parents?
Bear this in mind.
Christianity is not "all about love." Were it so, it would say so on the first page of the NT.
However, by chapter 2 Herod has slaughtered the innocents and no one has batted an eyelid. These were the days of the Greatest Holiness, the Days when God walked upon the earth and those are the days that Christ's 2nd Coming will resurrect. It is therefore essential that all realize that Jesus came to fulfill the law of the OT, not to change it.
Now, recall the Time Traveler's Paradox
Given this, without all the 2 or 3 million killed by God in the OT, Jesus' story could not be told. To alter one jot or tittle of that would have changed all of history.
At the 2nd Coming (for the swift arrival of which all of us True Christians pray daily) Jesus will slaughter the majority of the population of the earth.
So enough of this, "Christianity is about love", Alex246 (or whatever his name is) does not need to be led astray by the likes of yourself.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 06:13 AM
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So enough of this, "Christianity is about love", Alex246 (or whatever his name is) does not need to be led astray by the likes of yourself.
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Amen! I must admit, I was misguided at first, but after reading more of these forums and going back to my Bible, I learned the err of my ways and have found the Truth™! I'm actively studying and trying to get better. Praise the Lord!
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02-03-2010, 10:14 AM
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Amen! I must admit, I was misguided at first, but after reading more of these forums and going back to my Bible, I learned the err of my ways and have found the Truth™! I'm actively studying and trying to get better. Praise the Lord!
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That is very courageous of you! You'd be surprised how many Christians don't even read the Bible. You won't get into Heaven if you don't read and follow the entire Bible.
It looks like you just might be spending a lot of time with us in Heaven. Do you like ping pong? (in Heaven, there is a non-gay version)
I take my orders from Jesus H. Christ, supernatural born US citizen
Be wary of false Kumbaya Christians who use a highlighter and scissors to read the Bible. God wants us to read the lines, not between the lines. False Christians will go to Hell:
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Asking a Christian to prove God exists is like asking him to prove his phone rings because yours doesn't. Make that call yourself! Dial 0800-get-on-your-knees-and-pray.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 09:44 PM
GOD=life thank you for the kind words, but the courage comes from Jesus, not me! He has simply blessed me with the strength to see the Truth! Amen!
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02-03-2010, 10:23 PM
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GOD=life thank you for the kind words, but the courage comes from Jesus, not me! He has simply blessed me with the strength to see the Truth! Amen!
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And was not all this foretold in the Scriptures?
Ac:9:17: And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Ac:9:18: And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 11:22 PM
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Satan lures people into doing evil things, not God.
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So i guessed right.
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Your "guess", in other words you are speaking out of your' behind. By your own admission don't know what the heck you are talking about when it comes to Christianity, yet you have the seer audacity to present your uninformed opinion as "fact". Doubtless you find us TRUE Christians "arrogant" because we bother to read the Bible and refuse to pander to your uninformed nonsense.
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Stop telling what I do, and make a point.
Besides, if my guess where from out of my behind, i guess that guy who said that Satan lures people is speaking out of his behind too.
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He did not. He gave us free will. We did the rest.
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Wait, i thought it was Satan. Do you guys both have the TRUE edition of the bible?
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Re: Is God as Strong as a Unicorn? -
02-03-2010, 11:27 PM
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So i guessed right.
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Sorry, do I know you?
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Do you guys both have the TRUE edition of the Bible?
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Affirmative.
I take my orders from Jesus H. Christ, supernatural born US citizen
Be wary of false Kumbaya Christians who use a highlighter and scissors to read the Bible. God wants us to read the lines, not between the lines. False Christians will go to Hell:
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Asking a Christian to prove God exists is like asking him to prove his phone rings because yours doesn't. Make that call yourself! Dial 0800-get-on-your-knees-and-pray.
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