grumpy, even those who get sent to the lake are very much aware of their destination as well as what happens after they get there.
How many Gods do you believe in?
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As has been stated many times before a sane version of reality is experiencing the world we are born into; it's physical environment and all that acts on our senses.
You, on the other hand have this delusional belief that ancient myths and fairy tales are somehow relevant.
'I don't believe in invisible beings; the writings of "scripture" have man's grubby thumb prints all over them and thelogy is only a desperate attempt to make sense of ancient myths and made-up stories.'
My reality is self evident - it is all around us and that is all I believe in. You however have failed to prove your God is anything more than wishful thinking and poor literature. You lose.
Relevant to what? I read a book that is a bit mysterious when you first start reading but it doesn't stay that way.
You've failed to adequately prove that you're anything more than the flip side of the religious zealotry coin.... a zealot of disbelief, swooping in to try to convert people with as much zeal as the Evangelical priests who spew hellfire and damnation.
You lose, in your clear failure to get anyone on this forum to listen to your rhetoric for more than two minutes.
If you want to call 'what you do to control your behavior and dicipline yourself to know
right from wrong',- having a GOD,- then go for it, but it is just 'you' ,figuring out how to
control your own life, and pretending someone else is looking out for 'you'.
right from wrong',- having a GOD,- then go for it, but it is just 'you' ,figuring out how to
control your own life, and pretending someone else is looking out for 'you'.
Could you tell more, or probably, start a thread about your beliefs? I'll be very interested to learn something.
Shinto is the native religion of Japan which is a form of polytheism and is nature based
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
links on Shintoism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/shinto/
http://jinja.jp/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/shinto/
http://jinja.jp/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
There is only one God.
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are the three persons who comprise the holy trinity.
The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Spirit is God.
There is only one God.
Exactly how this math adds up, I have no idea. Yet, I believe it to be true.
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are the three persons who comprise the holy trinity.
The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Spirit is God.
There is only one God.
Exactly how this math adds up, I have no idea. Yet, I believe it to be true.
Very simple Japa.
The Father is the creator of all there is, Jesus is the Savior of all there is, and the Holy Spirit is the quickening spirit that gives life to all there is.
All 3 applications of the same God.
Peace>>>AJ
lol I believe in them all. How many do I worship? None. How many do I believe are not a product of someone's imagination? None.
Take an egg for an example, one egg you see, but when you crack it open, you see three distinct parts.
1. The shell = the covering of the whole egg or as the father.
2. The yoke = the seed of the egg = the son
3. The white of the egg sustainer, protector of the yoke = the Holy Spirit.
These three parts make the whole egg, if any one of the three is faulted, the egg has no life.
Regardless of what any of us believe, or say, choose to believe, if nature itself cannot indicate to us an intelligent designer of it, then we are void of a spiritual awakening and in need of one.
To that end is a believers quest, but with care, kindness, gentelness and non judgament.
A believer must also learn to manage its understandings in order to meet the critiera mentioned above, otherwise, there is no advantage real understanding of Gods will.
Peace>>>AJ
1. The shell = the covering of the whole egg or as the father.
2. The yoke = the seed of the egg = the son
3. The white of the egg sustainer, protector of the yoke = the Holy Spirit.
These three parts make the whole egg, if any one of the three is faulted, the egg has no life.
Regardless of what any of us believe, or say, choose to believe, if nature itself cannot indicate to us an intelligent designer of it, then we are void of a spiritual awakening and in need of one.
To that end is a believers quest, but with care, kindness, gentelness and non judgament.
A believer must also learn to manage its understandings in order to meet the critiera mentioned above, otherwise, there is no advantage real understanding of Gods will.
Peace>>>AJ
And it can't.
If you look closely what nature really indicates is a lack of design, the undirected working out of natural forces. Or at best, if there's a designer, he's not very intelligent. It's easy to produce multiple examples of extraordinarily bad design. The designer, if such there be, is incompetent, not worthy of unconditional admiration, and certainly does not have the characteristics generally ascribed to him.