God is in your mind?

Trollheart · 06-22-2012, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Cru Hoor

A rusty seaman with a pipe attached to his mouth?

How can his semen be rusty? Is there metal in it?

Trollheart · 06-22-2012, 05:52 PM

If I can be flippant here for a moment (Hi, I'm Flippant, please to meet you!) why is it do you think that God spends so much time in jail? I mean, people are ALWAYS finding him in prison! Does he live there, or is he just doing some sort of community outreach to the prisoners? And also, how can he be lost? Isn't he omnipotent? Hard to imagine God staggering out of the local and not knowing the way home...

Freebase Dali · 06-22-2012, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

If I can be flippant here for a moment (Hi, I'm Flippant, please to meet you!) why is it do you think that God spends so much time in jail? I mean, people are ALWAYS finding him in prison! Does he live there, or is he just doing some sort of community outreach to the prisoners? And also, how can he be lost? Isn't he omnipotent? Hard to imagine God staggering out of the local and not knowing the way home...

1. Murder and rape (in that order) a family of 6? God forgives you. Now you can pawn off the moral implications of your actions, and what kind of a person you are, on a loving god who has washed away your sins. When you finish your sentence and are free, and do it again, then you can simply say you "backslid"! (or the devil made you do it)
Moral, ethical and humanitarian implications be damned!

2. God has the power to make himself so drunk, that even he can't manage to find his way home. Obviously.

Trollheart · 06-23-2012, 05:14 AM

Right, I see. So then God also has the power to forget he's God, get into a bar-fight and be locked up for the night, where of course, the flotsam of the world "find him". Yeah, makes sense, as much as anything in this world does.

Salami · 09-01-2012, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

1. Murder and rape (in that order) a family of 6? God forgives you. Now you can pawn off the moral implications of your actions, and what kind of a person you are, on a loving god who has washed away your sins. When you finish your sentence and are free, and do it again, then you can simply say you "backslid"! (or the devil made you do it)
Moral, ethical and humanitarian implications be damned!

2. God has the power to make himself so drunk, that even he can't manage to find his way home. Obviously.

But the point is that if you've "backslid" you've not repented at all, you're still as bad as you were. Supposing, on the other hand, that ever since you committed the crime you were completely overcome with remorse, and "not a day went by where you wished you could change what you did". That's when God would forgive you. If you say that God forgives you as soon as you SAY you're sorry or a Christian, you're basically creating a straw man - IF God really were like this then his morality would be preposterous. He's be like a parent who believes every lie his evil children tell him.

Howard the Duck · 09-01-2012, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Salami

But the point is that if you've "backslid" you've not repented at all, you're still as bad as you were. Supposing, on the other hand, that ever since you committed the crime you were completely overcome with remorse, and "not a day went by where you wished you could change what you did". That's when God would forgive you. If you say that God forgives you as soon as you SAY you're sorry or a Christian, you're basically creating a straw man - IF God really were like this then his morality would be preposterous. He's be like a parent who believes every lie his evil children tell him.

inversely, i believe in a God who doesn't give a rat's ass

and a Jesus who is only guide for my consciousness

06-22-2012, 05:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	If I can be flippant here for a moment (Hi, I'm Flippant, please to meet you!) why is it do you think that God spends so much time in jail? I mean, people are ALWAYS finding him in prison! Does he live there, or is he just doing some sort of community outreach to the prisoners? And also, how can he be lost? Isn't he omnipotent? Hard to imagine God staggering out of the local and not knowing the way home... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

06-23-2012, 05:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Right, I see. So then God also has the power to forget he's God, get into a bar-fight and be locked up for the night, where of course, the flotsam of the world "find him". Yeah, makes sense, as much as anything in this world does. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018