Questions and Statements about God...

[demandred]

Religion chokes out the power of God.... instead of following God.. your follow man, his ways and his traditions.... not God's..

 

[demandred]

Well, one thing to expect is that the traffic in this forum is not what it used to. The usual posters have probably moved on so you may not hear from them.

There is nothing wrong with being rational. It is when being rational becomes more than what it is that it becomes an issue. I believe that life doesn't always have to make sense first in order to live it; that things don't always have to be known or explained. It's sometimes (if not mostly) about trust. I believe that even though rationale is important, it is used to mask the issues of trust. You don't like the idea of faith in God because either He is unfaithful or His Followers are unfaithful in your eyes. You would like God to make sense because you won't take Him any other way but what if it is the only way? What if regardless of what Blue, Heaven, or I say that the God of the Bible exists and all God wants you to do is trust Him? While you are busy collecting as much data as possible, you may find out that's it's not about the data.

This is good ... I missed this place

 

[TX_Made713]

To praise or to worship God is to do what Christ did when he was on Earth, its not to talk about... its to do... sunday is not the gospel... the church is a governing body not and entertainment flesh jerk fest... of course you are not enchanted with the way things are TX in this religion mountain TX... its because its not God

Co mothafuckin sign

 

[TX_Made713]

Your heart doesn't want the full knowledge of God, because the things of God do not feed the flesh... which means it does not make a unclean, uncircumcised heart feel good, because God requires a pure heart to stand before him... so the first half of your heart requires you purging all of the lust and fascinations of the world, and centering it in on God so that you are honestly able to follow the first commandment... and by revelation of the hebrews scripture... you can see it is the Word of God that does this work... and when one instructions you to have faith, or build your faith... they are asking you to have trust... or build your trust in the things that the bible says as truth...

I'll stop here....

So are unicorns real?

Numbers 23:22 (King James Version)

22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

 

[alissowack]

Even if man found unicorns to be real or we come across Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Covenent, find Goliath's remains, or even the clothes with DNA linking it to Jesus, the issue of sin would still remain to be the problem.

 

[TX_Made713]

the issue of sin would still remain to be the problem because the bible says so.

really now. thats whats up

 

[alissowack]

really now. thats whats up

I have the impression that you are thinking of sin as some thing that prevents you from doing good morals or stop you from lending a helping hand. Sin goes deeper than morals. Even if the world somehow gots it's act together and no one suffers and everyone is happy, sin will still remains. And so to beat you to the punch...yeah, the Bible says so.

 

[demandred]

So are unicorns real?

Numbers 23:22 (King James Version)

22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

You have shamed my heart TX... you have backtracked yourself to looking upon the word of God as a heathen and lost trust in it... but I understand why... because you have surrounded yourself with these type of people... one thing I do know is whatever you fill yourself with is what eventually will take over how you look upon a thing... you have placed yourself amougest the heathen for far too much ... let what I speak go beyond your flesh, and your brain and into your spirit

Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psa 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.



It is ok for the things of God to not make sense, until you are able to walk in enough faith to gain understanding, and I thought that you had picked up how to study the word correctly... this is a major problem in why you are having the problems

First of all... contrary to whatever others have to say... the KJV is good... but its not good enough... you HAVE to go back to the origins where it was translated from

Num 23:22 God410 brought them out3318 of Egypt;4480, 4714 he hath as it were the strength8443 of a unicorn.7214

H7214

ראם / רם / רים / ראים

re'êm / re'êym / rêym / rêm

BDB Definition:

1) probably the great aurochs or wild bulls which are now extinct. The exact meaning is not known.

H7214

רם רים ראים ראם

re'êm re'êym rêym rêm

reh-ame', reh-ame', rame, rame

From H7213; a wild bull (from its conspicuousness)

Understanding that this particular sentence is a poetic metaphor... the word unicorn was used to paint the expression the author was trying to get across

With a little more research....

A one-horned animal (which may be just a bull in profile) is found on some seals from the Indus Valley Civilization.[2] Seals with such a design are thought to be a mark of high social rank.[3]

An animal called the Re’em (Hebrew: רְאֵם‎) is mentioned in several places in the Hebrew Bible, often as a metaphor representing strength. "The allusions to the re'em as a wild, un-tamable animal of great strength and agility, with mighty horn or horns (Job 39:9-12, Ps 22:21, 29:6, Num 23:22, 24:8, Deut 33:17 comp. Ps 92:11), best fit the aurochs (Bos primigenius). This view is supported by the Assyrian rimu, which is often used as a metaphor of strength, and is depicted as a powerful, fierce, wild mountain bull with large horns."[4] This animal was often depicted in ancient Mesopotamian art in profile, with only one horn visible.

The translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (1611) followed the Greek Septuagint (monokeros) and the Latin Vulgate (unicornus) and employed unicorn to translate re'em, providing a recognizable animal that was proverbial for its un-tamable nature.

 

[TX_Made713]

You have shamed my heart TX... you have backtracked yourself to looking upon the word of God as a heathen and lost trust in it...

Sorry to hurt your feelings but it is what it is. To bring your point across its going to take more than just "because the bible says so"....you can do this just as easily with the quran

 

[TX_Made713]

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lmaooooooooooo

 

[demandred]

Sorry to hurt your feelings but it is what it is. To bring your point across its going to take more than just "because the bible says so"....you can do this just as easily with the quran

the point is already laid... and you should already know i dont operate off because anything says so.. the bible explains itself for one willing to do the proper research and with all the tools necessary there is no excuse

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

The purpose of all life is to survive.

The meaning of all life, well, thats for each person to decide.

 

[PapaJuice]

The purpose of all life is to survive.

The meaning of all life, well, thats for each person to decide.

there is a plan... that has been set out, what is it? i dont know

but u sir, are a fuckin gorilla
and a lizard

and that's why u sicken me

 

[TX_Made713]

The proper research is listening to the bible and following it to the T. FOLLOW IT!!!

sorry, I'll pass

 

[tri3w]

sorry, I'll pass

U never did Say What u believe in Now homie...........So I'll ask again, What do u Believe in Now???

 

[edeeesq]

The interesting part in all this, is that the only "thing" man won't let change is God......

We'll take our man made religious writings and insist it is God in a nutshell. I'm sure that's quite limiting and disruptive of God, considering He's an omnipotent being.

I'm glad your questioning the teachings of religion, regardless of which religion that is, because it means you're open to accept what you don't yet know.

Oh, and you're still going to hell for that youtube video of Drop it low girl.....

 

[demandred]

I glance over these threads and see alot of laziness, and people that don't want to study.... then you want to debate God...

Understand that you problem with God is more-so because of close-mindedness, lack of someone teaching you how to properly read scripture, and then lack of studying.....

 

[ItzGravitation]

you dont learn how to properly read scripture

rather you grow in Spiritual Awareness to the point you receive Rvelations when you read the Bible and grow closer with God

 

[demandred]

you dont learn how to properly read scripture
rather you grow in Spiritual Awareness to the point you receive Rvelations when you read the Bible and grow closer with God

Truth

Subtract the word read and word the interpret... there is an art of understanding the bible that is not necessarily gotten by osmosis, and it is not a carnal interpretation, but a spiritual interpretation in which one seeks the fullness of what all was trying to be conveyed in a particular passage

 

[UPTOWN]

Truth

Subtract the word read and word the interpret... there is an art of understanding the bible that is not necessarily gotten by osmosis, and it is not a carnal interpretation, but a spiritual interpretation in which one seeks the fullness of what all was trying to be conveyed in a particular passage

but what your saying isnt fact. thats YOUR PERSONAL interpretation of what the bible means to you. so its null and void. no where in the bible does it teach you or tell you to "spiritually" interpret it. the fact is ... not everything in the bible can be explained properly because of it being tampered with. people adding and removing scriptures, MEN deciding what should stay and what should be tossed out. any christian scholar will tell you this. this is why faith has become a top priority for religous followers. the bible cant be placed in a catagorey like its some work of art where your meant to get some personal meaning out of it. that is a man made concept to comfort the fact that they have no proof to fully understand what they believe in. sin is sin, good is good, and god NEVER changes. its people that change not god. believing otherwise is a sin in its own self

bottom line is you cant go out of bounds and make things up just because you dont have an answer. christianity would be a much stronger religion if they would stay away from the nonsense and just tell the truth. you cant say god loves everyone equally and then turn around and say god gives each person their own understanding. no .... whats a sin for you is a sin for the next man because god loves you equally. furthurmore, whose to say that god didnt give atheists their own interpretation that would be best for them??