What good is it to try to prove that God exists? You blind shepherds, instead, make them see clearly so that they will seek Him themselves. Show them the world without God, and if they reject you, by doing this, they prove that they are evil. If they were not, they would have recognized the truth.They know that a stone doesn't ask the one who stumbles, "Did it hurt?", nor do the waters save you from drowning out of compassion. How can there be justice without judgment, and judgment without the one who judges? How can the gift be sacred without the altar that makes it sacred? Likewise, how can there be value if it has nothing to stand on? Your desires are your gods, and you choose to be a slave to them. Know this: in your own world, your life is utterly worthless, but not so in mine. Indeed, we both share in one and the same life, and we are both accountable to the one and the same God. He is the eternal life, the one and only true God, revealed through Christ.Come to me, all you who are in great distress; take pasture in my words. To anyone who finds my words true, I am like a gentle shepherd, but to anyone who is not of the truth, I am like a scorpion that stings. This is why it is said, "Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed." If the truth torments you, do not think that this will make me stop. Instead, I will seek to become the dungeon master as to torment you day and night. I have made the truth known to you, yet you choose the world where you can indulge in your depraved desires, while there is no one to feed the starving child, no one to heal the sick and comfort the one in pain, and no one to bring about justice. This is the world you are asking for when you say, "There is no God!"I can testify: He is there, and soon the starving will be fed, the sick healed, and the one in pain comforted. Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.
>>43093400Do mind if I read this chart as an evolutionary biologist? ^^
>>43093417There has always been only one truth, but people do not want to see the whole; they choose a part of the whole and defend it. For this reason, they will never see it."You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."
>>43093400Know this: tradition will not save you, nor will religion save you. Neither your church nor denomination will save you. Not one ritual will ever save you, but the transformed heart will save you.The Son did not come into the world to call you to perform rituals in His name. He came into the world to reveal what the Father is like, so that through grace, you may be formed into His likeness.He Himself said: "Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"These are not people who rejected Him. These are people who claim that they did many great works in His name, yet they are told, "I never knew you." Why is this? Because their security was in what is external, not in what is internal.God does not know you merely by going to church or performing rituals in His name. To know God and to be known by God is through the spirit. This is not to say that you should not go to church, as Jesus said, "You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former."Many of you are neglecting the former, that is, the growth in the spirit. You have not given up the self and its desires as you were called to do. We have an obligation, to put to death the desires of the flesh through faith and perseverance.This is what grace is for, so that when you fall, you do not need to be paralyzed in failure, but pick up your mat and walk. Know that you are already forgiven, and that God loves you, even as I love you.Stop judging by appearances and instead turn to Him sincerely and be formed into His likeness.
God is a superintelligent alien.https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbhQhmgM5c4
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>>43093417Where have you been?
>>43093430True true ... and only because it did for a while does not prove that it is a viable way from here on.>>43093580Uhm ... downstairs?>>43093566Superintelligence must be fun. :)
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>>43093586No internet downstairs? Haven't seen much of you lately.
>>43093400You say, "Why did God create evil?" But have you ever asked: "What does it mean to be free?"God could have created you in such a way where you serve Him because you have no other choice, but where is the freedom in that? You say, "God is a tyrant," yet the God you are asking for is actually a tyrant.The God we worship created man to be free and to be able to choose Him freely, because he can recognize the good in God. Good recognizes good. If you cannot recognize the good in God, what are you?God did not have to create evil, nor does evil have existence or life of its own. Evil comes to life through you, when a being with free will can either choose to align themselves with the good, or that which is not, and it chooses to go against the good. This is when evil is born, through the human will.
you repeating something enough times isnt gonna make it true.you know what they say, if the glove does not fit, you must acquit. and that glove should fit like no other glove on this earth, as if you yourself helped in its design before you were ever even born and made sure that glove was attuned to your specific body. the gods should be the most familiar thing in the world, even more familiar to you than your own reflection or even your own mother. do you really never get an uncanney valley feeling about christianity, jesus or jewish culture? i knew right away. and i knew i could try to ignore it to try to fit in, but if theres one thing on this earth you shouldnt have to make concessions for, its for this.and thats why reverse pascals wager is so much scarier than pascals wager. christianity is like someone trying to show you a porno where a man's face has been superimposed over a woman's body. it might fool some people, im just not one of those people.
>>43093989What better is there to invest on than what is eternal?
>>43093989How is it that you people still don't understand that I am not doing what I am doing because I want to? I am doing what I have to do. How many times do I need to tell you that I know that He is there? The desires of this world will soon be taken away from you; therefore, invest in what is eternal. You have no excuse before God because if you believe that there is no God, you must also believe there is no purpose, and if there is no purpose, what prevents you from hoping that God is there? Nothing is preventing you from doing this besides the self and its desires; therefore, you have no excuse.
>>43093989Nailed it. (No pun intended.)After 2000 years, the results should speak for themselves. But everywhere you look where christianity has been you'll find pedophiles and/or jews ruling. Being spiritually attuned to divinity simply does not produce results like that. And that isn't some little misstep like fallout from two groups arguing over whether jesus was fully divine or fully divine AND fully human. Results like that are more indicative of having lost sight of divinity altogether, and they are pretty much alerting you to that fact.
>>43094021>Heso he has a penis and xy chromosomes just like you do? how do you know that? how do you know its not a she? or an *it*?>>43093999i think you need to look up the word (preferably not in a jewish owned dictionary)
>>43094046>so he has a penis and xy chromosomes just like you do? how do you know that?The jews told him. And he actually believed them (lol)Definitely isnt something he came to independently conclude, like the name "Jesus" and only later came to find out everyone else independently came to that same conclusion. Nope. Someone had to tell each and every one of them.
>>43093618What nah. Plenty of connectivity. But I would not like to neglect my social interactions as much as I might have in the past. Not that it was not worth it I think ...
Many times, the things you people accuse God of doing are things that are structurally necessary for Him to accomplish His purpose. If you begin from what you see, you will never understand, but if you begin from what His purpose is, then you will understand.
>>43093400Hi
