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originally posted by: Ophiuchus 13
a reply to: lortl
What if the perceived GODS of mankind's (souls) is AN IS-BE? that can Create other IS-BE? That then generate this perceived reality for ETERNAL IS-BE to be manifested and or captured within contained inside humanoid biological Temporary form. And so YOU ARE NOT REALLY WHERE OR WHAT YOU PERCEIVE YOU ARE AS AN IS-BE w/ potential mind wipe, so you forget your past and seemingly don't Learn from past mistakes made. Making you your higher IS-BE self convinced your human only. Perceiving ONLY the material visible world, forgetting your ETERNAL CONNECTIONS. Making you potentially easier to handle and or be managed by OTHER IS-BE in different form, as you only think in human terms. Not realizing the GOD figure you speak of may be closer to you THEN YOU REMEMBER...
NAMASTE*******
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: lortl
People are always being healed (including having limbs growing back, the blind seeing, the lame walking and people being raised from the dead, occasionally). It hasn't stopped.
The Catholic Church has hundreds of saints and each one of them has to have done verified miracles. The Church investigates them very heavily before declaring them saints.
Also, which wars, exactly, are being waged in his name?
originally posted by: lortl
How come the bible is so full of miracles and wonders but God hasn't showed his hand for so long. Either its a conspiracy or he doesn't exist.
Where are the miracles of yesteryear? The walking on water and creating many fish from five. It seems than any miracle produced lately is debunked as a fantasy pretty quickly so one can only conclude god doesn't exist.
Nobody is healed, theres no heave, imagine taking responsibility for yourself instead of invoking some punishment that happens after death if you don't except the god of the bible. Sounds less like the loving god and more like someextortionist mafia protection racket.
CAn anybody show us examples of god? Why cant god heal people to make their limbs grow back or resurrect the dead form the wars invoked by those who wage it in his name.
If this was a court of law your god would be sentecened on charges of fraud.
originally posted by: Shahada
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: lortl
People are always being healed (including having limbs growing back, the blind seeing, the lame walking and people being raised from the dead, occasionally). It hasn't stopped.
The Catholic Church has hundreds of saints and each one of them has to have done verified miracles. The Church investigates them very heavily before declaring them saints.
Also, which wars, exactly, are being waged in his name?
All of them.
So you're saying god should not have you life because one day be recycled so other life can rise? hw selfish
originally posted by: In4ormant
originally posted by: yorkshirelad
a reply to: lortl
God bowed out of interfering in our existance long ago because we are not very nice to each other. Needless to say this occurred long ago and the only "proof" is a story in a religious book.
Classic conspiracy stuff.
In addition when very bad things happen to good people there is the excuse "no one knows Gods purpose". Yet another cop out. Needless to say I do not believe in God but should he magically appear one day I would have nothing but utter contemt for him/her for this reason : Many years ago a child was playing in the sand dunes. The sand dune collapsed and the child died of suffocation. Now that is a horrible way to suffocate as your lungs fill up with sand. The location was unobserved by anybody so God could have intervened and saved the child and nobody would know. Any being with such power that God supposedly has who allows a child in those circumstances to die the way they did as part of some "grand plan" deserves nothing but utter contempt. SO even if God appeared it would two fingers to him/her.
So, you don't like that humans die and therefore God is evil.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: lortl
God only exists in the gaps of science.
originally posted by: secretboss
Maybe everything is scheduled to happen at a certain time, and now is not the time for miracles.
Perhaps we see them as miracles for the same reason primitive tribes see smartphones as magical. That is, we dont know how they worked.
I dont think we fully know all there is to know about how the universe works.
Text How come the bible is so full of miracles and wonders but God hasn't showed his hand for so long. Either its a conspiracy or he doesn't exist. Where are the miracles of yesteryear? The walking on water and creating many fish from five. It seems than any miracle produced lately is debunked as a fantasy pretty quickly so one can only conclude god doesn't exist.
originally posted by: NOTurTypical
a reply to: Seede
You're right, I'd say 90% of the churches are cessationist/non-charismatic.