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Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
Welll I don't know who or what form of god that you serve ... and worship ... the god that made this universe and everything outside and inside it ... is a jealous god. Who sent his son to die on the cross for your sins .. and if you don't accept him into your heart as your savior you are not going to make it to heaven .........
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
Welll I don't know who or what form of god that you serve ... and worship ... the god that made this universe and everything outside and inside it ... is a jealous god. Who sent his son to die on the cross for your sins .. and if you don't accept him into your heart as your savior you are not going to make it to heaven .. But this thread has nothing to do with that ...
Originally posted by grover
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
Originally posted by grover
whatever you want to believe is fine but don't try and force it on me.
[edit on 26-2-2007 by Deus_Brandon]
that is really funny. I am a Baha'i and I believe in God.... I just don't like it is assumed that i have to have the same belief system as someone else does in order to believe in God, or to be saved.
Originally posted by grover
Oh can the proselyting. Such a simplistic world view should have become extinct decades ago.
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
and ran off and in the midst off all of the confusion or who knows he may have aten some peyote or something and may have been trippin' ... and mated with another species of animal.
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
Could this just be a perversion of the HUMAN race ... Back in the day when we were far less knowledgable; is it possible that a human was upset with his kind and ran off and in the midst off all of the confusion or who knows he may have aten some peyote or something and may have been trippin' ... and mated with another species of animal. We know that God created us ... What if perhaps Lucifer created another race trying to mimmick God's own people. Which would not surprise me as he already thought he could over throw God. In the turmoil alot of other things happend; and here we are today. With all these un answered questions !?!?
en.wikipedia.org...
It is rumoured (in some versions of the story) that Melkor actually captured some Elves before the Valar came to rescue them, and he tortured and perverted them, producing the first Orcs. But other versions of the story (written both before and after the version that appears in The Silmarillion) discount this, and claim that the Orcs are soulless beings animated solely by the will of their evil lord (be it Melkor or, later, Sauron), which explains why they collapse and retreat in battle should the “guiding will” be removed.
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
O but there is darkness in people's heart and it does not come from within one self ... Accept that the Evil being in him coming from something else. or somewhere else..
Originally posted by grover
Let me repeat myself:
There is no Lucifer...the darkness in the human heart needs no outside influence.
It is a cop out of the profoundest order to claim that the darkness in the human heart is not our responsibility but due to an evil outside of us. That is not even a fine fairy tale to tell children.
It was pointed out on a NOVA program on the Bonobo, that they and the Chimps display the two extremes of human character, that of selfishness and greed, and that of altruism and community. i personally believe that the darkness in our souls rose when we became conscious beings and aware of our separateness, it is rooted in alienation from the natural world. Evil is simply nothing more that applied selfishness and applied ignorance. the I, me, mine as represented by Maya in the Hindu pantheon. When one steps outside of ones self then that is the first step towards a Christ like life.
[edit on 5-3-2007 by grover]
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Soooo if Satan created an animal out of nothing, does that not mean Satan has the powers of God and is therefor God himself?
If God is so powerful, why does Satan exist?
Maybe thats the perversion.