It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by akushla99
Having based a premise upon a fiction you do not credit, and using the fiction to debase the premise is puerile and transparent...sorry...
'Choosing A or B', is a choice (but you have reduced FREE WILL [in not just this thread] to a 2 way choice)...unsmart! The 'bases' you cover, you do not even understand, let alone, have a belief in - whichever comes first...or the other way around!...transparent!
There are more than 2 choices!...reductionism of this quality is self-limiting (i.e. reflective and revealing of your own choices and outcomes, by extension)...
Original thought required by this unit...
A99
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
To your answer.
Since you set the conditions for all the benefits you show, why have your son suffer for your conditions?
Why would you not step up yourself?
Son or not; why impose the conditions you set on anyone but you?
Actually, Jesus is God, as he is a part of him. God as a whole, in all of his glory, would never be able to be contained in a human body. In the Old Testament, God had to appear to people through his angel in order for people to see or hear him, and even then, some of them risked death in doing so. That's why they asked for God to send them Jesus in the first place. Someone they could see, speak to and learn from without risking death. God as a whole, is too powerful.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by vethumanbeing
No one gets the joke. You would have won a very hard arguement to convince mankind that there is everlasting eternity for the soul that in it never dies; it is an energyform that transmutes itself in a progression for enlightenment.
Matthew 10:28
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Greatest I am
It all depends on how you define God, but the human being, prior to God recognition and realization fits that title very well. What are we afraid of? God. It's all a very sad state of affairs and very a long story. Some day however, for the willing and open minded (those who don't presume to know everything already), the misunderstanding will come to an abrupt end. Meanwhile, you're either being helpful to the cause of God's communion with man, or you're not. Me I'd rather be helpful and not allow any personal bias get between me and God, and that's God of my own experience and understanding. To call the creator of one and all, the first/last cause of existence a "coward" I don't know but it just doesn't feel right to me, but alas to each his own I guess... seems kinda like shooting one's self in the foot though if you ask me.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
Of course I have a moral sense. Just because you don't understand the difference between earthly thoughts and spiritual thoughts doesn't mean that I don't have a moral sense. You try to use a book (the Bible) that you don't even understand and try to label it as immoral because you simply just don't understand it.
Try to look at it a different way. If you were God and you truly loved your creations, wouldn't you be willing to sacrifice a piece of yourself in order to save all of them from eternal permanent damnation? What's immoral about that?
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
Just because you don't consider a human death a sacrifice doesn't mean it wasn't one. Jesus felt everything a human would in experiencing a human death. God put himself in man's shoes, if only for a moment, to experience the full human experience. I guess I'll never understand how your mind isn't capable of comprehending any of it.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
The fact that you keep saying that Jesus didn't need to die just proves my previous point that you're incapable of thinking God's thoughts and knowing his ways. You obviously have no idea what was needed to wipe the slate clean so that your heathen human soul was good enough to enter into the presence of God.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
You've never proven anything immoral. All you've done is show your incapacity to understand what's written in the Bible about Jesus, who he was, why he came and what his whole purpose in coming to earth was for in the first place. All of it has been lost on you because, as you say in your own words, you don't care about the mind of God. You only care about your own mind and what you think, while choosing to overlook what matters.
Originally posted by Greatest I am
Another idol worshiper of his Godinabook who cannot justify his God.
“Trying to prove God is like defending a lion, Homie, it don’t need your help, just unlock the cage.”
"If you can believe in a God that is powerful enough to create a universe and your own consciousness, is it too outlandish to claim that he may be greater than our own reason can even comprehend? If you’re trying to explain God to yourself or someone else, it’s easy to feel as if you have to prove him. But here’s a fact you can rest in: God does not need you to prove him, because he exists with or without your approval. Just because it takes faith to believe God is real does not mean that he isn’t! The Christian is not called to prove God, the Christian is called to show God throughout every facet of their life. God can’t be tamed, so just unleash him through your life!"
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Greatest I am
You say things like, "so says Jesus", yet you still don't understand who he said God was in the first place. Who you say God is doesn't line up with what Jesus said God was. Sorry.
Originally posted by Greatest I am
How sad that Christians reject the good news that Jesus gave.
"Every major religion in the world has been manufactured or infiltrated by the Illuminati..."
The Vatican has infiltrated, or neutered and spayed, virtually every denomination and organization in Christendom.
OPUS DEI-- War on Protestantism
Originally posted by Greatest I am
Originally posted by akushla99
Having based a premise upon a fiction you do not credit, and using the fiction to debase the premise is puerile and transparent...sorry...
'Choosing A or B', is a choice (but you have reduced FREE WILL [in not just this thread] to a 2 way choice)...unsmart! The 'bases' you cover, you do not even understand, let alone, have a belief in - whichever comes first...or the other way around!...transparent!
There are more than 2 choices!...reductionism of this quality is self-limiting (i.e. reflective and revealing of your own choices and outcomes, by extension)...
Original thought required by this unit...
A99
B S. What is choice number 3 and if a moral one, why did God not take it instead of the immoral choice he did take?
Regards
DL
Originally posted by Murgatroid
Originally posted by Greatest I am
How sad that Christians reject the good news that Jesus gave.
Most Christians, just like everyone else, believe what religion is telling them.
Originally posted by Greatest I am
You might have a point for why religions are evil but that has nothing to do with the supernatural. It is all natural, almost, women hating men.
Originally posted by Murgatroid
Originally posted by Greatest I am
How sad that Christians reject the good news that Jesus gave.
Most Christians, just like everyone else, believe what religion is telling them.
Greatest I am
There are not that many stupid people around. There is good reason for churches standing near empty and that trend will continue as we educate our young better. You might have a point for why religions are evil but that has nothing to do with the supernatural. It is all natural, almost, women hating men.