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^ Free will nigga. Unconvinced of the existence of God? It's your own mind homie, in The Bible, it tells you what you should do. He tells us to believe in him. You didn't install it in your brain, free will.He punishes you for the decisions you make.
But it also makes you susceptible to following his rules. What you think everytime you do somethang bad you gon get punished? It ain't like that.
You misunderstood me, when I said God wants perfection I didn’t mean he wants us to know everything knowing.
I meant perfect in the sense of sinless, God wants us to be sinless, [...] I meant that no human being is perfect (sinless not omniscient or omnipotent,) to be sinless is to be without spot or blemish.
yes everyone has committed sin (you and I), everyone has either lied, stolen, coveted, etc therefore we are sinners, people don’t consider things like lying or stealing wrong or “that bad” but God does because God is holy and sinners can not enter the kingdom of God sin has to be removed from the record of the sinner in order to enter heaven.
That is why God sent his sinless son to die for us because the bible says“Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins”We are made perfect through Christ
When I said Christ sacrificed his life I didn’t mean that he commitied suicideDefinititon of sacrifice: the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to performIts not suicide because first of all Christ didn’t put the nails in his hands and hang himself on the cross, or asked any one to of that matter, people were out looking for him to kill him and instead of running he admitted that he was the one they were looking for and they took him and killed him.Second of all Jesus was Gods gift to humanity, Gods word made flesh so therefore Jesus wasn’t a normal man, if Jesus was a natural man his dying on the cross would have been in vain because natural man is sinful.
This is basically the purpose of Jesus (the word of God) Sin entered the world through Adam In order for man to be redeemed of sin a sacrifice had to be made, since everything on earth is tainted with sin God had to enter the physical realm through a spotless/sinless body which he created from his own word, in order to redeem man from sin that body had to take on the sins of the world in order to die go to hell (to take the authority over death that satan stole from man) so that death may be overcome, God was the only that that could overcome death because his is life and cant die.
Quote from: QuietTruth on March 07, 2008, 07:04:03 PMBut it also makes you susceptible to following his rules. What you think everytime you do somethang bad you gon get punished? It ain't like that.OK, well why wouldn't God just make you do the right thing anyway if he has the power to? Just to give himself a chance to put somebody in hell. He gets off on making people suffer. But this is a loving god right?
It is not a question of God allowing or not allowing things to happen. It is part of living. Some things we do to ourselves, other things we do to each other. Our Father knows about every bird which falls to the ground, but He does not always prevent it from falling. What are we to learn from this? That our response to what happens is more important than what happens. Here is a mystery: one man’s experience drives him to curse God, while another man’s identical experience drives him to bless God. Your response to what happens is more important than what happens.
To suffer is to live..
Quote from: QuietTruth on March 08, 2008, 08:07:25 AMTo suffer is to live..I refuse to believe you mean that.
Quote from: Eleven 2 Three on March 08, 2008, 08:49:11 AMQuote from: QuietTruth on March 08, 2008, 08:07:25 AMTo suffer is to live..I refuse to believe you mean that.Shitt, I said it the wrong way, it's..To live is to suffer.
Quote from: QuietTruth on March 08, 2008, 08:51:46 AMQuote from: Eleven 2 Three on March 08, 2008, 08:49:11 AMQuote from: QuietTruth on March 08, 2008, 08:07:25 AMTo suffer is to live..I refuse to believe you mean that.Shitt, I said it the wrong way, it's..To live is to suffer.lol It's all good! In that case I agree with you: it takes a certain amount of effort to live; only if you're willing to suffer, the pleasure that comes afterwards will exceed the suffering.