Well, we got the Jews to thank for copper wire, anyways!
Two Jews fighting over a penny ...
sigh. If we created god in our own image isn't is possible that we also created all of the definitions of sin as well? Isn't it convenient that the commandments just happen to be exactly what a ruling government would want to see its subjects live their lives by? People might not fear their government, but eternity in hell? Now that's powerful stuff.
Everyone has to remember that the above mentioned people are/were actors that pretended to be these historical people that may or may not have existed.I don't know, Moses (Charlton Heston) looked pretty muscular in The Ten Commandments. Maybe he should have had Joshua the Stone Cutter (John Derek) carry them, he looked pretty ripped and he was used to the heavy lifting.
Oh yeah, that's what i heard! I meant Moses, damn it all to hell ... I'm getting my characters mixed up again ... its that last margarita I just had and the sun.
Wait, wasn't it Jonah that went fishing? Now I'm confused ...
sigh. If we created god in our own image isn't is possible that we also created all of the definitions of sin as well? Isn't it convenient that the commandments just happen to be exactly what a ruling government would want to see its subjects live their lives by? People might not fear their government, but eternity in hell? Now that's powerful stuff.
Everyone has to remember that the above mentioned people are/were actors that pretended to be these historical people that may or may not have existed.
Ummm. I thought it was God who created us in HIS own image????
But if that's true, if god can create a beautiful place and life everlasting why didn't god do that in the first place? Oh, I know. God's testing us. But didn't god know what we would do when it created us?
It's all so confusing!
Ummm. I thought it was God who created us in HIS own image????
Pea ... for one thing, God isn't "testing" you; he never tests anyone. That's the Devil. Looks like this ~> Well, that's what man has assumed he looks like. Actually, he or she takes many forms, but he originally appeared as a serpent in the Garden Of Eden ... no, that wasn't Barbara Eden's residency in California.
Sounds like baby abuse to me.
Excuse me, but that would be in HER own image.
A male doesn't have the sense of humor to create something that pisses out of the same thing that gives it pleasure and cause it to quit being usable for much more than pissing when it gets older.
Or to cause the male to reach his peak of sexual ability a decade before most females are interested enough to let him do anything more with it than use his hand.
Which do you think more likely?
Let's just suppose that there is a supreme infallible being and it created us in its image then what in the heck happened? A second year engineering student could have done better. Maybe we got the 1st year intern god while some other universe got the attending resident god.
Oh, I know! Let's just make up another rule. Let's say we're too dumb to understand the infinite wisdom of our god. That way no matter what happens god's still perfect and we're all sinners who need saving. Oh, but if we're all sinners then why would anyone even try to be good? Oh, I know! Let's make up another rule that if you confess and repent you can be forgiven and live forever in the beautiful place beyond death. I like that. I hate the idea of death, don't you? That's a pisser and someone needs to find a way around it. I know! God can get us past that one.
But if that's true, if god can create a beautiful place and life everlasting why didn't god do that in the first place? Oh, I know. God's testing us. But didn't god know what we would do when it created us? Did god f up? I thought god was all knowing and infallible. I thought we were created in god's image? Perfect.
It's all so confusing!
Not confusing at all!
First of all God is everything. God is all the energy that exists and everything is made of energy. Some of that energy is more dense than other forms of it .....
.... However, it all is what it is and shall continue on forever because God is everything.
See, simple.
OK, so here's a test for the biblical scholars: when he returned from the mountain with the tablets of stone to find his people partying and praying to idols, didn't Noah smash one of the tablets to the ground in anger causing God to forbid him from seeing the promised land? Doesn't that also mean that originally there where more than the Ten Commandments which were on the remaining two unbroken stones?
I like MY response to Pea better ... he's just "playing" us both! If I'm gonna waste my time, its not going to be on this subject with a disbeliever ... I'll stoke the fire when he gets there, unless I'm there with him ... lol!