God the Almighty an underachiever? Is that like the commercial wanting money for children to help them become what God intended them to be? Is god really that inept? And I should worship this?
...not often imitated and never equaled: Jonathan Edwards. read it and weep.
...i wonder who's wining the ball game? but yeah, he was even in church that night. he just couldn't figure out that his sins needed forgiving and that he was heading for the Toaster soon.Of course we are wrong, y'all know 'the truth'.
The teleological argument goes back to the Greeks and Romans, but in modern times, Paley's Watchmaker fails in its very hypothesis. In asserting a watch needs a designer, and using humans as evidence of this, the argument leaves open an infinite number of designers necessary to satisfy it logically.
Not just that but their premises are illogical and unreasonable and unprovable. I happen to believe in Pantheism. Whether someone else does or not is not important to me and doesn't give me or lose me any influence of power. Many people who post on religion have not studied the bible and since you went to Catholic school also you are far more knowledgeable about Christianity than most all people here.
My parents were divorced, a big no no back in the day and yet later on due to a 'special' dispensation from Rome, she was able to become a nun. Amazing how sins can be forgiven in different ways. My brother was an altar boy, he too believes none of what we were 'taught' about god.
I also was an altar boy and carried inside up and down the aisle. It seemed like the smell of death and one of things with Christianity is they think this life is a dress rehearsal. Like we are all puppets on a stage trying to curry favor with some maniacal creature we can't see but the game is to believe the story because if we don't, we are tortured for eternity by that "loving" God. Why? Well, because that's how some people interpreted some writing 330 years after Jesus was hung for sedition. We are not to question that dogma and are to believe regular humans knew precisely what books were to go in and what were not. The New Testament nowhere says that that it was inspired by any God. Most all of it was fabricated by Paul anyway. He was an angry ugly individual who saw a way to gain fame and acclaim by saying ME TOO! except that his teachings are just the opposite of what Jesus actually said.
Except Jesus expounded on the sinner seeking forgiveness while Paul expounded on the Christian congregation itself...
My post was about the faker Paul. He invented what is known as Christianity. Jesus never said the LAW died on the cross. He was a Jewish Rabbi and said the OLD TESTAMENT laws were still in place. You know this. You are a bible expert.
“Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I came, not to destroy, but to fulfill.+" Matthew 5:17
Let’s be fair to the other view of Jesus: despite his “fulfilling,” he did contradict some Old Testament laws and customs.
And fulfill simply means to follow them or DO them, obey them. Now, then....for all those who dispute what I say, tell me if he said In Matthew 5:18, “For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”
Jesus was engaging in hyperbole now? When you don't like the truth, you just engage in tortured apologetics.
Jesus used them quite often in his teaching...
So, he was just kidding. Got it. Thanks.
Hyperbole is a figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration. Hyperbole is often a boldly overstated or exaggerated claim or statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true.
Tell me something I don't know. You already did when you said Jesus joked around and was just using "hyperbole when he talked about heaven and earth passing away", etc. This is rich fodder for how the minds of believers rationalize the irrational
Hyperbole is not a joke, it is used for emphasis...
