yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
@flamegrilled
I like you - you seem to be lucid, which makes a pleasant change :-)
The point is far more simple than that. We can acknowledge that it is possible that a higher being has a reason for doing something that appears unloving from our standpoint - but only because we have incomplete information.
Most things are possible. That's why we invented probable.
250k drowned people for no reason = christian bible god probably doesn't exist.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
flamegrilled says =
For the rest you will have to read my comments, as I'd only repeat myself.
flamegrilled does =
I confess I haven't read every comment on this post.
If its not too much trouble can you let me know the page number of the post you want me to read.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
and that applies how to wiping out 250k humans?
speculate please on what might be the 'true facts' we can't comprehend from the Tsunami? or you can decline to speculate if you prefer.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
@flamegrilled
the fact remains that we CAN conceive of a circumstance whereby it seems irrational to reconcile the loving nature of a higher being from the viewpoint of a being that has more limited ability to assess the true facts .
please run that by me again with an example, assuming we both agree on the standard definition of a fact ie. that which can be demonstrably proven to be an accurate reflection of reality
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
The Bible = what God says
The Tsunami = what God does
any questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pukmuz4tljg .
@rip van winkle - take a nap :-)
pretty funny though - the streetsweeper dude is a pretty low reactor - he has seen some sh*t I guess..
this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.
i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.
seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .
"aposticated" - new word
this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.
i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.
seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .
I feel so sorry for that idiots children - it really ought to be a crime to coerce children in abusive religions
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Oh really, so you beleive in God now???????????????
this is just facile Kate - it makes debating with you tedious.
cofty lacks belief in any definition of god - to qualify all of his own comments with that would make for tiresome repetition.
in the uk, there was a popular t.v.
show called the only way is essex - a documentary type programme about that area which is close to london.
the programme's name got abbreviated to its initials - towie, and that is how it is now named.. since the org's uk branch is moving to essex, perhaps the uk version of the magazine will be renamed, the watchtowie..
towie is alright as long as you understand your own reasons for watching it...
