Because why believe in a vengeful god? It'd be a very depressing idea.

Well, then what is your evidence for the existence of a god who is not vengeful and plain sadistic?

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I'm mean seriously if a god was willing to sacrifice his own son for the sake of a sinful creation of his surely there has to be some love and mercy in his heart.

Uh, it's kinda sounds like the way a mafia operates: we have to obey God (pay the mafia) to avoid eternal punishment (an "accident") that God Himself created for those who disobey Him (punishment from the mafia for not paying them off).

I mean, He created Hell, and He designed life in such a way that 99% of humanity goes to Hell. Does that sound nice to you?

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I don't believe God is powerless I just don't believe God really really isn't as angry and vengeful as y'all claim he is.

It's a nice belief indeed. Too bad there's no evidence to support it.

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I mean seriously if God created us and endowed us with freewill how can he be mad at his own creation for exercising the freewill he endowed us with?

I know, right?! Yet He created Hell just for the fun of punishing sinners for the entire eternity!

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I personally choose to believe in a loving God because of the fact Jesus died on the cross for the sake of saving us.

You know that He planted the tree of life and He created the talking serpent. Do you think He was so clueless that He didn't know what would be the outcome of that? He basically made a trap for the first humans to fall in, just so He can watch us suffer the consequences until the end of days.

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I don't believe God is powerless I merely like to think god much rather likes to sit back and watch how his own creation lives.

Like a scientist in a lab, watching over his rats? Yeah, I sometimes think that, too. He doesn't really care about people, He just enjoys watching us kill, rape, and oppress one another in His name.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

So God is a good, relaxed guy, who likes to sit back and chill. And then He goes genocidal once in a while.

No, lady, you are wrong.

If you consider that God is effectively Mother Earth, it makes sense. Nature over Man. These seemingly acts of "genocide" is just cleansing of Terra through Global Warming. We humans have yet to adapt a mode of living sustainability in respect to harmony with Mother Earth. Like eating too much fatty food, all that waste deposit builds up into a broil and the Earth can no longer stand human activity and so....things shake up. Humans die. But it's merely Earth wiping away the homo sapien pus to start afresh and maybe we'll do better next time.

If you consider that God is effectively Mother Earth, it makes sense. Nature over Man. These seemingly acts of "genocide" is just cleansing of Terra through Global Warming. We humans have yet to adapt a mode of living sustainability in respect to harmony with Mother Earth. Like eating too much fatty food, all that waste deposit builds up into a broil and the Earth can no longer stand human activity and so....things shake up. Humans die. But it's merely Earth wiping away the homo sapien pus to start afresh and maybe we'll do better next time.

Is that what the Catholics believe these days? Wow, you people are even more screwed up than I thought!

Well I think Catholics merely appropriated aspects of paganism to get people to become christians.

And, in your opinion, it is good to lure people into a religion/ideology/political movement under false pretenses?

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But hey we have some of the most wonderful works of art in our churches..

And God hates all of it. It's in the Ten Commandments, you know:
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:

And, in your opinion, it is good to lure people into a religion/ideology/political movement under false pretenses?

And God hates all of it. It's in the Ten Commandments, you know:
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:

True words. I find the following quite fitting as well.

Proverbs 6:16-19These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

And, in your opinion, it is good to lure people into a religion/ideology/political movement under false pretenses?

And God hates all of it. It's in the Ten Commandments, you know:
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:

Well let's see it was either that or be stamped out of the local village for not honoring long held traditions. When trying to convert to the goths and Vikings surely some concessions must be made.

XD then please remove your icon and banner up top. They contain graven images thus you're violationg you're own rules. Until you do that...your argument is invalid.

Well let's see it was either that or be stamped out of the local village for not honoring long held traditions. When trying to convert to the goths and Vikings surely some concessions must be made.

Following your logic, it's OK to:
... give a false impression that you're rich to make the person you love marry you.
... take the credit for someone's work in order to make a good impression on your boss.
... get a person drunk in order to have sex with them.
... give children sweets with drugs.
... tell Jews they are just going to the showers.

I call that cheating. And lying. God hates that:

Psalms 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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XD then please remove your icon and banner up top. They contain graven images thus you're violationg you're own rules. Until you do that...your argument is invalid.

You need everything spelled out, served on a silver platter and spoon-fed, huh?

I was reminding you of a verse. It's your responsibility to look up context of that verse:

Exodus 20:4-5
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

As you can see, the prohibition is in context of praying to images. We don't bow down before images on a computer screen (that would be weird). Catholics do.

Besides, you should not be worried about our salvation. First and foremost, you should be worried about yours.

Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Let this sink in:

Catholics break one of the Ten Commandments on a daily basis.

Do you really want to be part of a faith which notoriously breaks the Ten Commandments?!

I like the Word of God™ to talk for me:1st Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?1st Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?1st Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?.1st Corinthians 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.1st Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 1st Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
(Notice in particular 6:5 where Paul urges us to Judge fellow "brethren" rather than leaving it up to civil authorities.)

2nd Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2nd Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2nd Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 2nd Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2nd Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

1st John 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.1st John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.1st John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.1st John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

Well I think Catholics merely appropriated aspects of paganism to get people to become christians. But hey we have some of the most wonderful works of art in our churches..

Don't be silly. Catholics aren't Christian any more than Muslims are or Hindus. Simply holding a religious belief that incorporates one's imagination of God doesn't make one a Christian. By your logic, one can pretend that nature, humanity, and all the world represent an ideal godlike quality in a constant battle against unseen forces of corruption of good, and as long as they are considerate and compassionate and cooperate with my fellow man, they're good to go.

But this lacks the reality of the eternal punishment we know for a fact Jesus set up for mankind before He created them, back when his former dear friend Lucifer was worship leader in Heaven. When Lucifer made that fatal mistake of thinking he was also good to go based on his own terms, Jesus created Hell to show him once and for all who is in charge. Hell exists to unleash unspeakable horror physically, mentally, and emotionally forever and ever and ever to those Jesus does not choose to Save. That includes Catholics, for they offend Him with their every breath. He will laugh at them when they suffer and cry out, and we will be there sharing in the merrymaking!

Our God is an awesome God!

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Hello, my name is Mary. I hope to fellowship with you! That is, unless you don't listen to church authority (Deuteronomy 17:12); are a witch (Exodus 22:17); are a homosexual (Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:24-32); or fortuneteller (Leviticus 20:27) or a snotty kid who hits their dad (Exodus 21:15); or curses their parents (Proverbs 20:20; Leviticus 20:9); an adulterer (Leviticus 20:10); a non-Christian (Exodus 22:19; Deuteronomy 13:7-12; Deuteronomy 17:2-5;Romans 1:24-32); an atheist (2 Chronicles 15:12-13); or false prophet (Zechariah 13:3); from the town of one who worships another, false god (Deuteronomy 13:13-19); were a non-virgin bride (Deuteronomy 22:20-21); or blasphemer (Leviticus 24:10-16), as God calls for your execution and will no doubt send you to Hell, and I have no interest developing a friendship with the Spiritually Walking Dead.

Females are physically weaker, they are physically smaller, all their body parts but two are smaller. Because of this, they are less capable. However, just like with wild animals, (even dogs) over time instincts become a powerful force and give them terrific abilities. This is why females are natural cooks and excellent home makers and cleaners. They are also very good at rearing the young.

HAaha give me ur adress so that u can get beaten up by this female you old frail disgusting white piece of shit

HAaha give me ur adress so that u can get beaten up by this female you old frail disgusting white piece of shit

Now, I really don't want to do a faux pas here, so can you clear something up for me? Are onlookers to simply excuse your ageism and racism in the face of his sexism, or are we to applaud your doubling the ignorance stakes?

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell

Now with that all said, you should be beaten if only for your horrendous destruction of the True American™ language.

There is not a single living woman that has ever accused me of abuse. I do however, seem to attract a lot of clumsy women.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.