(Note: I typed this as a response to the opening 9 chapters of Genesis. Don't bother to tell me it's underdeveloped, because I am quite aware of that fact.)
As I read over this portion of Scripture, I can't help but be astounded by the worth God ascribes to a people who, without such divine action, would have none. Even in the face of our refusal to be obedient and submit to his law, he still makes it abundantly clear that his affection for man is indeed great. It is, of course, of the utmost importance to remember that our worth is entirely derived from God and contain no value independent from the glory we are given as creatures made in his own image and for his pleasure. The progression of events detailed in this reading, including God's creation of humans for a personal relationship, patience with us through the fall, decision to spare Noah and his family and then the establishment of the covenant with Noah provide a wonderful illustration of how much God really loves and values his special creation in humans.
The implications for this knowledge are really endless, both within the Christian life and in the general culture that seems to thrive on despair and hopelessness. Such an understanding should motivate our personal convictions on a host of personal issues within our walk as believers, including the love we hold towards our fellow man, artistic integrity, exercise and nutrition, the budgeting of our time, leisure activities and the importance of being about the business of prayerful sanctification, among others. It also establishes strong precedent within the current ethical dilemmas of abortion, euthanasia, environmentalism, pornography and animal rights, again, to name only a few.
Any thoughts?
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God? And wich one is your god my felow ? The one vidictive person from the old testament, or the one that the Vatican made a son of God by theyr own meaning? You know what I was born and bred Othodox cristian and I usto have belive ,but not anymore .Whi the hell should I ? In the end of the day by the words of god we should find him if we pick up a stone or our thoughts ,not in some painted church with a gay priest that is amarried to another man ,nothing against gay people here !!! But the Church in it self its the bigest hipokrit in man kind's history from witch burning to completly disbeliving science and natural selection ,in the end of the day if god is one whi the hell we have all this different religions and believes about god ,where is GOD when litle children dye in poverty and starvation .Whi should human kind suffer for the son of god ,WE DID NOT ASK HIM TO COME AND SAVE US DID WE ? And the speculation with the whole Jesus thing going on at the moment and the facts and secrets that are deeply hiden in the Vatican vault we might just find are selfs that we have been liyed to for a few thousand yrs by corupted power mad priests,AMEN
Well, the above comment is a very poor attempted refutation of the Christian faith, or Theism in general.
1. Are YOU not a hypocrite?
2. Since we are all hypocrites at least at some point, would you then not fit into the church perfectly?
3. There are some bad doctors. There are some who give placebo treatments and act as if they are real. They are just about making money or being in control, regardless of the reasons, there are bad doctors.
4. After observing point 3, if you were in need of medical treatment or even just thought you were, would you not go to a doctor because some of them are bad?
5. The inconsistencies are obvious. You are judging the christian faith by a different standard than other people groups. Therefor you are engaging in the same hypocrisy you accuse christians of.
6. How is disbelieving natural selection hypocritical? If you disbelieve in God are YOU hypocritical?
7. I am seeing more and more that you are a lot like the church you claim to dislike.
8. Are always, or even EVER altruistic? Then how can you make a claim against God's character.
9. If you are not perfect, if impoverished children are not perfect, if anyone is not perfect, then how can you judge God's justice to be unfair?
10. You also fail in your comment to even understand the true christian faith. The idea is NOT that we asked Christ to save us, but that He did without us asking. We would not ask. That is the grace.
11. You would probably protest if I claimed that ALL muslims are as bad and worthless as Osama Bin Ladin. But then you claim that the Catholic tradition represents all Christian faith. Have you ever heard of the reformation?.
Let me know what you think. Maybe you can fill in some holes.
Point 8 should read, Are "you" ever.
1st I am glad you like my photos, M I a hipocrite ? Yes you are right we all are ,you know whi ? Simply becouse we are human and we are not perfect like god or he's father and we never will be in a million years . And the sad thing is, God's presence or spirit still will be there one way or another in somebody's belive .Does he exist ? To be truly honest i dont know ,all i know is if he did he must of had a big holliday arangement and kind of forgoten the human race ,I know exactly what you are goin to say here ''he came and went showed us the way left us he's spirit to believe in '' did he realy ? or some 400 yrs later somebody remebered that litle story about a guy named Jusus that got put on the cross and made all the jues angry and so offended that they simply delt with him like they did with a thief ,crusify him ! Then the Romans purely of not wanting any truble with the jues nailed him to the cross. the whole ordeal of the poor guy was terrible as you already know and have read about it .
2nd M i being pedantic with the numbers ? You start it :) anyway .Here it goes ,this is wot i have read about and some of it is apparently facts ! wich i dont say my self. Ok ,one day this young lad shal we say named Jesus had some crazy ideas for its time lets say he was a inovator had big plans ,wanted a new faith to be created new uderstanding of life. He claimed to be god's son ! Did he realy ? Or may be some few hundred yrs later some one else wanted that ,and they had a great idea .Its called the Bible as you already know ,I called it manual for manipulating people's minds ,this is my opinion dont get offended .
For examlpe ,Catholic faith is the most hipocritical i have ever come across ''Sin to be forgiven ?'' and keep doing it until the end of time ?
Please tell me Josh if god did exist and you had chance to meet him ,wot you first question is going to be ? Does God have all the answers ?
Do we have to believe in God ,or if we didnt are we going to hell ? How can I go somewere that i dont belive exist?
No i dont belive in afterlife or coming back as another person ,simply becouse i am standing on my two feet and look around me and all i see is simple people that hold or want to hold on to something so their life make some sence .Somthing big and shiny, some lead in their life and some have god ,some have money ,some have both and much more there is no end .With all the global warming and melting glaciers ,the way the planet is going in some few hundred years God him self might have to look for another place to preach the belive in him ,becouse the way things are going and they are not going to get better simply becouse its just a litle bit to late .Humans are the bigest threat to this planet and them selfs and belive me when things start going wrong wich has already started with big climate change and all the rest that comes with it ,even god is not going to help us.
I like this conversation keep it going.
Yanni, just because you don't believe something doesn't make it untrue. You may not believe in an afterlife, but any thinking person must allow for the possibility of being surprised == of dying and going to hell and realizing how wrong you were. It's just that then it will be too late.
In your mind, there is just no history for 400 years. However, there were four centuries of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, of building churches (many underground due to intense persecution) and establishing the Jews' messianic message beyond Israel's borders. The stories of Jesus were not made up by the Catholic church. They were handed down, orally, and written in many languages by hand, so that the truth would not be lost. Why? Because Jesus promised He would return, one day, to collect His own. If you are concerned about global warming and negative impact in the Earth, you might consider that, indeed, we are nearing the end of the world, as we know it. God WILL help us -- those who believe in Him. But when that time comes, if you are still here, and still unsaved, you will cry out for mercy...but you will be left behind to face whatever destruction is inevitable. I hope and pray that you will open your heart to the truth, so that you may enter into the joyful life.
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