Is God mute?

CaptainObvious said:
I agree. I don't believe that I have ever claimed to be absolutely right on the subject of creation and/or some Higher Power. I readily admit I might well be completely wrong about what I currently believe. I take the position of being open minded to all ideas.
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I don't think you do ( take the position of being open minded to all ideas). You go to absurd ends to defend it.

"I don't believe that I have ever claimed to be absolutely right on the subject of creation and/or some Higher Power."

You can't even DEFINE "Higher Power", how can you RATIONALLY defend it :confused:
 
nitro said:
I don't get these guys that are constantly saying God says this and God says that. Is God mute? Maybe he can use sign language to have himself heard? Why doesn't God just come out and say these things instead of being heard through some lowly ape descendants? If were God I would be afraid of something being lost in translation.

"...If you listen to the likes of Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, the answer, regrettably, is "yes." Jindal, speaking from Iowa, responded to the high court ruling by noting that there is even a higher authority, God, who says that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman. Meanwhile, back home in Louisiana, Jindal's subordinates give the appearance of slow-walking implementation of the Supreme Court ruling. And, for good measure, before decamping to Iowa, Governor Jindal issued a "religious freedom" executive order of the Indiana/Arkansas ilk, even after the Republican Party-dominated Louisiana legislature wisely declined the governor's proposal to enact it as legislation...."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102806593

Oh, wait, they got that from a book written by a bunch of farmers 2000 years ago with barely the equivalent of a sixth grade education. Hmmm. EVEN if God says those things, what happened to separation of church and ,state?
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Correction: According to current guesswork, we are not ape decendants, but possibly descended from a common ancestor. My personal guess that that both the "descendant from ape faction, i.e., that faction perpetuated in the minds of the Christian church as an abomination, and the common ancestor faction are wrong. We think man's origins lie in the African continent. But that is likely because that is where we look. Where we look is determined by probability of finding something publishable. And environmental, and developmental, conditions there have been favorable to finding fossils. We have more or less ruled out multiple origins occurring more or less simultaneously. And that we can blame squarely on the Christian Bible nonsense. The highest probability is multiple origins, and there is very strong evidence in support. The DNA evidence will eventually straighten all this nonsense out.
 
stu said:
...kinda sums up bible religion to a tee. Jeremiah 50:21-22
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Not sure how Jeremiah's prophecy of Babylon's destruction plays into your thinking....but yes, God will not be mocked. Babylon was an instrument that God used to bring the israelites back into spiritual relationship with God, He did it then and will do it again in the future - however their sins would/could not be overlooked. God allowed Cyrus/Persians victory over the Babylonians.

A resurrected Babylon led by the Anti-christ will once again be used by God to bring the nation of Israel back, as foretold by several of the OT prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel et al. & Revelations.

And just like then God will judge sin.
 
Wallet said:
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Not sure how Jeremiah's prophecy of Babylon's destruction plays into your thinking....but yes, God will not be mocked. Babylon was an instrument that God used to bring the israelites back into spiritual relationship with God, He did it then and will do it again in the future - however their sins would/could not be overlooked. God allowed Cyrus/Persians victory over the Babylonians.

A resurrected Babylon led by the Anti-christ will once again be used by God to bring the nation of Israel back, as foretold by several of the OT prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel et al. & Revelations.

And just like then God will judge sin.
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If we don't want to be judged as blithering idiots, we should begin with the knowledge that all religions are wrong in fundamental ways; yet not precluding some usefulness. Religion, in fact, can be extremely useful. One might go as far as to say, "indispensable," if one makes one's living from manufacturing arms.
 
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piezoe said:
If we don't want to be judged as blithering idiots, we should begin with the knowledge that all religions are wrong in fundamental ways; yet not precluding some usefulness.
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what usefulness? what confident wisdom without scrutiny? is the prolix of schizophrenia a useful source too?
 
I think I gave you a perfectly good example of usefulness. It would never have occurred to me to use the rarely used adjective 'prolix' in conjunction with schizophrenia. Nevertheless, I agree it belongs there. Perhaps it belongs with religious tracts also. On second thought, I'm quite sure it does.
 
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