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Whether you're a believer or not. Just one.
Mine: What made you God?
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 11:08:18 AM » |
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My question to God: What is to be done with the injustice and their injustice?
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 11:14:26 AM » |
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Why did I not find You sooner?
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 11:22:30 AM » |
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Where do you want me to go as far as faith, career and marriage are concerned?
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2010, 11:52:52 AM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
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"Our mind is pure and simple, so that when it is stripped of every alien thought, it enters the pure, simple, Divine light and becomes quite encompassed and hidden therein, and can no more meet there anything but the light in which it is." -- St Simeon the New Theologian
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 12:09:02 PM » |
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Why so serious?
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2010, 12:14:35 PM » |
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Why so serious?
I'm just being honest. If I have only one question to ask God, I'm going to ask the Big One (for me, at least). |
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"Our mind is pure and simple, so that when it is stripped of every alien thought, it enters the pure, simple, Divine light and becomes quite encompassed and hidden therein, and can no more meet there anything but the light in which it is." -- St Simeon the New Theologian
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 12:18:16 PM » |
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Why so serious?
I'm just being honest. If I have only one question to ask God, I'm going to ask the Big One (for me, at least). Sorry, that was actually m y question to God.    |
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2010, 12:24:12 PM » |
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Why so serious?
I'm just being honest. If I have only one question to ask God, I'm going to ask the Big One (for me, at least). Sorry, that was actually m y question to God. |
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"Our mind is pure and simple, so that when it is stripped of every alien thought, it enters the pure, simple, Divine light and becomes quite encompassed and hidden therein, and can no more meet there anything but the light in which it is." -- St Simeon the New Theologian
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2010, 01:53:38 PM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
I don't think that you would need to ask that question as St. Paul has already given us the answer in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 12: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." |
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2010, 02:45:54 PM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
I don't think that you would need to ask that question as St. Paul has already given us the answer in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 12: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Which, as beautiful as St. Paul's passage is, is kind of saying: "We humans don't know yet. But one day we will." It doesn't solve the Problem of Evil, in my opinion, but promises that it will all make sense in the end. I'd still ask.  |
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"Our mind is pure and simple, so that when it is stripped of every alien thought, it enters the pure, simple, Divine light and becomes quite encompassed and hidden therein, and can no more meet there anything but the light in which it is." -- St Simeon the New Theologian
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2010, 03:19:19 PM » |
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Will you have mercy on me and grant me to partake of your glory?
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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2010, 03:19:44 PM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
I don't think that you would need to ask that question as St. Paul has already given us the answer in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 12: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Which, as beautiful as St. Paul's passage is, is kind of saying: "We humans don't know yet. But one day we will." It doesn't solve the Problem of Evil, in my opinion, but promises that it will all make sense in the end. I'd still ask. The problem of evil is the fallout of a particular development in Western thought (here use I Western broadly, including the stark Platonism of the East). There really is "no problem". There are some beautiful answers to the question which are a paragraph long not thousands as in Leibniz. |
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We cannot legislate morality by passing laws controlling firearms. The only evil we can combat lies within our hearts. We need stronger laws to protect the moral foundation of society against the evil of gay marriage. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2010, 03:24:02 PM » |
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To God: What question should I ask you? Rhetorically: Who would better know the answer?
Really, this is an absurd topic.
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We cannot legislate morality by passing laws controlling firearms. The only evil we can combat lies within our hearts. We need stronger laws to protect the moral foundation of society against the evil of gay marriage. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2010, 04:35:41 PM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
Ditto for me as well! With an additional question; you exist, so why all the subterfuge to make it look like you don't? If I had to ask a fun one it would be, of course, "the platypus? what were you thinking?!"  |
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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2010, 07:48:01 PM » |
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P = NP?
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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.
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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2010, 07:54:40 PM » |
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What's the Lotto numbers?
(everything else has been answered)
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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.
A hasty quarrel kindles fire,
and urgent strife sheds blood.
If you blow on a spark, it will glow;
if you spit on it, it will be put out;
and both come out of your mouth
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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2010, 07:57:09 PM » |
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With an additional question; you exist, so why all the subterfuge to make it look like you don't?
Reminds me of that episode of Futurama: God: "Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket." Bender: "Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money!" God: "Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." |
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« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2010, 10:30:41 PM » |
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How can "F" and "Ph" have the same sound?
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Why didn't You turn Hitler into a pile of goo or at least open up the key to the lightning cabinet?
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What would You have me do?
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"For I am With thee, withersoever thou goest"
Joshua 1:9
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« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2010, 11:49:18 PM » |
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Did you find some sort of humor in letting me wander for 44 years?
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How many licks does it take to get tot he center of a Tootsie Pop??
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I have known about you all my life but I never got to know you.
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« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2010, 11:54:43 PM » |
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Why did You make gluttony a sin? Couldn't you have made it virtue?
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If people cry at weddings...why don't they laugh at funerals?
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« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2010, 11:56:11 PM » |
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Why?
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"The only-begotten Son of God, wanting us to be partakers of his divinity, assumed our human nature so that, having become man, he might make men gods." - St. Thomas Aquinas
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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2010, 12:22:59 AM » |
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Why not?
I guess G-d would answer my question with a question....
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If people cry at weddings...why don't they laugh at funerals?
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« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2010, 12:47:55 AM » |
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Got any threes?
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« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2010, 01:43:36 AM » |
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"May I go home with you?" |
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"Sometimes, you just gotta say, 'OK, I still have nine live, two-headed animals' and move on.'' (owner of Coney Island freak show, upon learning he'd been outbid on a 5-legged puppy)
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« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2010, 01:54:51 AM » |
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Just how wrong am I?
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Blessed Nazarius practiced the ascetic life. His clothes were tattered. He wore his shoes without removing them for six years. Headscarves cover a multitude of sins.
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« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2010, 04:59:05 AM » |
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If I had to ask a fun one it would be, of course, "the platypus? what were you thinking?!" Nah. Cockroaches. He must have been having a VERY bad day. Why did You make gluttony a sin? Couldn't you have made it virtue?
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« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2010, 12:39:39 PM » |
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If I had to ask a fun one it would be, of course, "the platypus? what were you thinking?!" Nah. Cockroaches. He must have been having a VERY bad day. :laugh LOL! Or as Ann Druyan once said, "God must be VERY interested in cockroaches!" (considering there are like 600 different species) Or is 6000? Either way he must really like bugs, yet told the Hebrews not to eat them. Wait, maybe that shows just how much He likes them?  |
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« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2010, 05:19:37 PM » |
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Lord, will You remember me in your kingdom?
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It is an education process for me as I learn about the psychology of spiritual apostasy. And others get the benefit of perhaps hearing righteousness for the first time.
Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.
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« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2010, 06:36:24 PM » |
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If I had to ask a fun one it would be, of course, "the platypus? what were you thinking?!" Nah. Cockroaches. He must have been having a VERY bad day. :laugh LOL! Or as Ann Druyan once said, "God must be VERY interested in cockroaches!" (considering there are like 600 different species) Or is 6000? Either way he must really like bugs, yet told the Hebrews not to eat them. Wait, maybe that shows just how much He likes them? Precisely. |
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« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2010, 07:08:22 PM » |
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To all those who would ask God about suffering in the world. The Lord Almighty can ask you the same question. Why do you allow suffering in the world?  My question would be: Why did you have mercy on a sinful worthless person like me? |
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« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2010, 11:49:25 PM » |
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http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/I'd even be willing to split the prize money with him.
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« Reply #33 on: December 24, 2010, 07:28:41 AM » |
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"Lord who made the lion and the lamb,
You decreed I should be what I am--
Would it spoil some vast, eternal plan,
If I were a wealthy man? "
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If people cry at weddings...why don't they laugh at funerals?
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« Reply #34 on: December 24, 2010, 02:26:43 PM » |
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You can have the prize money, I'd shoot for something a little higher, I want to at least be able to solve the halting problem, but since I get to ask any question, we might as well go even further: How do I build an oracle machine that is in a complexity class no greater than O(log log n) that will solve, in a finite number of sets, any computation problem classifiable within the Kleene hierarchy or within any infinite expansion of any degree of the Kleene hierarchy. If he were truly 'God' he should be able to answer that question... |
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"The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -- Patrick Henry
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Let There Be Light
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« Reply #35 on: December 24, 2010, 11:20:59 PM » |
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Why won't you leave me alone ?
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\"Why were so many Civil War battles fought in National Parks? \"
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« Reply #36 on: December 25, 2010, 12:26:49 AM » |
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Will everything ultimately by OK?
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What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
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And we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?!
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« Reply #37 on: December 25, 2010, 01:28:25 AM » |
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For me I'm nervous and scared to even confront our Creator. I don't even know how I would react.
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #38 on: April 01, 2011, 01:08:30 AM » |
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Dear God, Where'd ya hide all the evidence for your existence? Sincerely yours (am I yours?) Justin  |
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« Reply #39 on: April 01, 2011, 01:18:33 AM » |
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« Reply #40 on: April 01, 2011, 01:19:58 AM » |
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Dear God, Where'd ya hide all the evidence for your existence? Sincerely yours (am I yours?) Justin  |
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« Reply #42 on: April 01, 2011, 09:35:30 AM » |
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Not that my wretched soul deserves your salvation for which I seek your mercy, but out of curiosity, is it possible to save even the demons Lord?
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Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
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« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2011, 09:40:12 AM » |
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Not that my wretched soul deserves your salvation for which I seek your mercy, but out of curiosity, is it possible to save even the demons Lord?
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Not that my wretched soul deserves your salvation for which I seek your mercy, but out of curiosity, is it possible to save even the demons Lord?
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Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
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« Reply #46 on: April 01, 2011, 12:06:03 PM » |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
I don't think that you would need to ask that question as St. Paul has already given us the answer in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 12: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Great reply! But, as you can see, the Devil's influence is still strong; even among us Christians. Lord, have mercy! |
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How can you allow all of the suffering on this planet to go on without intervening (ie a child dying of starvation every five seconds, plagues, natural disasters, AIDS, child pornography, human exploitation and slavery, malaria, diabetes, etc etc etc)?
Ditto for me as well! With an additional question; you exist, so why all the subterfuge to make it look like you don't? That's easy, he humbled Himself so that we could be free and choose His love freely. |
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #49 on: April 04, 2011, 05:12:32 AM » |
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I would like to change my question. My new one is: Dear God, why did you create a serpent that talks? Didn't you know what would happen? |
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