Why doesnt god just show himself?

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  1. 4Horsemen

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    Well how come do You put your faith in Gravity each day without fail. why is that?
     
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    This post illustrates either a intentional misrepresentation of being pro-choice or a comment born from ignorance about what being pro-choice actually is. If you're trying to make it into some kind of point about how pro-choice people must hate children, congratulation you are deflecting, and badly at that.

    Do you live a carbon neutral lifestyle? If not, it must mean you hate the Earth and don't give a crap about it, right?
     
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    That doesn't respond to my post, though, does it?
    It doesn't sound like you care very much about those kids. Nor your God.
     
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    Don't even go there on the "choice" thing. It's completely irrelevant and an admission that he can't explain why God in His omnipotence would allow such misery. He is showing himself to have been flummoxed.
     
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    Pro-Choice is just what the name implies. the CHOICE to let life continue. So Technically it has no distinction whether Pro-Choicers choose to end the life at birth or after some years of birth.

    Irrelevant post to the discussion.
     
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    I answered your question perfectly.

    GOD is a JUST GOD, as in Justice. Kids died during the Flood of Noah. You think those were all grown-ups??

    and to rationalize why the kids die is just stupid because GOD's ways are not our ways.

    but yet you won't question the Pro-Choicers when they hack up newborns while sucking them up in flesh vaccumms.
     
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    I highly doubt you're "following His path" by sitting at your computer day after day in the comfort of mom's basement, lashing out at the rest of the world on a forum. You need to take up your cross and get moving, or you'll be spit out for being luke warm!
     
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    It would help if Mr. Deity could at least deliver a sensible, consistent and somewhat substantiated message, rather than a rehash of older religious ideas combined with newer plagiarised ones, all wrapped up with numerous claims that run completely afoul of modern science.
     
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    So you can't justify a God that murders the innocent either. Saying it's just "God's ways" is good enough for you? You can't even come up with a plausible fictional justification, you just punt on the question. A cowardly response. Truly.
     
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    He did show Himself and He caught us all hating Him and preferring social approval.

    Funny how people spend so much energy trying to imagine what God is, and ascribing all sorts of attributes to, kinda like dressing a doll.

    Then when the God they profess to love so much, does what He wants to do, they condemn Him and crucify Him. He can't become a man ! they scream.
     
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    Larf. I agree that it's "funny how people spend so much energy trying to imagine what God is, and ascribing all sorts of attributes to [it]." Well, "funny" wouldn't be my first choice of descriptor, admittedly. "Sad" or "tragic" would be much more appropriate, in my opinion. It's all the more sad when people believe their imaginary god impregnated a young woman and was born a demigod to live among us and die at our hands, of course. This strange story only makes sense once you understand its solar origin, though they certainly did a fair job of tying it together with the animal sacrifices of the past.

    Speaking of which, how can any modern Christian accept that the Creator of the Universe not only selected a nation of people in truly bigoted fashion and told them to kill their neighbors (all the while giving them a "thou shalt not kill commandment!), but also had them mutilating their penises and sacrificing animals to It? Animal sacrifice is an ancient practice that was incorporated into early Judaism, clearly, just the way Catholicism incorporated other non-Catholic practices in Rome and other regions much later on.

    Wake up, people. Educate yourselves FFS!
     
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    What is it about human nature that causes people to believe in religious fairy tales concocted by ancient people?

    Consider the fact that no one alive today knows who really created the fairy tales. Very few people have a clue about the historical and cultural settings in which the fairy tales take place. Yet they swallow the tales that some goat herders or crazy people dreamed up and other people wrote down.

    Imagine if your next door neighbor or some street person told you his version of "God" and creation. Would you believe him? After all, he's standing right before you and you can question him directly. Other religious fairy tales claim that God, the devil, angels, and demons all spoke to people. So if you believe them why not your nexy door neighbor or some wild-eyed street person? Remember, Isaiah walked around naked for three years blabbing about God and he got a whole book with his name in the Bible.
     
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    Have you ever consider the fact that you could be wrong because you were not born in the beginning to know for sure that God does not exist?
     
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    So which God are you thinking about? There are thousands of them. Do you think that they are all real? Do you have a favorite? If any god does exist why is it afraid to show itself in all its splendor?
     
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    Which one has the most credibility and has outlasted the rest?
     
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    Buddha (but he's not a god).
     
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    So then, you have not answered my question.
     
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    Is it a fairy tale that you had 16 great great grandparents? Is it a myth that they created you? What will convince you that they existed? Do you feel the need to go dig up all their bones, to know WITH CERTAINTY that they existed? Or do you just put blind faith into the fact? Who created them? Who created you?

    If you go back far enough, and examine why you believe in the FACT of your 16 great great grandparents, without doubt, without hesitation, then you will begin to understand why TRUE CHRISTIANS do not hesitate when it comes to BELIEF IN GOD!!!!!!


    Is it also a "fairy tale" that your 16 great great grandparents had lives, just like yours, and that they may have done good deeds, or evil deeds?

    How do you know stories about them are true or not?


    Why would I doubt somebody who speaks truth? Do YOU speak truth? No, you're a liberal. You hate truth.


    GOD has spoken to people. We call them PROPHETS. Duh? How ignorant are you of history?


    So, what's youre point?
     
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    No "god" is credible. Modern people have their favorites because they have been brainwashed into believing in them.
     
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    GOD is credible. You will believe in HIM, NOW.
     
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    The Mormons have 12 prophets at this very minute.

    Juanita Bynum is a prophetess.
    Prophetess Juanita Bynum - Unfeigned Faith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdIxJQykn4

    Gospel singer and prophetess Juanita Bynum recently appeared on Atlanta radio station V-103 and revealed some of her past struggles in life. She also spoke of affairs she said she had with women.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...-women_n_1683529.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices

    Christina Glenn is a prophetess. She married Bynum's ex-husband.
    Prophetess Christina Glenn at a Sunday Morning Service in Michigan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuO6t99Uofg
     
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    If the God spoken about in the Bible is not credible then how was for example was Daniel able to foretell the rise and fall world ruling and influencing empires long before it even happened? In fact, Daniel's prophecies predicts how the end will come and that the Roman Empire is destined to rise again.......that's the only part of his prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled.
     
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    What's your point?
     
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    This is all true with one exception, America/Britain/Vatican ARE the revivied Roman Empire. You are living under it RIGHT NOW!

    We are indeed in the very Last Days make no mistake about it. This empire will be the last one to fall before the return of Yeshua the Christ, and it's on it's way down......down.....down...as we speak. :tombstone:


    HALLELUJAH!
     

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