Simple question?

Now here's a way to test something at least.

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Quote: Evenbob

So just be everything god isn't. Ask
the 3 year old African kid who's
dying a painful death how good and
loving god has been to him lately.

What an emotionally torturous argument you are trying to make. What do you think the answer is? I believe that for this young kid and his parents, family, and friends who love him the only thing providing him any solace and comfort is that God is with him in his suffering and that he will live forever in the joy and peace of Heaven. In Africa he is probably going through this tragedy in a healthcare facility run by a religious group so the fact that he is getting care and can be as comfortable as possible is another thing to give God thanks for.

Quote: FrGamble

I believe that for this young kid and his parents, family, and friends who love him the only thing providing him any solace and comfort is that God is with him in his suffering and that he will live forever in the joy and peace of Heaven.

The way God works, you'd almost think he wasn't there at all.

Quote: FrGamble

the only thing providing him any solace and comfort is that God is with him

No, it's not god. It's a person providing solace
and comfort, a god has nothing to do with it.
You seem incapable of understanding that you
are the 'god' in a case like this. You can't take
responsibility for that, so you shift it to an
non existent force outside yourself. You invent
your god on a moment to moment basis, he
doesn't exist outside of you, he is you.

You probably do noble work, but it's you doing
it and not some force from the outside compelling
you.

Quote: rxwine

Some supportive passages for serpent as Satan

Yes that's interesting but the serpent in the garden was a physical creature that has descendants all over the earth to this day. (Except in Ireland).

Quote: pew

Yes that's interesting but the serpent in the garden was a physical creature that has descendants all over the earth to this day. (Except in Ireland).

Says who?

You can find plenty of Christian Bible interpreters who say otherwise. Don't pretend I am the only one.

God wouldn't inspire them with a different truth.

There always seems confusion among Christians about some aspects of the Bible. Not my problem.

Quote: rxwine

Says who?

You can find plenty of Christian Bible interpreters who say otherwise. Don't pretend I am the only one.

God wouldn't inspire them with a different truth.

Saint Patrick, that's who.

Quote: FrGamble

What happened to Nareed?

I think it was overcompensation ;)

Quote: rxwine

When Jesus appeared on Earth and got crucified you said it had the greatest single effect of anyone. Now you say a personal appearance is pointless?

It's puzzling that an omnipotent being can't manage to appear before more than handful of people, isn't it? You'd think the Jesus episode would have played not only in Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceanía, all at the same time.