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Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 10:31pm On Oct 16, 2021 |
hupernikao:Only an idiot, or a profoundly dishonest mind, would regard that premise as true. Mr. Hupernikao you are either one or the other. Further, that sentiment is one of the most vile, corrosive sentiments ever concocted by religious zealots, that can only have emerged from minds that regard themselves with a deep and deadly disdain. hupernikao:That seems odd to me because I've done perfectly fine and prospered without the help of God ever since I came out as an atheist in 2006 1 Like |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 10:34pm On Oct 16, 2021 |
LordReed:The Christian god probably sits around the house and paints his nails. 3 Likes |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by LordReed(m): 10:45pm On Oct 16, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: Bwahahahahaha! No wonder he loves bisexual porn. LMFAO! |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by hupernikao: 11:01pm On Oct 16, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: You speak on what you don't have knowledge of, in such class, you are to sit and listen and learn. Trying to prove points in such room, will seriously expose your ignorance. You are speaking about the scripture, I gave you an absolute summary of what the scriptures taught, yet because you want to drive a false point, you are working on making a point without having point. I put it to you again. That you have been exposed to false teaching of the scriptures. All your premise of argument against the scriptures were never in the first place addressing what the scriptures taught. You are only been derailed by false information you are fed with and that's seems to be what you built your whole knowledge foundation on. You will need to start getting a proper explanation of what the scripture taught, so that your argument will truly attack the rudiments of the faith. Currently your argument put you in the same space as those who exposed you or preached to you the false doctrine that form your experiences against the scriptures in life. It's more like throwing stones to hit the moon. Tamaratonye1: Secondly, a patient reader and listener will end up becoming an intelligent teacher. Go and read what I wrote again. Or let me help you again. See it below. He (man) needs help, beyond his riches, technology, advancement and exploit. He will never find satisfaction in it. So your statement never negate what I wrote, infact it actually affirmed it. That man, by himself can achieve much without needing God. All you listed as achievement doesn't need God to have. They are within man's capability and knowledge. And if you are truly taught the scriptures well, you will know that isn't the focus of the scripture. The scriptures is not meant to solve what man can solve. But to solve what man seek to solve but never find answers. That is the help the Bible taught. So, in all your satisfaction in life, they are in line, no issues. God's satisfaction is not in riches and human achievement and man's problem is not in riches and achievement. When you know the singular, primary, and most fundamental problem of man, that which makes man incapable, is that which dissolves all his intelligence and skills in its brooding waves. Then you will know man's help is not within him but in the graciousness of one who has helped man with a open hand to receive. So get this again about the scriptures teaching. That is, a helpless man, found help in the graciousness of a gracious God. That helplessness is universal. And can't be solved with gold, riches, technology or achievement. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by LordReed(m): 1:12am On Oct 17, 2021 |
hupernikao: In what way have you been satisfied? |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Dtruthspeaker: 4:41am On Oct 17, 2021 |
MrBrownJay1: Okay let me add the "in order to enter into this convenant" portion. Is there any profitable engagement which does not have its own Laws WHICH YOU HAVE TO AGREE TO OBEY BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE A CONTRACT (COVENANT) WITH THEM? eg Employment in Offices, Application to Enter into Schools, Application to be a Member of Profession and Industry, Tenancies, Joint Ventures etc. Even the living in your own home, community and country requires you to agree to OBEY THE LAWS THERE as you have confessed "...i' always obey my parents, i always obey the laws of any country i live in......i' always obey my parents, i always obey the laws of any country i live in..." So there is nothing unusual or irregular or out of place about "the minute you have laws to OBEY in order to enter into this convenant" MrBrownJay1: I am just identifying the issue I just wanted to comment on for clarity. MrBrownJay1: Like different companies and countries, different Laws are there but beyond talk NO ONE IS COMPELLING YOU that you must work in a certain company or live in a certain country. IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO MAKE. So is it here. No one here called "MBJ, you must join the Company of God O". MrBrownJay1: As I said earlier, you have made a valid pronouncement, which painfully for you, is what the Bible is saying "He who has done no wrong has no fear for punishment" in your words "if you need the threat of Punishment ("eternal torture", YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON." So if you live by your words the you do not need to bother yourself about pipe dreams and all. MrBrownJay1: It is not right to deviate off topic. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Dtruthspeaker: 5:03am On Oct 17, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: Yet you bothered yourself about the 10,000 people whose prayers are not granted. "...why should your prayer elicit a useful effect when 10,000 people elsewhere with identical belief in the identical god praying in exactly the same fashion get no effect?" People who have Good Things eg jobs, Houses, etc Carry On with their lives and never bother themselves with those who do not have it. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Dtruthspeaker: 5:07am On Oct 17, 2021 |
hupernikao: She is not here to talk to Lovers of God She is only to Fulfill the Word of God and blaspheme Him and to harvest the simple ordinary folks who do not know what is going on. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 5:29am On Oct 17, 2021 |
hupernikao:It is true that "god helps those who help themselves" is not in the Bible. I knew that much already. The aphorism is actually of ancient Greek origin, and may originally have been proverbial. It is illustrated by two of Aesop's Fables and a similar sentiment is found in ancient Greek drama. In his Philoctetes, Sophocles (409 BCE) wrote, "No good e'er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act". But that wasn't the point of bringing it up. Many Christians regularly use and repeat it. Doubtless not the ones as enlightened about the scriptures as you fancy yourself, lol. But it's out there just the same. So your defense is true to an extent, but nonetheless splitting hairs. hupernikao:Well, that certainly answers the question of idiocy vs dishonesty. In spades. LOL You are blind and stumbling in a single corridor of a labyrinth whose walls and floor you've worn to absolute familiarity, and so believe you have all the answers, totally uncomprehending you're trapped in a labyrinth, or even what a labyrinth is. You are more to be pitied than mocked, but your vitriol invites only mockery. hupernikao:You are scripture driven from the position of belief. It has never occurred to you to examine historical context, prose, accuracy, or translation. You accept it all at face value with no doubts whatsoever. That's why you're a Christian; you have been conditioned to accept it all as truth and never question anything. And that's why you will never understand how other non Christians view your belief system. You are incapable of understanding it because you don't want to hear it in the first place. hupernikao:Your entire argument is a variation on the teaching of the "utter depravity" of man. Its purpose is to create the demand for assistance that is not needed. If you buy that you are "helpless" then you will require the "help" offered to you by the belief-system - or at least you will be convinced that you cannot function without it. There are certainly people who expect to "find satisfaction" in wealth, toys, status and acclaim, but the false dichotomy is that those things are 100% of what is available to people to make meaning and find purpose for themselves, apart from what it's claimed that god or his church offers. In reality, though, empathy, kindness, humility, and contentment are not beyond our ken. They are just not, for the most part, for most people, most of the time, automatic and have to be developed. Conversely, sociopathy, cruelty, arrogance and acquisitiveness are entirely within the grasp of theists as well - even devout and observant theists. The fallacy you're advancing is that morality, ethics, and "right living" if you will, begin and end with the teachings of the scriptures, when in fact they're all in the public domain at the expense of just ordinary self-reflection and patience. hupernikao:Oh look. He's preaching at me. Isn't that special. Hupernikao thinks he can tell me what the gods take satisfaction in. That despite the fact that St. Paul told him Romans 11:33, "Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!" But hupernikao is special. He knows the mind of God. hupernikao:If your god is as fictional as I believe it to be, it is powerless to help anyone. Therefore, I believe that you are grossly overstating the alleged helplessness of humanity - so much so that you are libelling the people past and present who have facilitated the life that you live here on Earth in 2021. Whatever though, you do you. No probs. Just so long as you don't claim a monopoly on the Great Virtues. 4 Likes |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by MrBrownJay1(m): 4:34pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: none of the above laws are a requisite to enter an invisible after life world ruled by an invisible god.... Like different companies and countries, different Laws are there but beyond talk NO ONE IS COMPELLING YOU that you must work in a certain company or live in a certain country. IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO MAKE. of course, and if/when i follow the laws of this job, i will get a concrete salary, with concrete benefits etc...i certainly wouldnt get a pipe dream that NOBODY CAN CONFIRM! why should enter a convenant that has NEVER been proven? a job i get an outcome from following its laws, same as any other laws outcome. your religious laws outcome are the only ones that are made out of thin air and that can NEVER be verified nor proven! As I said earlier, you have made a valid pronouncement, which painfully for you, is what the Bible is saying "He who has done no wrong has no fear for punishment" in your words "if you need the threat of Punishment ("eternal torture", YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON." again, stick to the thread at hand, as you are the one who quoted me after i simply wrote my initial reply to the OP (which had nothing to do with laws). now you are trying to flip the script while you are the one who shouldnt have bothered with my reply and lived your own life. It is not right to deviate off topic. i am sorry, all the above laws you are talking about are to enter an imaginary heaven ruled by an imaginary god....shouldnt we therefore FIRST check the validity of all this imaginary stuff?!?!? |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by hupernikao: 4:43pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: All these you wrote hasn't address the point that. 1. You tried to put on God what he never said in his word. 2. That man's help is not in riches that you have nor is it in man's achievement. You said much but leaving much out of context. That your text in your OP had been considered historically, scripturally, doctrinally and logically to be false on God. You only want to make an accusation but you got it wrong. Your decision on the scriptures shouldn't be based on what is generally said or accepted around but what the scriptures taught. That is the correction you should receive. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by kingxsamz(m): 4:46pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Lol, they say faith without work is useless. If faith needs work, then faith is useless on its own. You only need work to get results. 1 Like |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:41pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
MrBrownJay1: I know you got my point that every engagement has its peculiar Laws you must comply with before you enter in and I did not say that those were the laws to enter there in. But you just wanted to be evasive and feign Non-understanding. MrBrownJay1: I clearly said NO ONE IS COMPELLING YOU to accept it, so you can go to your other choice engagements. MrBrownJay1: You are not verifying the validity of the A Chance to Obtain God-Jssued Pardon and Amnesty for you have already concluded for yourself that This Engagement is Unprofitable to you as is your right which we all respect. So you do not have any business with us and you can continue in your own way, |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by MrBrownJay1(m): 10:08pm On Oct 17, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: i was minding my own business, and you are the one who jumped on the bandwagon to try to brainwash me with your religious mambo jambo, not knowing that i probably know the bible better than you do. so again, you have your beliefs and i have mine, no need to try to convince me that what i was saying is wrong, as i fully believe that: some of you people have no aim in life, you have no will power and need to be brainwashed and led like sheep, in order to find a purpose in life.... thats where these fraudsters in robe come into play. EOD |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 6:17am On Oct 18, 2021 |
hupernikao:Just in case it missed you, but I know it didn't because I now recognize your modus operandi, which is to hand wave apparent facts away anytime you get cornered in an argument; I've already addressed your arguments on "man's help" in this thread so it's intellectually lazy and quite insulting to come back and claim your stance is still valid without any reasonable justification. Although its not surprising, given that you did this in a previous thread of mine not long ago, claiming "gaps" in my reasoning but failing to prove these gaps despite being requested to do so. Why you always think you can bamboozle me with these cheap tricks is beyond me. And please stop patronizing me in your posts, it makes me want to throw up. Also, I never attributed anything directly to the Bible. If you're not being dishonest, I invite you to take any line from my topic to prove this. In my original post, I was specifically referring to the things Christians generally teach and advocate, not the Bible. This is precisely why I noted it as a cognitive dissonance in Christianity. Whether such teachings are found in scripture is a completely new debate you fabricated to sidestep the major point of my discussion. Now you claimed that "...decision on the scriptures shouldn't be based on what is generally said or accepted around but what the scriptures taught.". But isn't this problematic when the scriptures you speak of are, by design, vague enough that there isn't wide agreement on many important aspects of what they supposedly mean? That is why you have people drawing completely different conclusions from the same book. Arminianism vs Calvinism is a good case in point. The role of grace vs works, of god's judgment vs his mercy and love, and other nuances of emphasis. Major differences in practical application ranging from people you couldn't tell from the general population to people wearing clothing from the 19th century. There was a group called the Shakers in the mid 19th century that were entirely celibate, not just the clergy. Predictably they aren't around anymore. The list is basically endless. And then we have people like you who are claiming to have carefully studied it and accomplished what theologians for millennia have failed at: figuring out the correct interpretation. The scriptures are sufficiently daft that they made the decision for me. I was a de facto atheist by age seven. You keep saying things like "God's satisfaction," "God's word," etc., as if the existence of your divine buddy were a fait accompli. Nope, not around here it isn't. You seem to forget not everyone on this site is a Christian. Your interpretation of these archaic books is just one among many, and you have not given me any reason to take you seriously. So get down off your high horse instead of pretending that you have any qualifications to teach me. All holy books are vague templates upon which the current generation can project whatever they want, to validate what they need to in the moment. There are dozens of major and conflicting traditions of Christianity alone, and technically tens of thousands of denominations. And that doesn't even include the free-formers who decide for themselves what they want it to mean. Well, no thanks. Not any more. I've left that behind decades ago, and don't miss it at all. These are clear truths that you can't and won't ever respond to. You are a nothing but a phony and a liar of the highest order. And it's a shame, because you appeared to be capable of sensible debate. This isn't the first time we've crossed paths on this site, and you seem to be plunging deeper and deeper into the abyss of dishonesty with each meeting. LOL. Continue to deceive yourself. Your god has always been the father of lies, so I'm sure he'll be much pleased with you. 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by GodHead85: 7:18am On Oct 18, 2021 |
hupernikao:Not sure which Bible you're reading ... ......and I sure hope you have nothing to do with teaching it. John 6:44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day." The gods are in charge in your cult...... Jesus said so. 1 Like |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by oaroloye(m): 12:25pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
MISHIGAS! orisa37: IT IS THE HEIGHT OF FOOLISHNESS TO EXAGGERATE THE ATTRIBUTES OF YAHWEH GOD: HE HAS NEVER CLAIMED TO POSSESS ATTRIBUTES OF OMNIPOTENCE, OMNISCIENCE, NOR OMNIPRESENCE. The first four chapters of THE BOOK OF GENESIS categorically rule out such a Doctrine. God took finite Time to create the Earth in stages. An OMNIPOTENT BEING would have created everything in an instant- or at least one day. He had to cross-examine Adam to discover the facts of The Fall of Man. An OMNISCIENT BEING tells you what happened, and needs to ask nothing. An OMNIPRESENT BEING cannot DEPART and RETURN, nor express ignorance about what happened in His ABSENCE. God was unable to repair the damage caused by The Fall of Man. None of those spurious Attributes was on hand to save FAVOURED ABEL. GOD was not OMNISCIENT to predict his murder by Cain, nor perceive it happening. GOD was not OMNIPRESENT to be there to know what happened. GOD was not OMNIPOTENT to prevent nor reverse the killing. ATHEISTS AND RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES, CRITICIZING OR EXAGGERATINGTHE BIBLE, KNOW ALL THESE FACTS- YET PRETEND NOT YO KNOW THEM, IN ORDER TO DISTORT THE CONCEPT OF GOD. Why am I the only one talking about this? THERE ARE EIGHT LEVELS OF EXISTENCE: SEVEN HEAVENLY, AND THE EARTHLY. These levels differ in Spiritual Energy, Wisdom and Understanding. . JOB 28:28. 28. "And unto Man He Said, 'BEHOLD, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM; AND TO DEPART FROM EVIL, IS UNDERSTANDING.' " . JOB 39:13-18. 13. "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 14. "Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15. "And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. 16. "She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear; 17. "Because God hath deprived her of Wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her Understanding. 18." What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." . PSALM 111:10. 10. The Fear of The LORD is The Beginning of Wisdom: a Good Understanding have all they that do His Commandments: His Praise endureth for ever. . PROVERBS 1:7. 7. The Fear of The LORD is The Beginning of Knowledge: but Fools despise Wisdom and Instruction. . PROVERBS 9:10. 10. The Fear of The LORD is The Beginning of Wisdom: and The Knowledge of The Holy is Understanding. . ISAIAH 55:6-11. 6. Seek ye The LORD, while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near. 7. Let the Wicked forsake his Way, and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts: and let him return unto The LORD, and He will have Mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 8. "FOR MY THOUGHTS (ARE) NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS," saith The LORD. 9. "FOR (AS) THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.' 10. "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from Heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the Sower, and bread to the Eater: 11. "So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My Mouth: It shall not return unto Me void, but It shall accomplish that which I please, and It shall prosper (in the thing) whereto I sent It." . 2nd CHRONICLES 16:9. 9. "For The Eyes of The LORD run to and fro throughout the whole Earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.” . AMOS 3:3. 3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" . ZECHARIAH 4:10. 10. For who hath despised The Day of Small Things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are The Eyes of The LORD, Which run to and fro through the whole Earth. EARTHLY SPIRIT BEINGS OPERATE BY EARTHLY LAW: HEAVENLY SPIRITS OPERATE BY HEAVENLY LAW- HUMANS CAN CHOOSE TO LIVE BY EARTHLY LAW OR HEAVENLY LAW. Therefore, Sinners can be compared to the Animals- but there are Animals in Heaven, too. Some of them have come to Earth, and manifested as SuperHuman Beings. Humans Ascending into Heaven must devolve into Beasts, if they want to Translate beyond the THIRD HEAVEN. [See: THE FIRE FROM WITHIN, by Carlos Castaneda (1985).] orisa37: GOD IS NOT IN ALL HUMANS: THAT IS WHAT MAKES STUPIDITY, SIN, AND DEATH POSSIBLE. . DEUTERONOMY 30:19-20. 19. I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you Life and Death, Blessing and Cursing: therefore CHOOSE LIFE, That both thou and thy seed may live: 20. That thou mayest love The LORD thy God, And that thou mayest obey His Voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy Life, and the Length of thy days: That thou mayest dwell in the land which The LORD Sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. . JOHN 12:42-50. 42. Nevertheless among the chief Rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the Synagogue: 43. For they loved the praise of men more than The Praise of God. 44. Jesus Cried and Said, “He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on Him that sent me. 45. “And he that seeth me seeth Him that sent me. 46. “I am come a Light into the World, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in Darkness. 47. “And if any man hear my Words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the World, but to save the World. 48. “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my Words, hath One that judgeth him: The Word that I have Spoken, the Same shall judge him in The Last Day. 49. “For I have not Spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me a Commandment, what I should Say, and what I should Speak. 50. “And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I Speak therefore, even as The Father Said unto me, so I Speak." . JOHN 14:1-28. "LET not your hear be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2. "In my Father's House there are Mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. 3. "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4. "And whither I go ye know, and The Way ye know." 5. Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know The Way?" 6. Jesus Saith unto him, "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man cometh unto The Father, but by me. 7. "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him." 8. Philip saith unto him, "Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us." 9. Jesus Saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen The Father; and how sayest thou then, 'SHEW US THE FATHER?' 10. "Believest thou not that I am in The Father, and The Father in me? The Words that I Speak unto you I Speak not of myself: but The Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the Works. 11. "Believe me that I am in The Father, and The Father in me: or else believe me for the very Works' sake. 12. "Verily, verily, I Say unto you, 'HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME, THE WORKS THAT I DO SHALL HE DO ALSO; AND GREATER WORKS THAN THESE SHALL HE DO; BECAUSE I GO UNTO MY FATHER.' 13. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do, that The Father may be Glorified in The Son. 14. "If ye shall ask any thing in my Name, I will do it. 15. "If ye love me, keep my Commandments. 16. "And I will pray The Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 17. "Even The Spirit of Truth; Whom the World cannot receive, because It seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18. "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19. "Yet a little while, and the World seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20. "At that Day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21. "He that hath my Commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." 22. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, "Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the World?" 23. Jesus Answered and Said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my Words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24. "He that loveth me not keepeth not my Sayings: and the Word which ye hear is not mine, but The Father's Which sent me. 25. "These things have I Spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26. "But The Comforter, Which is The Holy Ghost, Whom The Father will send in my Name, He shall Teach you all things, and bring all things to your Remembrance, whatsoever I have Said unto you. 27. "Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you: not as the World giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28. "Ye have heard how I Said unto you, 'I GO AWAY, AND COME AGAIN UNTO YOU.' If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I Said, 'I GO UNTO THE FATHER:' for my Father is greater than I." GOD IS, AND CAN ONLY BE, IN THOSE WHO CHOOSE LIFE- THOSE WHO OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS OF LIFE, NO MATTER WHAT. He cannot be in anyone else, without killing them. orisa37: PEOPLE WHO SAY THIS CANNOT CARE ABOUT EVERY HUMAN- THEY ARE ONLY SAYING THIS IN ORDER TO CLAIM AUTHORITY oaroloye: GOD- ACCORDING TO YOU- IS OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT, AND OMNIPRESENT- IF THAT IS TRUE, HOW CAN WE HAVE SIN, SICKNESS, PAIN, POVERTY, WEAKNESS, IGNORANCE, CONFUSION, MADNESS, AND DEATH. Such stupid Doctrines depend on ATTENTION-DEFICIT DISORDER inability to THINK about OBVIOUS EXCEPTIONS to your stupid Theory that YOU and THOSE HEEDING this your BULLSHIT all know about. orisa37: ON THE BASIS OF THIS STUPID THEORY, THEY WANTED TO EXECUTE LORD YESHUA, SAYING THAT YAHWEH GOD COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE WORKING ON THE SABBATH DAY. What function does God have in Man that you have observed or postulated, that ceases on every Sabbath Day? OBVIOUSLY, YOU ARE JUST MAKING UP FOOLISH LIES, TO DECEIVE AND DESTROY AS MANY AS YOU CAN, ALONG WITH YOU! orisa37: THIS IS HYPOCRITICAL DRIVEL, MERELY MEANT TO MESMERIZE THE WEAK-MINDED. All these useless Attributes are in every insane, ignorant, and dying Human there is- according to you, right? orisa37: I AM REMINDED OF THE SCENE IN THE MOVIE SHOGUN, BASED ON THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF WILL ADAMS, THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO LAND ON JAPAN. Given a lordship, he was drinking with his men, and thinking to complement his Chief Archer, he toasted him, with: "MAY THE GODS GIVE YOU A STEADY ARM!" The Archer was deeply offended at that! Without riding from where he was seated, he deployed his bow, nocked arrows, and fired them one at a time, through the wall of the house. (Which was made of paper.) The arrows exited through the same tiny hole. (This film was shot before the invention of CGI.) He later went outside to verify that the arrows all hit the same post (whose position he was aware of, without looking,) and all entered the same hole. The point (no pun intended,) was that in Japan, you don't pray for the gods to give you what you already have. There was nothing wrong with that guy's arm. orisa37: THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU BELIEVE IN THE ONE REAL GOD. You don't know the first thing about Him, and are just making up drivel. LordReed: GOD DOES NOT WATCH SINNERS, BECAUSE HE WOULD EITHER HAVE YO JUDGE THEM, OR BE COMPLICIT IN THEIR SINS. Atheists think themselves so important, that if God Existed, He must watch their every move, and project their children from molesters, murderers, and diseases. As if they deserved His Help. orisa37: IF GOD DOES WHAT EVERYONE DOES, THEN HE IS A BIPOLAR SCHIZOPHRENIC MANIAC, DOING BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. How does that work? That is not The God The Bible Teaches: who fights with His people against Evil. Here is what GOD does: . THE TEN TALENTS OF POWER. (Matt. 25:1-30.) 1. TOTAL RECALL. 2. EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION. 3. TELEKINESIS. 4. TELEPORTATION. 5. TRANSLATION. 6-10. EVERLASTING LIFE. God is with those who agree with Him on PERCEPTIONS and RECALLS. God is with those who agree with Him on Power over MEST. God is with those who agree with Him on EVERLASTING LIFE. He is not with those who DOUBT those things. hupernikao: THAT YOU WERE NEVER TAUGHT HISTORY IN SCHOOL IS NO EXCUSE FOR SUCH IMBECILIC IGNORANCE! Tamaratonye1: PROOF OF THE ADAGE: "EVEN A BUSTED-ASS CLOCK CAN GIVE THE RIGHT TIME TWICE IN ONE DAY!" hupernikao: Tamaratonye1: "A BUSTED CLOCK CAN BE CORRECT TWICE IN ONE DAY." Not this time, however. You only THINK you are prospering, but you are not. YOUR BRAIN CREATES 1,500 NEW NEURONS EVERY DAY- WHILE 50,000 DIE. These are a priceless resource. STEVE JOBS became a BILLIONAIRE ATHEIST- then came down with PANCREATIC CANCER. He tried BUYING a Pancreas- but it failed. What shall it profit a man... Tamaratonye1: LordReed: BLASPHEMY IS FUN- UNTIL THE DAY YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. kingxsamz: THE MORE UNDERSTANDING YOU HAVE, THE LESS MEST YOU NEED. With TOTAL UNDERSTANDING, you need neither MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE, nor TIME- only your MIND. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by LordReed(m): 12:50pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
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Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 1:02pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
oaroloye:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Half of great writing or speaking is not saying everything that you can say. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny. Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention, a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, managing your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself? In some places he draws the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Verbosity wastes a portion of the reader’s or listener’s life 1 Like |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by orisa37: 1:07pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
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Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Nobody: 5:22pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
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Re: What Does God Actually Do? by hupernikao: 9:54pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
GodHead85: How does this relates to you helping yourself before God help you. It is on nairaland I see one who never hold a book before claiming to be a professor of it. What has what you wrote proven that man has to help himself before God help. Or you mixed or missed the topic? Bro, go read well please. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by hupernikao: 10:28pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: I have told you, that you are only trying to make a point where points never exist. You will need more than trying to make point to discuss with me. You will likewise need more than emotional grip to address my response. Firstly, you spoke about Christians, yet claim you aren't referring to Bible, what do you call that in basic grammar. A Christian outside the bible? You should rather take away Christian from your discussion then we can take the effect of bible from it. But sadly, you aren't ready to take correction that you made a mistake with your quote. Secondly, you referred to Christians as an entity, your claim posed as one who have met all Christians in this world and know the quote they used. Now revealing to you that, not all Christians hold such view and such isn't even biblical, you took it for a fight. Is this how you fight when you are wrong. Thirdly, you rush too much to conclusion. And mostly they are based on assumption. You will need to be open to be taught what exactly the Bible teaches than making assumption informed from wrong classes you have taken in your sojourn in Christian meetings. Why did I say that? Thinking I am an Arminianist or a Calvinist is a funny assumption. I never hold any of the view. I hold Bible view and have many reservation on the views above. But note, like I said. Man is absolutely helpless. That is not Calvinism, that is the scriptures. But your helplessness is not God's doing, it's man's doing. Hence God never imposed or forced such helpless situation in man. You need to ask for explanation, you must learn the true Bible, that is how your criticism will be real. All these you are saying about the Bible is absolutely in divergence to all the Bible stands for, they were never taught in the Bible. What I mean is that, you have been fed with wrong information and your knowledge and mindset is built around this. You must seek proper knowledge of what you criticized, that is the wisdom in being a good critic. But for now, all your points about the Bible, as I read they, they are only showing me one thing. You have a wrong background in scriptural truth, you have been fed with lies by one who either deliberately or accidental fed you with false doctrine. It shows in all your write up. I will only start to take your criticism serious when you start presenting the Bible the right way in your criticism. For now I don't see you as a critic of the scriptures, but one who need to be taught properly and rightly. And you must receive that with humility. |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Nobody: 11:05pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
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Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Tamaratonye1(f): 7:32am On Oct 19, 2021 |
It's ironic that you accuse me of being emotional since all I've pointed out to you here are cold, hard and bitter pills of truth which, evidently and understandably, you find so very painful to swallow. No matter how much you try to dodge and slither, the naked lies you have told on this thread bear me witness to your unparalleled dishonesty. hupernikao:Repeating yourself like a broken record is typical of you when you're seriously out of your depth. I'm used to you by now. See you continuously fighting to so hard to escape the 7 feet grave you so magnanimously dug out for yourself. Unfortunately your indignant repetition is doing very little for you here. And let this be the last time I warn you about your patronizing attitude. Your post reeks of smug condescension. This is your final warning. Keep it up and the tone in my next response to you will be 100% justified. hupernikao:It doesn't matter how many times you bring this up to save face, I'll continue to rebut it a thousand fold. Tamaratonye1: Tamaratonye1: The funny thing is, you actually support my position more and more with your posts. The initial quote in my original post concerning "heaven helps those...." is a major staple among most Christians nowadays. You keep harping on and on about me getting the wrong interpretation of scriptures from Christian instructors and needing to be taught properly. I would have accepted your claims and say I was wrong, except your defense raises even more serious problems, and you obviously haven't bothered to sit and ask yourself the honest and important question: Why do so many people, even so called Christians, misrepresent the Bible and draw different conclusions from it? Futhermore, how do I know that my interpretation of scriptures is correct and everyone else is wrong?. You don't want to ask these questions because you know that they rudely interrupt your fantasies and easily call them into question. You don't find it convenient, so you choose to cling to your myopic, subjective reasoning. Now I don't know if you missed all of this or if you're just too smart for your own good ( ), but these are two major facts of life I want to bring to your awareness, hupernikao. [1] You may be smart, but there's a difference between being smart, and being knowledgeable. In fact, there's a whole world of difference between the two. [2] You might think you're having a field day, deceiving other people. But the truth is you're actually deceiving yourself. And self-deception is always a precursor to self-sabotage. hupernikao:I apologize if this is the impression you got from my topic, as I certainly didn't intend to mean all Christians. hupernikao:A very interesting accusation, given what you did in your next quote: hupernikao:Can't say I'm surprised you had the audacity to say this. I already saw it coming, in your desperation to push all your baseless narratives through your dishonest dodging and slithering, that you will soon stoop to telling bare faced lies. This was my statement in my previous post Tamaratonye1: You clearly didn't read my last post properly. Talk about rushing into conclusions and making assumptions. Tell me more about reading and understanding deeply. You don't even practice what you preach. You keep proving just how much of a fake you are. You keep claiming access to esoteric wisdom when your signature is ignorance. I never appended any tag to you and you know it. hupernikao:You are the only person who's helpless. You're also hopeless. This discourse alone is ample proof of that Tamaratonye1: Keep dodging hupernikao:I was suckled on the Bible and ended up spending a year at Bible institute after high school, and spent every minute I could spare volunteering at church for years after. I have likely forgotten more of the Bible than you currently know. Everyone who claims to "rightly" understand the scriptures simply dismisses anything that they disagree with as error". You are no different in that regard. And back in the day, I was no different. I know from experience how believers insulate themselves from the cognitive dissonance created by their departures from reason. It spares you having to engage in honest discourse, and most importantly, it means you don't have to engage with the actual points anyone raises with you. Unless and until you leave the reality distortion field that you exist in, as I did, you'll never even see the arrogance in your statement I quoted above, much less the thin air under you feet where you think you are standing on solid ground. But in the end, the choice is yours Tamaratonye1 to hupernikao: 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by GodHead85: 8:51am On Oct 19, 2021 |
hupernikao:Ok if you don't mind, I want to ask you some questions.... 1. How old were you when you first came to believe in God? 2 Had you read the Bible before you became a believer? 3. What specifically convinced you that Bible God was real? |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by Nobody: 9:33am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Tamaratonye1: What do you think of a person that claims the Bible is meant to be turned upside down in order to show understanding?? 1 Like |
Re: What Does God Actually Do? by oaroloye(m): 10:46am On Oct 19, 2021 |
BLASPHEMY IS FUN- UNTIL YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. LordReed: . THE TEN TALENTS OF POWER. (Matt. 25) (1) TOTAL RECALL. (2) EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION. (3) TELEKINESIS. (4) TELEPORTATION. (5) TRANSLATION. (6-10) EVERLASTING LIFE. When you scorn The Way of God, these are the abilities you forfeit first personally, and then socially. You will never experience them yourself, nor anyone who has them, nor can rehabilitate them in you. As a result, you suffer the consequences of having no access to Spiritual Abilities. Including imminent Death. When you finally do die, you will lose your Soul completely. Tamaratonye1: THE PURPOSE OF MY POSTS IS ALWAYS TO COMPLETELY SOLVE PROBLEMS WITH A VIEW TO SAVING LIVES AND SOULS./b] Maximus69: From day one, the Bible already told those who have faith in it that all what we needed to treat any disease we brought upon ourselves due to our rebellion is here with us! Psalms 114:14 oaroloye: BEFORE, MAXIMUS69 CLAIMED THAT PSALM 114:14 SAID THAT "ALL WHAT WE NEED TO HEAL OURSELVES IS HERE WITH US." I was the only one to point out that, not only did PSALM 114:14 contain no such data, NO SUCH VERSE EXISTS- because Psalm 114 only has EIGHT verses! The HATRED against this Ministry is such that NO ONE acknowledged my correction- least of all MAXIMUS69 THE MAD. A normal person would have said: "Oh, SORRY- I meant PSALM 104:14!" JEHOVAH'S WITLESSES® appear to be taught to be as RUDE as HELL! Maximus69: OtemAtum: Maximus69: oaroloye: I WRITE TO SOLVE ALL OF THE PROBLEMS: I FIGHT WITH A VIEW TO WINNING ALL FUTURE FIGHTS. Not so that, after answering the one stupid question, you will have to come back and ask another stupid question. oaroloye: THESE THREE SCRIPTURES SOLVE EVERY POSSIBLE PROBLEM YOU CAN HAVE. What more can you need, if you apply those three Scriptures? Any Church that does not apply any of those Scriptures has failed already. Yet, since I have taught them on NAIRALAND, not one Christian of any Church has thanked me for this, nor any other Teaching. What does this tell you? That God is with and in none of those Churches, nor with you. oaroloye: . MATTHEW 25:31-46. 31. "When The Son of Man shall come in his Glory, and all the Holy Angels with him, then shall he sit upon The Throne of his Glory: 32. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33. "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34. "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: 35. 'FOR I WAS AN HUNGRED, AND YE GAVE ME MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YE GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN: 36. 'NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME: I WAS SICK, AND YE VISITED ME: I WAS IN PRISON, AND YE CAME UNTO ME.' 37. Then shall the Righteous answer him, saying, 'LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGRED, AND FED THEE? OR THIRSTY, AND GAVE THEE DRINK? 38. 'WHEN SAW WE THEE A STRANGER, AND TOOK THEE IN? OR NAKED, AND CLOTHED THEE? 39. 'OR WHEN SAW WE THEE SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND CAME UNTO THEE?' 40. "And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, "INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME." ' 41. "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 'DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS: 42. 'FOR I WAS AN HUNGRED, AND YE GAVE ME NO MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YE GAVE ME NO DRINK: 43. 'I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME NOT IN: NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME NOT: SICK, AND IN PRISON, AND YE VISITED ME NOT.' 44. "Then shall they also answer him, saying, 'LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGRED, OR ATHIRST, OR A STRANGER, OR NAKED, OR SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND DID NOT MINISTER UNTO THEE?' 45. "Then shall he answer them, saying, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, "INASMUCH AS YE DID IT NOT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, YE DID IT NOT TO ME." ' 46. "And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment: but the Righteous into Life Eternal." AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE DESPISED MY TEACHINGS WILL FIND THAT IT WAS LORD YESHUA WHOM THEY DESPISED. If you had been present when Lord Yeshua was on Earth, you could never have gone out into the wilderness to listen to him preach FOR THREE DAYS. Never mind going out without food to eat on the way back. RAY MacCAULEY of the RHEMA BIBLE TRAINING CENTRE in South Africa, prayed to ask the Lord why there were great miracles occurring in his Ministry in Apartheid South Africa, and not in similar meetings back home in America. He said that Jesus replied him: "WHEN I WALKED THE EARTH, IT TOOK PEOPLE TWO OR THREE WEEKS, JUST TO FIND ME: WHEN SOMEONE SEEKS ME FOR TWO OR THREE WEEKS, FOR HEALING- WALKING- THEY'RE GOING TO FIND IT!" I once counselled a Muslim Native Doctor on how to receive his Healing- his left leg was amputated due to Diabetic Abscess. None of his Muslim buddies in the tiny Mosque he owned helped him out. A "Good Samaritan" paid his bill at the SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Hospital. As a BABALAWO, I was sure that he could at least apply CARLOS CASTANEDA'S NAGUALISM SYSTEM to Heal his amputation. I bought him a tablet- none of his buddies helped him do that, either- and put all Carlos Castaneda's Books and some of L. Ron Hubbard's on it, and gave it to him. Instead of studying it, he smashed the tablet. He said it was an accident. Then he said he wanted to go and be prayed for by one "PROPHET PETER," he heard on the Radio, at Oshogbo. I saw that he was never going to work toward solving his problem himself. He wanted someone to give him a quick-fix, magic solution, that gave him what he wanted, without changing his own Beliefs, or Way of Life. I had to admit that I could not help him any further, and that he could do whatever he wanted. Of course his trip- and whatever money he surely paid this "PROPHET" was a complete waste. This is consistent with my experience with trying to help unbelievers "on their level of understanding." A complete waste of time. Not because anything is wrong with my Doctrine- but I am, at this point, completely unable to bestow WORTHINESS. God is not going to Heal you, so you can go back to serving your beloved Satan. There us no Messiah for achieving that sort of Miracle. That was not what I have ever been able to do, nor ever claimed to. What I had tried to show him was how to tap into his innate Spiritual Nature as L. Ron Hubbard, Carlos Castaneda, and James Redfield had taught it, to solve a problem I thought was important to him- but really isn't. The Handicapped, I have found would rather stay handicapped, than change whatever was necessary in their lives to get Healed. |
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