MuttleyLaff:


Bud, how do you mean by the red text?
What does it mean?

MuttleyLaff:
What about the story of Adam, Eve, the serpent and the outside influence, what completely is that teaching?
What is the significance of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil?
Seems we are veering off the subject(s) of discussion though

Emmanystone:

Meaning we are not having this conversation nau. If i ask a question which you feel are not obligated to answer, what then is the point of me getting into the convo. in the first place?

No shakes anyways. I must not be part of your thread.

butterflyl1on:




Alcoholics idolise alcohol or in this case, rum. To them it is a god. They do not have to literally call it a god but their actions towards it makes it a god.

Emmanystone:

Meaning we are not having this conversation nau. If i ask a question which you feel are not obligated to answer, what then is the point of me getting into the convo. in the first place?

No shakes anyways. I must not be part of your thread.

sonmvayina:

The Enuma ELISH is/was the first as far as record goes and shows. It proceeds the genesis accounts by thousands of years..

budaatum:
The question I posed was "What is God?"
And being the cautious one I sometimes am, it was biased, if at all, towards those to whose version of 'g' I used.
I could have used a small 'g' after all, as would be my tendency, but I chose a big G.

It was asking for people's views, so how can I not be minding their distinctions, which I am asking for?
The question is straightforward. It is not some test with only one answer, least not as far as I am concerned.
It is just to seek peoples opinions and views, after all, we do have Muslims, Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, Catholics, Atheists, Deists, Pagans, Pastafarians and all other sorts on here with diverse opinions and views about gods.

I think you putting legs on the stool introduced bias, and that the question was fair as initially put.
People would have legged their stool as they saw fit, but you have introduced a number of legs that may not describe everyone's stool.
The question, as initially posed, makes no assumptions and allows the individual to respond as they see fit,
putting as many legs on their stool as they understand it to have.

budaatum:
If you consider rum or cream cakes to be god, albeit to some, you are allowed to say so when you respond to the question.

sonmvayina:
No, no....there was no. Adam neither was there eve or a talking snake..
the genesis account of creation is not the only neither is it the first. The Enuma ELISH is/was the first as far as record goes and shows. It proceeds the genesis accounts by thousands of years...

sonmvayina:
It details how marduk created the universe from the remains of tiamat...
how he created humans by making moulds and calling other spirits to get in the moulds,
and him cutting his head and pouring his blood on the moulds so the humans can share in his divinity...

sonmvayina:
It is from it that Ezra...got the information he used in writing the book of the law( genesis to deutromomy)
It also details how lucifer(inanna) rose herself to the pantheon..how she became marduks enemy...

sonmvayina:
It is quite interesting if you are spiritually inclined..

There should be a soft version on the Internet..

MuttleyLaff:
budaatum
Chat was closed at end of it, so couldnt post a message
Nice one
You were a worthy opponent
I have to, right now, step out

budaatum:
You're most welcome.
We can have a return match someday.

MuttleyLaff:
I think you already have alienated quite a few with your single line of enquiry question
Good luck with it

budaatum:
This question was asked of me by MuttleyLaff here. I have created a thread for it to share it with others who may not wish to derail John's Gospel.

His question has provoked thought in me and I believe it would provoke thought in you too. So, no knee jerks please. Think before you respond.

What is God?

sonmvayina:


If you notice, there are 2 creation accounts, one is talking about physical creation the other spiritual..the talking snake is Ninghishida, people say he was a double agent as his father was from the right side(enki side) and his mother from the left side( Enlil side) of the elohim.
He simply represents man's oversabi attitude...the story is about wanting to know everything in the flesh, i.e as humans, but God did not approve of it, so if you want to know you have to die and become spirit, so if man had eaten from the tree of life, he would have known everything without dying. ..

So death was the punishment for wanting to know everything while been human..

So the purpose of life basically is to eat from the tree of life and become like God..

But the big question is what is the tree and where can it be found..??

godisgood200:

What is God? As how? Is God a thing now?

budaatum:

The question is for you to tell us what god is. It is whatever you say it is, so hit this ball way out the park, if you may.

godisgood200:

If i ask you 'What is Budaatum', will that make sense to you?

budaatum:

Yes it does. I'll go further and answer the question as if you actually asked it.

Budaatum is the moniker of an individual who posts on nairaland.

Very simple really. Or don't you think so?

godisgood200:

Okay then.

God is the creator, the uncaused first Cause. The infinite, the supreme authority, sovereign over creation. The Only Potentate. Setting up Kingdoms and overthrowing empires. Rules in the armies of heaven, and monsgt the inhabitants of the earth, that no man can ask Him, 'What are you doing?'. His ways are unsearchable and judgements passed finding out.

He does as He pleases, only as He pleases.

He is the the sole determiner of all things, both men and beast. He determines which sperm cell from your father fertilized your moms Ovum and dtermined that all the other millions die.

He determines when and where you are born, your race, your gender and your colour.

He chose your parents, your siblings, He decides when you will die. If you can wrap your mind around this^^^^, then>>>>>>>>>>That is WHAT God is.

godisgood200:

Are you trying to mix Epic Gilgamesh with the Bible? Lol.

godisgood200:

Are you trying to mix Epic Gilgamesh with the Bible? Lol.

sonmvayina:


The writer of the Bible story got his information from it...

budaatum:

"God, according to godisgood200"

That wasn't hard was it. And personally speaking, yours, in my opinion, is better thought out than all the others who posted a view on here. So, thanks.







This is a secret, so don't tell anyone please. But if I had a god, this is one thread where I will scream it from the mountaintop, if I were that way inclined, and if anyone questioned me about my god, I will tell them to go suck on something for I do not have to justify my god to anyone!

godisgood200:

We are just having a conversation nau. it's not justifying God at all. I can't even do it even if i wanted to.

I hardly even respond to atheists here, but i have been reading your posts and see you as level headed, hence,decided to gist small

MuttleyLaff:
Yeah, just woken up and so it seems
Apparently they were down because they had a power outage
Havent they got UPS? Tut tut tut
Layout has changed after coming back though

sonmvayina:


No, no....there was no. Adam neither was there eve or a talking snake..the genesis account of creation is not the only neither is it the first. The Enuma ELISH is/was the first as far as record goes and shows. It proceeds the genesis accounts by thousands of years..

It details how marduk created the universe from the remains of tiamat...how he created humans by making moulds and calling other spirits to get in the moulds, and him cutting his head and pouring his blood on the moulds so the humans can share in his divinity...

It is from it that Ezra...got the information he used in writing the book of the law( genesis to deutromomy)
It also details how lucifer(inanna) rose herself to the pantheon..how she became marduks enemy...

It is quite interesting if you are spiritually inclined..

There should be a soft version on the Internet..

Emmanystone:
What are you guys talking self.
You guys seems to be into something else other than this thread.

MuttleyLaff:
Male bonding things,
females aren't necessarily excluded and so welcomed too

Emmanystone:
So, what's going on?