I am sorry you have been hurt by Christians. It is obvious by your website. You can deny God all you want but he will not deny you. You can hate God but he loves you. You can say all you want that there is no God, but you can’t say I don’t exist just because you have never physically seen me either.
God himself stated in the Bible that HE is Spirit, does not have a physical body. That is why HE said himself do not create any images and worship it because we have no idea what God really looks like.
I was saddened by your website. I do not know your history and why you are so bitter and angry but I hope you would at least try to ask God if He is for real, then somehow show you He really does exist. God himself stated in the Old Testament to Moses who also said he wanted to see God, if Moses was to actually see God face to face, he (Moses) would die due to God’s holiness, BUT God did pass by, covered Moses eyes, then removed his hand so Moses can at least see God’s back. Even with that Moses face glowed from seeing God’s holiness.
Christianity requires faith of the unseen. The conviction comes to the heart.
If hope you are opened enough to at least consider what I am saying. Do not stereotype Christians. We are not all the same. We are not all condemning or judgemental. We are not all closed minded.
-Soo
anyone c the movie ‘soul surfer’? AMAZING girl…
even MORE amazing, an entire auditorium gave a deafening clapfest to her assigning her survival & success to Jesus…WHERE was J during the SHARK ATTACK? The DOCTORS & FAST, smart response by those with her when the attack happened, THAT is what saved that dear person. if there was a fsm involved, it was not mentioned…
& PROBABLY her sheer will to survive…that helps.
..& am NOT suggesting an alternative to cheering her was booing, or silence, either!
if i were there, id probably have clapped to be of support, even if i do not entirely agree…with premise.
i reccomend that tho…the film, soulsurfer. that girl can surf something fierce.
THAT is even harder to ammend..when the message comes via someone so clearly smart & endearingly sweet.
Not that it matters!!!
ended up in another window, AGAIN.
…my thoughts, don’t.
Her message matters, & ALOT, 2 many…
….my thoughts, don’t.
her message, matters ALOT & 2 many…
Always remember we fall God daily and fail each other. We all have been hurt at one time or another and perhaps not knowing have hurt others ourselves. It is by his grace not by anything we do. We all have fallen short of the glory of God and God grant us a heart of compassion and wisdom to show kindness to others. And when someone is hurting to treat them gently like someone with a broken arm. It is not by your words but by your actions how people will see a glimpse of Christ in your life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAOlNaZ3mIY
Talk about failing: Jesus supposedly came down to save mankind, but 2,000 years later, after never getting over 33% converted, Christianity seems to be slipping quickly. In another hundred years there will only be pockets of believers. FAIL.
Then again, Islam’s percentages over 1,500 years is even worse.
I watched the video vicks, what the heck was it all about? Stock pictures of various artists impression of what Jesus may have looked like if he existed, pictures of people looking forlorn and possibly wondering why Jesus had overlooked them when in their despair and the most appalling discordant vocals I have ever heard – hardly convincing is it?
Do you fail god daily? No of course you don’t, he’s a loving and forgiving god isn’t he? Oh no, I just read the other bit where it says he is a vengeful, hateful, misogynistic bully. In any case if it is as you say ‘by his grace and not by anything you do’, why try to change it? After all, it’s his fault not yours; and how can you qualify that as a ‘grace’? Do we fail others? We are only human so of course we fail others from time to time, you can’t please all of the people all of the time, but if you live your life to humanistic values and principles you can’t go far wrong. Humanist principles give us knowledge, humanist values grant us a heart of compassion. Humanistic actions make us a great deal more Christ-like than than a bunch of brainwashed idiots waving their arms in the air and shouting hallelujah! When I’m presented with someone with a broken arm I fix it using scientific and humanistic principles, I will also place a metaphorical arm around them and give them succor and comfort, is that not Christ-like? It’s been said many times, ‘One pair of hands doing is worth a thousand praying’. I’m not alone vicks, this isn’t about me, this about defending the millions of people that are doing good things in a million different ways every minute of every day and doing it because it is the right thing to do not because they are trying to appease a god that will never be satisfied. He never will be satisfied because he doesn’t want you to feel good about yourself ’cause that’s dangerous to his well-being; if you start feeling good about yourself vicks, you might not need him anymore and his power over you will cease to exist. Finally, do you wanna know who you are really failing? YOU that’s who; you fail yourself not because you fail god but because you believe it is important NOT to fail god. Despite admitting that it is his doing you still believe you have failed him and that is how he gets you, by trapping you into a vicious cycle of unworthiness and submission that leaves you with no alternative but to keep on feeling unworthy and submitting in the futile hope of redemption.
I don’t actually know what your post was meant to achieve but thanks for posting anyway.
May the Sauce be with you and may you find the One True God, our Noodly Master, the FSM.
The Reverend
“Always remember we fall God daily and fail each other.”
There is no “we” here. There is you, who thinks one needs to be ‘good’ to appease a vengeful creator, then there is me, who thinks being ‘good’ is simply the right way to advance a civil society. In being good to others, unmotivated by promises of heaven or threats of damnation, I meet the definition of selflessness while you don’t. Any good one does under the influence of religious faith is suspect.
If you want to preach, get a church, if you want me to come to then you god will need to explain to me how you eliminated all world’s faiths from contention and how your faith does not fail when the same standards are applied.
I would prefer people to look at my life and say “She lives a good life and is a good person, and she doesn’t believing in a god. Being a good person does not require a religion.”
I cannot fall (fail?) something when I do not recognise its existence. As for compassion and kindness, I do not need the fear of supernatural retribution to govern my attitudes. I watched the video and almost ended up with diabetes. It was like watching a Disney film while eating honey coated sugar cubes.
Ha, your comments almost make me want to watch the video. Almost.
Oh well.