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Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Zither(m): 10:00pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
TheArranger: That is where you get it wrong. There is no punishment attached to refusing to worship God. It is not written in the Bible. When a person's spirit is dead, and the person dies physically in that state, he will spend his eternity without Christ, and the only spiritually dead place where a spiritually dead person may dwell is hell. It is not punishment for refusing to worship God, it is the culmination of one's desire to live apart from the Presence of God, and the absence of God is spiritual death. It was a response to another user. You can see you're not the only one i quoted in my last post I see that now. 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:01pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
NnennaG6: Mechonu there. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Nobody: 10:02pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by johnydon22(m): 10:03pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:Hahahaha guy calm down. NnennaG6 is a very brilliant person and she stays in Enugu too, i am dying to discuss with her in person. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:04pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
MuttleyLaff: Your Christianity never ceases to amaze me. How does evil exist if it is not part of God's Nature? |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:05pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
johnydon22: She is brilliant but I no too gbadun her style. In any case nothing wrong with what I wrote. You sef understand. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by budaatum: 10:08pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:An image, an idea of, a thing as a concept, materialised. If God is "immaterial" why have we bothered to create images of it? |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by MuttleyLaff: 10:10pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:I just knew before posting my comment, when staring at how to conspicuously put it as "God's Nature" that you would try and plan to slant it. Anyway and fyi, intrinsically, there is no evil in God. 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:10pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
budaatum: People feel a strong need to materialise something even if it's not there. But why the quotes? Don't you think God is immaterial? |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:11pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
MuttleyLaff: Then there cannot be evil in the world God created. Otan! |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by NnennaG6(f): 10:12pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
johnydon22:Perfection is an absolute, not a ratio. More creation is more good. Things are good inasmuch as they are perfected, and things are perfected inasmuch as they are actual. More actuality means more perfections, which are what goodness is. Remember, there was no perfect universe before creation, because the universe is what was created. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by budaatum: 10:12pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
Maxi3k:And in some very intelligent individuals' minds too. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by NnennaG6(f): 10:13pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
IAmSabrina:Unlike Auschwitz, there are many things whose existence is more good than bad, with the implication that it's better for them to exist than not to exist. Hence their existence improves the world. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Nobody: 10:17pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
NnennaG6:"More good than bad" implies you're taking an overall average of some situation, which is what you just said I shouldn't do |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by MuttleyLaff: 10:19pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:Why wouldnt or couldnt there. Evil, afterall, is the absence of good. Similar manner, darkness is the absence of light. There really isnt darkness, it is just an absence of light. So, evil is the absence and/or departure of the God factor 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by NnennaG6(f): 10:21pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
IAmSabrina:No, it implies that the world is a better place because of its existence. If something is generally good in spite of some imperfections, then it still contributes positively to the world. And how good or bad the world is depends (I'm suggesting) on the sum of what exists. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by UyiIredia(m): 10:22pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
MuttleyLaff: There is no evil in God. That is why evil doesn't exist in God's creation. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by MuttleyLaff: 10:25pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:Who is Satan? Whose creation is Satan? 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Nobody: 10:26pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
NnennaG6:I'm sorry, I don't understand how something can be generally good when it is literally infinitely worse than God. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by budaatum: 10:28pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
UyiIredia:The quotes were to convey a message I knew you would recognise which is, in which way do you mean immaterial. It's a long word afterall, long enough for us to misunderstand what is meant. Did you mean immaterial, as in not physical nor formed of matter for instance, or as irrelevant, not worth considering and unimportant? People always materialise what is not there. Its the creativity that's in us. A creativity we are so much ignorant about that some wrap it up in an image called God for want of a better name. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by NnennaG6(f): 10:30pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
IAmSabrina:"I don't see how an integer can be positive when it's infinitely less than an infinite quantity." |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Nobody: 10:39pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
NnennaG6:Touché. I withdraw my argument [img]https://media1./images/907a3331ada8447b63b9d724745f93dd/tenor.gif[/img] 2 Likes |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Zither(m): 10:53pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
johnydon22: If I tended a rose garden for the love of rose flowers would I be pursuing self-validation? 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by bloodofthelamb(m): 11:32pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
MuttleyLaff: Bro muttleylaff, how does pleasure and worship correlate? The truth is that we will freely and willing worship and honour Him when we realize how beautifully and wonderfully He made us in love. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by johnydon22(m): 11:38pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
Zither:Nope, you are tending to a need to express that love. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by bloodofthelamb(m): 11:38pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
johnydon22: Is it necessary that I must have a need to express who I am? 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by johnydon22(m): 11:39pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
bloodofthelamb:Yes, a need to express who you are. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by bloodofthelamb(m): 11:45pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
johnydon22: No, I am just living. I am good to you, because that is who I am. I have no need to be good to you. I am just being myself to you. I see no need here. 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Originakalokalo(m): 11:49pm On Mar 12, 2019 |
TheArranger: OK. |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by budaatum: 3:38am On Mar 13, 2019 |
bloodofthelamb:You will not be good without a reason! It's just way too much work to do for nothing. And claiming "you are just being yourself" makes you sound as if you are just naturally good to me, like born to be good, which is unlikely. The truth more likely being that if you truly are as effortlessly good to me as you say you are, it would have taken you a lot of effort and practice and learning through the years to become so good. And to do so much work to be so good you must be fulfilling a need. And that need cannot be "no need". I put it to you to consider that, in your, "just living", "just being myself", being "good to you", and being the "I am", you are fulfilling a need but might be unaware of the need you are fulfilling. 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by Zither(m): 6:35am On Mar 13, 2019 |
johnydon22: Are you implying that an act of will is a function of need? 1 Like |
Re: The Concept Of God Is Absurd by MuttleyLaff: 7:48am On Mar 13, 2019 |
GoodMuyis:How do you mean this, please explain in clear and convincing terms how |
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