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Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 10:17pm On May 13, 2018
dalaman:
He should tell us when he saw the oceans been created.
Or at least tell us the process by which it was created.
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 10:07pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
Honestly bro, I believe you bro, I've never had to admit this but I will; I never saw a creator creating my Honda accord, neither can I honestly say that I saw a creator creating the smoke that emanates from the exhaust pipe.

I fully admit that the exhaust smoke, just like stones or goosebumps do not directly require a creator.

I also agree to a large extent that you might have seen things that have not been directly created by a creator, but what I can strongly suggest is that everything in existence is product of Creation forms. Goosebumps are not directly created, thy are more like by products of creation, just like stones or smoke or snow.

They are all major or minor effects, to which there are causes.
I too have not seen a Honda Accord created. But I can find out if it was, how it was, where it was, and who created it, easily. I can, if I am so concerned, even go watch a Honda Accord created by a creator, from scratch.

There does not seem to exist, the evidence for the creator you mention though, or that everything that exists was created.
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 10:02pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
creation always requires a creator.
Listen to what others are saying a bit. True, anything that is created requires a creator. It's not yet agreed that everything that exists is created by a creator.

Work with dalaman to flesh this understanding out please.
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 7:27pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
The cause of a result.
So, in the process of a rock forming, would you say, what caused the formation of the rock is the creator?
Christianity Etc › Re: Do You Know If Your Name Is In The Book Of Life? by budaatum: 7:17pm On May 13, 2018
Anas09:
@bolded. True.

But i don't insult personalities, i don't.
Lol my dear. I love you!
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 7:16pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
in my opinion, the result of a process.
How do you determine what a "Creator" is?
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 7:13pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
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Have you seen creation without a creator?
No I have not seen "creation" without a "creator". But I have seen things that exist without a creator. And I repeat, a rock.

I see a rock exists, but I cannot honestly say I saw a creator creating rocks. And its process of formation does not include a creator. It would even be dishonest to call a rock, a creation of a creator as rock formation does not require such an external agent to occur.

In effect, I have seen things in existence that have not been created by a creator. A rock.
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 7:03pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
Are stones not supposed to be small rocks? I've forgotten the process of rock formation I learnt while younger, but rocks are formed right? smiley
Are they formed by a creator?
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 4:45pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
I didn't have to go far. Its like saying snow has no creator. smiley
Snow has a creator? Little beings working in a factory in the sky dropping small drops of ice cold water perhaps?
Christianity Etc › Re: Is The Atheist's Mind Free Enough To Question Atheism? by budaatum: 4:42pm On May 13, 2018
winner01:
Have you seen any creation without a Creator?
Yes, a common stone!
Christianity Etc › Re: Do You Know If Your Name Is In The Book Of Life? by budaatum: 4:37pm On May 13, 2018
[quote author=wwwtortoise post=67518427]Seun caused all these; the incessant ridicule on Christianity.[/quote]No he didn't! Some so called 'Christians thought' must be ridiculed so that those following them are reduced!

Jesus did to the Pharisees as they deserved!
Christianity Etc › Re: Do You Know If Your Name Is In The Book Of Life? by budaatum: 4:09pm On May 13, 2018
Anas09:
But, if i do what the Bible commands there, you'd call me Potty mouth. See? When i told, 'If i sin in my words i know', i meant it.

I don't attack personalities, but what they do.
That's not true Anas, I do not call you potty mouth because you object to certain behaviours. If you object to stealing, or homosexuals, for example, who has the right to tell you not to? I don't even call you pm because you are personal per se. I call you pm when you lose focus and resort to attacking and insulting others and derailing threads, and essentially, not doing some of those things and other things one ought to do but which are not listed in that Psalm.

I read where you prayed to be cured and recently sent you to threads where potty mouth behaviour was being exhibited so you may understand that no juju is as powerful as love.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Hateful Language Of Atheism And Its Possible Effects On Society. by budaatum: 2:39am On May 13, 2018
winner01:
Originally? Can you give me proof?
Historically, any person who did not believe in any deity supported by the state was fair game to accusations of atheism, a capital crime. For political reasons, Socrates in Athens (399 BCE) was accused of being atheos ("refusing to acknowledge the gods recognized by the state"wink.


Christians in Rome were also considered subversive to the state religion and persecuted as atheists. Thus, charges of atheism, meaning the subversion of religion, were often used similarly to charges of heresy and impiety as a political tool to eliminate enemies. Wiki


An Atheista ; one who rejected the gods worshipped by the wider society.


ath'-eh-os Adjective
without God, knowing and worshipping no God
denying the gods, esp. the recognised gods of the state


“[R]emember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God [atheoi] in the world” (Eph 2:12). In describing them in their pre- Christian life as atheoi (“without God”)

The fools are not limited to those who openly state, “ There is no God”; the y include those who profess belief in God but live as though he does not exist.
The Only “Atheists” in the Bible
Christianity Etc › Re: African Skin, Colonized Minds. by budaatum: 9:57pm On May 12, 2018
HappyPagan:
I could cut off your limbs, eyes and ears, and you'd still be able to survive.. Damage to the brain will yield a different tale.

A computer can't function without a RAM.
Really? Even if my ram is removed and the tale is different, you'd still call me buda! You'd even call me buda when I'm dead and cremated.

HappyPagan:
But the 'self' today may not be the same tomorrow... Self is revealed as we walk through time and experience. The 'self' is never stagnant, always changing and adapting, the story of survival.
Yep, I may not be the self today that I was yesterday, but I am still myself, constantly changing and adapting, just a day more evolved.

HappyPagan:
I think self is an illusion, one formed and moulded by environment and nature on one hand. But whether that illusion holds as one grows into maturity and self-awareness, that's an area where I find myself unable to put my exact thoughts in words.
Putting thoughts into words is an art. Just when you've mastered it, your thoughts get more complex so you might see the need to keep honing your skill and playing catch up. Personally, I think you're doing pretty well.

The fact that the self is formed and moulded alone implies that it is way more than illusory, don't you think? The self is not an illusion. And it should not hold on to the past! That would be like asking myself today to do as myself of three years ago did. Three years ago, for reference, I'd walk miles, but these days, I ride to the shop just around the corner. You can imagine how my 2 hour sessions might have sadly become 15 minutes, at a stretch. Oh, when I was a child! Now, I have had to put the childish things aside to face the survival struggles of the moment, just as one should.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 9:30pm On May 12, 2018
plaetton:
Lol.
Good try friend.

But, Louis Pasteur did much greater for humanity by painstaking showing that indeed germs, not six or seven demons, were the primary causes of diseases ,and ultimately, death.
And humanity has not been the same ever since.
Louis Pasteur stood on the shoulders of those who went before him. And you think too highly of the humans who lived in Christ's time. Humanity got clean when he told them to clean up and humanity was not the same after. You just imagine what "be clean" would do to humans in Lagos. Malaria and typhoid, probably the two greatest killers of Nigerians, would instantly dissappear.

Love the lol by the way.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 9:24pm On May 12, 2018
dalaman:
How many amputees do you know that have been healed in the name of Jesus?
Healed? Many. Stick a wheelchair under a double leg amputee and watch em 'walk'. And 'Jesus'? Yep, Jesus as knowledge and wisdom don it. But I guess when you say "Jesus", you mean the individual understood by most and not the one I mean.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 12:26pm On May 12, 2018
plaetton:
And Jesus, alleged son of God, supposedly cured leppers and polio victims, but apparently forgot to inform them that these diseases were caused by germs
He did not forget to tell people these diseases were caused by germs! He taught that lesson with the phrase, “[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+5%3A13&version=NIV]Be clean![/url]”
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 12:20pm On May 12, 2018
Primesky:
At the mention of the name of Jesus Christ, every knee shall bow.
Unfortunately, no one mentions the "name of Jesus Christ" these days or you'd have seen knees bowing.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 12:15pm On May 12, 2018
dalaman:
Jesus lied. You can NOT do anything they said Jesus did because his promise to you remains a lie lie promise. You can NOT do it.
I disagree. Jesus did not lie. Or rather, what is written about Jesus doings is not a lie. Humans are doing so much more than he is written to have done, including, raising the dead, feeding millions with tiny resources, and healing the amputee!
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Gods So Powerless Nowadays? by budaatum: 12:08pm On May 12, 2018
dalaman:
When did the Gods become so powerless? I mean, when someone says "God", I'm expecting stuff from the first list, not something that's indistinguishable from an idea, made by humans and spread by humans.
Quite a lot of straw in your writeup Dalaman, all premised on your idea and expectations of Gods. I so wish you had asked "why human beings are so powerless that we need gods to fill the gaps in our ignorance".

Was watching Louis Theroux's My Scientology last night. Ron Hubbard literally created a god for people to bow down and worship. What better shows the incredible ability that human beings have than god creation? The only greater feat would be to create a universe, though I suppose creating a place in which to place that universe would be even greater. However, and still, how amazingly much more powerful we humans must be if we can create gods that can create a universe and a place in which to put it. The pity is we create them in our own most narrow puny image.

It is not gods that have become powerless, Dalaman. It is we humans that have become so much more powerful that we have stopped needing to write new fantastic stories about our gods. But in a jug halve empty kind of way, one could say humans' have just become powerless and incapable to write better modern day myths, or, perhaps understood that the word is the beginning, and that we can write things with them and be better off for it. Depending where one stands whilst looking.

Gods never existed or had any power. It was the powerlessness of humans that made us create gods and assign everything to them in a "we are not worthy to go up the mountain and look our gods in the face" kind of way. You however, are a fleshy testimony to the new improved human, and that hope exists for the rest of us.
Christianity Etc › Re: Advice Needed, I Fly A Lot In Dream by budaatum: 11:25am On May 12, 2018
vchykp:
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Fly more.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Gospel According To Luke by budaatum(op):
Luke 5:12-16

You are clean!
Christianity Etc › Re: Two Questions For NL Christians by budaatum: 10:40am On May 11, 2018
Peacefullove:
If flesh and blood can't inherit heaven, Why is Jesus still human ?
A contradiction ?
Is Jesus still human?
Christianity Etc › Re: Two Questions For NL Christians by budaatum: 1:02am On May 11, 2018
Peacefullove:
- Secondly, that flesh and blood according to bible cannot inherit heaven , isn't this a contradiction ?
Are you perhaps reading a literal meaning into the above? I doubt it is meant to be taken literally.
Christianity Etc › Re: Do You Know If Your Name Is In The Book Of Life? by budaatum: 12:43am On May 11, 2018
Psalm 15 Living Bible (TLB)
1 Lord, who may go and find refuge and shelter in your tabernacle up on your holy hill?
2 Anyone who leads a blameless life and is truly sincere. 3 Anyone who refuses to slander others, does not listen to gossip, never harms his neighbor, 4 speaks out against sin, criticizes those committing it, commends the faithful followers of the Lord, keeps a promise even if it ruins him, 5 does not crush his debtors with high interest rates, and refuses to testify against the innocent despite the bribes offered him—such a man shall stand firm forever.
Christianity Etc › Re: African Skin, Colonized Minds. by budaatum: 12:28am On May 11, 2018
HappyPagan:
But what we seek for has no physical trait... the thoughts that make you, the ideas and symbols through which you view the world, the thoughts that form your habits and behaviors... are you your brain, or is your brain you?

hmm... I'll need some help here. where does the self exist? Anyone from the audience? Is self an illusion? If it's, who's having the illusion?
My brain is a part of a whole. Just as my hand is not me nor my eyes and heart me, so too is my brain not me.

Myself, is me. It comprises my brain, my leg, my nose etc, and my aura, as in me as perceived by others, or my spirit, as in that of me which I project.

Myself is not an illusion. You are not conversing with a bot! Myself exists in me.

Now, your turn. Is self, an illusion?
Christianity Etc › Re: Two Questions For NL Christians by budaatum: 12:10am On May 11, 2018
Peacefullove:
but unfortunately this perfect human body have scars all over it grin grin , how could Jesus perfect human body still have scars?

Over to you, enlighten me
Where were his scars?
Family › Re: Imagine This:..................…...............what Would you Do by budaatum: 12:00am On May 11, 2018
Try a crowdfunding site. You might get accommodating responses.
Family › Re: Imagine This:..................…...............what Would you Do by budaatum: 11:57pm On May 10, 2018
Bethankful:
I really wish you understand but you don't
You asked us to imagine, so I imagined. I even gave you my credentials to show my level, but you call me 'hot', and 'don't understand'?

Goodluck.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Gospel According To Luke by budaatum(op): 2:38pm On May 10, 2018
[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+5%3A1-11&version=NIV]Luke 5:1-11[/url]

From now on you will fish for people.
Family › Re: I Need Me A Baby Mama by budaatum: 12:39pm On May 10, 2018
FannySwindler1:
Budaatum. I want kids because I love kids. And won't be bad idea I have mine. At least I can give them good life.
Define, "good life".
Family › Re: I Need Me A Baby Mama by budaatum: 12:25pm On May 10, 2018
FannySwindler1:
Budaatum. UjuJoan2 is only curious. She has no interest. People who have genuine interest have inboxed me and asked questions. And I have guaranteed them strict confidentiality. Zeb04 has been exposed here she is married. All I need is a genuine person.
So, you sorted. Why do you want children?

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