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Old 01-21-2012, 05:03 PM   #1
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Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

We are told that we will be judged at the end of our lives. Judged by a God who will torture us forever in hell if we happen to not believe properly and follow his rules. This judgement will come even as we never get full disclosure by a God who hides from us. We are as some say, to choose heaven or hell, God or Satan, without having full knowledge of the conditions.

We are to believe that bible God is our real God yet that God is arguably a genocidal son murdering God. He is more akin to Satan than what any moral God would be.

All that we have in the way of information has been written by men.

Who other than a man ever put voice to the will of God?

For peace and stability, within religions, and possibly the world, a new man must be found to represent God within the various religions. Let us thank God that man has forsaken the Christian God as a lawmaker and ignore his barbaric laws.

That being the case as all believers have ignored or scrapped the Abrahamic bible God’s laws, since they do not live by them, should believers not elect a new God as scriptures indicate is supposed to happen at end times?

God was a human invention to begin with.

Should we not seek a new modern God who does not have the evil baggage that the current God has?

Our laws are certainly better than any God’s so it seems to me that we should elect a new God based on current law and not the draconian immoral laws of the old Gods. God has always been represented by a man. We should return to that system while recognizing that God has always been a myth.

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Re: Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

So is this a quote or something? What is your main point in 10 words or less I am a little unclear.
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Re: Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

I always get confused if gia is a gnostic or an athesist
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Re: Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

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So is this a quote or something? What is your main point in 10 words or less I am a little unclear.
God has always been a myth created by man.

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I always get confused if gia is a gnostic or an athesist
Gnostic Christian naturalist is my closest label.


The Godhead I know in a nutshell.
I was a skeptic till the age of 39.
I then had an apotheosis and later branded myself a Gnostic Christian naturalist.
Gnostic Christian because I exemplify this quote from William Blake.

“Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.”

This refers to how Gnostics tend to reverse, for moral reasons, what Christians see in the Bible. We tend to recognize the evil ways of O T God where literal Christians will see God’s killing as good. Christians are sheeple where Gnostic Christians are goats.
This perhaps why we see the use of a Jesus scapegoat as immoral, while theists like to make Jesus their beast of burden. An immoral position.

During my apotheosis, something that only lasted 5 or 6 seconds, the only things of note to happen was that my paradigm of reality was confirmed and I was chastised to think more demographically. What I found was what I call a cosmic consciousness. Not a new term but one that is a close but not exact fit.

I recognize that I have no proof. That is always the way with apotheosis.
This is also why I prefer to stick to issues of morality because no one has yet been able to prove that God is real and I have no more proof than they for the cosmic consciousness.

The cosmic consciousness is not a miracle working God. He does not interfere with us save when one of us finds it. Not a common thing from what I can see. It is a part of nature and our next evolutionary step.

I tend to have more in common with atheists who ignore what they see as my delusion because our morals are basically identical. Theist tend not to like me much as I have no respect for literalists and fundamentals and think that most Christians have tribal mentalities and poor morals.

I am rather between a rock and a hard place but this I cannot help.

I am happy to be questioned on what I believe but whether or not God exists is basically irrelevant to this world for all that he does not do, and I prefer to thrash out moral issues that can actually find an end point. The search for God is never ending when you are of the Gnostic persuasion. My apotheosis basically says that I am to discard whatever God I found, God as a set of rules that is, not idol worship, it but instead, raise my bar and seek further.

My apotheosis also showed me that God has no need for love, adoration or obedience. He has no needs. Man has dominion here on earth and is to be and is the supreme being.

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Re: Who, other than a man, ever put voice to the will of God?

God did when he told the Apostles to listen to Jesus at the Transfiguration.
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Quote: We are told that we will be judged at the end of our lives. Judged by a God who will torture us forever in hell if we happen to not believe properly and follow his rules. This judgement will come even as we never get full disclosure by a God who hides from us. We are as some say, to choose heaven or hell, God or Satan, without having full knowledge of the conditions.-end quote

We are told that?

Do you believe everything you're told?

I don't. My intuition (or was it my spirit?) told me God isn't going to torture anybody. I think I've known it since birth for a long time in an unarticulated way.

Why the heck anyone would choose to drum "eternal torment" themes all the time to keep them separated them from God is what I don't understand.

It seems like an unhealthy fixation to me.

In the Stages of Child Faith Development Professor James W. Fowler, a developmental psychologist at Candler School of Theology, proposed seven specific stages of faith development.

Quote: During the first two years of a child's life, the stimulus and safety of their environment may contribute to an overall sense of trust and safety about the universe. Fowler proposes that these unconscious conclusions can inform their sense of the divine, and affect the transition into the next stage.

Read more: Stages of Child Faith Development | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_7986135_sta...#ixzz1kDYCJTsF
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God did when he told the Apostles to listen to Jesus at the Transfiguration.
You do not even know who the 12 are.
An important detail that Christianity does not care about.

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All 12 weren't present at the Transfiguration.
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All 12 weren't present at the Transfiguration.
Name them.

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In the Stages of Child Faith Development Professor James W. Fowler, a developmental psychologist at Candler School of Theology, proposed seven specific stages of faith development.

Quote: During the first two years of a child's life, the stimulus and safety of their environment may contribute to an overall sense of trust and safety about the universe. Fowler proposes that these unconscious conclusions can inform their sense of the divine, and affect the transition into the next stage.

Read more: Stages of Child Faith Development | eHow.com [url]]
My focus is adults who think like children and like you, believe in fantasy, miracles and magic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNSe4Ff57n4&feature=player_embedded

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My focus is adults who think like children and like you, believe in fantasy, miracles and magic.

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No, the Gospel is the reality presented by God's word.
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No, the Gospel is the reality presented by God's word.
12 names. Still waiting.

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12 names. Still waiting.

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Not interested, thanks.
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Why do you care if he can name the 12 apostles? I mean even if he couldn't he could just google them
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