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It's either that you are just getting old (and welcome to the club)or that you have tooooo much on your mind. I'm glad that you are OK.

Reply to Yes, God is Good and Alive & Faithful in Religion JoeUser Forums

KFC, thank you for sharing the Pastor's wife story. Even though it's so personal to those involved, it touches each and every one of us and helps open our hearts, to see with our hearts. This story shows us that God is not a distant God that He is close to us in His blessedness. "Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you" St.Matt 7:7. As you said, trying to explain God knowing it can't really be done yet, we see and explain Go

Reply to Don't Tell Me God Isn't A Personal God in Religion JoeUser Forums

REUELkb posts: It is not in the nature of science to actively disprove things with no evidence that mandates a God existing in the first place. In some sectors, we see some of the most important branches of science in search of evidence to disprove the existence of God as though science and religion contradict one another. Science doesn't have all the answers, yet it is assiduously used to support the atheist's claim that science proves that the ide

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Sodaiho, Thank you for sharing your thoughts on today's tragic event. Kids aren't supposed to die in school...but they do and they have again today. I sit watching the TV in numbness asking questions. What's it all about? Why, how could someone do that? What can I do? Certainly, as you suggest--pray for all those involved and work with one another in trust, love and hope for a better tommorrow. It might start with just a smile to a stranger.

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Okay, think of the Natural Law written on our heart as that inner voice of "conscience"; that inner voice written on our heart. From the moment of our birth, there is an inner sense of right and wrong. We know interiorly when we are doing wrong. Something rebukes us. We (naturally)know when we are going against that inner voice. We can't escape it, it's there. It's the Natural Law or that inner voice of conscience dictating to us a law that we didn't make and couldn't

Reply to Don't Tell Me God Isn't A Personal God in Religion JoeUser Forums

To create a universe, one would assume that some sort of mechanism would have to be applied to accomplish this. Perhaps God Itself would have to have laws to explain its existence or deciding what this God does. REUELKB, I'm content to believe that Almighty God created the whole world, visible and invisible, material and spiritual out of nothing by His Almighty will. His Almighty power is manifested to us in creation everywhere we look certainly includi

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Question of the Day posts: You say, QofD, that we come into this world as selfish little creatures. Helpless, but selfish - our survival depends on it. Feed me, change me, hold me, love me – over and over again for years. KFC POSTS: I think I'm with QOD on this one Lula. Consider what David said in Psalm 139..."in sin did my mother conceive me." I found this passage in Ps 51:5...(and I don't navigate S

Reply to Don't Tell Me God Isn't A Personal God in Religion JoeUser Forums

SODAIHO POSTS: The universe always was and always will be. Its form will change. First Cause is an argument based on our mind's inability to get a grip on infinity. I say that the iniverse is obviously created and that what is created supposes a Creator who is uncreated and GOd was not created. If He were, He would be a creature and would have a creator. His Creator would then be God, and not He Himself. God always existed. He never began and will n

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LITTLE WHIP POSTS: In my three years here (and over 600 articles, I've deleted more than I have available now) I have avoided the Religion forums like I avoid public toilets, only entering on the rare occasions when the need for release was so compelling as to temporarily distract me from the malodorous and unhygienic conditions within. It's all the same to me, lula. Hail the Whore of Babylon! I'm not into playing games so I'll give you two

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KFC POSTS: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, FIRST take the plank out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." so there you have it Mason. I'm not justifying anything. I'm giving you the truth

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

MASON M POSTS: Judge not lest you be judged. I think that is pretty damn straight forward and not open to much in the way of human interpretation. If one is of the Christian faith, then one must accept the teachings of Jesus as the absolute truth, in which case we do not have any "right" to judge one another. Period. Jesus himself said so more than once. To do so is in direct opposition to what Jesus himself taught. The imperative "Jud

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QUESTION OF THE DAY POSTS: By this very example you are reiterating what I said. We learn to be good. The 9 year olds learn what it's like to be pushed by the older kids. They learn what it feels like to be picked on and sometimes decide that they don't want to treat others that way. Yes, I agree when I wrote, "There is no doubt, QofD, that right and wrong are learned throughout our lives." We learn to be good and we learn to be bad through e

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KFC POSTS IN RESPONSE TO SODAIHO: In the dictionary to discern means: "to perceive by the sight of some other sense or by the intellect; to see, recognize or apprehend. To distinguish mentally, recognize as distinct or different." From a Christian POV we are called to be discerning. We're actually warned about this. For instance John (the Apostle of Love) said this in 1 John 4:1: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether the

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LITTLE WHIP POSTS: I've said all I had to say (to you) on the matter, and you needn't worry about me confronting you again on your threads. In return, I would ask that you refrain from directly addressing me again on third party blogs. I'll grant you the same courtesy. I want nothing more to do with you, and will not respond to you again, here or anywhere else. (I'm assuming,Little Whip, that your skit referred to KFC), if so I was ho

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

QUESTION OF THE DAY POSTS: have to disagree with you on this one lula. I think that right and wrong are learned. We come into this world as selfish little creatures. Helpless, but selfish - our survival depends on it. Feed me, change me, hold me, love me – over and over again for years. This continues but is modified as our parents and society teaches us what is acceptable and what is not. A majority of very young kids don’t naturally share their things, like

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Hello All, I just want to let you know I appreciate all the comments and haven't forgotten any of you. We had a 10 hour power outage and there's lots going on in the homefront.

Reply to Don't Tell Me God Isn't A Personal God in Religion JoeUser Forums

ThinkAloud posts: The arguement for God's existance is a similar one. If everything has a cause and a reason (whether we understand it or not) then the universe itself must have a cause and a reason too. why exclude the universe from that logical point? why assume something that has no basis in what we know? just because we dont like the idea of a Creator? is that science. I dont think so. in fact i know so. that is not the science i and every one e

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MasonMApril 10, 2007 21:20:48Reply #8 When one assumes the "right" to judge another it immediately begs the question as to what standard is to be used in this judgment. A magistrate judges based upon the rule of law. But upon what rules does a person judge another person? Thank you, Mason, for welcoming me to JU and for your thoughtful questions. I don't know if I can properly or fully answer them, however, I'll try. First of all a

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Hi Lula, Great first blog. You did a good job. If you only knew how hard a time I had getting it posted!! The first time I tried, even though I read the instructions and thought I had clicked everything correctly, the first post came out with not a single space inbetween any of the words or paragraphs. I tell you, that sent me through a nervous loop. I went through the process a second time changing some of the settings, and behold

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

You can't force feed Jesus to people. It just doesn't work. You are absolutely right. Lovable as He is, and as good as His teachings are for our happiness on earth, neither He nor His teachings can be forced. Having said that, that doesn't mean that we never bring up His Holy name or talk about His teachings (from whence judgmentalism comes,btw. )Once they are given, it's up to the person---for which they are meant---to receive or not. If they

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thank you, one and all, for your comments and sharing your views and concerns which are all to be taken with serious consideration. It seems the air is beginning to clear with regard to each one's better understanding of being judgmental. This, quite frankly, is what I was hoping for in writing and therefore, see this as a good thing, a good learning curve.

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Welcome to JU and to our sometimes ferocious debates. There will be occasions when you will need a very thick skin if you are to enjoy JU to the fullest. Thank you EOIC. I've been posting comments now since the beginning of the year so I am quite familiar with the ferocious debates that you describe. My skin thickened after one of my comments got deleted for going off topic, and I knew then, that I had to follow the rules of the blogger. It was a go

Reply to Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Testing, one, two, three. Ha, I've just dipped my foot into the pool as this is my very first blog.

Judge Not?---Corrected posted version in Religion JoeUser Forums

Over the last few days, there have been some rather lively discussions concerning leading “unGodly” lives and obeying the Ten Commandments of Almighty God or not. I want to thank THINK ALOUD for posting the following comment: “No one, not you not me not even Prophets and Messengers CAN validate any one of being Godly or not. God did not delegate that job t

Judge Not? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Over the last few days, there have been some rather lively discussions concerning leading “unGodly” lives and obeying the Ten Commandments of Almighty God or not. I want to thank THINK ALOUD for posting the following comment as they have led me to write my very first blog. THINK ALOUD POSTED: “No one, not you not me not even Prophets and Messengers CAN validate any one of being Godly or not. God did not delegate that job to anyone and HE reserves that for HIMSELF ONLY....... hope you get my poin