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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:05:26 GMT
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arry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
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> I find it interesting that you can twist around what I say so
> remarkably, since it seems to be one of your hot buttons to accuse
> others of twisting YOUR words.
What have a twisted? You decry my/our/Christians' concept of God because
the God you see in the Bible doesn't live up to your definitions of justice,
righteousness, and fairness.
> Your god requires worship in a specific way. Why is that not groveling?
When did I say that God requires specific worship?
> My morality is there on the table for all to see, it derives from a few
> simple principles (one, actually). If I live a life fully consistent
> with it, why would that not be righteous?
Because lots of cultures practice things perfectly "righteous" to them that
others would never accept. That makes your particular set of morals either
superior, meaning there is an absolute scale that can be better than yours,
or it makes your particular set of morals jusy another in a long line of
relativistic crap passing as morals and not really that great after all,
except in your own mind.
> For me to condemn god would be to acknowledge that she existed. Don't
> believe I've done that. I've merely condemned a hypothetical god who
> would require me to worship her in a specific way or suffer fire for my
> pains, no matter how well I live, yet who will take a murderer up to eat
> honey at her side as long as that murderer is truly "Sorry" for what
> they did.
You're really hung up on this worship thing. Do you not like being told
you're wrong, by any chance? Christianity isn't about worship procedures.
That's denomination, and it doesn't matter.
> Bah.
>
> So, hypotethetically speaking, is that your god or not?
No. For reasons to which you're not paying attention.
Jesse
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