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Re: Does God have a name for God?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:26:10 GMT
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:24:32 GMT, "Frank Buiting"
<frank.buiting@infopulse.nl> wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Ryan Farrington writes:
> > Dave Low wrote:
> > > Does God have a name for God? follow up in off-topic.debate if you dare...
> >
> > First of all, I don't know if I am supposed to take this discussion only to
> > off-topic.debate or also have it cross-posted to general. If someone knows
> > better, let me know.
>
> Sounds like an offtopic.debate thing to me...
>
> > God existed first, before anything else. He created all things, including
> > man, whom He created in His own image. Man, being sinful, created gods in
> > his own image. (see http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truth.htm and
> > http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truthfaq.htm) So God did not steal the
> > term.
>
> Heh, interesting website because all 'truths' are quoted from a man-made
> book and blindy claims that the book tells the truth. I have never learned
> to take the texts written in the Bible this litteraly.
>
> > God _does_ have a name for God. He actually has three main names in the
> > Bible.
>
> The stuff you mention are still names given by man to this 'being' many call
> God.
>
> I was wondering if you could answer me this hypothesis:
> You say that God created everything, the stars, planets and life...
> What if man and an alien race encounter, and the aliens have a completely
> different kind of relegion (including their own creation-theory). Would you
> be so arrogant to tell them that they are wrong? What proof would you give them?
> Given the fact that the universe is so mindboggingly huge (and then some)
> there could be some huge amount of alien civilisations out there, so what
> proof is there that a group (less than 30% of Earth's population) are the
> ones in the universe that are right?
>
> I am asking this bacause of this text in the TruthFAQ:
> "Why is christianity different than other religions"
> You claim that there is only one god and the others are "not the true God"
> as backup for this claim you quote texts from a book written by the
> followers of this god. People who do not believe in this one true God are
> concidered sinful?
> I feel everyone is free to believe in whatever religion (or none) they feel
> is right for them, I feel it as offensive to tell other people that they're
> sinful because they don't believe in the same religion as you do.
>
> -Frank
Um...surely you realize the futility in arguing this? I mean people
NEED to believe what they believe, that is why they believe it. If we
ever do encounter an alien race, I hope they're advanced enough to
comprehend that simple concept, because it seems many of us have not.
: \
Robert
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