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The chosen one? The new film that claims Trump's election was an act of God

Dragonfly said:
Believing that "god" has some/any role in who is elected POTUS just proves the abject insanity that's alive and well in some people's minds.

It's rather frightening.
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Believing that should disqualify them from voting.
 
Logician Man said:
Amazing how almost all of the 40,000 or so God claims seem to be males.It's almost as if if males created the Gods,not vice versa.
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Actually the True God, Jehovah is neither male nor female but we being the humans that we are, have to ascribe a description of Him in some way....

Is God Male or Female?

Just as assigning human features to God is not to be understood literally, use of the masculine gender to describe God should not be taken literally. Gender distinction is unique to physical creatures and is a linguistic device that reflects the limitations of human language to capture fully the essence of Almighty God, Jehovah.

The Bible’s use of the designation “Father” helps us to understand that our Creator can be compared to a loving, protective, and caring human father. (Matthew 6:9) This does not mean that we are to view God, or even other spirit creatures in heaven, as being male or female. Gender, in the sense of sex, is not a characteristic of their nature. Interestingly, the Bible indicates that those who are called to be joint heirs with Christ in his heavenly Kingdom do not expect to retain their human gender when they are glorified as spirit sons of God. The apostle Paul reminded them that “there is neither male nor female” within their ranks when they become glorified spirit sons of God. They are also figuratively described as “the bride” of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. All of this illustrates how human features as ascribed to God​—as well as to his only-begotten Son, Jesus, and other spirit creatures—​should not be understood literally.​—Galatians 3:26, 28; Revelation 21:9; 1 John 3:1, 2.

Correctly understanding the male role, Bible writers employed the masculine gender when referring to God. They saw in man, properly fulfilling his role, an appropriate reflection of Jehovah’s loving, fatherly interest in his earthly children.​—Malachi 3:17; Matthew 5:45; Luke 11:11-13.
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https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102008370?q=gender&p=par
 
marke said:
Oh, I see. If none of Bill's cousins are related to Danney Williams then Bill is also not related to Danney Williams. But what if Danney Williams has DNA which shows he is 1/1000th Clinton, does that make him a Clinton? What about Catherine A. Cornelius, Bill's very distant kissing cousin, was only distantly related to Bill. Does that mean Danney Williams may be more closely related to Bill than even Bill's own hand picked travel office head mistress?
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You would have to see where in the family tree it could potentially put him. Research would be needed to narrow down things, and it all depends on how close a relative it is. It would have to be mutliple hits on 3rd and 4th cousins to do so.. or less hits on second cousins. The more hits in 2nd or 3rd cousins, the more likely hood that there is. If there are enough 'cousin' hits, then it certainly would be rational and reasonable to confirm with an additional paternity test. However in absence of any such testing, there is no logical or reasonable reason to think the current paternity test wasn't anything but on the up and up.

You can't tell for certain without a direct test, however, the databases are big enough to show how feasible it is. It wouldn't be '1/1000th' of a Clinton, it would be 'first to fourth cousin' matches.,, if Chelsea was in there, it would be 'first cousin or half sibling' (if Chelsea is Bill's daughter and the conspiracy theories aren't true)

The DNA can give very close relatives.. indeed there have been a number of people who found they had unexpected offspring (or parent other than who they thought) using those tests. With the current state of technology and the size of the databases, it is not unusual to get 3rd and 4th cousin matches.
 
RAMOSS said:
You would have to see where in the family tree it could potentially put him. Research would be needed to narrow down things, and it all depends on how close a relative it is. It would have to be mutliple hits on 3rd and 4th cousins to do so.. or less hits on second cousins. The more hits in 2nd or 3rd cousins, the more likely hood that there is. If there are enough 'cousin' hits, then it certainly would be rational and reasonable to confirm with an additional paternity test. However in absence of any such testing, there is no logical or reasonable reason to think the current paternity test wasn't anything but on the up and up.

You can't tell for certain without a direct test, however, the databases are big enough to show how feasible it is. It wouldn't be '1/1000th' of a Clinton, it would be 'first to fourth cousin' matches.,, if Chelsea was in there, it would be 'first cousin or half sibling' (if Chelsea is Bill's daughter and the conspiracy theories aren't true)

The DNA can give very close relatives.. indeed there have been a number of people who found they had unexpected offspring (or parent other than who they thought) using those tests. With the current state of technology and the size of the databases, it is not unusual to get 3rd and 4th cousin matches.
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A basic paternity test conducted and verified by clearly non-biased researchers should do the trick. Biased testing and reporting is untrustworthy.

Biased reporting is like someone producing a belated birth certificate but refusing to allow unbiased forensic examination of the document to verify that it is not a forgery.
 
zyzygy said:
Believing that should disqualify them from voting.
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I strongly disagree with this. Voting is an expression of personal preference. How one comes to that preference is irrelevant.
 
marke said:
A basic paternity test conducted and verified by clearly non-biased researchers should do the trick. Biased testing and reporting is untrustworthy.

Biased reporting is like someone producing a belated birth certificate but refusing to allow unbiased forensic examination of the document to verify that it is not a forgery.
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There is no reason to think the previous paternity test is bad, except for the complaints of one person who wants to make money out of it.
 
RAMOSS said:
There is no reason to think the previous paternity test is bad, except for the complaints of one person who wants to make money out of it.
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Simple minded democrat natives believe every word of their democrat tribal chiefs.
 
marke said:
Simple minded democrat natives believe every word of their democrat tribal chiefs.
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I do not see evidence that is a 'true statement'. I also see a great deal of the propagation of mud slinging tactics from the people who want to destroy democracy.
 
PoS said:
So god is like, transgender or something?
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Well, in the Jewish faith, God has both male and female qualities. Otherwise, God would not have been able to make mankind in his image, male and female he made them.
 
RAMOSS said:
Well, in the Jewish faith, God has both male and female qualities. Otherwise, God would not have been able to make mankind in his image, male and female he made them.
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Hmm, that is new to me. Growing up in a Catholic household, I was taught that god was an old man with a very long white beard.
 
PoS said:
Hmm, that is new to me. Growing up in a Catholic household, I was taught that god was an old man with a very long white beard.
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Also, in the Jewish faith, the term 'holy spirit' is used when God is doing creative works. In Hebrew, the term is feminine in form. This is typified in the concept of the "Shekhinah'. The symbol that is associated with the Shekhinah is the letter 'shin' .. and shekhinah literally means 'dwelling'. The hand gesture the orthodox use to represent this is the two fingers split, with the thumb sticking out to the side. Leonard Nimoy grew up in an orthodox Jewish household and used that as the Vulcan greeting in star trek. (Live long and prosper). SO, when someone uses that hand gesture, it's origins come from the Jewish religious symbology when the Orthodox Judaism invokes the symbol of the feminine side of god in god's creative mode.
 
Maybe the election of Trump was God’s idea of a practical joke.

Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. — Al Pacino as John Milton, The Devil’s Advocate
 
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