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Does God Approve of Gays?

Omega Man said:
Which outlined the religious "trickster" character which undermined the competing religious snakes cults which were prevalent throughout the Fertile Crescent.


OM
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lol...attempting to intertwine God's Word with paganism...:failpail:
 
Elvira said:
lol...attempting to intertwine God's Word with paganism...:failpail:
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Which is where the tale originated, absolutely. Those who borrowed the tale, betrayed the context, then declared it "God's Word" (God remains strangely silent on the subject) do not in any way change this foundation.


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Omega Man said:
Which is where the tale originated, absolutely. Those who borrowed the tale, betrayed the context, then declared it "God's Word" (God remains strangely silent on the subject) do not in any way change this foundation.


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It is not a tale...that was your 1st mistake...
 
beancounter said:
Assuming, a god exists, he likely doesn't care about petty human concerns.

Remember, he's on omnipotent being. Try to wrap you head around that concept.

Do you really think he spends his entire existence concerned over the actions of humans, when he has an entire universe to deal with?

Relative to a being of that power, humans are essentially gnats.

Do you concern yourself over the lives of gnats? Nope.

And an Omnipotent being likely doesn't concern himself about you or the other gnats, ...er I mean humans on the planet
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I don't know man, if gnats developed a sense of self awareness, learned to make things like music, art, and took reproduction from a base thing to an emotional connection. I might concern myself with the lives of gnats. That's probably all I would do, create habitats for all my little gnats and watch them like soap operas. What's the alternative? Watch rocks smash together for the next couple billion years til I get some different gnats?

Everything about our existence screams reality game show. Think about evolution. It's all about who can adapt to different situations. Think about how in an infinite universe, we all fight wars over dumb **** like salt. Just think about how we built a society based on monogamy, and then basically rejected monogamy in practice.

You telling me, if the gnats in your apartment were not in the middle of a blood feud because a neighboring gnat boy got their daughter pregnant and they turn out to be second cousins, you telling me, you wouldn't watch that with popcorn?

Well, you got better taste in entertainment than I, if that's the case.
 
Elvira said:
It is not a tale...that was your 1st mistake...
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Believing that humans first existed in a magic garden 6000 years ago and were deceived by a talking snake would not be my folly.


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Omega Man said:
Believing that humans first existed in a magic garden 6000 years ago and were deceived by a talking snake would not be my folly.


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No more folly than believing everything is a myth...btw, there was no talkin' snake, now you're talkin' crazy...:2razz:
 
Elvira said:
Actually, yes...CB is right, you are wrong...Genesis makes it obvious who the serpent was by giving us the very 1st prophecy in the Bible, putting enmity between God's seed and Satan's seed, the very one that all other prophecies are based on...

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike* him in the heel.” Genesis 3:15
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And , from the words quoted that has nothing to do with satan what so ever.
 
RAMOSS said:
And , from the words quoted that has nothing to do with satan what so ever.
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Right, God was seeking vengeance against a measley snake...now, what's wrong with that picture? lol...
 
Elvira said:
No more folly than believing everything is a myth...btw, there was no talkin' snake, now you're talkin' crazy...:2razz:
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Not everything is a myth; only myths are myths.


OM
 
Omega Man said:
Not all of it, anyway; but some of it nonetheless.


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Jesus' parables, yes...they were illustrative teachings...even visions, dreams, and other prophecies were of events yet to come...God's Word is Truth...John 17:17...
 
Does God Approve of Gays?

Even if there is a God ... who cares if He approves?

A more pertinent question would be; Does God approve of His wicked priests that molest children, or look the other way regarding chronic adultery and lies?
 
Elvira said:
Jesus' parables, yes...they were illustrative teachings...even visions, dreams, and other prophecies were of events yet to come...God's Word is Truth...John 17:17...
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Not to mention the Pentateuch.


OM
 
Rogue Valley said:
Does God Approve of Gays?

Even if there is a God ... who cares if He approves?

A more pertinent question would be; Does God approve of His wicked priests that molest children, or look the other way regarding chronic adultery and lies?
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Wait, wait, wait...so the sins you approve of are the ones that God needs to approve of? What is it that makes you think that God looks the other way on adultery and lies? The other day I posted something about a gay Episcopal Bishop who left his wife for a guy. Was that adultery or is it okay because he is gay? Any more selective outrage you want to tell us all about?
 
Elvira said:
Right, God was seeking vengeance against a measley snake...now, what's wrong with that picture? lol...
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It is a just so story to explain why snakes have no legs, and why a lot of people freak out about them.
 
RAMOSS said:
It is a just so story to explain why snakes have no legs, and why a lot of people freak out about them.
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Um no, Jehovah's referring to how the snake lives was symbolic of how Satan's standing with Him would be from that point on...
 
Elvira said:
Um no, Jehovah's referring to how the snake lives was symbolic of how Satan's standing with Him would be from that point on...
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Was a religious trickster designed by monotheists to undermine the sheer prevalence of the major competing religion of the area and time, then was borrowed and reduced to writing to instill a sense of national religious identity in the face of almost-certain cultural assimilation. Then, hundreds of years later, it suddenly became "Satan".


OM
 
Omega Man said:
Was a religious trickster designed by monotheists to undermine the sheer prevalence of the major competing religion of the area and time, then was borrowed and reduced to writing to instill a sense of national religious identity in the face of almost-certain cultural assimilation. Then, hundreds of years later, it suddenly became "Satan".


OM
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It's always been Satan...
 
Elvira said:
Um no, Jehovah's referring to how the snake lives was symbolic of how Satan's standing with Him would be from that point on...
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Where does it say 'satan' in the text?
 
Elvira said:
It's always been Satan...
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...only since the messianic authors insisted as such; but not before. My teacher was much more authoritative on the subject than yours.


OM
 
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