God Loves You.

[Theland]

God loves you.
Shouldn't you love Him back?

[Theland]

Oh Kenlease help me!
I'm pining for concern, attention and sympathy.
Please throw me a lifeline!
Oh gosh I wish I had your insight my friend.

[Mozz71]

Well, it beggars the question, if God loves us all, regardless of belief or race, why doesn't Theland? If you're an example of a believer, it just hints that the more you let Jesus into your life, the more hate and distrust it breeds.

[Theland]

Naomi says Bunkum.
The pinnacle of years and years of religious study.
(Not much depth tonight though).

[vulcan42]

Theland if god loves me why did my wife die after only fifteen years of marriage, leaving two small boys without a mother? or would that be my fault?

[Theland]

Mozz - I don't hate them, I'm wary of them.

[Ken4155]

I'm not your friend, Theland. I see right through your disguise and if i say what i see, my post would be zapped in seconds.

[Mozz71]

Why? God loves them, that should be enough for you.

[Theland]

Vulcan - Yes I remember. You have my sympathy I assure you.
Death comes to us all, some sooner, some later, always wreaking havoc in its wake, grief, misery, hardship, broken hearts.
The answer, Gods answer, is that He has defeated death, and we can share in that victory so that our inevitable death is not the end, neither is it the end for your wife who was taken from you so cruelly, so early.

[gness]

That's a lousy answer to Vulcan and his two small boys. In fact a lousy answer full stop. Stuff sharing god's victory by dying young like it's something wonderful your god has given us.

I'd like to be kind and able to say if folk want to believe in a god then let them get on with it but I've seen the harm, dreadful harm that belief in your god does so I'd love people who spout on and on about their god to....well just go away really or at least shut up.

[Theland]

And tnen think mistakenly that there is nothing? No hope at all? No, there is better than that.

[gness]

Of course there’s nothing which makes the evils that come from religion and this futile worship of a nonexistent god so terrible.

[sherrardk]

If god’s so loving why does he have you here looking for pity when you’re grasping for breath?

[Theland]

My thread certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons didn't it?
Like moths to a candle, out troop my critics, not backward in coming forward in their criticism not only of what I believe, but of me personally. But that doesn't matter.
I too can't stand religion, but there is a lot to be learned from some aspects of the works of various scholarly religionists.
So then there are those who criticise me for their misunderstanding of what I believe, and their equally erroneous opinion on what I should believe.
Do I have all of the answers? No! Not at all.
Mine is a journey searching for a better relationship with God, and there is no end game this side of the grave.
But how to live our lives now? Ah yes that is the most immediate question.
One thing is for sure, and that is if we are serious about searching for God, we have to stop living our lives as before and begin looking at others through Gods eyes, and see them as He sees them and treat them accordingly.
But hey! Does that mean I have to accept everybody unconditionally on their terms, and love them as God loves them too? In effect, yes, bit that does not mean that I have to lose my sanity and sense of proportion, and be wary of those who would harm me or those that I love.
There is a reality that is greater than us, and we are a mere shadow of that greater reality.
We are not just entities with a conscience, consciousness being something that we don't even begin to understand, a ghost in a machine, programmed to function and cease at death.
No, apart from consciousness, which gives us the wherewithal to function efficiently and interact with each other, we are also spiritual beings, and within us our spirit abides, and yearns to be fulfilled.
The only satisfying way we can fulfill our spirit is to commune with God our creator. But if we deny ourselves this opportunity to allow God into our lives, then the spirit cries out all the more, and we lean towards any number of things to take the rightful place of God in our lives.
Many things, but maybe summed up by saying, '' worldliness,'' with all of the connotations that inspires.
Of course, many people have no such problem, and think they have no need of God, but the answer to that particular question is simple, they are already spiritually dead inside.

[JimF]

"My thread certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons didn't it?"

Which is why you posted it. And all the other identical ones. Your next one will be the same.

[sherrardk]

Do you actually believe any one is going to read all that ***?

[Theland]

Snerrardk - You are half right. Yes I am gasping for breath quite often, but you are wrong if you think I come looking for pity.
No, I often ask for advice, and yes, I sometimes sound off and let my feelings roam free.
But if you find that offensive, I am sorry.

[Theland]

Jimf - Do you find it offensive? If so why?

Sherrardk - I don't honestly care. Do you?

[Theland]

Oh God, (yes He is), please help me to not be like everybody else, think like everybody else, be like everybody else, or worship everybody else.
Thank you.
Amen.