Question for believers
What do YOU do for god?
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I live my life in peace and honestly.
shareI lovingly, gladly and gratefully accept the MANY blessings HE provides and I acknowledge my complete dependence on HIM.
shareHe?
shareYes. He. As in God.
shareWhy "he"? Serious question. Why is God a man to you?
shareLOl. This is the guy who said that I wanted to bring feminism into my post about "climate change".
Can't help yourself, Bucky?
It was a serious question. Care to answer yourself?
shareNo, because it was a stupid question. Haven't you noticed that in this Dumb New World, calling someone "he" doesn't necessarily mean that that someone is a man.
Try to keep up, Bucky.
A simple "no" would have sufficed. The rest of your statement is just your usual blathering.
shareHehe, point for me!
shareHow "Christian" of you.
shareI'm more "christian" than you are, Bucky. That, you can believe.
shareI never professed to be Christian.
shareo jesus, how dumb can you......
Neither did I, bucky. You're the one who threw that term out there.
Wow. You sound angry. Plus you did say you were "more" Christian than me. It's not a stretch to think you consider yourself a Christian.
shareHey, Bucky, are you acting dumb just to piss me off? No seriously, are you doing that just to get me so annoyed that I shut down this conversation? Don't do that, Buck, it's counter-productive and makes you look like you don't have an argument.
When a person says they're "more christian" than you, it simply means they display more of the typical "christian qualities" than you do. You don't have to actually be a practising christian to have christian qualities.
That's something that Christians fail to acknowledge some times, I think.
Convention, really. God is referred to as He and God The Father, in the Bible. There's much I don't know about God but I do know it's impossible to fully understand Him in human terms so we do the best we can, considering our limitations.
shareI suppose you are right. The bible is a book written by men, however. It's rather convenient they refer to God as a man.
shareThere's also lots of translation issues. Some of the words in the original texts don't always translate cleanly. I believe this isn't one of those instances, however. The ancient Jews forbade uttering God's name and substituted Adonai (the name) for YHWH which there was no actual pronunciation. People who say Yahweh are actually saying an incorrect (and made up) version of YHWH.
shareI don't care what others believe. That's their choice. I'm an atheist. I prefer logic and reasoning.
shareMostly, I try to be kind and to forgive people. And I accept that I'm not always capable of doing what God wants, and ask forgiveness for my own failings. Pretty much that's it.
shareThis sums it up pretty well. I also try not to be selfish and I try to be as generous as possible towards everyone. I donยดt boast about good deeds, humility is important to me.
shareI also try to be generous, but within reason and capability. Humility isn't that important to me, tbh, because I consider doing "good deeds" to be basic human decency.
shareYou can do all those things without a belief in "God".
shareYou absolutely can, but you can't do them for God without first having a belief in God. And I definitely don't think I would do these things as much or care as much about them if I didn't believe in God. I'm not speaking for everyone, but as an individual, forgiveness in particular becomes harder to want to do as you get older.
shareWhat I am saying is that you can understand what is right or wrong and strive to be righteous without a belief in a god.
shareI'm not refuting that. I'm just answering the question, since I happen to believe in God. I know most people are brainwashed into it, but I think my belief in God has always felt innate; meanwhile, I've also always questioned and disputed the (often shady) practices of religious organizations, which is why I am not part of one. This is why I don't automatically associate moral integrity with religion.
shareRight on.
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