What an awfully sad way to live one's life. I feel for you. Good luck.
I feel much more for you.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear. What I was saying was that the purpose of Christianity is not to have prosperity on earth. I've never seen anything that supported that. The purpose is to have prosperity in the afterlife.
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear. What I was saying was that the purpose of Christianity is not to have prosperity on earth. I've never seen anything that supported that. The purpose is to have prosperity in the afterlife.
I have. It's called tele-evangelism and a centre piece of many modern "mega churches" where your belief will equate economic prosperity in this life. Pretty big in the slums in Brazil among others.
It's stuff like that that gives the rabid anti-christian ammunition for their attacks.
I'm not accusing you here, you seem like rather a sensible sort of christian, and I mean that as a compliment.
Peace
Dan
"YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
I have. It's called tele-evangelism and a centre piece of many modern "mega churches" where your belief will equate economic prosperity in this life. Pretty big in the slums in Brazil among others.
It's stuff like that that gives the rabid anti-christian ammunition for their attacks.
I'm not accusing you here, you seem like rather a sensible sort of christian, and I mean that as a compliment.
Peace
Dan
Then I submit to you that is not Christianity.
Thanks for the compliment.
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear. What I was saying was that the purpose of Christianity is not to have prosperity on earth. I've never seen anything that supported that. The purpose is to have prosperity in the afterlife.
Why feel for me? I'm not sitting around earning brownie points in this life waiting for the next one to be better. Unless someone proves otherwsie, this is all we have, and this is the only shot at this thing we call living we are ever going to get.
'No time to be void, or save upon life, you gotta spend it all...'
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects
are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious: Aristotle
Why feel for me? I'm not sitting around earning brownie points in this life waiting for the next one to be better. Unless someone proves otherwsie, this is all we have, and this is the only shot at this thing we call living we are ever going to get.
'No time to be void, or save upon life, you gotta spend it all...'
...and you're living your one shot on a message board...
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
why does anyone feel the need to insult another's religious beliefs while in debate over religion? it's all fine and good to think something is bunk....but where is any decency towards another's beliefs? and then we wonder, why none of this respect exists elsewhere? just a thought...
I've heard that some people believe that the prosperity of the United States is directly corelated to their belief in Jesus Christ. I'm wondering if anyone has ever broken this down state by state. Do states with the highest Christian church attendance fair better than states with poor church attendance? Are states' prosperity affected negatively if they have a higher than normal Islamic or Budhist worshiping? perhaps it depends on the number of Bibles vs Koran copies that exist within state boundaries (states with more hotel rooms have a definite advantage here). I'm RAPTURED by this theory.
JC loves making money. That's why he expelled the money lenders from the Temple.
one foot in the door
the other foot in the gutter
sweet smell that they adore
I think I'd rather smother
-The Replacements-
This does not take into account the many Godly people who work very hard and yet suffer hardship after hardship. Or the Godly people who are very poor. Or the Godly people who suffer from illnesses.
It is my understanding that God's will is about a power far greater than us. I think to judge God's will shows where we are at, not where God is at.
I didnt know i was writing a term paper professor...ill make sure to quote everything next time as i hope you do also
I didnt know i was writing a term paper professor...ill make sure to quote everything next time as i hope you do also
When we post anything, it shows up with our name on it. If we directly quote another source and don't credit it, it comes off as though we, ourselves, wrote it.
plariarise: 1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).
Whether it's handing it in to a professor or posting it under your username on a message board, it's the same act of passing it off as your own.
(edit: and I so get the irony of this edit: dictionary source: dictionary.com. )
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr
And I agree. I never said that it was all about earthly prosperity.
Goodness. I'm pretty sure you said that nations with Christianity have prospered economically including food and shelter over those nations that are primarily Muslim. Perhaps we should reread your argument from earlier? If you want to rehash your statement then that would be more than acceptable to admit you are wrong. No shame in that as long as you mean it.
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I feel much more for you.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear. What I was saying was that the purpose of Christianity is not to have prosperity on earth. I've never seen anything that supported that. The purpose is to have prosperity in the afterlife.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
I have. It's called tele-evangelism and a centre piece of many modern "mega churches" where your belief will equate economic prosperity in this life. Pretty big in the slums in Brazil among others.
It's stuff like that that gives the rabid anti-christian ammunition for their attacks.
I'm not accusing you here, you seem like rather a sensible sort of christian, and I mean that as a compliment.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Then I submit to you that is not Christianity.
Thanks for the compliment.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Why feel for me? I'm not sitting around earning brownie points in this life waiting for the next one to be better. Unless someone proves otherwsie, this is all we have, and this is the only shot at this thing we call living we are ever going to get.
'No time to be void, or save upon life, you gotta spend it all...'
are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious: Aristotle
Viva Zapatista!
...and you're living your one shot on a message board...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
JC loves making money. That's why he expelled the money lenders from the Temple.
the other foot in the gutter
sweet smell that they adore
I think I'd rather smother
-The Replacements-
I didnt know i was writing a term paper professor...ill make sure to quote everything next time as i hope you do also
When we post anything, it shows up with our name on it. If we directly quote another source and don't credit it, it comes off as though we, ourselves, wrote it.
plariarise: 1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).
Whether it's handing it in to a professor or posting it under your username on a message board, it's the same act of passing it off as your own.
(edit: and I so get the irony of this edit: dictionary source: dictionary.com.
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And I agree. I never said that it was all about earthly prosperity.
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Goodness. I'm pretty sure you said that nations with Christianity have prospered economically including food and shelter over those nations that are primarily Muslim. Perhaps we should reread your argument from earlier? If you want to rehash your statement then that would be more than acceptable to admit you are wrong. No shame in that as long as you mean it.
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength