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Could, hypotheticaly, organized realigion be insulting to god.

• Agnostic?

  I consider myself to be a Christian however I've always come to the same vexing question everytime I think about the omnisance of God.
  
  God is all powerful could not God if he disired be anything he wanted? Could God not if he wanted present himself in any form he thought was fitting?
  Could all realigions just be different interpretations of the same God by different peoples?
  Multiple Gods, could God have not multiplied himself? Could "lesser" Gods have simply been angels?
  
  So is claiming that one interpretation is the correct interpretation, in a sense claiming that you understand God and know his limitaions? So infact claiming that God is limited to one form is an insult to Gods power?
  
  THE RULES WE GIVE
  
  Could our condemnnation of people who sin be a profound offense to God? Could not God change his own rules? Is God obligated to tell us if he did? Is God not capable of wimsy?
  
  So is it not true that god could choose to save whom ever he feels like whether humanity finds them good or bad(however I do wish he choose "fairy")? Is it not true that God makes the rules, God can break the rules?
  
  So would it not be true that to say that someone is going to hell we are assuming that we understand the judgment of God and are in fact insulting the power of God?
  
  So, is it not possible that in fact, Agnostism be the most respectful to God, in that is fully respects that God can be who, and what ever he wants?
  
  Its a thought.

  33%  Voted for by Nathan Explosion, dollar.

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    mudgod
    February 6, 2007
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    As a Bible believeing Christian, I know the Bible (word of God) says that we are made in His image and His likeness. Therefore, He looks like we do.
    God made the rules and He Himself must live by them. He has told us the way to be saved based on those rules.If He changed those rules midstream, He would be a liar, therefore sinful, and God cannot abide sin.
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    Nathan Explosion
    February 6, 2007
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    Dude God defines what sin is their for nothing he does could possibly be sin. otherwise klling millions of people in a floor would be a sin. further "image" is vague he could have ment it spiritually. your assumeing that you understand God. unless that is you are God are you?
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      mudgod
      February 7, 2007
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      I, as well as you, have the potential to be God. The commandment "thou shalt not kill" should read, "thou shalt not murder". If God is killing someone, it is out of mercy. And anyway, He, and He alone, has the ability to resurrect them at any time He wishes. He has no respect of persons only their righteousness. Certainly we are a physical representation of Him. As the bible says, we will know Him because He looks like we do.
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    dollar
    February 6, 2007
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    I was actual thinking of bringing up that argument that all religions are worshiping the same God and that different cultures around the world just interpret God in different ways.
    
    I think, People around the world take the interpretation of this supreme being then creates there own variation of religion which suits there culture best. I see it like this, All the religions around the world make up the pieces to the puzzle. All these pieces make up the whole which is the same common belief of a supreme being.
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    dollar
    February 6, 2007
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    About sin...

    If God is all good and God, without the ability to make mistakes and without the madness to have create such a thing as evil, created everything, Then everything must be good no? Why would God create evil? Things only become "evil" when humans name it so.
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      mudgod
      February 7, 2007
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      God created sin in that He created Lucifer. It was Lucifer, by virtue of his vanity, that became sin and brought sin into the world. If there is any goodness in sin, it is that we who would be of God, must overcome it.
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    TeChNoWC
    February 7, 2007
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    I do agree with this somewhat. Another reason why I maintain my stance as an agnostic theist. Still, I throw my allegiance to a God revealed through the revelation I have received and thus the only means to acknowledge Him in it's entirety.
    
    My views on belief may be insulting to God, as it is marginally self induced, but I am presented with a reality that simply cannot portray itself enough to produce any sort of knowledge. This breeds complete agnosticism (null state). Belief is the escape from this, other than the conviction conjuring affects of the mind, which are in effect destroyed by philosophical introspect anyway (should one pursue long enough). I need to simply trust in the God I know, and not the God I don't (and that could possibly be). I do not know that God. Tis a pity, but I have made my choice.
  • trueblueliberty
    February 11, 2007
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    Finally

    You summed it up very nicely,without being self-righteous.You made very valid points.Get your bible ,any good christian would not be caught dead without it..ha!ha!.Look in Genesis right ater Adam and eve eat of the tree of knowledge of good and bad but right befor getting thrown out.God is thinking to himself and worries that since eating the fruits they have knowledge to rival God's.He then decides to throw them out befor they eat of the tree of life and live forever and be a God as one of US.tHERE ARE MANY REFERENCES MADE BY GOD HIMSELFthat refer to him not being the only one.
    Trueblueliberty
  • trueblueliberty
    February 11, 2007
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    Sorry

    I just read about not throwing quotes out from my religeous text.If it makes you feel any better I'm agnostic
    Trueblueliberty
  • Lady Spade Ninja
    March 8, 2007
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    I find your question interesting. However, are you talking about the omniscience of God or the omnipotence of God? I think it is fairly certain to say that God is not the same to all religions, and that he just manifests himself differently. If this were true then his character would still remain he same, and if we compare the major religions, we know that this is not true. Secondly, I disagree with your comment that agnostics are the most respectful of God. God considers those that obey him the most respectful(whoever thay may be). Agnostics simply straddle the fence and try to avoid picking a side like the political candidate who tries to please everyone. We live in a strange time of post-modern culture where everything, especially religion, is "relative." This sounds all good and well, but if you think about it, how much sense does it really make. We don't apply the same logic to any other situation. 2+2=4. That is an absolute truth, it isn't relative. There is only one right answer. The same is true of religion, not everyone can be right. Who is right? Well I guess that we will have to wait and see.
    By the way mudgod, you are a little confused with your theology. You have misinterpreted some important issues.
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      mudgod
      March 8, 2007
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      Please. Enlighten me.
    • • Lady Spade Ninja
        March 9, 2007
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        We are not physical representations of God. We are made in his image, but this does not mean that we look like him. An image is a reflection(as it means in the original text), not a picture. We were meant to be a reflection of God and his glory by how we live our lives. We reflect the light and glorify him through obedience, so that when people see us and our lives, they see the work of God in us and him in us. Also, if you think about, it would be impossible for us to look like him. We have a finite body, which would suggest that God in turn was a finite body. Since he is omnipresent and infinite, this cannot be.
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          Applehead
          March 10, 2007
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          "reflection of God"
          
          Excellent like it a lot, I have been tryin to describe this to myself for a while ha ha thanks

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