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What is missing from your life?
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BSM1
What? Me worry?
What would it mean to you, that's the question. For that matter what does "rich" and "poor" mean to you?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
You still haven't offered any evidence of that claim. The most you offered was something frequently found in pretty much any group, that is other group members ostracizing someone who isn't a part of that group anymore.
I wasn't talking about being good. Reread my original comment. The "rich" and "poor" that I used in my comment is about worldly wealth, not knowledge about how we're created which is the wealth I have witnessed to the past 9 years. Even though I am worldly poor, I have many good friends who have witnessed this wealth of knowledge from God this past several years.
The evidence you are seeking from me is invisible knowledge that only a servant of God has in his possession. If you're chosen to listen to the voice of God, then you would stop arguing and listen.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
I do listen, and listen to many things often. But "invisible knowledge" that only certain chosen ones can have, that isn't evidence, it's trying to give yourself a barrier that will pad your position against evidence to the contrary. If it's "invisible," it doesn't count as evidence because other's can't verify it independently (especially if only those of your group can know of this knowledge). Otherwise, I the invisible poop to prove the existence of the invisible pink unicorn, but you have to believe in her to smell it.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Well, that certainly clears it up...
Belief is all anyone has unless you were chosen to experience faith which is not the same as belief.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
I admit belief very sparingly. I have no faith, in anything, as the word is typically understood. Rather, I seek knowledge, facts, and concrete evidence to know about things. If I don't know, in nearly almost all situations I will admit ignorance before stating a belief, and when I do state a belief I am very clear it is nothing more than a belief.
Good for you. I have faith and it isn't anything like belief. The faith that I obtained the very first time I heard the voice of God led me to understanding what Man and God are.
Epic Beard Man
Bearded Philosopher
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Another issue I have with god, and something that demonstrates just how made up by humans he is, is that his book uses the gendered noun of about half the population to refer to the entirety of our species. We, without relying on god or the Bible, realized that's just a silly thing to do because women aren't men and men aren't women, but we are all human beings, but according to god's book it's ok to refer to us all as men. Really, it's nothing more than the "lesser position" that women have long been subjected to, a position that the Bible reaffirms with passages like "a wife is to be submissive to his husband," "a woman shall not usurp authority from a man," and how "unclean" a woman is while she's on her period. So because it views women as "less than," it defaults to calling us all men. It's a long standing cultural norm, sure, but shouldn't god be above such things?
Man was created male and female.
Genesis 1
27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Adam and Eve were formed in the beginning without the illusion of being born of the womb. All their offspring were formed with only one body by information of both male and female. Cain didn't have a partner until he committed adultery by having sexual intercourse with another body. Every single body on earth that had sexual intercourse with another body has committed adultery so it's impossible for any human being to obey the Ten Commandments.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Except humans do not equal man, and man does not equal the entirety of humanity.
Adultery and sex are not equal or interchangeable either. Biblically, sex within marriage is not adultery. Fornication outside of marriage, however, is considered adultery and is a sin.
We've got the money and time problem solved. There is not much missing from my life except smoked back bacon. I come from the UK where oak smoked back bacon was a staple of Sunday breakfast. We moved to France and although the food is generally excellent you simply cannot get decent bacon and smoked back is a distant memory.
You don't have any knowledge to understand how MAN and GOD are created.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
No one does. And, as I said, I don't go for this "man = all of us." But, really, we can expect nothing more from a book that demands women not usurp authority from a man and that she is unclean while she is on her period, and pretty much anything she touches while on her period becomes as unclean as she is, same for her husband if he has sex for her then, and also there is the bit that a woman is doubly unclean for a period of time if she gives birth to a girl rather than a boy.
I do understand how we're created. Liars do not understand.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Honest people do not understand and do not pretend to know. Liars masquerade as having knowledge where truthfully they or no one has any. Having what an ancient books states is exactly just that. What an ancient book says about it.