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.... Religious types never like it when its pointed out that according to their own Bible their God has committed acts of Genocide and has promised to commits further acts in the future..
According to that line of thought, God commits murder every day. After all, people die every day, right? Totally vacuous and lazy. And using the blanket, cover all the bases, answer "it's Gods will" to explain the unexplainable isn't vacuous and lazy? You have to admit God can leave us with many questions. True. Seek and ye shall find. Maybe. I've given up seeking. When God wants me, God will know where I am.
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That sounds like a threat? I guess he is not so different to Allah after all...
I mean why create man with a free will, but then punishes those that choose to exercise it in a certain manner?
A woman has an abortion and the religious zealots work themselves into a frenzy..Their God "terminates" 99.9% of mankind with a flood, and that's ok!
It's not a threat, it's a promise. And if you do some math, you will see your number 99.9% is off by several decimals. Eight people survived the Flood. Figure people, according to the Book you are referencing, lived to be about 900 years old. They could have children to at least 500 years of age. If they only had a kid every twenty years and the Flood happened in the year 1656 after creation, you have lots more than 99.9% dead.
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According to that line of thought, God commits murder every day. After all, people die every day, right?
Totally vacuous and lazy.
Never said that at all.. However you slice it, the Bible recounts numerous instances of God committing what amounts to Genocide..If you believe the Bible, and worship God, all you can really do is attempt to offer justification for that Genocide..
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That sounds like a threat? I guess he is not so different to Allah after all...
I mean why create man with a free will, but then punishes those that choose to exercise it in a certain manner?
A woman has an abortion and the religious zealots work themselves into a frenzy..Their God "terminates" 99.9% of mankind with a flood, and that's ok!
It's not a threat, it's a promise. And if you do some math, you will see your number 99.9% is off by several decimals. Eight people survived the Flood. Figure people, according to the Book you are referencing, lived to be about 900 years old. They could have children to at least 500 years of age. If they only had a kid every twenty years and the Flood happened in the year 1656 after creation, you have lots more than 99.9% dead. Stupid obviously knows no bounds. No wonder someone got you to work for free for years.
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True. Seek and ye shall find. Maybe. [/quote]
I've given up seeking. When God wants me, God will know where I am. [/quote]
Well, Sauer, may the force be with you in your futility and you're all too right about Him being able to find you.
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That sounds like a threat? I guess he is not so different to Allah after all...
I mean why create man with a free will, but then punishes those that choose to exercise it in a certain manner?
A woman has an abortion and the religious zealots work themselves into a frenzy..Their God "terminates" 99.9% of mankind with a flood, and that's ok!
It's not a threat, it's a promise. And if you do some math, you will see your number 99.9% is off by several decimals. Eight people survived the Flood. Figure people, according to the Book you are referencing, lived to be about 900 years old. They could have children to at least 500 years of age. If they only had a kid every twenty years and the Flood happened in the year 1656 after creation, you have lots more than 99.9% dead. Wow, just wow.
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According to that line of thought, God commits murder every day. After all, people die every day, right?
Totally vacuous and lazy.
Never said that at all.. However you slice it, the Bible recounts numerous instances of God committing what amounts to Genocide..If you believe the Bible, and worship God, all you can really do is attempt to offer justification for that Genocide.. No mortal being is asked to justify it only to heed it.
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Okay...
8 people survived the flood.
People lived to be 900 years old.
They could have children to at least 500 years of age.
Seriously?
And you wonder why some of us question these things....
Things might have gone better if the original man, and the woman he made out of one of his ribs hadn't listened to what a talking snake had to say....
Seriously?
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Hells bells, Ingwe. I'm 108 and just knocked up my neighbor's 89 year old daughter. Take that!
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Hells bells, Ingwe. I'm 108 and just knocked up my neighbor's 89 year old daughter. Take that! Im wayyyyy behind the curve... Im only 62...plumbing is in question as to working. Even young women in their 70s wont look at me... 
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That sounds like a threat? I guess he is not so different to Allah after all...
I mean why create man with a free will, but then punishes those that choose to exercise it in a certain manner?
A woman has an abortion and the religious zealots work themselves into a frenzy..Their God "terminates" 99.9% of mankind with a flood, and that's ok!
It's not a threat, it's a promise. And if you do some math, you will see your number 99.9% is off by several decimals. Eight people survived the Flood. Figure people, according to the Book you are referencing, lived to be about 900 years old. They could have children to at least 500 years of age. If they only had a kid every twenty years and the Flood happened in the year 1656 after creation, you have lots more than 99.9% dead. By your reckoning, how many years has it been since the flood and how long since the lifespan was 900 years?
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write.
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thirdbite if and as Scripture says that one day is like 1000 unto the L*rd and a 1000 days is like a single one unto the L*rd then J*sus has been gone close to 2 days, maybe.
Just for reference only as to time frames. ymmv, though.
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write. He has. It's called the Book of Life. Just hope we're in it.
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write. He would never get it passed the Catholic Church! 
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write. Not being able to write his own book sure raises another question about omniscience....
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write. Not being able to write his own book sure raises another question about omniscience.... It's called "Delegation".
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so that's two thousand of our days?
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But somehow he can write on a wall. Go figure?
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If only god was able to write his own "book" instead of pawning it of on humans to write. Not being able to write his own book sure raises another question about omniscience.... It's called "Delegation". Delegation perhaps...but the follow-up is lacking....
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