Re: A VERY IM****TANT QUESTION

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>>>>>>> An im****tant question.
>>>>>>> There are hundreds of different God and religious beliefs.
>>>>>>> How does one know which if any is the real God and which are
fakes?
>>>>>>> Why would any REAL God permit his creations to be so misled???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> People seem to have been asking this question for millennia, the
>>>>>> Christians seem to have worked around this quite successfully by
>>>>>> plagiarising earlier religions and nicking their ceremonies and
folk
>>>>>> tales, The islamics are a bit more forceful and in some locations 
>>>>>> enforce
>>>>>> the belief in Allah by fear of death.
>>>>>> There seems to be one thing in common though that the believer 
>>>>>> nomatter
>>>>>> what religion need his or even her peers to conform to their own
>>>>>> supernatural belief system or it all just falls apart.
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>>>>>     No Christians have been asking themselves "this question for 
>>>>> millennia"
>>>>> for we know our Christian "God is love" (1 John 4:8,16) become fully
>>>>> manifested in Jesus Christ giving His life for us sinners on the
cross 
>>>>> of
>>>>> Calvary. We therefore know our God and have seen Him. (Jesus in John
>>>>> 14:6-10)
>>>>>    Atheists don't know our God and therefore cannot recognise Him, 
>>>>> (Jesus
>>>>> in John 3:3)
>>>>
>>>> Nobody really knows your god or there would not be so many Christian 
>>>> sects,
>>>    Your atheist mindset about some invisible created concrete god is a

>>> crock of stupidity!!!!! Why don't you accept the fact, that YOUR god 
>>> does not exist and that's why no one know it/him.
>>
>> I already seem to have done that by definition.
>>
>>> Considering our Christian "God
>>> is love" (1 John 4:8,16), how many ways are there to express love and 
>>> care? A lot more than there are "Christian sects".
>>>    You seem to be looking for ONE approved, God mandated way of loving

>>> and caring? There isn't ONE, there are thousands, and we know the sons

>>> of God by their works.
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>> Well if you want to play my god is better than your god go ahead.
Except 
>> I definitely do not have one unless you can believe one into existence 
>> for me.
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>    That's you choice, but most people would rather die than live without

> love. That's why they make love and loving and caring their highest 
> priority, AKA God. A person's value depends upon how much love and care
he 
> gives away to others, not how many theists he can slam-dunk, as atheists

> suppose.
>


An invisible guy that was rumoured to have decimated the world with a
flood 
amongst other things and his similarly masochistic son who is said to sit 
contently in the lap of luxury while his allegedly beloved creations burn
in 
an eternal fire fills me with about much emotion as any other traditional 
horror story like Frankenstein or Brahm Stokers Dracula or considering the

destruction evident in the old testament a better modern contem****y
example 
would be Godzilla.

Love is a shared emotion, god needs to be there to share, whether he
appears 
as his own father, his own son, a ghost or even something credible.
With altruism an hour spent helping in a soup kitchen or volunteering to 
deliver food to the elderly once a week is infinitely more useful than a 
lifetime in a pew.