rogue wrote:
> On Apr 16, 5:28 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Pastor Frank wrote:
>>
>> >>
>>
>>>> Odd that nobody in your pristine christian newsgroup has ever come
>>>> to your defense.
>>>> Every once in a while when I bring this up and point out that their
>>>> silence could imply agrement somebody will respond and say you are
>>>> on your own.
>>>> However The ten commandments don't say that whatever you like is
>>>> your god and your christ talked of his father in heaven, not a
>>>> suction pump.
>>> Nobody in our Christian News groups argues with the Bible, only
>>> YOU do and need people to back you up. My backup is the one and only
>>> authoritative source for Christianity, the NT Bible, and that is why
>>> I quote Christ in particular. Who do you quote but your own
>>> irrelevant self?
>>
>> Sorry Frank, but I quote you, not myself and there are no major
>> religions that have your concept of a god.
>> I would venture a guess that no christian religion has such a view.
>> Certainly no one but you has expressed it here or T.O. or
>> free.Christians.
>>
>> To any interested person who calls themselves a Christian.
>>
>> Do you believe that "anything" can be a god?
>> Pastor Frank does and has stateed this is *the* christian viewpoint
>> and has used Christ himself as a reference.
>> "What or whom I choose to be my God is my business. God simply
>> means,that quality which is most im****tant in my life. Whether you
>> believe it or not, you already have your own god(s) and devils
>> besetting you. "
>>
>> "Biblical claims are ONLY valid within the parameter of Biblical
>> philosophy. Every philosophy is only valid within the parameter set
>> by its author."8/18/01
>>
>> 2/10/6
>> "Religion is a matter of having a sound philosophy of life and not
>> everyone understands philosophy, especially one both ancient and
>> foreign."
>
> If God is a fantasy, then anything can be god.
>
> A deity by it's nature is supernatural and more than man, more than
> human. Therefore, a flower, for example, couldn't be god.
Frank's statement allows a quality of the flower to be the god.


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