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Rick Inman:God is Love.
Rick, Love is God! Without the love of God, God wouldn't have grace and without grace there would be no mercy. So, yes God is love, but really love is God.
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Rick Inman:God is Love.
Hemlon:I have deliberately remained quiet throughout the past few pages of back and forth (There's-a-god/no-there-isn't) discussion because, really, I have no profound insight that hasn't already been said by myself and others.
But here is one morsel that I would like Judeo-Christian believers to ponder:
If...IF...you really want to lead people to your god, how about acting like your god makes you happy?
I don't just mean the kind of even-tempered, life-is-ok kind of happiness. I mean the over-the-top, jubilant, outragious kind of happiness that little kids get when they are at Disneyworld!
According to you, you have the answer to life, right?? You have THE numero-uno savior of mankind, right?
THEN ACT HAPPY!
Because what most of us non-believers see are mopey, gossiping, crabby old farts and fart-ettes who have about as much enthusiasm as I do before a dental visit.
I know that life is hard for you too. You have bills to pay, cranky bosses to please and hormonal teenagers to endure just like the rest of us.
But if you TRULY believe that you are a "child of God" then how about acting like it?
Hemlon:If...IF...you really want to lead people to your god, how about acting like your god makes you happy?
I don't just mean the kind of even-tempered, life-is-ok kind of happiness. I mean the over-the-top, jubilant, outragious kind of happiness that little kids get when they are at Disneyworld!
I haven't had a drink since August, 1989.bedmund:That's cool. I'll have a bit now and then but never in excess. :58:
Rick Inman:But now, after reading this thread, I discover that it was me all along that did it, without help!
Rick Inman:I haven't had a drink since August, 1989.
[TONE=Sarcastic] And here all this time I thought it was prayer, faith and divine intervention that completely released me from a disease that has plagued every male and female in my family history living and dead as far back as we know. But now, after reading this thread, I discover that it was me all along that did it, without help! That the level of intelligent being on this planet tops out at me! I don't know how I did it but, I prayed, and then bingo! Never wanted a drink again. I sure am amazing![/Sarcastic]
Now that takes faith...
H2Andy:i can tell you're having trouble typing from all the leaping dancing,
shouting, and singing you're doing
Green_Manelishi:Of course you are not. You think of yourself as a good person so God (if there is one) will accept you.
Regretably it's not that simple.
Soggy:Says who?