God is good, all the time.God allows us and countries to fall in the valleys, go through storms to only make us and country stronger. When the circumstances are not good, there is always a loving,caring,mercyful,powerful God that is always waiting patiently for us and country to come to him. But countries do not want to lend on God for the answers to the problems.Countries want to do it there way. Countries have got to learn to trust in Jesus, Learn to trust in God, Learn to depend on his word.
Hero, Just because some things suck here, doesn't mean it's God's fault. I don't think God's divine plan calls for Africa to have so many problems or for there to be a need for St. Jude's Hospital. Frankly, God's divine plan didn't call for Adam to stand by and watch Eve eat an apple and get tossed out of the Garden of Eden. The point of the song is that even though I don't understand stuff like that, I still have the faith to know that God is good even when circumstances aren't.
The ultimate goal which we all aim for is love and unity anything else should be abandoned. My apologies and thanks for taking the time to kindly point this out.
Deluded morons worshipping a fantasy creator who's book most of you nutters haven't read, if you did you would realise in his own words what a bastard god is.
This music is drivel and this dick represents everything wrong about christain music.
It's shit! to all of you talking to yourselves and calling it prayer realise your talking to yourselves. Grow up.
@sgmwife17Unfortunately is it the religious or the none religious that wake you up on a Sunday morning peddling their self interest version of reality? Religious or none religious that caused misery and destruction at 9.11? Religious or none religious that declare Jihad? Religious or none religious that gleefully await Armageddon, discriminate against homosexuals and women? Is it the religious or none religious community that practises child sexual mutilation I ask you?
@arniemazmax At the risk of repeating myself, you DO need to relax =0) We are blessed to live in a country where EVERYONE can express their opinions, live their lives as they see fit and worship whatever or whoever they want. I am a christian and I don't discriminate against anyone, caused misery or preached Armageddon, not every religious people do. When you rant about religious people that way, you sound prejudiced and become the very same thing you so passionately attack you become a fanatic.
@sgmwife17 When the world is ensnared with such warped views that threaten mankind’s existence don’t you think it would be wise that we awaken rather than relax?
@sgmwife17 I have no respect for selfish cowards who live by bronze age values and think they have the excuse of a deity on there side. If you are a christian in order to practise that faith you accept the bible as gods word and that fucks your ethics up from the go. If you don't discrimante against homosexuals you are are not living in accordance with gods values, in his book they aint going to heaven lol. Remember Sodom and Gommorah?
@sgmwife17 God wiping kids out at the flood and passover. Gods people commiting genocide. Enjoy your book I think its a disgusting collection of discrimination torture and backward beliefs.
@sgmwife17 LOL at least your smart enough not to even try and defend your belief.
The eccentric preacher from Judea never knew me, he died (if he exsisted at all) almost 2000 yrs ago but yes I'm sure if he had met me we would probably gone fishing together and got on well. He didn't die for me know he commited suicide for his own set of beliefs.
@arniemazmax I am smart! Thanks so much, you're sweet!=0) and you are also right. I won't defend my beliefs to someone like you. You are as prejudiced, fanatic and intolerant as you accused religious people to be. So I won't waste my time trying to reason with your mixed standards. You accused religious people of being intolerant and fanatic and that's exactly what you are. You don't respect other people's views if they're different than yours. Still Jesus loves you whether you like it or not!=)
@sgmwife17 It's true I don't tolerate fools, I don't respect the views of people who centre their lives on backward belief systems without evidence and in most cases in spite of it, I lose respect for an individual’s who's sense of reality is based on mythology and chants "Jesus love you" like a mantra. Repeating this demonstrates to me I am not dealing with someone who employs reason, critical thinking, and holds a firm grasp on reality but deploys a warped world view.
@sgmwife17 Unfortunately I can’t take their views any more seriously than those of indigenous people dancing around a fire chanting to their “friends of the forest”, “dead ancestors or animal friends” I’m sure they are lovely people but their belief system is nonsensical. Christianity like all faith systems falls in this category.
@sgmwife17 But if you want to wear your loin cloth, strip naked, hug a tree, paint your face, hold hands, talk to yourself and call it prayer or worship a 2000 year old zombie and channel his thoughts through you be my guest but don’t expect to be taken seriously...at least not by anybody else who isn’t hopping around the fire....evolve.
@sgmwife17 However (sigh) I agree with you, it doesn't help anybody to mock/insult the individual especially in light that those beliefs were once held by myself, I should empathise rather than be dogmatic, explore rather than dictate else as you quite rightly point out I am guilty of the same fanaticism and any claims on my part of employing critical thinking are hypocritical and at worst ironic! I shouldn’t throw the believers out with the belief.
@arniemazmax It takes a lot of courage to admit that we're guilty of something so I really admire you for that and wish you the best!=0) You seem like as smart person, that's passionate in his/her belief. I was that way myself about my faith and made the mistake of alienate people I love. As i grew older I realized that there's more to people than religion and made great friends. I realized that Jesus loved everyone,He preached love, acceptance and not to judge people for we all are flawed.
@sgmwife17 I'm sorry to hear about your friend, it’s never easy losing someone dear especially when you have seen them treated poorly. I admire you however for standing by your ethics and treating them as fellow humans even in the face of intolerance by some. I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and even as a child squirmed and was troubled and secretly rejected and refused to be indoctrinated by religious prejudice even if it was endorsed in the bible.
@sgmwife17 As a child I was a victim of sexual abuse by a member within the church and was blamed for (I can only presume by my innocence) as “seducing” my attacker and was labelled as engaging in homosexual behaviour. I felt an affinity for the victims of bullying and I guess sometimes in our “crusade” we become that which we most despise.
@sgmwife17 But after much study self reflection and analysis I realised yes there were beautiful poetic scriptures but overall if read in context cover to cover the Bible isn’t a nice book. And I never believed it for gain of a reward in a thereafter or for fear of punishment, only thing I ever wanted was to be close as a child sitting on his father’s knee, cheek pressed to his beating heart safe and basking in the warmth and acceptance of his love I yearned to be close to god...unconditionally.
@arniemazmax Sometimes it's hard just to go by faith and believe in something we've never seen, but I believe this to be true nobody loves me like He does. Nobody loves you like He does. If you look closely in His words the only judgment he ever passed was against religious people who burden others with impossible standards. He preached to love others like you love yourself, to never judge because you too will be judge and to love Him with all your heart. He healed my heart of all my pain.
@sgmwife17 Your account of rejection is unfortunately a common one when you reject a particular path or try things differently. Funny though the Bible is full of stories of individuals who had balls, rebelled and were used massively by god ,what happened to families and church loving someone un conditionally? And why did they come to the conclusion that by ostracising you that would somehow endear you to them and bring you back to the “fold”?
@sgmwife17 I think because overall people are selfish/insecure and are afraid of having the boat rocked and have alot invested in their set of beliefs. When one steps out of the collective it makes everyone look inward ask questions and makes them uneasy.
Its funny isn't it how two people can look at the same material and come to two different conclusions?
@sgmwife17 Because belief is so subjective from person to person, upbringing, culture etc I feel that evidence for something is paramount when navigating through life and basing decisions. For me it was a hard pill to swallow that by and large my parents, church, school and the media at large had kept me ignorant on the subject of evolution, crazy when I live 20 min away from where Charles Darwin was born here in Shrewsbury,
@sgmwife17 also It took humility to question my world view and meditate on the fact that by far the great majority of Scientists across the entire spectrum of fields all confirm this fact, another shock was learning what a “theory” means, I thought it meant hypothesis. I sat in my car one day and asked myself” is it possible that based on my average education and the fact my parents and peers all have average education
@sgmwife17 coupled with the fact that there world view is based on belief/feeling/desire is possibly wrong? That the evidence supports something different? Is it not fair to step back check myself and listen and check the evidence offered? Give these points some of my time? I have to admit that believing that god magic ‘everything into existence is allot easier to comprehend and requires no grey cell exercise,
@sgmwife17 but on learning about it slowly slowly cool waters of reason and evidence and skepticallity have lubricated and invigorated an otherwise intellectual dry parched cracked and desolate land. I love the Bible but I don’t have any evidence to believe it is divinely inspired. I don’t hate god anymore than I hate all the deities that have come before, to me its fiction. And that is why it is so open to misapplication, misunderstanding and interpretation.
@sgmwife17 I think if a supernatural being had written a book it would be the best read ever cover to cover, clear and unchallengeable. There you go I may be an atheist ...but I’m still a preaching bastard lol. Some habits die hard. In a twisted way I’m grateful that I was lucky to experience abuse both by my attacker and by cold religious “Nazi” types lol I shiver sometimes to think that there must be happy people in happy families and loving churches
@arniemazmax A gospel with no judgment and hypocrisy.There's so much more to Him than a religion. When Jesus preached, He went against the establishment, the law of Moses and the priests. He showed that there was more to God that just religion and appearances.. He showed a loving God one that it's not the big bad bully so many religious people picture Him to be. One that can handle our hard questions, He is a big boy, He can take it!=0) He is willing to take our pain away if we just let Him.
@sgmwife17 It is true that the account of Jesus is a far more pleasant read, except for the whole nasty redemption idea of an individual condemned to be sick,lame and commanded to be sound, the redemption process is ethically wrong, to have someone die as a literal scapegoat (the nation of Israel used to send a goat to die into the desert as a “scapegoat” for the sins of the nation)
@sgmwife17 for sins pasts or to come is ethically wrong also had we been there we would have been compelled as moral people to do everything in our power to stop Jesus suicide. I would argue the point of “god being a big bad bully so many religious people picture Him to be” as by his own words or in the Old Testament he does that all by himself.
@sgmwife17 It’s very difficult to come to any other conclusion when reading these passages hence why most Christians focus on the teachings of Jesus and why ancient scholars wanted to omit the old record altogether to distance themselves from the fire and brimstone when marketing it to a new non Jewish audience. The problem lies in accepting the trinity as Jesus is God.
@sgmwife17 And therefore impossible to separate the two, personally from my study there are arguments for and against the idea of the Trinity. If you try and explain this story to someone who has never heard it before it doesn’t make much sense, the whole god coming down to die to forgive himself to pay for our sins, if he is god...why not just forgive us outright ? why the big sordid bloody saga?, ultimately how could god ever be tested ...he is god....?
@sgmwife17 and if the answer is to show us his love for us is there really no better way? I would add if this is the method of choice should it not be done for every generation to witness from Australia to the poles to the Amazonian populations why pick a largely illiterate people in the middle east 2000 years ago and for future generations to base their lives now and in the future on faith that this story found only in the four accounts of the Gospel the ONLY recorded accounts we have of this
@sgmwife17 crucial account can’t agree with each other, no eyewitness, no secular historians reporting these events ( the short passages reported by Josephus have been proved fraudulent and added much later as they are not in harmony with his style or writing), all written after the event.The gospels can’t agree on: the first person to whom Jesus appears, where Jesus first appears to his disciples, whether they recognized him when they first saw him, whether anyone was allowed to touch him,
@sgmwife17 how long anyone stayed with him and whether anyone saw him ascend bodily into heaven. Jesus’ last words are all different at his death. Christians base their entire religion on the belief that Jesus died and was resurrected, and they receive this belief on FOUR stories that consistently contradict each other on time, setting, characters, dialogue and sequence of events.
@sgmwife17 I have to ask the question what’s more likely that this is the best a divine being could provide for evidence of his coming or is it more likely that this is a story, legend and fiction. The fact that it may be comforting which I would contest anyway for the reasons I have given doesn’t prove it true and therefore I don’t understand the difference between faith and blind faith
@sgmwife17 to me both are unfounded unverifiable and pointless and blind unnecessary in this amazing age of tangible discovery and evidence. After seeing the pictures through the Hubble telescope what’s to be impressed with the burning bush?
@sgmwife17 and had I been in one of those I would never have needed to look elsewhere and completely missed out on the opportunity of learning and seeing the detailed exquisite truths that I have been tangibly able to verify for myself. “Thank God” for that.
@arniemazmax I do respect your point of view, like I said before it's hard to just go by faith and not question anything.I mean if you are a religious fanatic you won't because you'll be sinning against God!=0) But if you are (like you so well put it) to step out of the collective you'll be asking yourself some of those hard questions, have doubts about what the bible says whether is creation or the resurrection. Because we are human, we need answers to our questions we need to see to believe.
@arniemazmax But like I don't need to see the love I feel for my loved ones, or the air I breathe every morning to know it's there. I don't need to see God to believe in Him, I know the bible it's the word of God but I also know that's it was written by men so it's meant to guide us not to dictate who we are. So when the bible says that women should not speak in church, I know it's meant for that specific time and it's culture. He doesn't wants us to have a blind faith just to have faith in Him
@arniemazmax Those experiences though hard have shape who you are and made you a strong person. One that can relate to many that had gone through so much in life. Like you said you've been blessed to have these learnings experiences and have grown from them. It's quite possible to be happy people in happy family and loving churches there's a new breed of christian people that have seen the pain religion had brought to their own lives and are preaching the true gospel one of love and acceptance.
@sgmwife17 Unfortunately no matter how I rationalized it, twisted it to make it fit, I realised It didn’t make sense because I don’t hate the things I am told to hate and I don’t love the things I am told to love. I love what is true, just, tender and kind and the people I have had the privilege to brush up against through my wary steps through life have taught and shaped me,
@sgmwife17 in my experience true unconditional love is not found by and large from holy texts and those qualities are found wanting by those admonishing them is it any wonder? How can they, when one is in opposition to the other.
@arniemazmax Thanks for sharing that with me, I'm very sorry to hear what you went through as a child. I can't even begin to imagine your pain. I too was raised in a deeply religious home. My dad's brother was our pastor so it was a very strict, very judgmental upbringing. You can only imagine what happened when I got divorced,all the people who I believed were my friend turned their backs at me, my family treated me like I had killed someone!=) So I turned really rebellious and angry. I was sad
@arniemazmax So I stopped going to church and turned away from God. I thought I was right that He had abandoned me, that He too was like them. I was disappointed because I was being treated that way by my own church family and my blood family as well. But what I didn't understood at the time was that He is not like them, people are screwed up He is not. He is faithful even when we are not. I realized that I too was being as judgmental as them because I was expected different and more from them.
@arniemazmax I've found true unconditional love in HIm,if we are to look up to people to shape our faith we are destined to a life full of bitterness and disappointments. We are ALL myself included flawed, broken, lost people. Religion is not the answer. For me it wasn't until I decided to have a relationship with HIM that I broke free from all my pain and started to look at people in a different way. I stop thinking I was better because I was "saved" and try hard to love other like He loves me
@arniemazmax I started to accept people for who they are and not try to change them.I don't agree with your views but I respect them, as I do with my friends that are not christian.One of my best friends in the world was gay he got killed last year. We were friends and loved each other even with our differences he used to go to church but people there were so judgmental he stopped going. So I try to be a christian who accept and love people with no judgment, because that's what Jesus would do=)
I love this song.God is good and All the time.Amen
joylen1981 2 weeks ago
God is good, all the time.God allows us and countries to fall in the valleys, go through storms to only make us and country stronger. When the circumstances are not good, there is always a loving,caring,mercyful,powerful God that is always waiting patiently for us and country to come to him. But countries do not want to lend on God for the answers to the problems.Countries want to do it there way. Countries have got to learn to trust in Jesus, Learn to trust in God, Learn to depend on his word.
larrysenn46 1 month ago
Hero, Just because some things suck here, doesn't mean it's God's fault. I don't think God's divine plan calls for Africa to have so many problems or for there to be a need for St. Jude's Hospital. Frankly, God's divine plan didn't call for Adam to stand by and watch Eve eat an apple and get tossed out of the Garden of Eden. The point of the song is that even though I don't understand stuff like that, I still have the faith to know that God is good even when circumstances aren't.
mikemayes1964 2 months ago
If God is good all the time, why does he ignore Africa? No sort of "divine plan" can have a step that involves ravaging Africa with AIDS.
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89witch 1 year ago
The ultimate goal which we all aim for is love and unity anything else should be abandoned. My apologies and thanks for taking the time to kindly point this out.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
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sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax I agree!=0) Thanks !!
sgmwife17 1 year ago
Deluded morons worshipping a fantasy creator who's book most of you nutters haven't read, if you did you would realise in his own words what a bastard god is.
This music is drivel and this dick represents everything wrong about christain music.
It's shit! to all of you talking to yourselves and calling it prayer realise your talking to yourselves. Grow up.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Relax!!! Let people be and please find a hobby!!!
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17Unfortunately is it the religious or the none religious that wake you up on a Sunday morning peddling their self interest version of reality? Religious or none religious that caused misery and destruction at 9.11? Religious or none religious that declare Jihad? Religious or none religious that gleefully await Armageddon, discriminate against homosexuals and women? Is it the religious or none religious community that practises child sexual mutilation I ask you?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax At the risk of repeating myself, you DO need to relax =0) We are blessed to live in a country where EVERYONE can express their opinions, live their lives as they see fit and worship whatever or whoever they want. I am a christian and I don't discriminate against anyone, caused misery or preached Armageddon, not every religious people do. When you rant about religious people that way, you sound prejudiced and become the very same thing you so passionately attack you become a fanatic.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 When the world is ensnared with such warped views that threaten mankind’s existence don’t you think it would be wise that we awaken rather than relax?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax You're talking about the respectful and tolerant views that you so well expressed in your previous post, right?
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 I have no respect for selfish cowards who live by bronze age values and think they have the excuse of a deity on there side. If you are a christian in order to practise that faith you accept the bible as gods word and that fucks your ethics up from the go. If you don't discrimante against homosexuals you are are not living in accordance with gods values, in his book they aint going to heaven lol. Remember Sodom and Gommorah?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Wow!! You almost sounded like a religious fanatic!=0) except for the "f" word though. You're hilarious!!lol
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 God wiping kids out at the flood and passover. Gods people commiting genocide. Enjoy your book I think its a disgusting collection of discrimination torture and backward beliefs.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax lol You're too funny! God bless you and remember Jesus loves you and He died for you too!!=0)
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 LOL at least your smart enough not to even try and defend your belief.
The eccentric preacher from Judea never knew me, he died (if he exsisted at all) almost 2000 yrs ago but yes I'm sure if he had met me we would probably gone fishing together and got on well. He didn't die for me know he commited suicide for his own set of beliefs.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax I am smart! Thanks so much, you're sweet!=0) and you are also right. I won't defend my beliefs to someone like you. You are as prejudiced, fanatic and intolerant as you accused religious people to be. So I won't waste my time trying to reason with your mixed standards. You accused religious people of being intolerant and fanatic and that's exactly what you are. You don't respect other people's views if they're different than yours. Still Jesus loves you whether you like it or not!=)
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 It's true I don't tolerate fools, I don't respect the views of people who centre their lives on backward belief systems without evidence and in most cases in spite of it, I lose respect for an individual’s who's sense of reality is based on mythology and chants "Jesus love you" like a mantra. Repeating this demonstrates to me I am not dealing with someone who employs reason, critical thinking, and holds a firm grasp on reality but deploys a warped world view.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 Unfortunately I can’t take their views any more seriously than those of indigenous people dancing around a fire chanting to their “friends of the forest”, “dead ancestors or animal friends” I’m sure they are lovely people but their belief system is nonsensical. Christianity like all faith systems falls in this category.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 But if you want to wear your loin cloth, strip naked, hug a tree, paint your face, hold hands, talk to yourself and call it prayer or worship a 2000 year old zombie and channel his thoughts through you be my guest but don’t expect to be taken seriously...at least not by anybody else who isn’t hopping around the fire....evolve.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 However (sigh) I agree with you, it doesn't help anybody to mock/insult the individual especially in light that those beliefs were once held by myself, I should empathise rather than be dogmatic, explore rather than dictate else as you quite rightly point out I am guilty of the same fanaticism and any claims on my part of employing critical thinking are hypocritical and at worst ironic! I shouldn’t throw the believers out with the belief.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax It takes a lot of courage to admit that we're guilty of something so I really admire you for that and wish you the best!=0) You seem like as smart person, that's passionate in his/her belief. I was that way myself about my faith and made the mistake of alienate people I love. As i grew older I realized that there's more to people than religion and made great friends. I realized that Jesus loved everyone,He preached love, acceptance and not to judge people for we all are flawed.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 I'm sorry to hear about your friend, it’s never easy losing someone dear especially when you have seen them treated poorly. I admire you however for standing by your ethics and treating them as fellow humans even in the face of intolerance by some. I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and even as a child squirmed and was troubled and secretly rejected and refused to be indoctrinated by religious prejudice even if it was endorsed in the bible.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 As a child I was a victim of sexual abuse by a member within the church and was blamed for (I can only presume by my innocence) as “seducing” my attacker and was labelled as engaging in homosexual behaviour. I felt an affinity for the victims of bullying and I guess sometimes in our “crusade” we become that which we most despise.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 But after much study self reflection and analysis I realised yes there were beautiful poetic scriptures but overall if read in context cover to cover the Bible isn’t a nice book. And I never believed it for gain of a reward in a thereafter or for fear of punishment, only thing I ever wanted was to be close as a child sitting on his father’s knee, cheek pressed to his beating heart safe and basking in the warmth and acceptance of his love I yearned to be close to god...unconditionally.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Sometimes it's hard just to go by faith and believe in something we've never seen, but I believe this to be true nobody loves me like He does. Nobody loves you like He does. If you look closely in His words the only judgment he ever passed was against religious people who burden others with impossible standards. He preached to love others like you love yourself, to never judge because you too will be judge and to love Him with all your heart. He healed my heart of all my pain.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 Your account of rejection is unfortunately a common one when you reject a particular path or try things differently. Funny though the Bible is full of stories of individuals who had balls, rebelled and were used massively by god ,what happened to families and church loving someone un conditionally? And why did they come to the conclusion that by ostracising you that would somehow endear you to them and bring you back to the “fold”?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 I think because overall people are selfish/insecure and are afraid of having the boat rocked and have alot invested in their set of beliefs. When one steps out of the collective it makes everyone look inward ask questions and makes them uneasy.
Its funny isn't it how two people can look at the same material and come to two different conclusions?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 Because belief is so subjective from person to person, upbringing, culture etc I feel that evidence for something is paramount when navigating through life and basing decisions. For me it was a hard pill to swallow that by and large my parents, church, school and the media at large had kept me ignorant on the subject of evolution, crazy when I live 20 min away from where Charles Darwin was born here in Shrewsbury,
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 also It took humility to question my world view and meditate on the fact that by far the great majority of Scientists across the entire spectrum of fields all confirm this fact, another shock was learning what a “theory” means, I thought it meant hypothesis. I sat in my car one day and asked myself” is it possible that based on my average education and the fact my parents and peers all have average education
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 coupled with the fact that there world view is based on belief/feeling/desire is possibly wrong? That the evidence supports something different? Is it not fair to step back check myself and listen and check the evidence offered? Give these points some of my time? I have to admit that believing that god magic ‘everything into existence is allot easier to comprehend and requires no grey cell exercise,
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 but on learning about it slowly slowly cool waters of reason and evidence and skepticallity have lubricated and invigorated an otherwise intellectual dry parched cracked and desolate land. I love the Bible but I don’t have any evidence to believe it is divinely inspired. I don’t hate god anymore than I hate all the deities that have come before, to me its fiction. And that is why it is so open to misapplication, misunderstanding and interpretation.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 I think if a supernatural being had written a book it would be the best read ever cover to cover, clear and unchallengeable. There you go I may be an atheist ...but I’m still a preaching bastard lol. Some habits die hard. In a twisted way I’m grateful that I was lucky to experience abuse both by my attacker and by cold religious “Nazi” types lol I shiver sometimes to think that there must be happy people in happy families and loving churches
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax A gospel with no judgment and hypocrisy.There's so much more to Him than a religion. When Jesus preached, He went against the establishment, the law of Moses and the priests. He showed that there was more to God that just religion and appearances.. He showed a loving God one that it's not the big bad bully so many religious people picture Him to be. One that can handle our hard questions, He is a big boy, He can take it!=0) He is willing to take our pain away if we just let Him.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 It is true that the account of Jesus is a far more pleasant read, except for the whole nasty redemption idea of an individual condemned to be sick,lame and commanded to be sound, the redemption process is ethically wrong, to have someone die as a literal scapegoat (the nation of Israel used to send a goat to die into the desert as a “scapegoat” for the sins of the nation)
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 for sins pasts or to come is ethically wrong also had we been there we would have been compelled as moral people to do everything in our power to stop Jesus suicide. I would argue the point of “god being a big bad bully so many religious people picture Him to be” as by his own words or in the Old Testament he does that all by himself.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 It’s very difficult to come to any other conclusion when reading these passages hence why most Christians focus on the teachings of Jesus and why ancient scholars wanted to omit the old record altogether to distance themselves from the fire and brimstone when marketing it to a new non Jewish audience. The problem lies in accepting the trinity as Jesus is God.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 And therefore impossible to separate the two, personally from my study there are arguments for and against the idea of the Trinity. If you try and explain this story to someone who has never heard it before it doesn’t make much sense, the whole god coming down to die to forgive himself to pay for our sins, if he is god...why not just forgive us outright ? why the big sordid bloody saga?, ultimately how could god ever be tested ...he is god....?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 and if the answer is to show us his love for us is there really no better way? I would add if this is the method of choice should it not be done for every generation to witness from Australia to the poles to the Amazonian populations why pick a largely illiterate people in the middle east 2000 years ago and for future generations to base their lives now and in the future on faith that this story found only in the four accounts of the Gospel the ONLY recorded accounts we have of this
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 crucial account can’t agree with each other, no eyewitness, no secular historians reporting these events ( the short passages reported by Josephus have been proved fraudulent and added much later as they are not in harmony with his style or writing), all written after the event.The gospels can’t agree on: the first person to whom Jesus appears, where Jesus first appears to his disciples, whether they recognized him when they first saw him, whether anyone was allowed to touch him,
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 how long anyone stayed with him and whether anyone saw him ascend bodily into heaven. Jesus’ last words are all different at his death. Christians base their entire religion on the belief that Jesus died and was resurrected, and they receive this belief on FOUR stories that consistently contradict each other on time, setting, characters, dialogue and sequence of events.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 I have to ask the question what’s more likely that this is the best a divine being could provide for evidence of his coming or is it more likely that this is a story, legend and fiction. The fact that it may be comforting which I would contest anyway for the reasons I have given doesn’t prove it true and therefore I don’t understand the difference between faith and blind faith
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 to me both are unfounded unverifiable and pointless and blind unnecessary in this amazing age of tangible discovery and evidence. After seeing the pictures through the Hubble telescope what’s to be impressed with the burning bush?
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 and had I been in one of those I would never have needed to look elsewhere and completely missed out on the opportunity of learning and seeing the detailed exquisite truths that I have been tangibly able to verify for myself. “Thank God” for that.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax I do respect your point of view, like I said before it's hard to just go by faith and not question anything.I mean if you are a religious fanatic you won't because you'll be sinning against God!=0) But if you are (like you so well put it) to step out of the collective you'll be asking yourself some of those hard questions, have doubts about what the bible says whether is creation or the resurrection. Because we are human, we need answers to our questions we need to see to believe.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax But like I don't need to see the love I feel for my loved ones, or the air I breathe every morning to know it's there. I don't need to see God to believe in Him, I know the bible it's the word of God but I also know that's it was written by men so it's meant to guide us not to dictate who we are. So when the bible says that women should not speak in church, I know it's meant for that specific time and it's culture. He doesn't wants us to have a blind faith just to have faith in Him
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Those experiences though hard have shape who you are and made you a strong person. One that can relate to many that had gone through so much in life. Like you said you've been blessed to have these learnings experiences and have grown from them. It's quite possible to be happy people in happy family and loving churches there's a new breed of christian people that have seen the pain religion had brought to their own lives and are preaching the true gospel one of love and acceptance.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Sorry I meant "judged" !=0)
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 Unfortunately no matter how I rationalized it, twisted it to make it fit, I realised It didn’t make sense because I don’t hate the things I am told to hate and I don’t love the things I am told to love. I love what is true, just, tender and kind and the people I have had the privilege to brush up against through my wary steps through life have taught and shaped me,
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@sgmwife17 in my experience true unconditional love is not found by and large from holy texts and those qualities are found wanting by those admonishing them is it any wonder? How can they, when one is in opposition to the other.
arniemazmax 1 year ago
@arniemazmax Thanks for sharing that with me, I'm very sorry to hear what you went through as a child. I can't even begin to imagine your pain. I too was raised in a deeply religious home. My dad's brother was our pastor so it was a very strict, very judgmental upbringing. You can only imagine what happened when I got divorced,all the people who I believed were my friend turned their backs at me, my family treated me like I had killed someone!=) So I turned really rebellious and angry. I was sad
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax So I stopped going to church and turned away from God. I thought I was right that He had abandoned me, that He too was like them. I was disappointed because I was being treated that way by my own church family and my blood family as well. But what I didn't understood at the time was that He is not like them, people are screwed up He is not. He is faithful even when we are not. I realized that I too was being as judgmental as them because I was expected different and more from them.
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax I've found true unconditional love in HIm,if we are to look up to people to shape our faith we are destined to a life full of bitterness and disappointments. We are ALL myself included flawed, broken, lost people. Religion is not the answer. For me it wasn't until I decided to have a relationship with HIM that I broke free from all my pain and started to look at people in a different way. I stop thinking I was better because I was "saved" and try hard to love other like He loves me
sgmwife17 1 year ago
@arniemazmax I started to accept people for who they are and not try to change them.I don't agree with your views but I respect them, as I do with my friends that are not christian.One of my best friends in the world was gay he got killed last year. We were friends and loved each other even with our differences he used to go to church but people there were so judgmental he stopped going. So I try to be a christian who accept and love people with no judgment, because that's what Jesus would do=)
sgmwife17 1 year ago
i like this song bcoz his give my strenght ,faith,soul and walk to jesus my saviour king.
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