What is the point of God today?

@fmf said
You are mistaken. I have said clearly over and over again, including several times directly to you, that belief in God is highly significant and influential in the lives of believers while they are alive.

Then why did you say this on this very page:

<<Not everyone has a hope for eternal life.

For those that worship God figures in the hope of gaining eternal life, that must then be "the point of God".>>

@pb1022 said
Then why did you say this on this very page:

Yes, and on earlier pages, I talked about how the personal and private solace and aspiration that faith in God provides are important. And I also talked about how the "point of God" is uniting people, structuring their communities, helping people to develop trust and cooperation and to give moral compasses a basis.

@fmf said
Yes, and on earlier pages, I talked about how the personal and private solace and aspiration that faith in God provides are important. And I also talked about how the "point of God" is uniting people, structuring their communities, helping people to develop trust and cooperation and to give moral compasses a basis.

Ok, I didn’t read this entire thread.

@josephw said
Have you noticed how convivial Rajk is when replying to posts by those that deny the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

There is no part of the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ, that states anyone mutt believe in His resurrection.

@pb1022 said
Then why did you say this on this very page:

<<For those that worship God figures in the hope of gaining eternal life, that must then be "the point of God".>>

I tried a thought experiment a year or two back and, it turned out that no one here thought belief in God would have any traction without the promise of eternal life.

No Christian talked about help in the here and now if it was uncoupled from the promise of eternal life.

And no Christian talked about peace that passes all understanding if it was uncoupled from the promise of eternal life.

@kellyjay said
You have used much worse words to describe people. To say other words is not being honest.

I use the same words Jesus used
- hypoctires
- fools
- Satan
- blind.
Maybe in your culture using those words is much worse. Jesus never said that all people are filthy sinners, a statement routinely made by church Christians here

@rajk999 said
There is no part of the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ, that states anyone mutt believe in His resurrection.

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”

(John 11:25-26)

@fmf said
I tried a thought experiment a year or two back and, it turned out that no one here thought belief in God would have any traction without the promise of eternal life.

No Christian talked about help in the here and now if it was uncoupled from the promise of eternal life.

And no Christian talked about peace that passes all understanding if it was uncoupled from the promise of eternal life.

That’s understandable because everyone knows they could die at any moment.

Asking God to help you repair your marriage when you know you could drop dead of a heart attack an hour later seems kind of pointless.

@rajk999 said
I use the same words Jesus used
- hypoctires
- fools
- Satan
- blind.
Maybe in your culture using those words is much worse. Jesus never said that all people are filthy sinners, a statement routinely made by church Christians here

And Jesus Christ said those words against the Pharisees - people obsessed with law keeping and placing heavy burdens on people.

Who in here does that sound like?

@pb1022 said
Asking God to help you repair your marriage when you know you could drop dead of a heart attack an hour later seems kind of pointless.

What a very odd thing for you to reveal about yourself.

@fmf said
What a very odd thing for you to reveal about yourself.

I wasn’t referring to myself. That was simply an example of how God might help someone and a very common sudden way that people die.

@pb1022 said
I wasn’t referring to myself. That was simply an example of how God might help someone and a very common sudden way that people die.

Nonsense. Of course you were referring to your own perspective. You said it seems kind of pointless to want help from God with repairing your marriage without the promise of eternal life. As I say, I think you have revealed more than you intended to about your mentality and your life.

@josephw said
Yet his replies to Christians contain all manner of contempt and disdain with accusations that amount to sheer condemnation.

I am no respecter of persons.

@pb1022 said
Asking God to help you repair your marriage when you know you could drop dead of a heart attack an hour later seems kind of pointless.

Unguarded Self-Revelation of the Day™

@rajk999 said
I use the same words Jesus used
- hypoctires
- fools
- Satan
- blind.
Maybe in your culture using those words is much worse. Jesus never said that all people are filthy sinners, a statement routinely made by church Christians here

You have said far worse.