@ogb saidIt's a vast Cosmos, and so far we only know of one world that even has the concept of "countries".
does God like best now? In the Bible, he's always taking sides...
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@ogb saidGod has a soft spot for Scotland.
does God like best now? In the Bible, he's always taking sides...
He loves irn-bru.
@neilarini said😥
God doesn't like anyone called Neil.
(He hates me).
Perhaps it is your lot to be liked or at least tolerated indirectly, by some of your fellow sprouts!
:wan smile attempting some kind of positive framing but on the verge of uncontrollable sobbing:
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@neilarini saidguga feasting in the Outer Hebrides, too
God has a soft spot for Scotland.
He loves irn-bru.
@neilarini saidHow do you know he's not just moving in mysterious ways?
God doesn't like anyone called Neil.
(He hates me).
On Saturday I got up to find water coming through the light fitting in our kitchen. Big pool on the floor. A pipe had just burst under the floor of the bathroom (bad). But it happened just at the right moment for me to turn off the mains and drain the system through the kitchen tap (good). COVID meant we weren't off touring with the caravan for a few weeks as planned (bad/good/mysterious).
I know this excellent plumber who came and sorted it there and then for next to nothing (good). I know him through the beach cleaning group (do some good and there is more good around - karma?).
The original pipe work was done by a 'builder' who was actually a plasterer who was recommended to us by people down the road. He announced after the job was started he did his own plumbing. He had kinked a plastic pipe where he should have used an elbow joint. The cheap piping had perished at the kink. (major league bad)
The people who recommended the first guy knew him from their local church where he was viewed as a hero as he spent half the year doing building jobs for African orphanages so they wanted to get him jobs (good, bad, mysterious)
So was I being loved, hated, baffled by mysterious ways or cunningly introduced to karma via a strange route? Should there be a poll?
@neilarini saidGod told me on Saturday that he doesn't like the way you dress. (Or your ears).
God doesn't like anyone called Neil.
(He hates me).
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidIf God's got a problem with me he should have put it in the bible.
God told me on Saturday that he doesn't like the way you dress. (Or your ears).
Y'know; "Thou shalt not wear comfy tracksuit bottoms and football shirts" and "Blessed are the pretty ears."
@ogb saidThe Lord is on His own side. His mission is to saves the sinners soul.
does God like best now? In the Bible, he's always taking sides...
Joshua 5:13-15
New International Version
The Fall of Jericho
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
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@neilarini saidIn relation to your ears, God did make three references to them:
If God's got a problem with me he should have put it in the bible.
Y'know; "Thou shalt not wear comfy tracksuit bottoms and football shirts" and "Blessed are the pretty ears."
Isaiah 55:3 - “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live." (By 'incline your ear' he was subtly saying your ears were too sticky-outy).
Job 42:5 - “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;....big ears."
Proverbs 18:15 - "The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge." (He told me later that your ears sought cauliflowers).
