Jesus is Lord! God raised Him from the dead on the third day!

[TerranRich]

I liked the bit in Corinthians 8:43 "And he looked upon the AGA and said, 'thou art of a different culture, my son. Willst thou be shepherd to my flock?'. And he did, and it was good."

"And He didst tell the AGA, 'please, for the love of Me, stay away from teh sheep!'. And he did, and it was also good."

[OmJay]

I see your point.

I'm sorry if I crossed the line in my post which I think I did.

I just read the whole thread from the start and in myself I thought that it just turned into a mock the bible and make fun of it thread.
I know you guys are just joking around and having fun but it just hurt me somewhere, so I just posted what my feelings were.

Once again sorry for over reacting in my post.

[Jesus]

The bible is a bunch of bullshit made just to get people to think I'm a nut. You're probably going to hell, deal with it - no so-called bible is going to save you.

[Dart]

The bible is a bunch of bullshit made just to get people to think I'm a nut. You're probably going to hell, deal with it - no so-called bible is going to save you.

I smell troll.

Hmm, we better be careful not to feed the poor attention-starved thing.

[Raggit]

To everybody:

God doesn't get angry when you mock the Bible and ridicule him.
He isn't sitting on his throne just waiting for you to mess up so he can scream "Eternal condemnation on you!" Ã, However, that doesn't mean he'll tolerate it forever. Ã, You have to choose whether you except him or not. Ã, So don't get too defensive thinking that God hates you. Ã, 

God wants us to know how much he loves us and that we can be forgiven for anything, if you're really sorry. Ã, Really, the only thing he can't forgive is what you won't confess. Ã, It's obvious he loves us, or else he wouldn't have sent his son to be nailed to a cross for us. Ã, 

I accept Christ as my saviour, and I wish you all would do the same. Ã, God never forces, and I can't force you to accept him either.

[Tiki]

God doesn't get angry when you mock the Bible and ridicule him.  He isn't sitting on his throne just waiting for you to mess up so he can scream "Eternal condemnation on you!"  However, that doesn't mean he'll tolerate it forever.  You have to choose whether you except him or not.  So don't get too defensive thinking that God hates you.

Coming from a different Christian perspective, I have to say, I don't really agree.  Yeh, I'm buddies with many of these AGSers who're mocking my religion.  I don't like what they do, but I don't preach to them every time they get carried away.  Also ... I don't think God has a magic number that he uses... I mean, if he isn't going to tolerate what they are doing later, he shouldn't now either.  God doesn't change, and neither do his views on sin.  Those who mock him are still sinning, whether it's their first time or 500th time, he doesn't like it.  He loves them, mind, but he doesn't tolerate what they are doing.  And, if they don't repent ... they'll end up paying for it in the end.  Now, I do not think he's up there yelling "Eternal condemnation on you!" either.  Mostly because we were all born sinners.  These AGSin' folk didn't just become sinners when they typed their 'witty' replies.  They've been them.  I am a sinner.  Besides, he doesn't want us in Hell, naturally.

[DGMacphee]

However, that doesn't mean he'll tolerate it forever. 

But God's son taught tolerance forever. Plus God is supposed to be perfect, and perfection does mean a wholly tolerant being. Besides, I think if God is perfection then he's got the best sense of humour in the world. I know this cause he once played a prank on me by setting my pubic hair on fire and telling me it was a Burning Bush. Har har har. Luckily, he healed my third degree burns so no harm done. I can look back and laugh now.

[Blackthorne]

To everybody:

God doesn't get angry when you mock the Bible and ridicule him.
He isn't sitting on his throne just waiting for you to mess up so he can scream "Eternal condemnation on you!" Ã, However, that doesn't mean he'll tolerate it forever. Ã, You have to choose whether you except him or not. Ã, So don't get too defensive thinking that God hates you. Ã, 

God wants us to know how much he loves us and that we can be forgiven for anything, if you're really sorry. Ã, Really, the only thing he can't forgive is what you won't confess. Ã, It's obvious he loves us, or else he wouldn't have sent his son to be nailed to a cross for us. Ã, 

How dare you believe that you know thing one about GOD and what he thinks.  How egocentric.

Bt

[Raggit]

Blackthorne:

I didn't claim I knew what God was thinking.  Read the Bible and find out what I'm talking about, don't take my word for truth.

I really don't want to argue if you're just trying to get me all worked up.  That won't work.

Tiki:

I probably used the wrong words.  I don't believe God has a counter either.  What I meant was that when the judgment day comes, God isn't going to be very tolerant.  Nobody will have room to say "I didn't mean it" or "nobody told me it was wrong."

But now is the time to accept him.  The Bible says he casts our sins to the very bottom of the sea and never remembers them.  Satan is the one who remembers them and uses them against us.

DG:

You're very right, God created humor and I believe he has a sense of humor.  However, like everything he has created, there is corruption in it.  Everything good that God gave us has a side which Satan corrupted.  God doesn't really appreciate a corrupted sense of humor.

I hope that people can understand I don't mean to preach a sermon.  I'm not looking down on you, and I hope you all know that.  I make mistakes, I commit sins, I am guilty of making dirty jokes.  But, I believe God is always there and that I'm working my way towards him.

I'm not going to force you to listen to me or accept my beliefs. 

[Snarky]

Hey, what's this? Serious discussion? Are we really going to allow this thread to devolve into rational debate when we could go on making wiseass comments instead?

Let's get back on topic, (God)dammit!

[TerranRich]

Oh, shut up. All of you. This is precisely why we avoid talking about religion on these boards. Someone always gets offended, and someone else always ends up preaching.

[Blackthorne]

Oh, shut up. All of you. This is precisely why we avoid talking about religion on these boards. Someone always gets offended, and someone else always ends up preaching.

Heh.  I'm not really offended.  I just wanted to hear the typical "read the bible" response!

As if that book was written by the hand of God herself! That book is no more written by a diety than the last isssue of Penthouse I read was.

Bt

[MillsJROSS]

The second day of Chanukah has come!

As far as religion is concerned, why not just agree to disagree? People have been arguing about it for thousands of years, I'm fairly certain we won't come to a ground breaking conclusion. Nor is anything said on either side going to convince anyone that their side will be wrong.

I could pass witty comebacks all day about what I actually think of the Bible. But I think it's better to just accept that my beliefs are different from you beliefs, and that way no one is offended, and no one feels attacked.

-MillsJROSS

[Nacho]

You know what? Jesus was buried in the tomb preppaired for Joseph of Arimathea...

Joseph was a rich man of Jerusalem.

The tombs of the rich men in Jerusalem had in many ocasion big niches to bury something else...

The jewish law tells the women must preappair the corpse.

But the bible says Joseph and some other men were in the tomb the first day... what were they doing? Let me tell ya... They were hiding Jesus body in the niche... There was no resurrection, just a big hoax. of course the romans did not find the body... Oh, wait! the apostles saw him after his dead some times, yeah! (Great witnesses, we can say... they had no kind interests in ressurect the leader of the movememnt they had in his hands, no...  ).

How can you believe? Do you make it democratic? Christians are 3,000 millions, 1,000 millions more than the muslims, we win!!! Is that the trick? It's been the judeo-christian God himself, Yahvé, who came from heaven, touched you, and told "believe in me, the buddists are wrong, the sinthoists are dumb... and don't believe the Jews, He was my son, indeed he was!" I see more plausible that this Gods are just a invention of the weak human creatures to avoid in some way their feeling of lonelyness.

The life has been in earth for 5,000 milions of years, and we're celebrating soon the 2005th anniversary of our religion, the human creates Gods, not the opposite. The history of the universe, of the earth and its life is that lovely that the idea of simplifying it with a powerful God making it all spares...

[DCillusion]

Do people REALLY sit around and contemplate the bible as often as it's sounding? :o

I'm an eskimo, (native people of the North American continent for Old Worlders), and I wasn't raised around the bible so maybe I can't understand. Ã, However, no one says "Did you like Cantabury Tales" on a Doom 3 mod site. Ã, Is there some engraven law that forces someone to "stitch" the bible to EVERY aspect of his/her world?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Oh, so this has got serious? What a pity. I always enjoy making fun of things that have always been taking too seriously (seriously enough to start the damned [pun intended] Inquisition, for instance, as well as adopting some ridiculous positions against some things in this day and age).

Ok, some of you may say this has more to do with the INSTITUTION that the actual RELIGION, I know, I know. But really, what is SO different about all the religions there are? They all say there's someone out there who wants us to love each other (except for some other religions who say that's just common sense and the person "out there" is another form of us, and some more complicated stuff). I don't want to offend anyoone, but I truly believe religions are useless, because they are, 1) common sense stuff that everyone should abide to anyway (basically, be a good sport in this great soccer game called Life), and 2) based on a book which brings nothing new.

As far as I can tell, the bible and its stories make a nice way to bring up children and teach them morales. But other than that... well, let's put it like this. Raining sulphur? Turning into salt? Woman from man's rib? That's got to be metaphorical, but so many people just INSIST to read it literally that I go "God, God, give Thy children a brain" and give up.

[SSH]

There is one undeniable truth, and you all better believe it or FACE TEH WRATH:

No-one has ever changed their religious beliefs one way or another based on an an internet discussion thereof

[Nacho]

There is one undeniable truth, and you all better believe it or FACE TEH WRATH:

No-one has ever changed their religious beliefs one way or another based on an an internet discussion thereof

***BASED IN SSH'S STALEMENT, AGSERS DISCOVER HOW USELESS IS TO DISCUSS IN GENERAL DISCUSSION***
***SOME OF THE MEMBERS STOP TO POST***
***APATHY SPREADS THROUGH THE COMMUNITY***
***AGS IS ABANDONED***
***CJ DIES AGE 29 IN A LAMENTABLE POVERTY***

SSH, See what could happen if you stole our freedom of speech???!!!?!!111one!!!

You, fascist!!1!1!!oneone!!! 

[Sinitrena]

I don't understand why you want to discuss the bible. There are too many religions in the world and I think you should discuss them all, 'cause they all could be true (who knows). I'm a Christian myself but I don't belife. Sounds a bit strange, I know. But how could you beliefe in something that was responsible for so many bad things (I mean every religion by this, not just one specific). You can beliefe in god or in the ideas of the religion, I can even imagine to beliefe in the bible, but it's still the morals of it that are important.
BTW, did anyone read "Nathan the Wise" (I'm not sue if it is called this in english) by Gotthold Efraim Lessing? The main thing this book says is that you can't say what is the right religion (which is my opinion as well), and you can't say if the bible or the existens of god is true, in my opinion.

[jetxl]

God is like Santaclaus except that your parents forgot to tell you he's not real. Think about it.
When I was 4 I believed in Santaclaus. How could I not, his face was on tv, my parents sais that he gave the presents, he has magic power. But when I got older, I started to think for myself and stopped following. The awnsers didn't mix up with my questions. And then my mother said he wasn't real, and suddenly EVERYTHING made sense.

I'm not religious. My complete familie is not religious. That doesn't mean that we're all anarcists. I still give small change to homes people, give directions to strangers and visit my grandmother. Not because I want to secure a place in heaven (what most religeous people want), but so people will remember me as a good person when I'm gone.

Before the Wright brothers, there was a frence guy who jumped of the Eifeltower with two sticks with feathers glued to it. He made a hole in the asfalt half a meter deep. He jumped  because he believed in his invention but died because in reality you can't fly with feathers on a stick, no matter how much you believe in (god or) yourself!

There is not god. When you're dead, you're dead. I simply want you to see the truth, because you deserve the truth.