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11-12-10, 08:26 AM #61
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11-12-10, 08:33 AM #62Re: Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climat
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11-12-10, 08:42 AM #63
Re: Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climat
It is a sticky subject for me. I do believe in God and I do believe that God can talk to you in his way. That being said, trusting someone else that is making huge decisions that effect everyone based on a conversation (for the lack of a better term) that they claim they had with God is erm, tough. No way the rest of us know if the conversation took place. What if the President said that God told him to Nuke Europe? If God truly spoke to him then why not just use that as part of your knowledge and part of your decision making process. Why make that your public reason for the decisions that you will make?
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11-13-10, 11:30 AM #65
Re: Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climat
I think the point is that if you ARE a person of faith, following another person because they said "God told me so" is still iffy. This is because you're trusting a person to be a perfect translator of god's will. I'm an atheist, but I know in the Christian faith god is infallible and perfect. However, if he's being "translated" through a fallible person, then you have to trust that person, rather than god.
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11-13-10, 11:54 AM #66Re: Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climat
+1
IF you believe the Bible is truth then Jesus came to remove the need for the "priest" role in the common man's relationship with God. Prior to Jesus most people relied on priests and prophets to relay God's words, but now we are all equal, so if God does have something to tell you He will tell YOU, not your buddy to tell you.
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11-13-10, 12:30 PM #67Re: Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climat
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11-15-10, 03:25 PM #70
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1.4 + 1.4 = 2.8
Round the #'s in this equation... 1 + 1 = 3
I don't even know what to say. The guy's already a congressman, so his position is influencial enough. I have many good friends who are devotedly Christian, but I'd trust them to have a more objective view of the world in something like this.
God may not have told the president to nuke Europe, but here's another example of 'God told me',
George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' | World news | The Guardian
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