Something you're always told about by other people....god or bad
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Likes about myself: my personality, smile, my willing to help anybody, the fact that I never give up i believe "failure is not a option"\n\nHate about myself: thinking people don't like me for real and trying to hard to people please, being 30lbs over weight, being attracted to attractive white men and them not knowing I exists,Not liking or being attracted to black men because of past things they have done to me, hate thinking about my past mistakes...which stunts my growth...ETC..LOl
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Well something about these quotes really disturbs me...\n\n"Over one million people worship the devil as a religion."  Really?  Prove it.  I want to see where you got your IMPARTIAL information.\n\n"Anyone who does not believe in God is a sinner and rebuked God when they heard the good news."  So this is what you are saying.  Before you tell these people about your god they are safe because your god is not known to them.  If, however; you tell them about your god and they refuse to believe your "good news of the lord" they are condemned to hell.  Why tell them in the first d@amned place then if you know they are going to go to hell for refusing your god!?\n\n"Lives we can never change"....yeah? tell that the people you just condemned to hell for refusing to believe in your god.\n\n..."and we have an understanding of what is good and bad in our conscience."  Well let me see, you just told a bunch of people who were enjoying their lives without your god and who were safe from the wrath of your god until you told them about your god by condemning them to hell for refusing to believe in your god. How is telling people who don't know your god a good thing again please?\n\n"we all have a sense of survivl instinct."  It's spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L, you idiot. \n\n"Yes things in our culture have been disintergrated because of simple minded people not knowing the facts before they say or do things before the think"...welcome to the Disintegration Club, genius.\n\n==============\n\n...and then there's this one...\n\n==============\n\n“HELLO! "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live...."\n\n"I'M NOT SAYING KILL ALL THE WITCHES.....what I AM saying is God does not approve of witchcraft...”  { Rather than me going off here I think I will just dust off something that Fiona Broome wrote and place it here regarding that little statement}: \n\nThou shalt not suffer a witch to live...? \nedited by Fiona Broome\n\nPeople often ask about the famous line in the Bible, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." (Exodus 22:18) \n\nIt's important to do your own research. However, here's what I've found so far: \n\nJames I was notorious for being paranoid about witches, spells, and so on. This was, in part, due to volatile politics of the time. He had good reason to be nervous. \n\n"His" Bible (the King James Bible) was translated to keep Jamie-boy happy, so they translated the word chasaph--which is Hebrew for poisoner (or, in other contexts, herbalist)-- to mean "witch" instead. \n\nThe real Biblical passage was about the disturbing crime of poisoning in the Jewish community. When that line was originally written, there may have been recent poisonings. Some historians point to this. \n\nHere's an early document, written around 1580 at the time of King James I, protesting the translation of chasaph as "witch." \n\n(And when goode King James discovered what Reginald Scot had said in this book, James first wrote his own book, Daemonologie, a rebuttal to Scot's. Then James ordered his men to find every copy of Scot's book and burn them. It \nwas too late. The Scot book was already in its third printing, widely distributed, and nine more chapters had been added.)\n\n  \nFrom The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot. \n  \nBOOKE VI \n  \nChapter I - The exposition of this Hebrue word Chasaph, wherein is answered the objection conteined in Exodus 22. to wit: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, and of Simon Magus. Acts. 8. \n  \n(page 64) Chaspah, being a Hebrue word, is Latined Veneficium, and  is in English, poisoning, or witchcraft; if you will so have it. The Hebrue sentence written in Exodus, 22. is by the 70. interpretors translated thus \n  into Greeke, [note: I'll fill this in when I have a Greek font and more time], which in Latine is, \n  \n\n  Veneficos (sive) veneficas non
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If bad things didn't happen in our life, how would we know the good things are good. If bad things never happened to us, how would we ever mature. If bad things never came our way, how would we know how [they] feel when they are going thru.. God will make something good out of everything bad in our lives if we love Him. That is a promise from Him. He always does for me. When something bad happens in my life, I ask God what He is about to do in my life. I look for something great to happen every single time something bad happens..
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I was raised to fear and respect the God I serve. Some people don't. I find it rather disrespectful, but not everyone serves the God I serve. So just like how we put our God in proper case, and their god in lower case, they do it to us. Us disregarding their beliefs is not different from them disregarding ours. You cannot push your beliefs on others (speaking generally of course). So, for me and you its like, "How can they stand to do that?" but for others, its like nothing. take care to look at it through their eyes also. Lastly, in spite of the way we refer to our God in writing does not make it any easier or us any more divine in our walk of Christianity, nor does our intolerance of others make us any better. It actually makes us a bit worse. Live how He wants you to live and show others your joy through the life you lead in Him. And don't get to Holy to laugh. I feel that will persuade others more than anything. much luv and stay safe.\n\nAngel
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I have epilepsy... have had it for over 15 years... I am also a follower of Jesus Christ...  I was weined off of my medication in 1999 only to have another one... I love God...been leading worship for 10 years at our church..... For someone to tell me that I am under demonic oppression is not only absurd, but doesn't do anything for the Kingdom of God... Folks we live in a fallen world... what are you to tell my mother in law that becasue she has cancer that God has cursed her????  How stupid.....
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I think it's called "God is Trying to Tell You Something".  I love that scene!
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no, believing or not believing in something like god is neither bad nor good. It's what you do with the belief or disbelief that will determine whether it's a bad thing.
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ANOTHER general statement about an ENTIRE GROUP of people, all of which you cannot know personally! I DO NOT make such statments about anyone else's group, so PLEASE STOP making them about groups that include me! Isn't this kind of stereotyping doing just as much injustice to me as SOME Christians' impositions do to you?
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great question. I had the same doubt when i was small but noobody answered me correctly. some said me to shutup, some scolde me and some said if i dont keep quite god will curse me. but later I understood that this story had been made just to make children 'god fearing ' any way we should appreciate our ancestors imagination. isnt it cool
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im sick of people repaeting this and that line of the bible. if i wanted that answer id read it for myself haha.my logic says there must be a god but it also tells me that another man shouldnt judge me by his own standards of how to be a good follower
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i was reading some of the put downs, doesnt any one have any faith or even common sense. god talks to each and every one of us. its the voice in your head telling you to do something or not to do something its the guilt you feel when you have done something wrong. who are we to say god did not speak to him. the bible says judge ye not! and it also tells us to have faith.who are we to decide who god can and can not talk to. would you believe him if he said satan talked too him?
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Everything around you is true because of god caring for you. Anyone who says there is no god is making a fool of himself coz his/her very existance is due to a power beyond his/her imagination and control which we name god. This is regardless of religion/holy books. Imagine what would be your situation if you were running for your life in a place like Iraq. Instead you are sitting before your laptop , having fun in a protected environment, drinking coffee, hearing music and talking crap that "God is not there"...lol....which by itself proves that god cares. Some things are beyond explanation....
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Im one of Jehovah Witnesses and I know what you are talking about. I ask a question and people start telling me what my faith believes, and most of the time they are soooo far off. It just bugs me that people hear from other people and automatically believe its true instead of asking the person who would know the truth.
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Why don't you give a specific incident. I'll bet you that if you did there would be somewhere in the story where you did or didn't do something which lead to the results, not God!
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LMAO.  You have great humor.  Here's one for you.  It isn't about a pastor but one is mentioned.  The kids in the story are the main characters.  But they are not the only ones who are "always blamed".  It happens to many of those who have been awarded "legend" status by others.  It's all so amusing ;) .\n\nTwo little kids, ages 8 and 10, were excessively mischievous and full of laughter. This sometimes annoyed others and it seemed they were always getting into trouble, whether they were to blame or not.  Everyone believed that, if any mischief occurred in their town, those two were probably involved.\n\nThe mother of the children heard about one pastor in town who had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her kids. The pastor agreed but said he wanted to see the children individually. The very next morning the mother sent her two children to see the pastor.  She told the 8-year old to go in first when they got there.\n\nThe pastor, a huge man with a very deep booming voice, told the younger child to sit down and then asked sternly, "Where is God?".\n\nThe kid's  mouth dropped open and she made no response; she just sat there with her mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. The pastor repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God!!?" Again the child made no attempt to answer.  Finally, the pastor raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the child's face and bellowed, "WHERE IS GOD!?"\n\nThe child screamed and ran from the room; she ran directly home and dove into her closet, slamming the door behind her. When her silbing found her in the closet, he asked, "What happened?"\n\nThe younger child, gasping for breath, replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time, dude. God is missing - and they think WE did it!"
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Exactly. This is the same thing that goes on in our lives when we make negative choices. Religion pretends that it is sin and that we are bad. This is just nonsense. It is only Gods way of teaching us what not to do.\n\nGod has not intention of judging us for learning our lessons in the way He always intended.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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Many people don't see religion as casting all humans as inherently bad.  For some of us, for example, our belief in a higher power incentivizes us to do good even when society would permit us not to.  In my own personal conduct, integrity is the hallmark of everything that I do and say.  I trace that integrity to a belief that at some point in the future I will have to answer for (i.e. justify) my every choice, word, and action.  In other words, even when it appears that no one is observing my conduct, I behave because I believe that Someone is.  It has become fashionable in political circles to mention one's religion, and particularly one's fundamentalism, much in the same vein as one lists other credentials (i.e. education, business experience, and political involvement to date).  I am tremendously skeptical that many if any of our political leaders truly believe the faith they profess.  I am convinced that if more of them anticipated justifying their conduct to a higher power, the world would automatically be better and, for example, the war in Iraq might never have begun under such false pretenses.