Is God dead? Atheism finds a market in U.S

Reuters ^ | 10/18/06

[x_plus_one]

One would hope you are right. Statistically speaking - these folks are more likely to take to the streets and burn churches as the root of all evil. Didn't the democrats rail against the American Public on Sept. 12, 2001 - that IT IS OUR FAULT that we brought our doom onto ourselves through our capitalistic, christian ways????

The blame america first crowd is the same group who would destroy religion in the name of peace - their idea of enforced, coerced, humanistic secular peace where the commisars dictate reality and the corrupt managers of society deem who will live and who will die.

[D-fendr]

God doesn't promise us that we will never suffer, but that we need never suffer alone.

I'm very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine losing my wife.

Or my only son.

God be with you...

D-

[tyke]

That's odd. I thought the Bible said that anyone who doesn't accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour (including the hundreds of millions who have never even heard his name) will endure an eternity of ultimate suffering and being alone, completely separated from God.

Huh, I guess we must be talking about something else.

[D-fendr]

You're close, but you have some key errors there.

In definitions and in prerequisites and in flow. Basically it's a over-simplified charicature.

You're statement is no doubt preached by some, but it is fair from the mainstream view and certainly not the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. If you'd like we could discuss further. thanks for your reply

[D-fendr]

should be:

it is fair far from the mainstream view and certainly not the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.

sorry

[DouglasKC]

My wife died. Just about the most loving human I ever met. My mom died. Same thoughts.
My faith started to erode.

Did you ever consider that God showed himself through your wife? The more a person loves, the the more they are allowing God to live through them...

[ladyinred]

What a beautiful post. I agree with you having lost my Father, and recently, although not on the same level, but very painful still, a beloved pet. If I had no faith, I would never make it through another day.

[annalex]

He has left us a witness in the transformed lives of the disciples

Very good post, Bugg.

We argued in the past and are sure to argue more, but this is a very, very good post. God bless you.

[.30Carbine]

"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."
~John 14:16-18 (NIV)

Cross reference: Daily Reflections with Oswald Chambers: The Witness of the Spirit

This is a shining, beautiful, full of Glory thread; with praise I bump it!