God's Name Will not be Mentioned

Depths of Pentecost ^ | December 15, 2018 | Philip Cottraux

[pcottraux]

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[pcottraux]

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge: Hosea 4:6.

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[sparklite2]

I personally think there’s no such thing as an atheist. Deep down inside, everyone knows there’s a God.

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You’d be wrong about that.

[TBP]

Every atheist can give you a detailed description of the God in which he or she does not believe.

I was in a discussion with an atheist once, and I decided to see how deep his atheism was, so I simplified the definition to that One Universal Power, Infinite and Indescribable, which created everything.

He said, “That can’t be God.” I asked why not. “Because I could believe in that, and I don’t believe in God.”

[dhs12345]

Does a tree fall in the forest...

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Perhaps they are more accurately described as anti-theists?

[metmom]

Perhaps they are more accurately described as anti-theists?

Considering how worked up they get over something they claim doesn't exist, you are correct.

Perhaps would could label them theophobic and accuse them of hate crimes against God.

[YogicCowboy]

Agreed. I began calling them all antitheists about two years ago.

[YogicCowboy]

In spoken Hebrew, the declensions of the verb, To Be, are omitted; they are understood (implicit). Some commoners mistakenly think that the verb does not exist.

This is an ancient practice because the infinitive, To Be, and the name of God [YHWH] are linguistically related, and the Hebrews were afraid of accidentally taking the Lord’s name in vain, so they simply stopped using the verb in its various tenses.

The connection is obvious: “I Am” means the God who exists simultaneously in all time: was, is, will be. His name thus implies all tenses of the verb, To Be.

To use one of the names from the article as an example: In Israel, one would not say, “I am Daniel”; one would say, “I Daniel”: The word, am, would be understood. (Thus context is important to understand tense!)

Further, although the meaning of that name, Daniel, is translated, “God is my Judge,” the literal translation is:

Dan’i’El: Dan Sheli Elohim: Judge There-is-to-me God. The middle and last syllables in Daniel are contractions: Dan (Shel)i El(ohim).

[TalBlack]

written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness ...

“The walk of shame” was named by a generation that was raised in a culture of recreational sex. I have always found that instructive.

[pcottraux]

Very circular reasoning...and if you press them really hard about any issue about the universe’s (or life’s) origins, they inevitably circle back around to an answer along those lines.

[pcottraux]

Perhaps they are more accurately described as anti-theists?

Among the on-line atheist community at least, that description is a tell for the truly deranged psychotic ones. In an ideal world, atheists would be content to just not believe in God and go about their day. But from my experience, anyone who proudly calls his or herself "anti-theist" is like the fanatical vegans. It's not enough that they don't eat meat, they want to impose their lifestyle on the rest of us and make it mandatory. Anti-theists are the same way; they're little fascist wannabe's who want to destroy anything not like them.

[metmom]

they're little fascist wannabe's who want to destroy anything not like them.

What a perfect definition of a liberal.

[pcottraux]

Right, and 97% of the hardcore anti-theists on the internet community are leftists, so the cesspool forms the perfect mindset for both ideologies.

[boatbums]

The reality is they don’t believe He doesn’t exist; they hate Him.

I heard an evolutionist say that the only reason he believed in evolution was because the alternative was belief in God.

You are so right about the raging the atheists do in opposition to God and those who believe. If they truly believed He didn't exist, then they wouldn't care whether or not others believed. It's a lame excuse to claim they really oppose all the bad things believers have done in God's name. They conveniently forget all the horrible things done by atheist nations and leaders. One day, they will no longer be able to deny He IS but it will be too late.

[boatbums]

Very circular reasoning...and if you press them really hard about any issue about the universe’s (or life’s) origins, they inevitably circle back around to an answer along those lines.

In that film Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed by Ben Stein, I was shocked to hear Richard Dawkins actually admit that "aliens" could be the origin of life on Earth! Uh, Rick, where did the ALIENS come from???

[boatbums]

I get a chuckle when someone haughtily describes himself as “Agnostic”. Agnostic means “without knowledge”. They're walking around admitting to be ignorant!

[Flaming Conservative]

I love where the Bible talks about names being blotted out of the book of life. That tells me that their names, like the rest of mankind, have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and only when a person finally dies without accepting the Lord, is his name wiped out. I believe it is God’s will for all to be bound for Heaven, but that if we refuse to accept Him (those who are old enough to acknowledge Him), then the Heaven He created for us, will be closed to us. Great article I found:
http://www.learnthebible.org/blotting-out-of-names-the-book-of-life.html

[Combat_Liberalism]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. Keep us on your list.

My wife and I are blessed.

[pcottraux]

I heard an evolutionist say that the only reason he believed in evolution was because the alternative was belief in God.

That was a fail on several different levels. Obviously the first being that that isn't how scientific conclusions are carried out; you can't start with a conclusion then pick and choose which data to believe after-the-fact.

Now, for the deeper level; I'm not saying evolution is true. But IF it is...it still doesn't disprove God. It could help explain why there's such a diversity of species but it can't account to where the FIRST life form came from. The leap from non-living matter to life is beyond impossible to make naturally.

They conveniently forget all the horrible things done by atheist nations and leaders.

That's one of the glaring hypocrisies I can't ignore from atheists. Always quick to point out the Inquisition (and act like atheists were the primary targets instead of Protestants), always quick to cover up the communist purges of the last century (which have a WAAAY higher body count).