Posted on 08/18/2006 5:22:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Please excuse the hypervanity -- and Admin Mod, when I get it, feel free to delete the thread -- but I am looking for this super cool 3 dimensional animated gif (or JPG) of this East-indian 'god' that was posted a few days back. I'm sure someone saw it and either retained a copy or a link.
It was awesome and I want to send it to a dear friend.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Please note: forsnax5 found and linked the image in post 10.
What language were you speaking?
Laz, DOG here ... zot based image ... Don't be a hasa. That is all.
can you provide us with an english translation?
Funny how often Jesus is portrayed "in the Christian tradition" as a pale effeminate hippie white guy. God's image? Ha!
Cthulhu fhtagn
I love you.
That is all.
Series, you expect sense on a thread started by Laz? Whe Laz is asking a series question for once? LOL Payback is a Hillary.
I do already. I have been taught to become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside, shouting and killing and revelling in joy. I seek new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy myself, and all the earth will flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
Har!
Well, that sure isn't Octopussy.
Hail Discordia! Hail Boilerplate!
LOL
East coast liberal morons. The moneychangers whose tables He smashed didn't view Him as being "Love". He will return with a sword that cleaves good from evil and sheep from goats, smashing darkness and putting the Devil in the Lake of Fire.
That said, I am told to have goodwill for those who listen, peace with those who don't, and kindness to all. God will settle up who wins and who loses when He gets back. Nowhere in my holy books am I instructed to slay or enslave the infidels.
I have no patience with those who try to use Jesus's admonition to "Judge not, lest ye be judged" to try and paint Him as being so "loving" that He would allow all manner of sins for fear of judging. Christ "judged" every day and taught the disciples to as well. Nowhere did Jesus say "sin is fine, you can't help yourself." He did say to the women at the well, "Go and sin no more." She was forgiven, but AFTER she admitted her sins and asked Christ to come into her heart. Christ judges, and as a "Christian" (or "little Christ") I judge as well. But I judge people's actions, as He did, not their souls. No one is beyond God's love...if they come to Him, admit their sins, and try to do better.
Certainly, when He stopped the Jewish elders from stoning the woman to death for adultery, he was not declaring what she did as acceptable to God...He was saying that it was wrong to kill her for what she did. And notice the difference from the "judging" the elders did, and the "judging" Christ performed. They wanted to kill her because she was evil and deserved to die for it. God wanted to save her because she had done evil things, and like all of us, was capable of being rescued from them. "Judge not, lest ye be judged" speaks more to the type of judging involved...as a Christian, I want to be judged as Christ did; lovingly, in a way that course corrects me when I cannot see my own failings, not in the way that the Elders wanted to judge.
Christ was fearless in naming sin, and saying that God did not approve, but he never judged people as being without worth, or beyond God's love. I want to follow that example.
We had a modern hymn in church on Sunday that had a line like, "God of love, and God of justice." Bravo. My God has endless love for those who are willing to listen, but still judges Good vs. Evil. How can you obtain justice for the wronged without judgement of the facts?
Funny how often Jesus is portrayed "in the Christian tradition" as a pale effeminate hippie white guy. God's image? Ha!
East coast liberal morons. The moneychangers whose tables He smashed didn't view Him as being "Love". He will return with a sword that cleaves good from evil and sheep from goats, smashing darkness and putting the Devil in the Lake of Fire.
That said, I am told to have goodwill for those who listen, peace with those who don't, and kindness to all. God will settle up who wins and who loses when He gets back. Nowhere in my holy books am I instructed to slay or enslave the infidels.
I have no patience with those who try to use Jesus's admonition to "Judge not, lest ye be judged" to try and paint Him as being so "loving" that He would allow all manner of sins for fear of judging. Christ "judged" every day and taught the disciples to as well. Nowhere did Jesus say "sin is fine, you can't help yourself." He did say to the women at the well, "Go and sin no more." She was forgiven, but AFTER she admitted her sins and asked Christ to come into her heart. Christ judges, and as a "Christian" (or "little Christ") I judge as well. But I judge people's actions, as He did, not their souls. No one is beyond God's love...if they come to Him, admit their sins, and try to do better.
Certainly, when He stopped the Jewish elders from stoning the woman to death for adultery, he was not declaring what she did as acceptable to God...He was saying that it was wrong to kill her for what she did. And notice the difference from the "judging" the elders did, and the "judging" Christ performed. They wanted to kill her because she was evil and deserved to die for it. God wanted to save her because she had done evil things, and like all of us, was capable of being rescued from them. "Judge not, lest ye be judged" speaks more to the type of judging involved...as a Christian, I want to be judged as Christ did; lovingly, in a way that course corrects me when I cannot see my own failings, not in the way that the Elders wanted to judge.
Christ was fearless in naming sin, and saying that God did not approve, but he never judged people as being without worth, or beyond God's love. I want to follow that example.
We had a modern hymn in church on Sunday that had a line like, "God of love, and God of justice." Bravo. My God has endless love for those who are willing to listen, but still judges Good vs. Evil. How can you obtain justice for the wronged without judgement of the facts?
Like WOW, man.
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