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To: Dick Vomer

Did you not call yourself a Christian in a previous post? Everything we do matters to God because He paid the price for our actions.

Revelation 20:11-15 King James Version (KJV)

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.


59 posted on 02/11/2016 4:16:42 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

I consider myself a “Christian” but I don’t know if there is a “throne” or a “book” of good and bad. I just am trying to come to grips with an infinitely power of infinite size and infinite time and infinite depth that is “sitting” on anything.

I think it may be a metaphor for a time that made the explanations of the big question of “what are we”, “where did we come from”, “how does man and me fit into the picture”, “what was the very beginning... and if there was a “beginning” what was the “thing” before the beginning. In other words just in “time” when was there a “start”. If there was a start, what was before the start.

I’m not smart enough to say I KNOW anything. I’m only sure of my existence and even then it is subject to only my five senses. When I’m dreaming, I feel as if “it’s real” so in that moment I’m “real” but as soon as I wake up, I’m in a new “real”.

The God of Christianity is above and primary to all things. I would not limit God to a fancy chair. I suspect that “the infinite” and the immensity of God is something that I can not even begin to grasp. So my thoughts about God “sitting” at a throne, or caring about an artificially demarcated section of dirt, a baseball home run, a touchdown seems to actual belittle what God is supposed to be.

May I ask, and not to be confrontational or snarky,

what makes you believe that there is God?

What is God to you?

Why do you believe in God?


110 posted on 02/11/2016 3:44:38 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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