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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; D-fendr; Kolokotronis; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; blue-duncan
If God doesn't need anything then He certanily doesn't need our praise either.

Sorry, but God was doing very nicely for the gazillions years before we came along. He has His angels to praise Him-He doesn't need us.

Starving/raped children in Darfur are fools for Christ's sake? Please get real.

Well, why don't you just throw the bible in the trash and make up your own religion if you're not going to believe the scriptures? After all, that's what the Gnostics did. Just call it "Kosta's Orthodox Church of Brotherly Love" or something like that.

Man is inhuman to man; it doesn't matter whether one is a non-Christian and the other is. The book of Philemon is written to a slave owner about his runaway slave. Paul didn't criticize either one. Man's inhumanity to man doesn't negate God's love. God doesn't promise any of us a rose garden and we are all fallen creatures so we can be nasty to other at times.

10,277 posted on 11/01/2007 4:47:13 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD; Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; D-fendr; Kolokotronis; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; blue-duncan
Sorry, but God was doing very nicely for the gazillions years before we came along. He has His angels to praise Him-He doesn't need us

Gazillions of years? There were no angels before the Creation. In fact, there was no time either, no years to count, HD! Angels were created as His hosts and obligate servants (the biblical word used is closer to a "slave"), as God's messangers (aggelos), not His "fans." In the OT, angels are tasked with genocides in the name of God, as God's executioners.

Well, why don't you just throw the bible in the trash

Well, if you are gong to call starving/raped children in Darfur "fools for Christ" I think that would be the right thing to do. Your verses were out of order, HD. You need to concentrate on the Beatitudes (Gospels). It is by far mor edifying to read what Christ had to say than any other author.

10,281 posted on 11/01/2007 7:17:57 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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