Has He told you how long we will be cursed with
THIS?
Posted on 03/16/2009 6:19:18 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
"God exists, and he's American" is the judgment of Dr. Milton Glass, fictional nuclear physicist from the acclaimed Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic Watchmen, when he learns that Jon Osterman, has come back from the dead. Osterman disputes Glass's judgment, but the new deity's protest rings as hollow as his promise of fealty to his first girlfriend.
In the story, Osterman dies in a freak lab accident that is the stuff of countless superhero origin stories. It utterly obliterates his body but leaves his mind intact and powerful. Osterman then re-creates himself from scratch. He is not just reborn but transfigured and renamed, as the world's oddest crime fighter: Dr. Manhattan. By the end of the tale, Manhattan even talks of Osterman as a different person.
Obviously, Dr. Manhattan looks different. He has the skin of a Smurf, the body of a Greek god. He crackles with energy and can manipulate other matter with the same ease that he reconstructed himself. Less obviously: His changed perceptions bracket him off from the rest of mankind. He can see things at the molecular level but is puzzled by basic human emotions and conventions. His women complain that they can't connect with him and he often walks around in his rebirthday suit. He perceives time differently as well -- the future and the past run together.
Dr. Manhattan is clearly a sort of god. After the mystery at the heart of Watchmen is resolved, he professes a newfound fondness for human life and muses, "perhaps I'll create some" -- elsewhere in the universe. But what sort of a god is he?
Enter: irony. One group that is not likely to come out in great numbers to see the new film Watchmen is members in good standing of the
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Perhaps one of "Ballard's internet buddies".
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Not to discount what you think; but be very careful with thoughts like those.
Many cults and destructive people have had those same thoughts throughout history...
I know it is nutty, but I have a relationship with God. It may be that I give Him what He needs. Yes “needs”. Reread scripture. Pay attention to the needs of God.
And your introduction/invitation to get to know Him is given in the spirit of mockery with no mention of Him or His Gospel as you know it? How are we to know what the Truth is if you won’t tell us?
Has He told you how long we will be cursed with
THIS?
“Headline and Story Have Nothing To Do With Mormons, But I Have To Feed My Obsession Somehow”
Lol! God is love! He loves Obambi too!
I am the last person on earth that God would talk to. I guess that is the reason He talks to me. Imagine for a moment that it’s true. It is ridiculous, but I wouldn’t lie.
I've often told my story of how Christ saved me. You must have skipped it.
He loves me - He leads me, He feeds me. There is nothing more than that!
I do not look to others to do for me what only my Lord can do. And you cannot find love from His disciples until you find it in Him.
I love my enemies (at times I fail). And I love you Reaganesque. I fear it is you who cannot love me, an apostate from Mormonism.
Find Him, I pray, it is imperative for your eternal life.
“I am one who believes that God talks to each of us, are you saying there in no personal inspiration? “
I would agree with what you say.
The other poster seems to be taking this to another level however, that does not seem to agree with scripture.
Saying that God “needs” us, seems to very dangerous ground to be treading on. It elevates man to a level with God; not a good place to be going.
Scripture says that God gets angry and/or jealous. God wants a friend. Why is that so hard to understand?
Uh. . .what?
You're right. . .it is crazy.
I do not believe in “God”. But I have exhausted the statistics. My saintly wife gets nothing, but I get personal messages. God is a “dude”. He is a brother, not a father. He needs us.
I am not concerned about basphemy. God is my friend!
Specifically site which scriptures talk about God's needs that relate to your claim that He needs us.
More deserving people don’t understand. Neither do I. God loves me. I know it. It makes no sense.
“Scripture says that God gets angry and/or jealous.”
Yes I would consider this to true according to scripture.
“God wants a friend”
No this is not based on scripture.
Joe Smith! Is that you?
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