Posted on 12/08/2013 12:35:03 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
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Issac Newton looked at the wonders of light streaming through the cracks between the boards in a barn, and tried to imagine what they meant. A decade later, he came with an inadequate theory. Better to be like an angel and arrive at a perfect solution without thought. Better still to have a body that knows love.
10 Christians, 12 religions.
Satan was, we are told, an angel, and he arrived at his perfect solution without effort I guess.
People who want to be angels are like people who want to be trees.
Barking mad.
donmeaker, I appreciate having a friendly “back and forth” on this subject matter and enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you and anyone else reading our posts. I can’t figure out how you came up with “others know better than you..” from my latest post, but I assure you that isn’t at all what I was trying to say.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.
I guess the point of ‘others know better than you’ was that what is heaven to some may be hell to others. My limited experience is that people like different things.
Mart Twain wrote that when he asked a minister what Heaven was like, the minister gave a description that resembled learning from G-d and giving praise to him, rather like a church service. Well most men would avoid church services, and so he intended to be enough of a sinner to avoid Heaven.
The doctors said he could live longer if he gave up liquor and read meat. Mark Twain agreed that it would sure seem longer.
Your’s is what? 11 or 12?
Pagans are in a position where for 10 pagans, there are 24 some odd religions.
“Those Christians are so poor!”
“How poor are they?”
“They only have one G-d!” (Mel Brooks, History of the World, Part 1)
I read a science fiction story once about two aliens discussing life on earth.
“What about number 3 of Sol?”
“Oh, well the intelligent life search turned up positive but they are not ready.”
“Not ready? They have RF emissions, they must be ready!”
“Well, we analyzed the RF emissions. They are just meat noises. The beings there are meat. They send pictures of the meat. They blow gas through holes in the meat to communicate, and they use machines to send RF coded emissions of the meat sounds. Quite clever in a way.”
“Are you sure? Remember Telex-4, that looked like meat, but actually had a carbon core?”
“No, we picked up a few, and probed them. They are all meat.”
“Well, I agree with your assessment. Some forms of life are just too disgusting for our federation to accept.”
Satan reached his perfection, that is completion, in the instance of his choice, which the same that he desired men to make, which is a rejection of what he ought to have been , out of jealousy of man.
People should want to be like Christ, who is above the angels.
Do the aliens have huge bat wings and do they have pictures of the face of Jesus Christ?
these priesta were also AMERICANS would you suggest for a moment that you can equate child molestation with being an American....I think not. The incidence of child molestation is FAR greater within Protestant clergy, the public school system, and even the scouting programs....so get off the tirade against Catholic priests....there are bad apples in every barrel. I find the Catholic church admirable because it is the church that Christ, Himself, founded....not Luther, Calvin, Zwinglie, Henry VIII, Storch, Amman, Wesley, but Jesus Himself, and He promised to be with her until the end of time......close enough for me!!!
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