tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post115539050586847919..comments2023-11-05T01:38:46.000-07:00Comments on Whoever and whatever God is: Despicable human traitsDavidDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10416775522057787866noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-1155856414786866882006-08-17T16:13:00.000-07:002006-08-17T16:13:00.000-07:00On June 16 I posted about God being whoever and wh...On June 16 I posted about God being whoever and whatever God is. I go into what I mean by that there.<BR/><BR/>I don't find that there is more than one God. That people have many different ideas about God is something else, as it is that people would define "God" differently from one another.DavidDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416775522057787866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-1155847943710161632006-08-17T13:52:00.000-07:002006-08-17T13:52:00.000-07:00I'm just curious as to which God you are talking a...I'm just curious as to which God you are talking about as there are so many?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-1155413573208765662006-08-12T13:12:00.000-07:002006-08-12T13:12:00.000-07:00I'm glad I don't have to decide what the world sho...I'm glad I don't have to decide what the world should do about global warming. Yet while admitting the uncertainty, it still is clear when someone is being irresponsibly simplistic or even telling what is outright arrogance or lying to call it a hoax.<BR/><BR/>I wish eschatology were that simple. For me it almost is. There are certainly reasons to believe that Revelation was written with symbols at hand to express a desire for vengeance in the face of powerlessness. So is gospel eschatology. Is there reason to believe more than that? Only that God might want vengeance, too, I suppose. I don't know why He'd wait though. The idea that the wait is to get a set number of believers saved doesn't make sense to me. Then there's the problem that God doesn't seem to intervene physically at all in this world, just mentally, and how little there is about any prophecy that has been helpful.<BR/><BR/>Eschatology could be more than powerless ranting, but it sure doesn't seem to be.<BR/><BR/>Yet some people embrace these stories, as does everyone they know. One can have discussions about which verse of Revelation we are in right now. I vote, "none", and I'm happy with that. I've asked God to tell me if He prefers a different answer. He says He's with me on this.<BR/><BR/>I still use calculus when I picture how to integrate various non-mathematical things, like parts of me, parts of a community. It's a good illustration once you've experienced adding up all these boxes under a curve. I can't say I've used the math since I left physics, though.DavidDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416775522057787866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-1155399968869893602006-08-12T09:26:00.000-07:002006-08-12T09:26:00.000-07:00I wrote this a while ago in my babbling blogI thin...I wrote this a while ago in my <A HREF="http://elbogz.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">babbling blog</A><BR/><BR/>I think some of the skepticism I feel today has to do with the big lies I was told along the path of life. Among them I include:<BR/><BR/>The apocalypse as revealed in the book of Revelations is going to occur in 1978*stike that* 1983*strike that* 2000 this time for sure!) …….(I'll have to get back to you on that)<BR/><BR/>Global Cooling is occurring (remember the 70’s?)<BR/><BR/>Global Warming is occurring<BR/><BR/>I would actually use some of the 5 semesters of Calculus I had to take in Engineering College.<BR/><BR/>In my youth, many sermons and youth groups were spent preparing ourselves for God’s second coming. Preachers spent sermon after sermon pointing out all the signs of the apocalypse revealed each day on the nightly news. Look here! Look there! Would be the sermon they preached. But 1978 came and went, and no apocalypse. They seemed to miss the 25 chapter of the book of Mathew<BR/><BR/>Mat 25:13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour<BR/><BR/>I read the books of the time like 666 and went to see the Omen at the theaters. When the prophecy of 1978 came and went, it really effected my beliefs and I had to questions all the “other’” things I was told about God. Even to this day I don’t do well hearing someone talk about the book of Revelations without looking though a very skeptical pair of reading glasses.<BR/><BR/>Some historians point out that even the Church of Corinth, as talked about in the book of Corinthians, believed the Second coming should have occurred within one generation of the death of Jesus. When it did not occur it caused great turmoil within the Church.<BR/><BR/>Jehovah’s Witness preached that the end of time would be in 1914. Pat Robertson has preached the anti-Christ is alive in Israel today. Jesus was asked a number of time when the end of time would be. He answered, “Only the father knows” and, “it will come like a thief in the night”<BR/><BR/>Ok,<BR/><BR/>Onto the subject of Global Warming, and the Global cooling. After reading all the debate on the subject I’ve summarized my scientific findings to one paragraph.<BR/><BR/>The dinosaurs didn’t smoke, didn’t have nuclear power or drive SUV’s, and they died. Mankind is no more in control of Global warming than he is about how fast the earth turns on its axis. More carbon monoxide gas came out of Mount St Helens than all the vehicles on earth produced that year. Sure, localized pollution will kill you. Bad drinking water, bad air and you will die. But it’s effect on the Global environment is less than one volcano.<BR/><BR/>And, Finally (thank goodness)<BR/><BR/>I’m still holding out on Calculus. I’m sure it has value,elbogzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13795893227081977514noreply@blogger.com