Not in His name: God is gender-neutral, says archbishop of Canterbury
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Not in His name: God is gender-neutral, says archbishop of Canterbury
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What a barmpotQuote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
It's like a dream, you wake up to find out nothing you've ever been told is true. It's a bit like the Bobby Ewing shower scene :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by life on mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEjeTb1rrs
Wow even the almighty now, this equality is going ott it won't be long before men are complaining
What about the collection box money they've been pocketing for the past 2,O18 years, all based on a lie :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc
I still can't believe Christ is portrayed as a white hippieQuote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
If you think god is real you’re a ****ing simpleton. God’s more likely to not be a man or a woman than casting magic spells down on you.
I think people find it easy to believe in God rather than live in fear that there's nothing after death, I find it hard myself to believe in the big bang theory as everything landed perfectly in placeQuote:
Originally Posted by rudy gestede
How did everything land perfectly in place? Unless you’re arogant enough to think humans are the pinacle of creation and evolution doesn’t exist?Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc
You’re more likely to believe there is a magic sky wizard and he’s definitely a man than believe scientific fact?
You’ve summed it up yourself it’s a crutch invented to make people feel better and control the masses.
I don't really believe in anything whatever happens will happen I can't change that, the way the planets lined up is some what near perfection but we're a tiny piece of the jigsaw of the universe, I do enjoy listening to Neil deGrasse TysonQuote:
Originally Posted by rudy gestede
Can you believe he thinks god isn’t a man with an actual dick!? How weird would you have to be to believe that! :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
It's ok for you you to make whimsical comments, but I bet you haven't got any relatives who were burned at the stake for not going along with the charade!Quote:
Originally Posted by rudy gestede
Why do people associate the word 'God' with the Abrahamist one when there have been thousands of them?
Does him having a dick make it less of a charade?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Our planet is in the perfect place but there are billions and billions of planets out there that aren't.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc
Earth is the only planet that we know of that has perfect conditions for life. As somebody else has said, there are billions out there that don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc
On seeing this thread's title and that it had 16 replies I just knew you'd be in the mix. My dog did too. "Ethelred," I said to him, "any money Taunton Blue Genie's made some remarks". His response was to lick a paw which translates to: "I'll wager my last pig's ear on it" in doggie language.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
:hehe::hehe:This cheered me up no end :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
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Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
And possibly some that doQuote:
Originally Posted by Zenith
God is fake news, but the handbook clearly states he's a man.
Believe or don't believe. But don't change the ****ing rules.
Where in the bible does it say that?Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
It also says don’t eat meat on a Friday mind :hehe:
I find it weird that people seem so quick to laugh at something or insist something’s wrong that they’ve not cared about or read about even once before. A cursory glance gives you this:
I literally don’t care either way but I always find it surprising the amount of people who will quickly jump on something like this and rage about it without any knowledge and profess to know everything.Quote:
Classical western philosophy believes that God lacks a literal sex because it would be impossible for God to have a body (a prerequisite for sex).[7][8] However, Classical western philosophy states that God should be referred to (in most contexts) as masculine by analogy. It justifies this by pointing to God's relationship with the world as begetter of the world and revelation (i.e. analogous to an active instead of receptive role in sexual intercourse).[9] Others interpret God as neither male nor female.[10][11]
The Catechism of the Catholic Church #239 specifically states that "God is neither man nor woman: he is God".[12][13]
The book of Genesis says that god created man in his own own image, then sent him into a deep sleep and took one of his ribs to create woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by rudy gestede
The bible also forbids eating fat, pork, cheeseburgers (meat and dairy together).
And not being circumcised.
Yes but that’s from the English translation and even then it’s been said to mean mankind.
It sounds like you have as much knowledge of the bible as me i.e. what we learned at school. Why take such a hardline stance?Quote:
In Hebrew language, in rabbinic literature, the divine presence of God, the Holy Spirit, the Shekhinah is feminine.[citation needed]
The New Testament also refers to the Holy Spirit as masculine in a number of places, where the masculine Greek word "Paraclete" occurs, for "Comforter", most clearly in the Gospel of John, chapters 14 to 16.[18] These texts were particularly significant when Christians were debating whether the New Testament teaches that the Holy Spirit is a fully divine person, or some kind of "force". All major English Bible translations have retained the masculine pronoun for the Spirit, as in John 16:13. Although it has been noted that in the original Greek, in some parts of John's Gospel, the neuter Greek word for "it" is also used for the Spirit.
Well I do find folklore fascinating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Up until a year or so ago Sludge was a committed Catholic. That was until he was banned from Cowbridge's St Cadoc's church for monopolising the confessional box so much that no-one else had a chance to nip in to disclose and be forgiven for their sins.
The priest, father Joseph, patience finally snapped on hearing strange noises. When he broke protocol by parting the curtain that lent anonymity to the mysterious but very familiar voice he'd listened to for so long each day he discovered his wayward parishioner tucking into a pile of sandwiches resting on his lap.
The rotter would be there first thing in the morning and in the afternoon too. The later sessions would entail him detailing all the impure thoughts he'd had since earlier. He'd only been gone for 90 fecking minutes but always enough new material to sustain another two-hour session.
You are having it soon sunshineQuote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Because the link relates to the Abrahamist god and is a comment by the leader of an Abrahamist cult?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
GOD was crap for us - Jimmy Floyd was much better
..if jesus was half man half god...which half was man?
The status of Jesus is different depending on which branch of Abrahamism you look at. And a lot of things that he was supposed to have done were assigned to other individuals in earlier religions.Quote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Are we allowed to mention the poor chap was a first century Jew and was persecuted.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc