In Darrel's thread on "Demonic" religion, Steven Davis posted the following:
[quote=Rev. Steven Davis]
If there was only God, no Jesus , the man, no Spirit and for those who believe no 3 in 1.
Just God. God is very important in my life - with me minute by minute , day by day but if there was only God, there would be no stories of Jesus- no parables, no life lessons, no teachings of love and Agape. Theer might be Spirit but would I recognize it without the parables and metaphors that blows through the New Testement.
I want to start this off by saying that I'm not trying to judge Atheism or Atheists, this was just something I was thinking about the other night. I'd love to see responses that are also open-minded and non-judgemental from religious people, agnostics and atheists alike.
I wish.....
that I believed in a God that could cause miracles to occur in spontaneous healing
that I believed in a God that could reverse the clock
that I believed that the power of prayer would magically cause God to intervene in awful situations
but I don't
I own that chaos occurs in this world
that shit happens to people and it shouldn't
but, oh, how i wish
A news item on Process and Faith pointed me to the article below. It's by a Rabbi and talks about his discovery of, and Jewish perspective on, process theology. It explains his take on process fairly clearly without too much academic philosophy-speak (but with some Hebrew). Given how process usually comes up in a Christian context around here, I thought that the Jewish perspective given here might be interesting for others to read.
As Republicans campaign to be the one to oppose Obama in the next election, all of the front-runners have publicly emphasized an important foreign policy view. It is that God wants the United States to dominate the world and to rule over it for the next century. It is, they say, God's role and destiny for the United States. (It is already, obviously, the position of Obama, too.)
I wonder if any of our clergy could provide me with biblical references that support this claim.
Mr. Romney cannot be dismissed as a social freak like Sarah Palin. He is the leading contender to be the Republican candidate for president of the US.
Fox news is not a left wing news outlet. Quite the contrary.
Go to Google. type in romney god dominance fox news. It should pop up right away.
I have come, after much thought, to the realization that there is (for me at least) a fundamental flaw in the atheist-theist debates that rage on Wondercafe and elsewhere. The problem, as I see it, is that both positions, especially in the extreme forms that tend to start and get involved in these debates, are based on an old-fashioned notion that one's faith is binary: one either believes in God or doesn't. In computer interface terms, it's a checkbox labelled "God" that you click or you don't.
We have people visit the cafe, after receiving a sudden shock having lost someone or something.
Whether it be a life taken unexpectedly or someone facing a serious illness....a job lost or a relationship broken,....we often walk together in this stages.
Yet, we aren't always here, nor do people always wish to communicate.
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