MAN 'is' given straight answers (John 13:34-35) but MAN choose to ignore that. - Jeremiah 10:23.
Since MAN can't direct his step is why God is going to have Jesus step in - Psalm 72:8,12-14
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What is God's highest priority?
- Thread starter Rational Agnostic
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Since MAN can't direct his step is why God is going to have Jesus step in - Psalm 72:8,12-14
OK.... Then keep the rules, learn, write for the new generations and await.
What?
That is crossing up the previous line. Did you even realize what your claims are suggesting, that one minute man makes a bad choice, the next that they can't and why a leader must fix the problem.....by god?
Dave Watchman
Active Member
I tend to agree. These are not God's top priorities. But God as the Potter, the Maker, can do with the clay whatever He wants to do with it. This is God's deal. God is not accountable to the clay for how He chooses to fashion and make some to be vessels of honour and others to be the vessels of wrath. We are a part, just a part, of something much bigger than all humanity.
He is dealing with the problem of sin. This is a serious thing. He is ultimately going to eradicate the problem of sin. He will ultimately kill all of His enemies. The penalty of sin is death. And the last enemy He will destroy is death itself.
It's not just all about us. Something else went wrong before we were here. We are caught up in the Devil's bargain.
I think. when it's all over, after we, and the angelic community see what happens, this type of rebellion will never take place again.
Then it will all be good. God will wipe the tears from our eyes.
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. - Revelation 21:4
Maninthemiddle
Active Member
I’m sure his priority is not to conduct a puppet show in which he controls all aspects of our life.
As a Buddhist I suggest you look deeper into karma as that gives reasons for such things.
Rational Agnostic
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I don't think there's any more evidence for "karma" than there is for any god of any other religion. That said, I do think that most Buddhist teachings have more value and wisdom than any other religion (the ones about how to live a good life, not the ones making truth claims).
Maninthemiddle
Active Member
There is evidence of karma, research.
ppp
Well-Known Member
No exclusive evidence
Tinkerpeach
Active Member
God doesn’t have priorities
Your mistake is that ulypu are thinking of His existence in human terms and He isn’t human.
He simply exists
ppp
Well-Known Member
What terms do you think in, if not human terms?
Tinkerpeach
Active Member
Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
ppp
Well-Known Member
You keep telling us how God thinks.
Hi @Rational Agnostic
I did not read the thread so I cannot tell if someone else has made this point but I think the restorational theists are correct to believe that God's priority and his "work" is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of mankind".
In any case, good luck coming to your own beliefs.
Clear
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chinu
chinu
God = "word"
Emerge from God = World
God's top priority is to merge you back into the "word" when you realize that the world which you see all around you can never be a permanent peaceful place to reside.
ppp
Well-Known Member
Either that god does not exist, or he is not competent to achieve that "top priority"
ppp
Well-Known Member
If he exists then he has failed miserably.What made you to come on that conclusion, my friend ?
John D. Brey
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I suspect you might be confusing "omnipotence" with "ultimate-tyranny," or "all-powerful tyrant." Which is to say I suspect that the imperfection of your six priorities is that they leave out the perfection of a seventh. Which is to say that we can suspect all six of your priorities are a top priority for God; but that the seventh priority trumps the other six. All six top priorities must be subject to the seventh in order for true good to come out of creation.
John
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ppp
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There is nothing on @Rational Agnostic list that would require tyranny of any sort. Let alone "ultimate".
Sand Dancer
Currently catless
Love and oneness.