Imagine God.

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat

I guess I'm wrong.

THIS!

 

[puffff]

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

 

[DaveSimmons]

"Don't eat bacon" -- God


All the proof you need that there is not a god that loves us.

 

[CoinOperatedBoy]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat
I guess I'm wrong.

Now you are enlightened. Take this little flower and allow it to bloom into the realization of the vast extent of your wrongness.

 

[BudAshes]

Humans are god, we just aren't very good ones yet.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat
A man who accurately promised that if we trust in him, we are already saved.

What's that supposed to mean, and what do you base your interpretation upon?

"Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on me, though he were dead, he shall live, and whoever lives and believes on me shall never die: believest thou this? " - John 11:25-26.

No, this is too difficult to interpret, understand, and believe in -- even believing that the original wording was accurately rendered, let alone the subsequent chain of translations -- is hard. And the simplistic, superficial interpretation, as the OP apparently suggests, is, well, suitable for some perhaps, and good enough for some sects, but ultimately comes up short.

Originally posted by: DixyCrat
Would you love this God? Would you love this Man?

This is an interesting question. Would you accept a first-class ticket to heaven based on dubious understanding and no real love for all others who are not only left behind but condemned to something called hell? Would you love if the alternative was burning? Can you love because of compulsion? Should you even if you could? Would that be love?

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi.

Likewise, if you intellectually exclude anyone from the shelter of God's compassion, love, and ultimate salvation, you love God inadequately, and but establish that you have misinterpreted something, albeit something difficult to understand, and only more difficult to understand when aged and isolated.