"Emotional" is not the word I'd use. Psychotic, despot, mass murderer fit the description much better.
Big Butter Jesus Struck by Lightning
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"Emotional" is not the word I'd use. Psychotic, despot, mass murderer fit the description much better.
Those things pertain to material nature, not to our essence.
We do things to material nature all the time that are rather disturbing -
There's more to being male than having certain bodily appendages. :bugeye:
What else?
I hate to point this out, but you are not making sense. Again, are you telling me God was not angry when he flooded the world and destroyed cities or was he just doing that to spice up his day?
This is not about mans violence. But that said, is not man made in God's image? Are we not God's children?
You are off topic. This is not about wither a soul can be killed or harmed, it is about wither God exhibits anger. You are avoiding the issue.
When you understand that the soul cannot be killed or harmed, you will see things such as floods, earthquakes, cancer etc. in a different light - as not being acts of an angry God.
I don't see why God would have been grieved by that Jesus statue, and why it would be due to His anger or unhappiness that lightning struck it.
I don't see why God would have been grieved by that Jesus statue, and why it would be due to His anger or unhappiness that lightning struck it.
No, I don't equate acts of violence to love. Additionally, and more to the point, the Bible itself has several references to God's anger (e.g. Romans, Acts, Revelations, John, Isaiah, etc).
So your notion that God has no anger is just without biblical support. In fact the Bible explicitly states otherwise on numerous occasions.
Now if you go back and read what I originally said, I never said God was angry and that was his reason for destroying Big Butter Jesus. I posed the question that he might be angry. The reasons for his anger could vary, the behavior of people at that church, including but not limited to church leadership. That church and the leaders have been involved in other local financial scandals over the course of the years. Could it be he just didn't like the statue. I believe Moses had some things to relay from God about graven images. Maybe God was just having a bad day or wanted to spice things up a bit?
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Kind of silly.
Kernl Sandrs
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It was\is a silly post. What is ironic about pointing that out?
What, you don't think God has a sense of humor?
Imagine you are the pastor of that church and you have been preaching hell fire and brimstone for years. And then one day, God sends a lightening bolt from heaven and destroys the big beautiful statue you errected. How would you explain that to your congregation? That would be a tough one for the pastor, in my mind at least.
What, you don't think God has a sense of humor?
Imagine you are the pastor of that church and you have been preaching hell fire and brimstone for years. And then one day, God sends a lightening bolt from heaven and destroys the big beautiful statue you errected. How would you explain that to your congregation? That would be a tough one for the pastor, in my mind at least.
Eiffel Tower etc.
Eiffel Tower etc.
Did the statue you referenced burn down? Nope, it is still standing. Then again, God may have a thing against Jesus statues...just saying. I don't know, but it looks kind of peculiar.
Doesnt it have to be flammable first?
You don't think God doesn't know that or do you think he is sitting up there throwing lightening bolts at the statue in vain trying to burn it down and puzzeling over why it has not burnt? I give God more credit than that.
If he would have wanted the giant statue made of stone to burn, it would have burned. He is after all, all powerful...yes? So if God wanted stone to burn, it would burn.
God is all powerful. And the facts are one burned and one did not. Is God sending a message?