[JennyD]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

So you really do believe in a god that expects the objects of his creation to supplicate themselves to "him", to serve like a slave and beg (pray) for "his" favor, to dedicate your whole life to the service of an entity, the only basis for which is a book of collected literature about bronze-age tribesmen who lacked the technology to put glass in their windows and whose "messiah" forgot to mention during his 33-year visit that the earth is spherical and that executing people for heresy in the centuries to come for expressing a contrary belief was probably not such a great idea?

Seriously.

I see you've never read the Bible.

How can we possibly have a discussion about God if you haven't read the Book He gave us, through which we can understand Him?

For one, why is it you think that "executing people for heresy . . . [is] not a great idea"?

Read Numbers 31 -- just one of many examples -- and then come back and tell me how God wants us to handle heretics and those who abandon Him to chase after false idols (including "Oprah").

[JennyD]

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Now, here is a perfect example of what happens when we listen to Oprah instead of Jesus.

This selfish woman got all "introspective". She wrote two versions of her obituary, a common New Age thought exercise.

What happened? Depravity, divorce, and no doubt, lesbianism!

Roz Savage was 33 and seemingly had it all: a husband, a house, a little red sports car, and a job as a management consultant. Still, Roz sensed something was missing, so she wrote two versions of her obituary. One version was a continuation of her current path. The other was based on her jumping into the unknown and living the life she'd dreamed of.


Looking at the obituaries side by side, Roz knew what she needed to do, so she shed her job, her house, her husband and even the sports car so that she could focus on meeting her goal of single-handedly rowing the Atlantic Ocean.

Now she's working on a new challenge: rowing the Pacific Ocean. The University of Oxford grad is also using the journey to raise awareness about environmental issues and show others that they don't have to follow a conventional path to success.

Readers from around the world have followed her voyage through her blog and drawn inspiration from Roz's courage to embrace the unknown and pursue her dream.

"I try to offer my life as an example of what can be done when a very ordinary person decides to do something out of the ordinary," she says.

Now, NO True Christian(tm) woman would dare think of abandoning her husband so she could spend weeks rowing a little boat! How would that glorify God?!

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

Why would a woman row the Atlantic Ocean alone? That is what passes for "courage" these days? If she had any brains, she would've just flown. No wonder God tells us not to let women think for themselves...they just start doing hare-brained schemes like this. That sounds like some kind of episode from "I Love Lucy".

[Nobar King]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

It just goes to show that even a degree from Oxford won't put some sense into the mind of a woman.

[MirthMenace]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

I see you've never read the Bible.

How can we possibly have a discussion about God if you haven't read the Book He gave us, through which we can understand Him?

For one, why is it you think that "executing people for heresy . . . [is] not a great idea"?

Read Numbers 31 -- just one of many examples -- and then come back and tell me how God wants us to handle heretics and those who abandon Him to chase after false idols (including "Oprah").

Jenny, with all due respect, I'd appreciate it if you'd give just as much time to reading what I wrote as you did to your finely-crafted, but oh-so-cute answer. I just want to pinch your rosy little cheek!

I know the Bible better than your average, garden variety Christian and am well aware that it contains no shortage of literary examples of your "God" meting out his wrath in the form of mass murder and unspeakable suffering. Your Bible portrays your god as cruel and arbitrary, jealous and vindictive, a cold, vicious, and indiscriminate killer, yet weirdly worthy of your love and adoration anyway.

Make sense of that for me, if you don't mind.

[Nobar King]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

I know the Bible better than your average, garden variety Christian and am well aware that it contains no shortage of literary examples of your "God" meting out his wrath in the form of mass murder and unspeakable suffering. Your Bible portrays your god as cruel and arbitrary, jealous and vindictive, a cold, vicious, and indiscriminate killer, yet weirdly worthy of your love and adoration anyway.

Make sense of that for me, if you don't mind.

If you knew the Bible as well as you suggest you would be able to explain your confusion regarding the intentions of our God. It's obvious that you don't know the Bible as clearly as you say you do.

[JennyD]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

Make sense of that for me, if you don't mind.

Enjoy Hell, then.

You clearly have made that choice.

[MirthMenace]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

If you knew the Bible as well as you suggest you would be able to explain your confusion regarding the intentions of our God. It's obvious that you don't know the Bible as clearly as you say you do.

You know, I want to pinch your cheek too, you little rapscallion! I know all I need to know of your Bible to be able to reasonably conclude that the god it portrays is not the sort of character I can imagine as my Creator. To be honest, the god it portrays too often acts with the same limitations with which we humans, the objects of "his" creation, are endowed.

My Creator is above all that.

[MirthMenace]

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Enjoy Hell, then.

You clearly have made that choice.

Aren't you quite the little wordsmith. So cute!

There is no "Hell", no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, no Satan, no Santa Clause, no Great Pumpkin, no "Stork", and no leprechauns. I hate to break this all to you so bluntly, you being so damn cute and all, but you do need to know.

[Remy Lebeau]

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Aren't you quite the little wordsmith. So cute!

There is no "Hell", no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, no Satan, no Santa Clause, no Great Pumpkin, no "Stork", and no leprechauns. I hate to break this all to you so bluntly, you being so damn cute and all, but you do need to know.

Look everyone!! This guy has absolute knowledge of EVERYTHING in the entire universe. Satan and Hell don't exist because he says so. Wow!! Well that just explains everything now doesn't it? Aren't are faces red?

Where's Jimmy Hoffa's body buried?
Where is Obama's REAL Indonesian birth certificate?
Where is Osama ibn Laden hiding?
Where are all the WMD that Saddam hid before we invaded Iraq?

You seem to KNOW everything.

[Robert Hutchins]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

You know, I want to pinch your cheek too, you little rapscallion! I know all I need to know of your Bible to be able to reasonably conclude that the god it portrays is not the sort of character I can imagine as my Creator. To be honest, the god it portrays too often acts with the same limitations with which we humans, the objects of "his" creation, are endowed.

My Creator is above all that.

It's not just "Our Bible," but yours. Sorry you don't have the conviction and strength to understand and accept it.

God acts however He wants, and if that is in a way a human would, perhaps they are not limitations, but our very own tendencies were influenced by Him? You think that if God acts like a human may, then he is weak and false. His Glorious power is infinite, and however he chooses to fulfill his Will is how it should be.

Oh, and if you think he is too weak for worship... I hope you enjoy eternal fire. Your fellow worshippers of a false God will greet you with the sounds of torment and eternal suffering. Have fun!

[MirthMenace]

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Look everyone!! This guy has absolute knowledge of EVERYTHING in the entire universe. Satan and Hell don't exist because he says so. Wow!! Well that just explains everything now doesn't it? Aren't are faces red?

I understand your embarrassment. It will pass.

Where's Jimmy Hoffa's body buried?

I am not at liberty to divulge that information.........yet.

Where is Obama's REAL Indonesian birth certificate?

It's in Indonesia. Duh!

Where is Osama ibn Laden hiding?

"Deep in the Heart of Texas"

Where are all the WMD that Saddam hid before we invaded Iraq?

What Saddam failed to articulate clearly was that he was the the "WMD". He was found. Are you taking a liberal stance on this issue and suggesting that President Bush was ill-advised in his decision to rape Iraq?

You seem to KNOW everything.

I suppose it must seem that way, but I don't. No really, I don't. Seriously. I mean as much as you must hope I do, I just don't.......yet. And you won't necessarily know when I finally do because I may not volunteer it, so do feel free to ask.

[Robert Hutchins]

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I assure you, if Obama Bin Laden so much as thought about Texas, good old George W. Bush would be right behind him with an army and a double-barreled shotgun. Friends,

Beware of false prophets. (Matthew 7:15.)

[MirthMenace]

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I assure you, if Obama Bin Laden so much as thought about Texas, good old George W. Bush would be right behind him with an army and a double-barreled shotgun. Friends,

Beware of false prophets. (Matthew 7:15.)

I will concede that I have no idea where Bin Laden is hiding. That is among the things I do not know. Oh, what you must think of me.

[Robert Hutchins]

Re: Why are New Age beliefs harmful?

Oh, what you must think of me.

Heathen, liar, false prophet. Just a few that come to mind.