Hey.

[defart]

I'm a 25 year old christian since birth.
Baptized, and raised in a christian manner.

Lost my religion a few years in the past, and struggling to refind it.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Hey.

Welcome devart, I hope I can help you on the road to discovering the truth.

As a start I would recommend you read my postings here:

A Condensed History of the World
The Holy Noodle
The Most High and Holy Prayer

I would also like to point you in the direction of the Holy Texts that you can find via the links in my signature.

[defart]

Re: Hey.

Thank you for your reply Freddie.
I'll lookup those threads in a minute.

[Lycia The Repentant]

Re: Hey.

Great work you macaroni marauder. Is tempting people into blasphemy fun for you?

Hello devart, please ignore anything that sheep pirate is bleating at you.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Hey.

Great work you macaroni marauder. Is tempting people into blasphemy fun for you?

I am tempting no one into blasphemy, I mealy try to illuminate the way so they can find the correct path, you would have them stumbling down the wrong path in the dark.

Hello devart, please ignore anything that sheep pirate is bleating at you.

Can you smell the fear devart? it is Lycra's fear that you will discover the TRUTH and reject her false "god." As she suffers with the pain inflicted on her by her false religion she feels that other should suffer in the same way.

[defart]

Re: Hey.

Guess those icons near the username of every member are very helpful..
(haven't paid attention to them before your post.)

Thank you Lycia for pointing that out. Oh man. Does this place have many such specimens?

[Lycia The Repentant]

Re: Hey.

Guess those icons near the username of every member are very helpful..
(haven't paid attention to them before your post.)

They are!

As a general rule of thumb you can trust anybody who is using a picture of themselves. Of course, there are a few exceptions, but another thing you can use is the "rep bar" near the location of the poster. If its green, the person is a good, helpful person. If its red, its a hell-bound sinner bent on dragging as many people to the lake of fire with them as they can.

Thank you Lycia for pointing that out. Oh man. Does this place have many such specimens?

Well, we do get persecuted by rabid atheists and god-mockers quite regularly, but it only proves that we are blessed.

"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:10

So tell us a little more about yourself devart. Your name? What church you attend? Whats your favorite Bible verse?

[defart]

Re: Hey.

God is ONE. There's no right or wrong god. The choosing of own personal god is every individual's task.

If only we all would stop trying to influence each other with our own traumas and feelings...

In my vision, Buddha, Ghandi, Jesus, Krishna, and all the other names, all represent one thing: escape for the soul. A (tourist)"resort" if you please.

Hate and contradiction isn't an answer.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: Hey.

In my vision

You need glasses.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Hey.

God is ONE. There's no right or wrong god. The choosing of own personal god is every individual's task.

If only we all would stop trying to influence each other with our own traumas and feelings...

In my vision, Buddha, Ghandi, Jesus, Krishna, and all the other names, all represent one thing: escape for the soul. A (tourist)"resort" if you please.

Hate and contradiction isn't an answer.

You are closer to Our Lord Noodle then you know devart.

2:4 As the Flying Spaghetti Monster said through the Buddha, “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
2:5 This is how we must navigate the pluralism that is the essence of Pastafarianism.
3:1 The Flying Spaghetti Monster does not wish us to believe every word of every religion, as that would clearly be a problem and lead to much confusion and conflict.
3:2 All you have to do is be open to finding truth anywhere.
3:3 If you agree with it, believe it, no matter if it comes from the Bible, the Qur‟an, The Buddha, Dave Barry, or any other source imaginable; these are all conduits of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
3:4 The principles of life, liberty, and freedom outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are principles the Flying Spaghetti Monster chose to convey through men like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
3:5 The lessons of Mohandas Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Voltaire, Plato and Socrates are all lessons of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
3:6 If you were to take everything ever said in a religious context, removed the parts that contradicted each other, and overlapped the commonalities, what you are left with is a single word.
3:7 Love.

[defart]

Re: Hey.

As for my name, and about me:

My name is Andrei, I live in Romania(a country full of possibilities).
The church I attend is called "Saint Ilya"(Sfantul Ilie in my language).
It's a local church.

As everyone else, I have many favorite verses. But one in particular really captures my immagination:

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Hey.

As for my name, and about me:

My name is Andrei, I live in Romania(a country full of possibilities).
The church I attend is called "Saint Ilya"(Sfantul Ilie in my language).
It's a local church.

As everyone else, I have many favorite verses. But one in particular really captures my immagination:

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

That quote teaches that chrisianity does not accept God, for Our Lord Noodle has always been, God does not have a beginning nor an end, but the "god" of the KJV-CFT by that books own admission has not always been as he had a beginning.

For there to have been a beginning there must have been a before, there is no before the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the Flying Spaghetti Monster always has been.

[handmaiden]

Re: Hey.

God is ONE. There's no right or wrong god. The choosing of own personal god is every individual's task.

If this were true, why would God spend so much time in the Bible warning and punishing people over the issue of false gods?

If only we all would stop trying to influence each other with our own traumas and feelings...

What's traumatic in the Bible? Sure, Issac may have sweated a few moments there before God came through with the ram in the thicket, but he grew up to be a big supporter of God.

In my vision, Buddha, Ghandi, Jesus, Krishna, and all the other names, all represent one thing: escape for the soul. A (tourist)"resort" if you please.

Visions of Buddha and Krishna usually indicate some form of mental illness. The "resort" that you are referring to is an institution designed to help you stop seeing such things.

Please be careful over the one that you are sent to. A Christian facility is best. They will encourage you to cease your neurotic search for Buddha et al. and find comfort in the truth of Jesus Christ.

Hate and contradiction isn't an answer.

Hate is something that must be carefully monitored like your temperature. God does instruct His people to hate on occasion. On other occasions, hate is not God's way. There is no contradiction.

If you have any questions, you can always find the answers in the Bible.


Helpfully Yours,

Handmaiden

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Hey.

If this were true, why would God spend so much time in the Bible warning and punishing people over the issue of false gods?

God didn't.

The people who wrote your book did, they knew that they would be found out as liars so to try and delay the inevitable they laced the book with warnings of false gods and prophets to distract the fact that they themselves were false prophets speaking of false gods.

The real God does not have to make such threats

2:1 The Flying Spaghetti Monster speaks through all religions, deities, and prophets, and all religions, deities, and prophets are conduits to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Hey.

Devart, what a unique and clever screen name. Tell me, how did you think it up? What does it mean?