If life is waiting for consequences or rewards when you die, then you're missing out on living and experiencing it. Always waiting and getting depressed and can't wait for it to end, so that you can start enjoying your existence.
"yes and I read them too not just picking them up"
I use my books to stand on to reach things....
Well then you must of read that science has uncovered some kind of something that has some kind of intellegence...
I can prove God invented the universe just as well as you cando it then cause I never said I could prove anything
To prove God exsists just open your eyes.yeah tell taht to the people of Sudan............. that argument you used can easily be turned around, to prove god does not exist open your eyes
Life isn't a purposeit is to me, and its purpose is life itself
Just like eating isn't a purpose.
Eating helps you acuire the purpose of living and reproducingyou just made eating a purpose.
Eating has very much a purpose, its purpose is to make life function
Well then you must of read that science has uncovered some kind of something that has some kind of intellegence...you should believe all you read 😉
Originally posted by finti
do it then cause I never said I could prove anything
I cant tell you anything you haven't already heard.
Originally posted by finti
yeah tell taht to the people of Sudan............. that argument you used can easily be turned around, to prove god does not exist open your eyes
This saying is not used to "open your eyes to the world" but rather to look, and seek life. Few ever understand, and even fewer perform it.
Originally posted by finti
it is to me, and its purpose is life itself
Than that is fine by me.
Originally posted by finti
you just made eating a purpose.Eating has very much a purpose, its purpose is to make life function
No, eating helps us achieve a purpose. But eating is a detail. Like sleeping and talking. Your purpose in life (physically) is to live. That is the overall picture. Than it breaks down to reproducing and dying, and vocations...you know the whole nine yards...
Originally posted by finti
you should believe all you read 😉
Wait, all that I write? Or really all that I read? Would the National Inquire count?
Originally posted by PrinceofBlades
No it's not. I'm known by countless names to friends and family. Finiti should know about this being a dad and all. When you've got little kids who cant pronounce your name very well, they give you a nickname. And they may never stop calling you that because it grows on both of them. Same thing goes here. No one knows or can perfectly pronounce the name of God. So what do we do? We come up with nicknames. It only becomes "in vain" when you use it outside of a personal conversation. Like "Oh my God!", "Oh my Jehovah", or (for debbiejo) "Oh my Zeus!!" Than it becomes a problem.
Is it okay to use JEHOVAH as a proper name of God?
Originally posted by PrinceofBlades
JEHOVAH, I am, God, Father, etc. Countless names, one person. Is there a problem with this, Jury?
So, Prince, is it really okay to use JEHOVAH as God's proper name even though it is ERRONEOUS?
Originally posted by StormI\
The four letter tetragrammaton (Greek, 'four letters'😉 is the true name of the god of the Hebrew scriptures. Its pronunciation is considered to have great power, and is never spoken aloud, save for once a year, in the inner sanctuary of the Temple during the rites of Yom Kippur. In written scripture, it is given the vowel markings and pronunciation of the word Adonai, lord, leading to the common Christian mispronunciation of the name as Jehovah. In Judaism, the tetragrammaton is commonly referred to as "Hashem," The Name.One theory regarding the disuse of the Tetragrammaton is that the Jewish taboo on its pronunciation was so strong that the original pronunciation may have been lost somewhere in the first millennium. Since then, many scholars (particularly Christians) have sought to reconstruct its original pronunciation. For example, circa 1518 Christian theologians introduced the pronunciation Yehovah, which is generally held to be implausible, based on the written form that was used to indicate to the reader of the Bible in Hebrew to pronounce it "Adonai".
Originally posted by sonnet
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I might just add that the name God gave Moses when He spoke to him was "I Am". Another Hebrew name for God is Yahweh. Jehovah was a name the Israelites called God. God actually has many names throughout the Bible. Just as Jesus was called many names etc. Lord, Rabbi, Master, Prince of peace, Prince of light, Lord of Lords.
And older and better translation might be "I am all there is." And if He/It is all there is...then what are we?
Originally posted by Jury
Again Prince, I ask:Is it really okay to use JEHOVAH as God's proper name even though it is ERRONEOUS?
Erroneous by whos claims? My name (not really but just for the sake of argument) is Bob. If my two year old cant say "Bob", but rather "bo" or "boo" wouldn't make it wrong. Of course "Bo" or "boo" aren't my names, therefore erroneous. However not once through the bible did it ever mention Jesus correcting people for calling God by the wrong name. So I say "what ever rocks your boat. As long as you use that name with the utmost respect. When all else passes, go for it."