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 "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain
#8363324 - 05/04/08 10:41 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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Not sure if I get this. If there is only one God, then it is impossible to tell if he is awesome or not as there is nothing to compare to.
In another thread we discovered that God sucks at dealing with diabetes and compassion and responding to prayer. Doesn't seem particularly awesome; more like apathetic.
Perhaps they are comparing their God to other religion's lesser Gods, but that shoots down the one God theory. 
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 Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8363563 - 05/04/08 11:37 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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If their God inspires them with awe, why would they need a comparative God?
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: Rahz]
#8363600 - 05/04/08 11:48 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
Rahz said:
If their God inspires them with awe, why would they need a comparative God?
Bingo.
In other words, Our God is an AWE-FULL God!
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: Rahz]
#8363602 - 05/04/08 11:48 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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I hear Christians are renowned for their creative song lyrics.
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"I don't want to fuck with anybody's head here," Hawking told the assembled scientists via his voice-simulation device, "but if time goes sideways as well as forward, there might be, like, other versions of this reality, where, say, the Roman Empire is still in charge and stuff."
"By the way," Hawking added, "ever think about what'd happen if you, say, went back in time and accidentally killed your own younger self? Man, that shit would be so fucked up."
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: Cervantes]
#8363640 - 05/04/08 11:58 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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Choose your God wisely.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8363677 - 05/05/08 12:09 AM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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Well, they've always got Satan. It's bipolar, but that is how humans are. If only one can be the highest, then all others must not be highest.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: Rahz]
#8363803 - 05/05/08 01:12 AM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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this could go on forever, like how if I said how can there be a satan, if god created everything why would he create hell and satan? oh right so he could send all the sinners to him.. but then he would be working with the devil and be sinning himself.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8364307 - 05/05/08 08:51 AM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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You sure love shooting fish in a barrel. 
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#8365370 - 05/05/08 03:09 PM (6 months, 14 days ago) |
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Your point being... ?
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8381216 - 05/09/08 10:08 AM (6 months, 11 days ago) |
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Is it just for sport, or is there some other benefit?
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#8381244 - 05/09/08 10:24 AM (6 months, 11 days ago) |
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Trying to understand if there are multiple Gods in the Christian universe and that they happen to believe their God is the most powerful and awesome God; whereas your God is puny and not really worthy of worship.
If there is only one God, then comparing itself to itself makes no sense.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8382140 - 05/09/08 02:59 PM (6 months, 10 days ago) |
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The god of Judeo-Christian traditions is not the ONLY god. The Torah acknowledges the existence of other gods, and the Jewish people at times would worship other gods, like Baal, a deity that is still respected today as an opponent entity to Christianity.
Judeo-Christian beliefs only requires that you WORSHIP one god. The existence of other gods is acknowledged. Monotheism hasn't really been traditionally a unity of pantheons, but rather the exclusionary practice of the worship of only one deity.
In recent times Christian belief has been more attentive to the unifying principle of monotheism, but that really isn't supported by most scripture. It's a strange religion.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: kriminalelement]
#8382142 - 05/09/08 03:01 PM (6 months, 10 days ago) |
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Also "awesome" is not used in a comparative context. Something completely unique could be awesome.
Awesome simply means something that inspires awe.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8386826 - 05/10/08 08:05 PM (6 months, 9 days ago) |
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"Do not have any other gods before me."
God sounds a bit worried that he will lose his earthlings.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: Oweyervishice]
#8386933 - 05/10/08 08:38 PM (6 months, 9 days ago) |
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After Cervantes reply, I checked the etymology. Awesome, and awful basically mean the same thing. Calling God awesome is an acknowledgement of fear. Awe is akin to dread.
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Re: "Our God is an awesome God" - Christian song refrain [Re: kriminalelement]
#8386947 - 05/10/08 08:42 PM (6 months, 9 days ago) |
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Quote:
kriminalelement said:
Also "awesome" is not used in a comparative context. Something completely unique could be awesome.
Awesome simply means something that inspires awe.
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