Did anyone hear Jeb Bush's comments about God?

[NotReady]

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Something bad that the South Florida resident did that deserved discipline


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I didn't say this. I said "all have sinned". That's everybody. I'm not saying Wilma was a punishment for specific sins by Florida residents. I'm saying that mankind is guilty and that's why we have suffering and death. No one deserves to live. All deserve death.

Yet God is gracious and exercises patience and gives good gifts to all. Not because we deserve good gifts. Because God is gracious.

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No one deserves to live. All deserve death.


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Explain.

[Aytumious]

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No one deserves to live. All deserve death.


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Explain.

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We are all filthy sinners who deserved to be spanked.

[Dominic]

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It is like me hitting you in the face with a crowbar and then you thanking me for handing you a tissue to wipe up the blood.


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It's more like you acknowledging your parent is correct for disciplining you and then thanking him for providing all your needs.

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Oh my fuking god. (And by god, I mean nothing - as there is no god.)

So you're equating a parent discplining his child with the devastation the hurricane brought? Interesting. So God was punishing those in Florida? Is that really your take on things? Sure you don't want to rethink that post?

[Dominic]

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No one deserves to live. All deserve death.


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Explain.

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He can't. It makes no sense.

God has brought us all into being, so it is by his mercy he keeps us around. Like for his amusemtnt: "Let's see what they do when I raise the sea level 10 feeet....huh, cool."

So just be lucky he hasn't glanced in your direction for awhile.

[Aytumious]

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No one deserves to live. All deserve death.


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Explain.

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He can't. It makes no sense.

God has brought us all into being, so it is by his mercy he keeps us around. Like for his amusemtnt: "Let's see what they do when I raise the sea level 10 feeet....huh, cool."

So just be lucky he hasn't glanced in your direction for awhile.

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You have to understand that NotReady should have been born about a thousand years ago.

[hmkpoker]

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Something bad that the South Florida resident did that deserved discipline


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I didn't say this. I said "all have sinned". That's everybody. I'm not saying Wilma was a punishment for specific sins by Florida residents. I'm saying that mankind is guilty and that's why we have suffering and death. No one deserves to live. All deserve death.

Yet God is gracious and exercises patience and gives good gifts to all. Not because we deserve good gifts. Because God is gracious.

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Let's say I'm a mad scientist. I stitch together a few weird animals the size of hampsters out of dead body parts, then bring them to life.

Then I play a game with my little hampster-zombies.

In front of the hampster-zombie is a 6,000 lb weight. Underneath the weight is the mathematics behind the theory of relativity. The hampster-zombie, weighing in at 3 lbs and with an IQ of 35, has one day to lift the 3 ton weight and disprove the theory of relativity.

If he fails to do so, I will throw him in a torture pit where he will be injected with drugs that simultaneously keep him alive and amplify his sense of pain and terror, and periodically slash at him with burning hot razor-wire covered in sulfuric acid.

Does the hampster-zombie deserve this?

[KeysrSoze]

Yeah, yeah, we all know. NotReady's God is a perfect being who we have no right, reason, or capacity to judge, in his thinking. Others think his God is a mean vindictive egomaniac bullying those whose crime is being lesser than he is. His version makes you puke, understandable. Still I think there's too much focus on the lunatic fringe and too many of you let the equally ridiculous but more user-friendly PC views slide. JMO.

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Does the hampster-zombie deserve this?

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He definitely deserves it, unless he accepts hampster-zombie-Jesus as his personal savior!
(sorry, couldn't resist)

[NotReady]

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Explain.


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Romans 3:

9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
10as it is written,
"THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;

Romans 5:
12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--