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In memory of Margaret Hassan.
Also in memory of the 52 who lost their lives on July 7th 2005 and especially of Shahara Islam.
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Margaret Hassan
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So what's your god like?
If you want to learn the characteristics of a god then look at it's/his her adherents and see how they interact with others. If they are kind, benevolent, tolerant etcetera, then you can be sure that their god is too. If, on the other-hand, they kill others in the name of their god, if they are violently intolerant and dictatorial towards others then their god is just as bad!
It stands to reason that God must be good, kind, loving, tolerant and benevolent etcetera,
or else he would have ended the human experiment long ago!
Now if you would like to hear about what the Christian God is like read on :-
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1Corinthians13 The Christian Bible
GOD IS LOVE
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The bible - A scientific text book ? ! ? ! ? !
I've never understood why so many made the mistake of not realising that the Bible was written in the context of what men knew 'then'. Those in greatest error were they (clergy) who promoted the Bible as a scientific text book when it never was.
Don't know whether you know this but even though Charles Dickens was very anti-church he based many of his books on New Testament principles. He saw 'Church-goers' making their ways to worship on a Sunday while ignoring the incredible poverty and strife all about them! These were 'the church' he rejected. No doubt the same people wanted to burn everybody alive who didn't base their science/knowledge/observance on the Bible but on what they could see (Galilleo for instance) - when the bible actually was and is about relationships with others and not science. They took no notice of Jesus when he said, for instance, if you have two shirts give one to him who has none but at the same time swore that God had made the Universe after he had made the earth (Genesis 1) - they could see the curvature of the earth (or didn't want to) when standing on the beach - they were blind to the truth and still are. Hey ho!
Or think of it this way - the Bible isn't about How - it's about Why!
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