Can God be saved? (Buddhism, churches, Revelation, beliefs)
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The war has grown on all fronts. Evangelical demanding teh "atheists" retract and the atheists demanding the evangelicals surrender.
No one caring to admit that Nietzche's quoted ended with WE HAVE KILLED HIM...
What Nietzsche is concerned about in relating the above is that God is dead in the hearts and minds of his own generation of modern men - killed by an indifference that was itself directly related to a pronounced cultural shift away from faith and towards rationalism and science.
This same God, before becoming dead in men's hearts and minds, had provided the foundation of a "Christian-moral" defining and uniting approach to life as a shared cultural set of beliefs that had defined a social and cultural outlook within which people had lived their lives.
Today, that same statement is being spoken by the Christian Left and with the same rhetorical answer WE HAVE CONTINUED TO KILL GOD...
The evangelicals refuse to see God as compassionate and merciful and insist God be a JEALOUS God, consumed by VENGEANCE and determined to PUNISH his children. They see nothing wrong with a POWERFUL God doing as he wills, even to the point of yielding EVIL and DESTRUCTION against the mortal as a means of DEMANDING OBEDIENCE AND CONFORMITY.
The Left says God is LOVE, MERCY and FORGIVENESS and wants only our heart and our LOVE, despite all our short comings and sin, which God is all too aware of since he is supposed top be in charge...\\
SO since Nietzche made his infamous statement Gods people have divided and sub-divided themselves into numerous camps -- each steadfastly holding to their theology.
As Mark Sandlin writes--
Many, including myself, have deemed it the death of the Church. And, while it is true that the Church is on a voyage that will leave behind what it once was, the idea of a “dying” church is incomplete. Incomplete in the reality that one of the most defining stories in Christianity is all about death not being an ending, but, rather, being a new beginning.
SO will we allow God's image to be so altered that no one will recognize him? Or will we finally allow God to exist outside our personal biases and need for rewards?
Far better men than Nietzche have tried to declare God as dead and religion over. I'm sorry...but the opinion of liberal, secularist philosophers really is not of any consequence to me.
Gods Not dead in the church were I go , maybe dry in some other churches but not in my church ....Pastor thinks that a harvest is just about to break out , but I think the community where My church is has only a margin of people who know God , and needs a Work ............ Still God has a prophetic Word almost every meeting and people are being blessed with healing`s and prosperity
Gods Not dead in the church were I go , maybe dry in some other churches but not in my church ....Pastor thinks that a harvest is just about to break out , but I think the community where My church is has only a margin of people who know God , and needs a Work ............ Still God has a prophetic Word almost every meeting and people are being blessed with healing`s and prosperity
And this is why we have 40+ denominations globally...
Far better men than Nietzche have tried to declare God as dead and religion over. I'm sorry...but the opinion of liberal, secularist philosophers really is not of any consequence to me.
Right over the head and straight through the ears with not a bit of comprehension...
Yes, but we need the revelations of Christ and His Holy Spirit of agape love (Comforter) to filter out all the primitive, savage and barbaric nonsense from the religious beliefs about God. If the religions retain the savagery, barbarity and primitive superstitions as representative of God, I am afraid there will be mass defections from belief in God.
So the question is~ "Can God Be Saved?" I would suggest it's the Mortal Humanity which needs to be saved. What's going on in this world must be a disappointment to God .....
Free will has been totally been used and abused by many human beings..yet there are also so many who are those diamonds in the rough! The young Pakistani girl ( Malala Yousafzal) for one! But beyond this, there are far too many that use extreme views/cherry picked and quoted to suggest validity for them to appear "Righteous" and bully and try to force their views on others...SO in the end...Humanity has for exceeded their right to JUDGE God..declare dead ( tho individual can feel that way) is strictly an individual opinion..certainly NOT necessary to force their belief on anyone else...Freedom of Religion in a free society is great..however that means freedom for ONE to believe ..NOT freedom to force others to BELIEVE your own specific set of tenets!!
Conclusion..God is not in human form..so cannot be dead by human definition..SO HE does NOT require resuscitation!!!!! But humanity globally sure does!
BTW~~ In my mind..God is a universal name..and so many other religions from Buddhism, Islam, Christianity ( and their many denominations) all have a declared "Deity" or Supreme Being/Divinity in their teachings..The problem actually that each religion somehow thinks THEIR Religious Views are MORE Right than any other
Far better men than Nietzche have tried to declare God as dead and religion over. I'm sorry...but the opinion of liberal, secularist philosophers really is not of any consequence to me.
Right, it is just another attempt to divide people into two opposing camps, and OP makes a clumsy attempt at misrepresenting the beliefs of others. I have never been to a church which claims God is not loving or forgiving.
So the question is~ "Can God Be Saved?" I would suggest it's the Mortal Humanity which needs to be saved. What's going on in this world must be a disappointment to God .....
Free will has been totally been used and abused by many human beings..yet there are also so many who are those diamonds in the rough! The young Pakistani girl ( Malala Yousafzal) for one! But beyond this, there are far too many that use extreme views/cherry picked and quoted to suggest validity for them to appear "Righteous" and bully and try to force their views on others...SO in the end...Humanity has for exceeded their right to JUDGE God..declare dead ( tho individual can feel that way) is strictly an individual opinion..certainly NOT necessary to force their belief on anyone else...Freedom of Religion in a free society is great..however that means freedom for ONE to believe ..NOT freedom to force others to BELIEVE your own specific set of tenets!!
Conclusion..God is not in human form..so cannot be dead by human definition..SO HE does NOT require resuscitation!!!!! But humanity globally sure does!
BTW~~ In my mind..God is a universal name..and so many other religions from Buddhism, Islam, Christianity ( and their many denominations) all have a declared "Deity" or Supreme Being/Divinity in their teachings..The problem actually that each religion somehow thinks THEIR Religious Views are MORE Right than any other
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Can God be saved?
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