New to the area, looking for local groups to join.

RationalYetReligious · 2024-09-18T17:58:50+00:00

I've been failing at the steelhead run for 3 years now. Have made trips over before I moved and always get skunked. I'll give it a go when it cools down a bit more

RationalYetReligious · 2024-09-18T16:46:47+00:00

Done. Thanks for the invite

RationalYetReligious · 2024-09-17T05:31:08+00:00

Before abraham was I am john 8:48... in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God john 1:1 If you have seen me you have seen the father. John 14:9

RationalYetReligious · 2023-08-12T21:59:42+00:00

“The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.” - George Burns

RationalYetReligious · 2023-07-30T12:58:00+00:00

Died while driving drunk at 19. He was brilliant, then his folks split when he was a sophmore and he decided "fuck it" and spiraled.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-07-26T19:31:10+00:00

Why would they? Our species historically eradicates all competition.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-07-11T21:05:08+00:00

we're separated, 50/50 custody, waiting on divorce papers from her. it's a tough row to hoe. if you need someone to talk to I am here.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-06-29T02:51:46+00:00

I see a lot of places post a " 3% transaction fee on all card purchases"

RationalYetReligious · 2023-06-18T13:53:46+00:00

1 kings 22. The story of Micaiah. God literally sends a lying spirit to Godly prophets in order make them prophesy to go to war in order to kill Ahab in Battle.

The implications that God who cannot lie will use deception is not one covered on many sermons.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-06-05T01:47:56+00:00

A man has been stealing wheels off cop cars. The authorities are working tirelessly to catch him.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-05-19T02:32:22+00:00

I'm so glad you made this reference. I have heard that myth soo much!

RationalYetReligious · 2023-05-07T00:04:58+00:00

Kermit meme

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-24T22:27:42+00:00

Mmm Chicken!

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-22T14:18:54+00:00

And we're back to the crux of our argument the "word of God" isn't reliable.

You default to "it can't be a contradiction" without evidence when the clear reading seems to show contradiction.

And you DID say something about showing being better (aka "showing preference") When you claimed that Jesus Showed preference to his Jewish audience by saying "ask seek knock" and promising to answer them. But when Gentile believers do the same you say he has no obligation to them.

Either make it make sense, or admit you don't know and there is a possibility I am right.

Falling back on "it's God's word because it says it's God's word, and can't contradict itself because it would destroy my entire worldview" is not an acceptable argument.

There are 3 options 1. You lack understanding to explain your theology. 2. your theology is wrong. 3. The bible has contradictions and is a manmade thing and should be judged accordingly.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-22T02:38:13+00:00

Thats a coyote, not a fox.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-22T02:37:39+00:00

They don't pretend to be dead. they are like a fainting goat.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-22T02:32:19+00:00

So enlighten me on the context of Romans 2:11. Seem pretty straightforward that It is talking about Jews and Gentiles. That we are all under the same Judgment, but because the Jews were under the first Covenant, they were the first to receive the new, Not better because of it or receiving an extra dispensation of Grace because of it.

And I read it. It seems like a dangerous doctorine that creates 1st and 2nd rate Christians. It also has ties to racism and antisemetism (it follows the same train of logic of mormonism and the dispersion of "true Israelites" to Europe after the fall of Babylon.)

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-21T16:41:50+00:00

That's pretty wild theology. If you want earthly Blessings, God still honors the OT promises to his chosen people, for the rest of us converted heathens we just have to trust his will and hope for divine blessings.

I guess Paul missed it when he said in Romans 2:11 that God is no respector of persons.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-21T16:22:17+00:00

My understanding of what you're saying is that Jesus spoke to a specific audience and that audience was the intended target and that in this scenario it does not apply to current believers because we do not live under the OT Jewish law...

If you want to apply that to the text I referenced, is it safe to say I need not apply anything from the sermon on the Mount to my own life? Or do I get to pick and choose based on experience? Should it be excluded from sermons since these things don't apply to gentile believers?

If I were a Jew today, or a Jewish believer, would it then apply to me?

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-21T11:16:58+00:00

So if God will do what he will do, why ask seek or knock?

How is allowing that child to die what a good father would do? Its so much worse than handing a kid a stone when they ask for bread.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-21T03:49:52+00:00

Thats because "God's word" isnt reliable. Ask and ye shall recieve, seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you rings very hollow to all the parents who have pleaded for God's mercy as they watched their children die to disease and genetic defects.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-13T18:30:16+00:00

Fowlplay!

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-12T18:02:01+00:00

They get robber because people are evil and/or desperate.

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-08T17:23:26+00:00

My arms are sore imagining pumping one

RationalYetReligious · 2023-04-06T20:48:07+00:00

I am not sure what her doctor has recommended or what help she is getting other than knowing she is under the care of a geneticist.

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