@GodSpeed63 [quote]there are no such people that are atheists[/quote]
atheist - etymological root from the ancient Greek, meaning [i]without god(s)[/i]
1. there's no proof that gods exist (otherwise we'd all be theists) 2. there's no proof that gods don't exist (they might be lurking around a mountain-top somewhere) 3. in any event, there's no compelling necessity to even postulate gods, and the postulation explains nothing... it merely tries to explain everything away. 4. therefore, I have no gods (I'm an agnostic atheist)
As Pikachu has pointed out to you so well, there is no meaning in your attempt to unilaterally assign gods as and when it suits your purpose.
“When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." ( Lewis Carroll: [i]Through the Looking-Glass[/i])
I put the worship in quotes for your sake, not mine. True worship of my Father in Heaven (God) is a relationship of father and son. I love Him because He first loved me. You can't serve two masters, God or money. You'll either love the one and hate the other, or serve the one and despise the other. (Matthew 6:24) If you're not serving God then you're serving money, and therefore, money is your god. Don't get me wrong, wealth is not a sin unless it becomes your god.
@newjaninev2 As I pointed out before, if there was no God, the desire to create one will never enter the heart of man because man will never have any knowledge of God. There would no religions, no denominations, and no false gods.
I second that emotion! My favorite hymn is "Come thy Fount" I completely relate to the third stanza. It is overwhelming to me that His grace eclipses my spiritual infidelity. There is truly more of God's grace in the present than there is condemnation in the past.
"Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee: prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here's my heart, O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above. "
I have to disagree with you there. God kills or causes to be killed many, many, many, many people.
You can call it just if you want, although it's no justice that i understand. That doesn't make him less of a murderer. You can say that he has the sovereign right to do it too. Still a murderer. A genocide, in fact.
Can the pot of clay say to the potter, "Why have you made me this way?" Have you ever read what those people have done to be put to death? You have the mind of men and not the mind of God. God didn't make this world the way it is, men did and separated us from God by doing so. Therefore we're born into this fallen world with a spirit that is separated from the Spirit of God.
