Tag: god
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A Poem (the love of God)
O fierce and captivating love of God, drive the wind like hope leaping through the riot of the temporal realms of mortal blood, go crash the oceans with strong bounding waves and energise where the waters are quiet; dance on grassy hills and sing in the caves, lend solid rock to the old crumbling mountains,…
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A Vow Tested: A short story part 6
Chapter 6 The rest of the journey to Ninidom was smooth and they arrived without further delay or incident. However upon entry, they found the mayor had decreed the city to fast and pray in sackcloth and ashes for three days by demand of a vagabond prophet who claimed for certain shameless sins they were…
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A Thought on Beauty
By natural accord humans want to worship what is beautiful; there’s something profound about beauty. God is beautiful; when humans don’t see God they are only capable of seeing beauty on a surface level. Let us say you can see God without knowing God (that is to recognise the divine in nature); then that is…
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The fate of the unrepentant?
Which true Christian would not desire the salvation of all souls? The Bible says God desires the salvation of all people, but we do not know if that be realised, even God may not have that satisfaction. I do not know if everyone will be saved or if some are allotted damnation, how can anyone…
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Parable of the Grapes: A Poem
Grapes I’d a cluster of purple grapes, ‘what sweet succulent taste awaits,’ I thought, taking one for delight, spitting it out, ‘this nothing sates,’ I said, repulsed, ‘such a sour blight, these must be wild grapes alright.’ The grapes are from the Vineyard parable of Isaiah, and seeming good and delicious but in reality sour…
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A short poem with exposition: Do not hope for the world to make you happy
An Ocean There was a sad ocean that saw a distant happy seeming shore, and thought to rinse the sunny land with its deep blue sorrow’s demand, hoping it’d give happy succour; so the tide washed in with a wave: a returned tide was all the land gave, it had not the joy the sea…
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Argument for the Existence of God from Love
Justin: I have been thinking from the atheist point of viewone cannot ascribe to love infinite value,as the atheist, as a materialist, will have to saylove will cease to be when the universe meets its last day;whatever ceases to be can’t hold infinite valueas infinite value depends on eternal accrueof days; without eternity naught is…
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The Bible: Were Slavery and Genocide Permissible
Justin and Julian– Challenges to Christianity Justin: What if the atheists and agnostics have it right, that the Bible was written by men far from bright and isn’t God’s word to instruct in the truth. Hasn’t science given sufficient proof that the whole of the Genesis account by right verifiable facts we can discount; how…
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How can we solve World Hunger?
I thought today we could discuss the problem of world hunger and how to solve it. Actually as it goes, yesterday I was sitting at my desk trying to produce some halfway decent prose on some ad hoc subject and I quite failed, then today I remembered I had written this piece. As it goes…
Room for reflection 