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Rojava Free State wrote:I love when they leave one in my hotel room. It's very considerate of the hotel staff to give me a free ash tray for my cigarettes

Geneviev wrote:

Hurdergaryp wrote:Nothing happens without God willing it, as the dogma goes. Absolutely nothing. No matter how absolutely inhumane and vicious a deed is, the fact that it happened means that God allowed it to happen.

God allows people to sin, but that doesn't make it right.

Geneviev wrote:

Hurdergaryp wrote:That's what Stalin's government said, but it was a cold comfort to those perishing in the Gulag Archipel.

That's not what God does, though.

Neutraligon wrote:For small hotel rooms with not a lot of "closet space" they annoy since they take up room.

Free Arabian Nation wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:I love when they leave one in my hotel room. It's very considerate of the hotel staff to give me a free ash tray for my cigarettes

You really shouldn't do that...

Smoking is bad for you.

Free Arabian Nation wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:I love when they leave one in my hotel room. It's very considerate of the hotel staff to give me a free ash tray for my cigarettes

You really shouldn't do that...

Smoking is bad for you.

Korhal IVV wrote:

Ors Might wrote:Are there people that complain about this? Most people just ignore the thing, including Christians considering that they’ll either have their own bible or the bible app.


I’m a non-believer and even I have to say your theology is absolute crap.

It is so crappy that calling it crap is an insult to the worst of heretics.

Geneviev wrote:

Hurdergaryp wrote:Nothing happens without God willing it, as the dogma goes. Absolutely nothing. No matter how absolutely inhumane and vicious a deed is, the fact that it happened means that God allowed it to happen.

God allows people to sin, but that doesn't make it right.

The New California Republic wrote:

Neutraligon wrote:For small hotel rooms with not a lot of "closet space" they annoy since they take up room.

...

...how fucking big are the Bibles that you have seen in hotel rooms?

Geneviev wrote:

Arcanda wrote:It's not disrespectful not to put the other books. I feel like people are too concerned with making a point for the sake of making a point in this debate. Because then, which religions are "major" and which are not? What about atheists and Pastafarians? Etc...

It could just be the most common religions in that country.

Rastrian wrote:

Geneviev wrote:That's not what God does, though.

According to your book, it is. The same book that christians want in hotel rooms.

Hurdergaryp wrote:

Korhal IVV wrote:It is so crappy that calling it crap is an insult to the worst of heretics.

Sarcasm is clearly wasted on you people, but what else is new?

Geneviev wrote:God allows people to sin, but that doesn't make it right.

Which means, given God's omnipotence and omniscience, that He isn't right. How could a Perfect Being allow His Creation to be so utterly inferior? The answer is that God is inept, imperfect, and nothing more than a meme generated and maintained by desperate human minds during dozens of centuries.

Rojava Free State wrote:

The New California Republic wrote:...

...how fucking big are the Bibles that you have seen in hotel rooms?

Tfw the hotel owner is so religious that he stuffs a 10 foot tall bible in the closet and upon opening the door it falls on you.

You could call it the holy terror

Rastrian wrote:

Geneviev wrote:That's not what God does, though.

According to your book, it is. The same book that christians want in hotel rooms.

Rojava Free State wrote:

Geneviev wrote:God allows people to sin, but that doesn't make it right.

God once killed millions of first born Egyptians because one guy said no to the Israelites leaving. It doesn't make him right

The New California Republic wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:
Tfw the hotel owner is so religious that he stuffs a 10 foot tall bible in the closet and upon opening the door it falls on you.

You could call it the holy terror

I mean I have seen large print Bibles before, but I think that'd be overkill.

Geneviev wrote:

Rastrian wrote:According to your book, it is. The same book that christians want in hotel rooms.

It doesn't say that. And most people don't pay attention to the Bibles in hotel rooms anyway.

Korhal IVV wrote:

Rastrian wrote:According to your book, it is. The same book that christians want in hotel rooms.

Nope.

It is more like someone calling to someone else idiotically walking towards a cliff.

Rastrian wrote:

Geneviev wrote:It doesn't say that. And most people don't pay attention to the Bibles in hotel rooms anyway.

In that case, it's useless being there anyway. Change of tune, but a welcome one.

Korhal IVV wrote:Nope.

It is more like someone calling to someone else idiotically walking towards a cliff.

God invented sin so that he could punish us for it. No, not really. Though again, theology.

Korhal IVV wrote:

Rastrian wrote:In that case, it's useless being there anyway. Change of tune, but a welcome one.


God invented sin so that he could punish us for it. No, not really. Though again, theology.

Evil is only the absence of good.

Rastrian wrote:

Korhal IVV wrote:Evil is only the absence of good.

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
-Isaiah 45:7

Cekoviu wrote:Hotels rejected Jesus's parents; why shouldn't he reject them? The Bibles in hotel rooms should rise up and bite the unjust masters who control them.

The New California Republic wrote:

Neutraligon wrote:For small hotel rooms with not a lot of "closet space" they annoy since they take up room.

...

...how fucking big are the Bibles that you have seen in hotel rooms?

San Lumen wrote:

Cekoviu wrote:Hotels rejected Jesus's parents; why shouldn't he reject them? The Bibles in hotel rooms should rise up and bite the unjust masters who control them.

what?

Neutraligon wrote:

The New California Republic wrote:...

...how fucking big are the Bibles that you have seen in hotel rooms?

It is more that I have been in tiny hotel rooms.

Korhal IVV wrote:

Rastrian wrote:"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
-Isaiah 45:7

The Hebrew word there is “ra”. The word translated “evil” is from a Hebrew word that means “adversity, affliction, calamity, distress, misery.” Notice how the other major English Bible translations render the word: “disaster” (NIV, HCSB), “calamity” (NKJV, NAS, ESV), and “woe” (NRSV).

The KJV, which is where you quoted this, was written in 1611, and when “evil” is spoken in this context, it is understood as natural disasters. That is why modern versions use “calamity” (NLT) instead of “evil”, in order to avoid confusion in modern ears. The context of Isaiah 45:7 is punishment for disobedience, not bringing moral evil to existence.