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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1301815 United States 03/30/2011 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No. God, Jesus, and Tal Bachman as do other Temple Mormons engage in asexual reproduction like amoebas and starfish. In order to become a Temple Mormon you have to be able to conceive a child through asexual reproduction. Hence the lyrics in Tal Bachmans song She's So High, "...and nothing is going to happen" Tal Bachman also has an asexual training video out about the Mormon immaculate conception practice called "Nothing is Going to Happen" This also ironically used to be the title of one of the Mormon pamphlets they used to offer to potential converts. |
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Puscifer User ID: 1165228 United States 03/30/2011 12:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She is a nice lady, I have partied with her on many occasions. After all of these millennium though she has major saggage going on...not to pretty to see 38 longs on Mrs God. Anyone who tells you that their religion is better than yours, run away from them as fast as you can. ------------------------- I'm not in the business of seeing whatever pleases you. ------------------------- You don't know me, I am nothing but a stranger to you. |
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Puscifer User ID: 1165228 United States 03/30/2011 12:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So he fuckin cheated on her when he impregnated Mary to produce jesus ?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 973889FORNICATOR!!!! I wonder if Jesus gave God 70 lashes over that one? Anyone who tells you that their religion is better than yours, run away from them as fast as you can. ------------------------- I'm not in the business of seeing whatever pleases you. ------------------------- You don't know me, I am nothing but a stranger to you. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1248229 United States 03/30/2011 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She must have been hated by so many to be completely eradicated in all words. Or.... she knew that the only way she could survive was to hide from humanity. Quoting: PinkLilPantiesSome believe that she was the holy spirit representing all creation with God being the creator. She would then be the law and God the law-giver therefore she needed to go..and go fast out of scripture when it was edited for mans wishes and control ???? |
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Coelbren (OP) User ID: 1319347 Spain 03/30/2011 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She must have been hated by so many to be completely eradicated in all words. Or.... she knew that the only way she could survive was to hide from humanity. Quoting: PinkLilPantiesSome believe that she was the holy spirit representing all creation with God being the creator. She would then be the law and God the law-giver therefore she needed to go..and go fast out of scripture when it was edited for mans wishes and control ???? But that wasn't always as such: "A race of men came out of the cold northlands. They were under a wise father and above them was The Grand Company which later withdrew in disgust. This race was The Children of God; they knew Truth and lived in the midst of peace and plenty. The Children of Men about them were wild and savage; clothed in the skins of beasts they lived like beasts. Even more wild were the Men of Zumat who lived beyond them. Among the Children of God woman had equality with man, for her counsels were known to be wise. She heard with understanding and her speech was considered; in those days her words were weighed, for then her tongue did not rattle in her head like seed in a dried pod." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77539 United States 03/30/2011 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes. It's all in Jeremiah Chapter 3. God's "wife" is the Israel people. 14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1248229 United States 03/30/2011 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Men is so limited that he feels the need to bring God down to his own level. Quoting: CoelbrenGod is not flesh like us thus what applies to us doesn't apply to Him. Can we get it already and leave aside all the strife that these misconceptions have brought on humanity? If man is so limited then man should use his wildest creative imagination when pondering about the possibilities of what God is and isn't. But we don't know so all is speculation and since the bible was written and edited many times by man it's still all speculation. |
Coelbren (OP) User ID: 1319347 Spain 03/30/2011 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Easy question. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77539Yes. It's all in Jeremiah Chapter 3. God's "wife" is the Israel people. 14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce Yuck I feel like puking after reading that. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1248229 United States 03/30/2011 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Easy question. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77539Yes. It's all in Jeremiah Chapter 3. God's "wife" is the Israel people. 14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce How convenient making Israel God's wife and the Church Jesus's bride. Looking like an agenda to rid religion of the importance of the female. |
The Supreme Queen User ID: 1320127 United States 03/30/2011 01:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well apparently in the minds of our ignorant and superstitious Mesopotamian ancestors He did, but then they saw fit to eradicate her. Quoting: Coelbren[link to news.discovery.com] "God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah. The theory has gained new prominence due to the research of Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who began her work at Oxford and is now a senior lecturer in the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. Information presented in Stavrakopoulou's books, lectures and journal papers has become the basis of a three-part documentary series, now airing in Europe, where she discusses the Yahweh-Asherah connection. "You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a statement released to the British media. "He is a solitary figure, a single, universal creator, not one God among many ... or so we like to believe." NEWS: Jesus' Great-Grandmother Identified "After years of research specializing in the history and religion of Israel, however, I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife," she added. Stavrakopoulou bases her theory on ancient texts, amulets and figurines unearthed primarily in the ancient Canaanite coastal city called Ugarit, now modern-day Syria. All of these artifacts reveal that Asherah was a powerful fertility goddess. Asherah's connection to Yahweh, according to Stavrakopoulou, is spelled out in both the Bible and an 8th century B.C. inscription on pottery found in the Sinai desert at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud. "The inscription is a petition for a blessing," she shares. "Crucially, the inscription asks for a blessing from 'Yahweh and his Asherah.' Here was evidence that presented Yahweh and Asherah as a divine pair. And now a handful of similar inscriptions have since been found, all of which help to strengthen the case that the God of the Bible once had a wife." NEWS: Why Are Religious People Happier? Also significant, Stavrakopoulou believes, "is the Bible's admission that the goddess Asherah was worshiped in Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem. In the Book of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her." J. Edward Wright, president of both The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and The Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, told Discovery News that he agrees several Hebrew inscriptions mention "Yahweh and his Asherah." "Asherah was not entirely edited out of the Bible by its male editors," he added. "Traces of her remain, and based on those traces, archaeological evidence and references to her in texts from nations bordering Israel and Judah, we can reconstruct her role in the religions of the Southern Levant." BLOG: Atheists Best Informed About Religion Asherah -- known across the ancient Near East by various other names, such as Astarte and Istar -- was "an important deity, one who was both mighty and nurturing," Wright continued. "Many English translations prefer to translate 'Asherah' as 'Sacred Tree,'" Wright said. "This seems to be in part driven by a modern desire, clearly inspired by the Biblical narratives, to hide Asherah behind a veil once again." "Mentions of the goddess Asherah in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) are rare and have been heavily edited by the ancient authors who gathered the texts together," Aaron Brody, director of the Bade Museum and an associate professor of Bible and archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, said. Asherah as a tree symbol was even said to have been "chopped down and burned outside the Temple in acts of certain rulers who were trying to 'purify' the cult, and focus on the worship of a single male god, Yahweh," he added. SLIDE SHOW: Sacred Techs: Religion and Spirituality 2.0 The ancient Israelites were polytheists, Brody told Discovery News, "with only a small minority worshiping Yahweh alone before the historic events of 586 B.C." In that year, an elite community within Judea was exiled to Babylon and the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. This, Brody said, led to "a more universal vision of strict monotheism: one god not only for Judah, but for all of the nations." The truth: "Before the beginning there was only one consciousness, that of The Eternal One whose nature cannot be expressed in words. It was The One Sole Spirit, The Self Generator which cannot diminish. The Unknown, Unknowable One brooding solitary in profound pregnant silence. The name which is uttered cannot be that of this Great Being who, remaining nameless, is the beginning and the end, beyond time, beyond the reach of mortals, and we in our simplicity call it God. He who preceded all existed alone in His strange abode of uncreated light, which remains ever unextinguishable, and no understandable eye can ever behold it. The pulsating draughts of the eternal life light in His keeping were not yet loosed. He knew Himself alone, He was uncontrasted, unable to manifest in nothingness, for all within His Being was unexpressed potential. The Great Circles of Eternity were yet to be spun out, to be thrown forth as the endless ages of existence in substance. They were to begin with God and return to Him completed in infinite variety and expression." YES, God did and does have a Wife!!! Peace, Harmony, and Blessings... With all of my Love, 'Rose of the Moonlight' The Supreme Queen |
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