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Thread: Describe God succinctly
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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The Great Gumby
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I thought I knew roughly what this thread was going to be about, and then I read the OP, and now I have no idea.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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I think the OP is a great description of God - with a grave face but twitching lips.
I must admit that, rather than read the Bible these days, I follow God (@TheTweetOfGod) on Twitter. Whoever helps him write his account makes me smile as he 'gets' God rather well....
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Lord Jestocost
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
I've no idea about the OP either, but regarding describing God succinctly, I'm told that he is bigger than a submarine.
Higher than a skyscraper, too.
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MSHB
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Greater than our greatest thought.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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So high you can't get over him
So low, you can't get under him
So wide you can't get around him
Moo
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Gextvedde
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Originally posted by Moo:
So high you can't get over him
So low, you can't get under him
So wide you can't get around him
Moo
I almost feel the need to do the accompanying actions.
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"We must learn to see that our temperament is a gift of God, a talent with which we must trade until he comes" Thomas Merton
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QLib
Bad Example
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God is like unto a Giant Mirror Ball, and each tiny facet reflects an individual soul.
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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I Googled it ..
The top answer was "God is not a Christian"
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by Gextvedde:
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
So high you can't get over him
So low, you can't get under him
So wide you can't get around him
Moo
I almost feel the need to do the accompanying actions.
That's another million years in purgatory for you.
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Might as well ask the bloody cat.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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Given that Jesus said 'I am', that sounds like the beginning of a Grammar lesson. Or the index of a set of worship songs:
I am the bread of life.
You are worthy.
He is Lord.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by Chorister:
Given that Jesus said 'I am', that sounds like the beginning of a Grammar lesson. Or the index of a set of worship songs:
I am the bread of life.
You are worthy.
He is Lord.
And you, Chorister.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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God is neither male nor female.
God is neither gay nor straight.
God is neither black nor white.
Or am I thinking of Michael Jackson?
(Sorry! Adapted from an old joke.)
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~Tortuf
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Caissa
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# 16710
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She is.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Mantis Shrimp.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Well, God, she's just this guy, you know?
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Universe Maker.
(aside to Spiffy: ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) )
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
# 273
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The fiery furnace of love where all existence is forged.
Jengie
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W Hyatt
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quote:
The fiery furnace of love where all existence is forged.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
# 13049
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Me! Me! Me! I know this one!
4. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
I don't often get a chance to use the Shorter Catechism. I don't suppose you'd like to know what Man's Chief End is?
North East Quine, blissed out Presbyterian.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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I'd like to think God was as Bruce Cockburn describes in "All the Diamonds".
"Like a pearl in sea of liquid jade
His ship comes shining
Like a crystal swan in a sky of suns
His ship comes shining."
But I would say two things, depending on my mood:
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God contains the most of everything;
joy and sadness, hurt and happiness, surprise and sorrow.
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God is both the killer and the killed, death and life.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
I don't suppose you'd like to know what Man's Chief End is?
Something to do with the Bishop of Rome's enormities?
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Golden Key
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# 1468
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Per Hildevert of Lavardin, some centuries back:
Over all things,
Under all things,
Outside all,
Inside all.
Within, but not enclosed;
Without, but not excluded;
Above, but not raised up;
Below, but not suppressed.
Wholly above, presiding;
Wholly beneath, sustaining;
Wholly without, embracing;
Wholly within, filling.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
The fiery furnace of love where all existence is forged.
Jengie
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Per Hildevert of Lavardin, some centuries back:
Over all things,
Under all things,
Outside all,
Inside all.
Within, but not enclosed;
Without, but not excluded;
Above, but not raised up;
Below, but not suppressed.
Wholly above, presiding;
Wholly beneath, sustaining;
Wholly without, embracing;
Wholly within, filling.
Wholly inconsistent, fabricating;
Wholly meaningless, blathering;
Wholly contradictory, bullshitting;
Wholly vacuous, drivelling.
It's not clever or meaningful to make a series vague, empty or self-defeating statements. It's not profound, it's just empty verbiage and a waste of pixels.
God is a colourless green idea sleeping furiously.
God is the golden corner of a purple sphere.
God is a frumious bandersnatch.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
# 36
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I Googled it ..
The top answer was "God is not a Christian"
What utter rubbish. Next you'll be trying to tell us He's not English.
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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mdijon
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# 8520
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Well he usually has an American accent. (Unlike the devil - he's the middle-class English one).
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ɯqıɿou uoɿıqɯ nojidm mdijon
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
# 10989
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I thought the devil was Barack Obama.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Bob Two-Owls
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God is man's attempt to personify something indefinable...
...but he's definitely a Clapton fan.
(also from an old joke)
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