Arrowwind
8th January 2013, 20:05
Tutu says:
“The God that I worship is an omnipotent God,” Tutu intoned, opening his arms wide. He paused to let this sink in. Then he said, sotto voce, “He is also incredibly, totally impotent.
The God that I worship is almighty, and also incredibly weak.
“He can sit there and watch me make a wrong choice. Now, if I was God,” he said as the hall burst into laughter, “and I saw, for instance, this one is going to make a choice that is going to destroy his family, I’d probably snuff him out.
“But the glory of God is actually mind-blowing. He can sit and not intervene because he has such an incredible, incredible reverence for my autonomy. He is prepared to let me go to hell. Freely. Rather than compel me to go to heaven.
“He weeps when he sees us do the things that we do to one another. But he does not send lightning bolts to destroy the ungodly. And that is fantastic. God says, ‘I can’t force you. I beg you, please for your own sake, make the right choice. I beg you.’
“When you do the right thing, God forgets about God’s divine dignity and he rushes and embraces you. ‘You came back, you came back. I love you. Oh how wonderful, you came back.’”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/god-is-not-a-christian-tutu-dalai-lama_n_2421553.html
So the other day I was visiting with a friend.. a patriot and a Catholic. I was telling him how when discussing the urgency of people to take action in the USA to re-setablish our constitution to another Christain friend, that friend replied that he could only put our fates into the hands of God.
I told this to my patriot Catholic friend.. and here is what he said.
he said tell your friend this...
Someday you will stand before the pearly gates and want to enter and think that you should for you have put your life and your actions into the hands of God.
But now God speaks and God says... No. No. You have not been a good christian. I gave you this great land called America. I gave you the very best, better than any other land on the earth .. and this was my test to you. I gave you the best and you let it fall by the wayside and let evil reign. You did nothing to maintain this great gift I gave to you.
You had the power to stand up and fight for freedom, to fight for your constitution as so many others had died for but you did not even try. You say you put it into my hands but I told you in the bibile that the money changers must be thrown out. That I had come with a sword and you did not follow my example.
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword"
Now you have failed my test and I have no room for you here.
Isiah 49:2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword. In the shadow of his hand he hid me. He made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
“The God that I worship is an omnipotent God,” Tutu intoned, opening his arms wide. He paused to let this sink in. Then he said, sotto voce, “He is also incredibly, totally impotent.
The God that I worship is almighty, and also incredibly weak.
“He can sit there and watch me make a wrong choice. Now, if I was God,” he said as the hall burst into laughter, “and I saw, for instance, this one is going to make a choice that is going to destroy his family, I’d probably snuff him out.
“But the glory of God is actually mind-blowing. He can sit and not intervene because he has such an incredible, incredible reverence for my autonomy. He is prepared to let me go to hell. Freely. Rather than compel me to go to heaven.
“He weeps when he sees us do the things that we do to one another. But he does not send lightning bolts to destroy the ungodly. And that is fantastic. God says, ‘I can’t force you. I beg you, please for your own sake, make the right choice. I beg you.’
“When you do the right thing, God forgets about God’s divine dignity and he rushes and embraces you. ‘You came back, you came back. I love you. Oh how wonderful, you came back.’”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/god-is-not-a-christian-tutu-dalai-lama_n_2421553.html
So the other day I was visiting with a friend.. a patriot and a Catholic. I was telling him how when discussing the urgency of people to take action in the USA to re-setablish our constitution to another Christain friend, that friend replied that he could only put our fates into the hands of God.
I told this to my patriot Catholic friend.. and here is what he said.
he said tell your friend this...
Someday you will stand before the pearly gates and want to enter and think that you should for you have put your life and your actions into the hands of God.
But now God speaks and God says... No. No. You have not been a good christian. I gave you this great land called America. I gave you the very best, better than any other land on the earth .. and this was my test to you. I gave you the best and you let it fall by the wayside and let evil reign. You did nothing to maintain this great gift I gave to you.
You had the power to stand up and fight for freedom, to fight for your constitution as so many others had died for but you did not even try. You say you put it into my hands but I told you in the bibile that the money changers must be thrown out. That I had come with a sword and you did not follow my example.
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword"
Now you have failed my test and I have no room for you here.
Isiah 49:2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword. In the shadow of his hand he hid me. He made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.