Putting god first!

[ippy]

Bloody Hell - how to lose friends and alienate virtually the entire population of the Earth!

It's not my fault Owl, that those outside of London have accents and we don't! 

Regards ippy

[Owlswing]

It's not my fault Owl, that those outside of London have accents and we don't! 

Regards ippy

The Cockney's already have 50 grand on your head!

[Roses]

The Cockney's already have 50 grand on your head!

God has no doubt been down the bookies and put a billion grand bet on as it created humans and accents.

[ippy]

The Cockney's already have 50 grand on your head!

My accent is a bit more north London, very similar to the well known guitarist Julian Breame's although my dad was in fact a Cockney, (Bow Bells, in the city could be heard right across the Hackney marshes in his day to where he was borne), as far as I'm aware I also pronounce the letter 'H' in the appropriate places.

I have relatives that live up in the north of the country and believe me they can be very rude to me about Londoners not having an accents, I can't think why?

ippy

[Roses]

Getting back to the OP, is there any poster here who would put their version of god before their family and responsibilities?

[SteveH]

Getting back to the OP, is there any poster here who would put their version of god before their family and responsibilities?

Illogical question - God wouldn't expect anyone to avoid their worldly responsibilities.

[Robbie]

That's right.

[Roses]

The Biblical god is all that is bad if the deeds attributed to it had any credibility, so therefore it would be surprising if it didn't expect humans to put it before anything else in their lives.

[Dicky Underpants]

The Biblical god is all that is bad if the deeds attributed to it had any credibility, so therefore it would be surprising if it didn't expect humans to put it before anything else in their lives.

Compare and contrast:

 ""I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
"You shall have no other gods before me""
Exodus 20: 2,3


"He has showed you, O man, what is good;
 and what does the LORD require of you
 but to do justice, and to love kindness,
 and to walk humbly with your God?"

Micah 6:8


 "When you spread forth your hands,
 I will hide my eyes from you;
 even though you make many prayers,
 I will not listen;
 your hands are full of blood
 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
 remove the evil of your doings
 from before my eyes;
 cease to do evil,
 learn to do good;
 seek justice,
 correct oppression;
 defend the fatherless,
 plead for the widow."

Isaiah 1: 15-17

[Roses]

Compare and contrast:

 ""I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
"You shall have no other gods before me""
Exodus 20: 2,3


"He has showed you, O man, what is good;
 and what does the LORD require of you
 but to do justice, and to love kindness,
 and to walk humbly with your God?"

Micah 6:8


 "When you spread forth your hands,
 I will hide my eyes from you;
 even though you make many prayers,
 I will not listen;
 your hands are full of blood
 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
 remove the evil of your doings
 from before my eyes;
 cease to do evil,
 learn to do good;
 seek justice,
 correct oppression;
 defend the fatherless,
 plead for the widow."

Isaiah 1: 15-17

Words, but the deeds attributed to it are evil like the flood.

[Dicky Underpants]

Words, but the deeds attributed to it are evil like the flood.

No - it's all words; written by people with different ideas who lived sometimes centuries apart.
You know perfectly well that the global flood never happened, least of all a flood caused by a vengeful deity. It's a fairy story - no doubt the original author had some primitive moral intent in mind when he wrote it (or borrowed it - it exists elsewhere in the middle East). The priest or scribe probably wanted the ancient Israelites to make sure they toed the line or else.
Why you should get so steamed up about such things after all this time is a mystery. You don't believe in such a god apparently, you know such things didn't occur, so why all the fuss?
You might as well get your knickers in a twist over the Australian Aborine myth of the evil Tiddlelick the Frog, who caused a world drought by drinking all the water - until the eel made him laugh and he pissed it all out again.

[Roses]

No - it's all words; written by people with different ideas who lived sometimes centuries apart.
You know perfectly well that the global flood never happened, least of all a flood caused by a vengeful deity. It's a fairy story - no doubt the original author had some primitive moral intent in mind when he wrote it (or borrowed it - it exists elsewhere in the middle East). The priest or scribe probably wanted the ancient Israelites to make sure they toed the line or else.
Why you should get so steamed up about such things after all this time is a mystery. You don't believe in such a god apparently, you know such things didn't occur, so why all the fuss?
You might as well get your knickers in a twist over the Australian Aborine myth of the evil Tiddlelick the Frog, who caused a world drought by drinking all the water - until the eel made him laugh and he pissed it all out again.

I agree that the Biblical god, and what is attributed to it, are fairy stories. I just hope if a god does exist it is above human machinations. People who claim to know what the Biblical is thinking and feeling are making it up as they go along.