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[quote="where's god?"]Where's God?

A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that, if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved. The boys' mother heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed, but asked to see them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon. The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?â€

I know I have recently quoted this on the "listening to" thread but it works here too.

Frank Zappa Said:

Hey, we cant really be dumb
If were just following gods orders
Hey, lets get serious...
God knows what hes doin
He wrote this book here
An the book says:
He made us all to be just like him,
So...
If were dumb...
Then God is dumb...
(an maybe even a little ugly on the side)

as a true Zappa fan I would tell Frank ( if only I could) that the phrase was in God's image- is a shadow an image? I think we will know God's concepts when he presents them to us- we can pat ourselves on the back that we no longer live in caves but how faraway are we from a return to that?

I would say that we are surrounded by gods concepts only we spend too much time arguing the unimportant particulars to ever notice. Not to mention the fact that if we new them all we would have no more questions and soon become board with life and thus cease to partake.

our God (clap) is an awesome God (clap) [picture mindless staring]
does anyone know about that song? They sang it at Liberty University, , Jerry Falwell - chancellor of- all the time when I lived in Lynchburg. I don't think it is supposed to be monotone and scary, is it?????

I might have to hide if I heard people singing it like that......Well I might hide anyway i hear it

scary scary

dmw, a singer/songwriter named Rich Mullins wrote that song...I heard him speak once about how he hated ever writing that song, because of how it trivialized what he was trying to present.

Mr. Mullins died in a car accident about 10 years ago when his Jeep flipped and he wasn't wearing a seatbelt...not sure what god thinks about seatbelts.

Crankmas wrote:

as a true Zappa fan I would tell Frank ( if only I could) that the phrase was in God's image- is a shadow an image?

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Good job, Crankmas. What you've pointed out is a logical fallacy called equivocation. It involves twisting a word or a statement to mean something else, and argued from this false stance. In the case you mentioned, that people are created in the image of God, gets twisted into we are just like God. As you point out, an image is not the real McCoy.

ZSpiddy