"Only God is good." -bible (Luke 18:19)
"Be Good for Goodness' Sake" -Santa Claus is coming to town
Therefore, Santa is telling you to be God.
Humanist link.
God is a humanist. I AM.
Thus, humanism and the bible are the same thing.
-Hard to be a God link
-Easy to be evil link by Roger Shattuck.
He talks about discovering the Unpardonable Sin, the ultimate evil, which not even the love of God can wash away. And then he says, "But the essence of the Unpardonable Sin is neither of these. It lies in the sin of intellectual pride, in undertaking in the first place the search for the Unpardonable Sin."
I think he's a bit of a nut. There is no Unpardonable Sin, according to Rev. Kit Billings:
(his sermon on the immensity of God's mercy)
Also, Allah is called the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Forgiveness, in 2 paragraphs:
Rev. Billings says, specifically, "Christ revealed His mercy in part by His reply to Peter, who thought he had taken the ancient Jewish regulation of forgiving someone three times who continues to offend us to a respectable new level by offering seven times to Jesus. In response, the Lord tells Peter, “Seventy times seven,” which was code for never-ending mercy and forgiveness my friend."
But this infinite forgiveness comes from an act on your part, the forgiving of everyone else: The message of the parable following the 490 thing is: Part of our life's purpose is to discover God's mercifulness as part of our own heart and soulfulness. Jesus said in effect that He will not stop the hellish tormenters from gaining access to you, should you choose to not, from your heart, forgive your brother his trespasses."
For example, why die angry and bitter? Forgive and be forgiven. End the cycle of violence.
A belief that you have committed an Unpardonable Sin is a psychological prison of your own building (which you can tear down).
Anyway, God is good, and you can be God if you are good, which you do from forgiving others, to be forgiven yourself, to start out fresh and clean, and then....don't do anything bad, or rinse and repeat.
Be good, kiddo!
I happen to think violence is bad.
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