What is greater than God?

[5129frederick]

What is greater than God,

More evil than the Devil,

The poor have it,

The rich need it,

And rich or poor,

If you eat it,

You will surely die!

Answer?

Nothing - nothing is greater than God, nor more evil than the Devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing, and rich or poor, if you eat nothing, you will surely starve to death!

Ok, so gramatically it's incorrect, but it took me a long time to work it out.  Clever, eh?  

[hightara]

agree with the last few........ alas fred (with no disrespect to you and those that are religious)

I dont believe in the afterlife............. but I really envy those that do......it would make losing our loved ones more bearable 

xx

[ilove2patch]

I don't believe in God or the Devil. The poor often have more than the rich if you count non material things like love. I do agree though if you don't eat you die! lol 🙂

[5129frederick]

Heaven - a place where we all meet up with our loved ones:

Ye Gods, can you imagine it?

"Meet my mother-in-law"

For all eternity? 

Many are those who'd look on that idea as Hell!    ROTF!!

[hightara]

oh gawd fred......... brilliant 

[rainydaywoman11]

Love those you love, and let them know

Because you'll never know when it is their time to go

So hold them and hug them and tell them when they're near

I love you, I miss you oh God I'm so glad you're here

It's no use to anyone once we are gone

Then you cannot say anything to anyone.

Was it not Paul in his letter to the Corinthians who said love is patient, love is kind.....................

And ....................................

And now these three remain faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love.  I like Paul.

I waver now in my beliefs, but will have a church funeral.  The full shebang.  S*d this - 'wear bright colours'.  They will all be suited and booted in black.  'No flowers please' - eh no - I'll be in a willow coffin festooned with lilies and roses, with a copy of the Beatles Love CD tucked in and a Gerry Rafferty (haven't decided yet).  Bonkers, yes, but happy.  All arranged, coming in to John Lennon's Imagine.

I waver because I cannot understand why God takes those who do not deserve to go or to suffer the terrible illness that is cancer, for one, although there are many more.  My own minister tells me 'it's God's will'.  

Well actually, I would like to have been the one to decide thank you very much.

So Fred, I followed all God's rules and a fat lot of good it did me.

[5129frederick]

As the sermon on the mount goes:

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

How very, very true.  Bill Gates, Mick Jagger and the head of an oil consortium all have one thing in common.  Apart from having more money than they will ever be able to spend, they are prisoners of their lifestyles.  Megalomaniacs, all of them - megalomania: is the love of power, not money.  Now take the wineo who has nothing.  He just lives from day to day, amd his needs are simple.  If he wants to go down to the south coast for six months, that's where he'll go - the welfare state will look after him.  He has no property to tie him down, and certainly no worry about the state of the stock market!

Before I got married I drove my wife down Bishop's Avenue in North London.  You can't get a place for under £15,000,000.00 but what do they do in life to retain their standard of living?  How many lives do they ruin sacking people who don't live up to their expectations?  My wife and I had nothing, and yet we couldn't have been happier - and that holds true after thirty-six years.

[hightara]

so poignant!

I have told my kids......... i want the cheapest coffin (I told them wicker....so when they where carrying me I would ooze over their shoulders) only joking....... but I want the cheapest way to bury me and im not joking there.

I do love white lilies....... so one white lily

if possible I want any of my organs that can be used donated 

our boys said.......... we will stick you in the recycle bin 

 

[rainydaywoman11]

I'm eeer, how can I say this - not meek.  Go figure.

Bill Gates has a massive charitable foundation.

One white lily - ONE - are you nuts - this is your big day - if I'm still here I'll be sending a truckload 

[5129frederick]

How far the dawn of that great day,

When the toils of life are done,

Those awsome moths of waiting,

Through the darkn to see the sun,

Each day seems never ending,

As it sheds it's fleeting light,

Yet in passing never shortens,

Nor brings me closer to the light.

That tunnel still seems endless,

Though daylight flickers there,

It's well worn paths must still be trod,

With only me to care.

But one day in the future,

With luck I'll reach that goal,

Where the sun and skies are always bright,

And there's peace within my soul.

We all waver in our faith including me, because we are all human, and find it a bitter pill to swallow listening to some minister wittering on about somebody he's probably never even met at a funeral.  My father passed away just four days before Christmas in 1999.  It was a ceremony we had to go through in January, and believe my the words and hymns were pretty empty - at that time I had not yet found my faith - I was a Christian of convenience.  My conversion came four years later after a nervous breakdown, but it is something we all have to go through at various stages of our lives, but where some minister utters those words, "Well, it was God's will," how I wish they'd just keep their mouths shut, because they're giving comfort to no one.  Was it Gods will that 20,000,000 Russians and 6000.000 Jews were annihilated during the Second World War?

So no, I do not condemn those who choose not to believe.  The church is steeped in hypocricy , much it it of their own doing.

[rainydaywoman11]

Thank you Fred 

Sorry to read about your nervous breakdown - happens a lot more than you'd think.

[5129frederick]

Thank you.  Cracking up was as a direct result of problems with the estate - long story and certainly not for an open broadcast.  

[rainydaywoman11]

Well Fred, the joy of my day is complete.  Got bum in bed, settling down - ding-dong front door - hubby appears with funereal amount of flowers.

'These are for you' he says.  They are the church flowers from this morning.  Oh goody - they are sent to all the ancients ready for the off - God has a sense of humour after all.

Is is Psalm 27 - and the Lord set me upon a rock - well I want to be on a big tall one where everybody would bog off 

[leoleoleo123]

The things that happen here are certainly not 'Gods will".

If you read the bible properly, we are in fact in "the Devils time"...

Only at Armageddon, will God step in, and cast the evil out.

When Jesus was wandering about for 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness, the devil took him and told him that he would give him all he saw before him, if only he would bow down and worship him( the devil) instead of God...  of course, Jesus refused, but not once did he say to the devil that the kingdoms were not his to give....

The only trouble , of course, is that we do not know when this armageddon will come..

End of lesson! lol....

[hightara]

gawd almighty carol............... **bleep**

yes I want ONE  lily........ simples

oh... do not want to be the woman in the green bin... so me thinks I need to slap my sons upside the head

[5129frederick]

This is something that's really irritated me, because the Devil had/has NO authority to give kingdoms away willy-nilly, not that I believe in him as an individual anyway, bearing a cheeky grin with a trident.  He must be getting on in age if he's still around  Evil influences who will try their best to destroy everything that is good in this world, yes.  Unbelievable evil.  They control people's minds, but against God's power, the have none.  I wrote and self-published a book on private testimonies titled "In Him I Place My Trust".  I'm no Holy Joe.  I'm born-again, so I know only too well how filth and pornography destroy people's minds.  Jesus said: "I will be with you in your hour of greatest need."  When is the hour - when is the year?  Nine years ago I was involved in a serious car smash.  I assumed that was my hour of greatest need.  It wasn't, because I was given the time to finish my book.  Your hour of greatest need will be the last hour you spend alive.  

But hey, I feel we're all getting a bit side tracked on this board.  It was, after just a funny I came out with.

[leoleoleo123]

Well, I wouldn't say that I am a religious person... Well I don't go to any church or whatever... But I have read the bible quite a lot.. Just cos I think it's an interesting read!

[leoleoleo123]

As an aside... If you believe in God.. You would have to believe in the devil.. After all... He was an arch angel after all....

[5129frederick]

There's hope for you yet!!!!!!    I shall be "thinking" of you tonight!

[leoleoleo123]

Thanks Frederick! Lol.