Are you a good person?

Question

The dictionary says "good" is to be "morally excellent." Let s look at God s moral standard the Ten Commandments, and see how we do. Is God first in your life? Do you love Him with "heart, mind, soul and strength?" Have you made a god to suit yourself? Have you used His name in vain? Have you always honored your parents? Have you looked with lust and therefore committed adultery in your heart? Have you lied (including "fibs"), stolen (the value is irrelevant), or coveted other people s possessions? If you are honest, you know you will be guilty on the Day of Judgment. God, however, doesn t want to send you to Hell. Jesus Christ suffered and died on the Cross, so you could go free. That s how much God loves you. We broke God s Law, but Jesus took our punishment and died on the cross. He then rose from the grave defeating death. If you repent (turn away from all the things you know are wrong) and trust in Him, God will forgive your sins and grant you everlasting life. Begin by reading your Bible daily and then obey what you read. God will never let you down.

Answer 1

Yes, I am good. I don't go around plagiarising Kirk Cameron. I also rely on myself and not chick tracts to determine what is right or wrong.
Do you believe war, capital punishment and hunting are OK or do you follow the commandment "thou shalt not kill?"
Some feel the eightfold path and 5 precepts of Buddhism are a good moral compass. I tend to agree with them.

Answer 2

Bide within the Law you must, in perfect Love and perfect Trust.
Live you must and let to live, fairly take and fairly give.

For tread the Circle thrice about to keep unwelcome spirits out.
To bind the spell well every time, let the spell be said in rhyme.

Light of eye and soft of touch, speak you little, listen much.
Honor the Old Ones in deed and name,
let love and light be our guides again.

Deosil go by the waxing moon, chanting out the joyful tune.
Widdershins go when the moon doth wane,
and the werewolf howls by the dread wolfsbane.

When the Lady's moon is new, kiss the hand to Her times two.
When the moon rides at Her peak then your heart's desire seek.

Heed the North winds mighty gale, lock the door and trim the sail.
When the Wind blows from the East, expect the new and set the feast.

When the wind comes from the South, love will kiss you on the mouth.
When the wind whispers from the West, all hearts will find peace and rest.

Nine woods in the Cauldron go, burn them fast and burn them slow.
Birch in the fire goes to represent what the Lady knows.

Oak in the forest towers with might, in the fire it brings the God's
insight. Rowan is a tree of power causing life and magick to flower.

Willows at the waterside stand ready to help us to the Summerland.
Hawthorn is burned to purify and to draw faerie to your eye.

Hazel-the tree of wisdom and learning adds its strength to the bright fire burning.
White are the flowers of Apple tree that brings us fruits of fertility.

Grapes grow upon the vine giving us both joy and wine.
Fir does mark the evergreen to represent immortality seen.

Elder is the Lady's tree burn it not or cursed you'll be.
Four times the Major Sabbats mark in the light and in the dark.

As the old year starts to wane the new begins, it's now Samhain.
When the time for Imbolc shows watch for flowers through the snows.

When the wheel begins to turn soon the Beltane fires will burn.
As the wheel turns to Lamas night power is brought to magick rite.

Four times the Minor Sabbats fall use the Sun to mark them all.
When the wheel has turned to Yule light the log the Horned One rules.

In the spring, when night equals day time for Ostara to come our way.
When the Sun has reached it's height time for Oak and Holly to fight.

Harvesting comes to one and all when the Autumn Equinox does fall.
Heed the flower, bush, and tree by the Lady blessed you'll be.

Where the rippling waters go cast a stone, the truth you'll know.
When you have and hold a need, harken not to others greed.

With a fool no season spend or be counted as his friend.
Merry Meet and Merry Part bright the cheeks and warm the heart.

Mind the Three-fold Laws you should three times bad and three times good.
When misfortune is enow wear the star upon your brow.

Be true in love this you must do unless your love is false to you.

These Eight words the Rede fulfill:

"An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"



That is the Wiccan Rede......if I follow this, am I a good person?
and teh ten commandments are just copied from the Egyptian Book of the Dead The Negative Confession. So does that mean that the ancient Egyptians were good people? they were to follow the same rules

Answer 3

You claim here, that to be 'good' is to be 'morally excellent'. Can you explain to us then, how the very same god who handed down these commandments, cannot adhere to them himself?

Your god is a:
murderer (the great flood),

a liar (in the garden he claimed that Adam would die on the day he ate the fruit, not 900 years later),

covetous of his neighbor (you shall have no god before me, and has been referred to repeatedly as 'a jealous god' in the bible),

dishonored his father (as Christ, by yelling "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" on the cross),

Adulterous (Mary was married...or promised to be wed to...another man, Joseph). BTW, this also implies coveting his neighbors wife.

You need to leave your pulpit, and view the real world for a bit. You would be surprised at the wonders that nature has brought forth...

If you have any other questions, feel free to consult what may very well be considered THE definitive website concerning god and his ways: http://www.400monkeys.com/God/

Answer 4

If I read my Bible daily and obeyed what I read then I would not allow my wife to attend church and if I did she would apparently have to wear a head covering. I love and cherish my wife and our child and would never do anything to tarnish what we have in terms of love. However, I have looked at other women and thought they were sexy (lusted) and yet that means nothing. Once again if I read my Bible daily and obeyed I guess I am an adulterer. Do not try to tell me what a good person is and definitely do not tell me that the Bible definitively says what a good person is.

Answer 5

Although you post this, or something like it every night, you will probably not convince people who do not wish to be convinced.

You might also remember the lesson Jesus gave in the bible after the Centurion came to ask for his servant's healing "I have not found such faith in Israel" and understand that even if a person does not believe as you do they may have a faith as great as yours.

Answer 6

Nar ! not me,i have always had it in for the Skypilot people,
as they talk at lot of B/S and they say they talk to spirits,i
can honestly say that i do that? but only when i get my pay of a Thursday,when that happens i am off to the local pub,
where i order a few rum "n" cokes,by about 7pm i have had enough and head home where i have a bite to eat and go to bed. The next day/morning when i wake up i have been known to say "in the name of Christ why did i do it ".

Answer 7

Love your write up one thing i can,t do under stand a bible,when reading it words i have no i deada what they mean. So god under stand me by trying show him the best way i can by praying to him thank him for everything he gave us.God and Jesus been god to me.Even if i can,t read a bible.

Answer 8

God, however, doesn t want to send you to Hell
- Then why create it?

If you repent ... God will
- No, if God wills, you'll repent. Otherwise you are left in your sins.

God will never let you down
- And you don't tell God what to do.

Answer 9

>>Let s look at God s moral standard the Ten
>>Commandments,

Hold it right there. The 10 Commandments? THE "moral standard"? Why that list, and not the 8-fold path of Buddhism, or the Wiccan Rede, or some other list of moral codes?

Answer 10

This is great! Your question and message are truly "Hell's Best Kept Secret." The Ten Commandments immediately brings anyone to the knowledge of their sinfulness and need for the redemption from the Wrath of Almighty God to come! I thank Almighty God for sending this powerful teaching at [http://www.WayOfTheMaster.com] about evangelism the way Jesus Christ ministered. No one is GOOD, except the Lord God Almighty! Are you ready for ETERNITY? (www.NeedGod.com) I know that I am... and I hope you are, too! Enjoy! [(\o/)(XP)]