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Amanah 11-18-2011 08:18 AM

If you were God for a day, what would you change?
 
I'd go back in time and have Adam eat from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge.

Timmy 11-18-2011 08:24 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Great question! Have you seen "Bruce Almighty"?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114704)
I'd go back in time and have Adam eat from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge.

You sure about that? If they'd done that, and if none of their descendants ever sinned, and they all lived forever, and had babies every few years forever, the population of the world would now exceed the number of subatomic particles in the galaxy. (Yes. I did the math once. I'm a nerd. ;))

Digging4Truth 11-18-2011 08:30 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
I'd change... me.

I'd spend the day learning the answers to all my questions about truth and God. I'd know exactly what I should know and what right and wrong were and how God feels about them.

I'd find out what the apostles meant in every recorded word I have and understand their very thoughts and intents.

In short... I would set myself free from wondering and guessing and finally know, beyond all question, what is the truth and then I would love it and share it with reckless abandon.

houston 11-18-2011 08:33 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
NOTHING! A perfect GOD allowed for the band to play on. To say that I as a god would change such and such is like saying that our God didn't do things right.

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 08:35 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
If I was God for ONE day, I would plan for day after when I wasn't. I would give myself Wolverine-like healing powers, make myself 2 inches taller, make a billion dollars suddenly pop into multiple bank accounts, make myself a real working light saber along with the Jedi skill to use it, institute a flat 10% across the board income tax (while eliminating most others) and then create safeguards to keep additional ones from returning.

Oh yes, and create (and patent) a super efficient solar panel with an efficiency of 50% (the theoretical max). This would of course make me billions MORE over the coming decades and centuries.

Timmy 11-18-2011 08:38 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by RandyWayne (Post 1114710)
If I was God for ONE day, I would plan for day after when I wasn't. I would give myself Wolverine-like healing powers, make myself 2 inches taller, make a billion dollars suddenly pop into multiple bank accounts, make myself a real working light saber along with the Jedi skill to use it, institute a flat 10% across the board income tax (while eliminating most others) and then create safeguards to keep additional ones from returning.

Oh yes, and create (and patent) a super efficient solar panel with an efficiency of 50% (the theoretical max). This would of course make me billions MORE over the coming decades and centuries.

Make the theoretical max higher. Like 100%. Why not? You're God!

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 08:42 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 1114713)
Make the theoretical max higher. Like 100%. Why not? You're God!

It needed to be a high, yet a real number that could continue to be manufactured AFTER I was no longer God. Sure GOD could make one 100% efficient, or even a thousand percent, but no machine could. ;)

Timmy 11-18-2011 09:54 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RandyWayne (Post 1114716)
It needed to be a high, yet a real number that could continue to be manufactured AFTER I was no longer God. Sure GOD could make one 100% efficient, or even a thousand percent, but no machine could. ;)

I was talking about changing a law of physics, so machines could do that. But, yeah, I suppose the next God-for-a-day might change it back. :lol

Amanah 11-18-2011 09:59 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 1114741)
I was talking about changing a law of physics, so machines could do that. But, yeah, I suppose the next God-for-a-day might change it back. :lol

:heeheehee

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 09:59 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 1114741)
I was talking about changing a law of physics, so machines could do that. But, yeah, I suppose the next God-for-a-day might change it back. :lol


.....and take away my Wolverine healing factor.

.....and my light saber, or Jedi skills to use it!

Aquila 11-18-2011 10:02 AM

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I'd banish PMS the sea of forgetfulness forever.

Amanah 11-18-2011 10:05 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
ok, I know what would be hillarious as GFTD, have Bro Epley and Timmy switch bodies for a week. Could you imagine Timmy pastoring a UC church?

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 10:07 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114752)
ok, I know what would be hillarious as GFTD, have Bro Epley and Timmy switch bodies for a week. Could you imagine Timmy pastoring a UC church?

Ya, it would be like the movie Nuns on the Run when they two bandits dressed as nuns and hid on a convent/school -and then had to start teaching the kids!

Scott Hutchinson 11-18-2011 10:10 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114704)
I'd go back in time and have Adam eat from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge.

That would be a good place to start.

Timmy 11-18-2011 10:11 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RandyWayne (Post 1114746)
.....and take away my Wolverine healing factor.

.....and my light saber, or Jedi skills to use it!

Doh! Oh well, fun while it lasted. :lol

Timmy 11-18-2011 10:12 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114752)
ok, I know what would be hillarious as GFTD, have Bro Epley and Timmy switch bodies for a week. Could you imagine Timmy pastoring a UC church?

Ohhhhh, think of the damage I could do in one week! :heeheehee

Scott Hutchinson 11-18-2011 10:15 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
I would do away with women having menopause.

Amanah 11-18-2011 10:30 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson (Post 1114760)
I would do away with women having menopause.

Menses forever? Babies at the age of 90?

Scott Hutchinson 11-18-2011 10:32 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114764)
Menses forever? Babies at the age of 90?

Ok maybe do away with the way women that go through it act.

Nitehawk013 11-18-2011 10:36 AM

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I would make a video or audio recording of EXACTLY what would be required of men according to the Word. That way we could put all this division and fighting to bed once and for all. Instead o farguing over "interpretations" we could just bring up the actual audio or visual of exactly what was required of men.

Scott Hutchinson 11-18-2011 10:37 AM

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I would do away with men balding.

Digging4Truth 11-18-2011 11:10 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114704)
I'd go back in time and have Adam eat from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge.

Would there have ever been more than 2 people in the garden without Adam & Eve eating the fruit?

They didn't know they were naked before that.

Also... would you only stop Adam? Or would you stop Eve too?

Amanah 11-18-2011 11:15 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1114775)
Would there have ever been more than 2 people in the garden without Adam & Eve eating the fruit?

They didn't know they were naked before that.

Also... would you only stop Adam? Or would you stop Eve too?

only Adam needed to be stopped, the bloodline of sin came through him.
And this way Eve would have all the brains, and their kids would live forever.

Dedicated Mind 11-18-2011 11:15 AM

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randy, all the "self" wishes are disappointing. what about world hunger, disease, world peace? if i could do only one thing, i would make all the deserts to bloom like tropical weather to alleviate world hunger.

Amanah 11-18-2011 11:16 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind (Post 1114778)
randy, all the "self" wishes are disappointing. what about world hunger, disease, world peace? if i could do only one thing, i would make all the deserts to bloom like tropical weather to alleviate world hunger.

you should run for Miss America!

Timmy 11-18-2011 11:20 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114779)
you should run for Miss America!

I seriously almost :spit my Dr Pepper! :toofunny

Dedicated Mind 11-18-2011 11:21 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114779)
you should run for Miss America!

your wish is even more altruistic than mine. what you talking about willis? i'm a he, so that will be difficult. maybe mr universe.

Amanah 11-18-2011 11:24 AM

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just kidding, but doesnt she always say she wants world peace?

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 11:30 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind (Post 1114778)
randy, all the "self" wishes are disappointing. what about world hunger, disease, world peace? if i could do only one thing, i would make all the deserts to bloom like tropical weather to alleviate world hunger.

You forgot giving a puppy to every child.

And all of the other things would be taken care of by an undersized (but strong), freedom loving, low taxing government (which, as God, I would create and set safeguards so it could not be changed later by politicians seeking votes).

Digging4Truth 11-18-2011 11:46 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Amanah (Post 1114777)
only Adam needed to be stopped, the bloodline of sin came through him.
And this way Eve would have all the brains, and their kids would live forever.

I'm going to consider that post to be one of those which were smiled at more than thought through. :)

riverslivnwtr 11-18-2011 11:49 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 1114706)
Great question! Have you seen "Bruce Almighty"?



You sure about that? If they'd done that, and if none of their descendants ever sinned, and they all lived forever, and had babies every few years forever, the population of the world would now exceed the number of subatomic particles in the galaxy. (Yes. I did the math once. I'm a nerd. ;))

yeah but with each having the God kind of faith they each would have created more space for each in each galaxy :laffatu

I didn't do the math , I just assumed..:heeheehee

riverslivnwtr 11-18-2011 11:50 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1114707)
I'd change... me.

I'd spend the day learning the answers to all my questions about truth and God. I'd know exactly what I should know and what right and wrong were and how God feels about them.

I'd find out what the apostles meant in every recorded word I have and understand their very thoughts and intents.

In short... I would set myself free from wondering and guessing and finally know, beyond all question, what is the truth and then I would love it and share it with reckless abandon.


the tree of life would tell you everything..:laffatu

Digging4Truth 11-18-2011 11:52 AM

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I was just wondering if anybody is putting much thought into all of these changes that would change what God did?

I guess we sometimes feel that we have better ideas then He. :)

Amanah 11-18-2011 11:53 AM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
we are just brain storming here, have not come up with the final plans yet

Arphaxad 11-18-2011 06:45 PM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
I would go back and heal my brother of all the health issues that killed him.

:doggyrun

RandyWayne 11-18-2011 06:50 PM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1114794)
I was just wondering if anybody is putting much thought into all of these changes that would change what God did?

I guess we sometimes feel that we have better ideas then He. :)

Naw, it is more like trying to think what you would do if you opened a vase and a genie popped out. It's not really about what we would do different than God but what we would wish for.

First thing I would do would be to wish for more wishes but apparently that isn't allowed.

Dante 11-18-2011 06:57 PM

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Although a lot of the answers to this thread are hilarious, I will not dignify this thread with the idea that I could do anything better than God (if I were Him for a day). I'm not so arrogant as to propose that God isn't doing a good enough job as it is. Who am I to undo, redo, or propose anything different. God is much greater than I could ever hope to be.

seekerman 11-18-2011 08:12 PM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
I'd stop the suffering of little children.

I'd make sure everyone had enough to eat.

I'd plant a kindness gene in each and every person.

Stuff like that.

Dordrecht 11-18-2011 08:38 PM

Re: If you were God for a day, what would you chan
 
If I was God I would not change a thing.
God created this world perfectly.
It's people that messed it up.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

That's how simple it is.

canam 11-19-2011 01:59 AM

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Election results from 2008 !


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