Your god is a joke and you are a fool.

God is not a joke and I will pray for you. Jesus loves you no matter what you say.

@ EVF Jr., Odin is not a joke and I will pray for you. Thor loves you no matter what you say.

That’s clearly not true. If your “god” loved everyone, why would he punish a whole team and all of their fans in favor of some jackhole jock on the other team? Pull your head out of your rear. People are responsible for themselves and the good and bad they do. When you do great, it’s of your own accord. When you do terrible things, it’s of your own accord (though your people like to excuse evil acts by way of “god” all the time, for some sick reason).

its one thing to blasphem God…but why get nasty?

God told me to skin you alive.

Your god answers the prayers of Tebow but not of starving children? Seems silly. Why not just conclude he doesn’t answer prayers at all.

I guess God forgot about the starving children across the globe and the innocent people dying in wars and from suicide bombs in the middle east. He must be too busy watching football and answering the few thousand prayers from Tebow.

Ha, ha,..
God doesn’t care about football or even human beings.
She has got far more important creations to attend to.
God only helps those who help themselves.

GOOGLE EXCLUDED INCOME

Make your government obey the law.
Wake up, smell coffee.

Freak

people like you are crazy

No good Christian would ever think that Gad cares about trivial things like football games.

Studies show believe in a god is related to IQ. The higher the IQ, the less likely one is to believe in god; the lower the IQ, the more likely you are to believe in god. Therefore, those people that believe god helps Tebow win tend to be people on the lower end of the IQ scale.

God keeps open send and receive channels with over seven billion people on the planet, considers four to five billion prayers and supplications on a daily basis, manages the tides, monitors the continued expansion and other workings of the universe, relegates millions of departing souls to heaven or hell, and still manages to exert His influence in the outcome of sporting events. Folks, let’s hear it for omnipotence!

Really? You can’t or won’t? I am going with can’t. If anyone believes and god thinks more highly of Tebow than anyone else, it is no wonder the world is what it is.

Thank you for not telling us how God works. I know not, but I hope God spends his time on more importiant things

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or
that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are
details.” – Albert Einstein Albert Einstein believed in God, so much for studies on IQ and belief in God.

Sounds like when it comes to Sports, the Christian God is a CHEATER!

Exactly.

How do you know this? or is this just your opinion?

That’s just your delusion.

God doesn’t chose sides. Rather, people who are spiritual and have strong beliefs often find inner sstrength and peace which may, in turn, help them to navigate their way through life. It is like praying to God for success in battle (remember Patton required a chaplain to write such a prayer). Does anyone really believe that God wants to see anyone killed. It is the gift of free will which he gave us to make choices which makes a difference. Some people make good choices and some make bad choices but that is not God’s will but our own.

Tebow does not have a monopoly on God. But God has a monopoly on Tebow.

Yeah, because helping a dumb jock kick a ball around is a much better way to do that than helping the sick, poor, starving, neglected, abused, and war-torn. It sounds like your god is a pedantic idiot.

Did Jesus intervene?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rgauldin/did-jesus-intervene-a-guide-to-tebow-15ze

spot on brother

so what are you going to say if his team loses? He didn’t pray hard enough?

Eve is correct. God helps us all if we ask Him to help us. It’s not about winning a game, it’s about being a winner even if you lose.

you would have been “healed” anyway.
What about all the people who pray and their prayers aren’t answered?
How about my friend whose husband beat her to death, I guess she didn’t pray hard enough to have the strength to walk away from him, and my other friend’s husband who got killed in a freak accident, I guess she didn’t pray hard enough that he would live.
So much bs that you religious folks fall for. The biggest mass brainwashing in the history of the world.

Why would God heal you and not others who pray to be healed. You are silly.

The *truly* smart question the basic validity of phone polls. These numbers are meaningless.

And have you done anything to stop that?

People are starving because US, humans, have made the world the way it was, is and probably will be. God lets us do what we like to do. Maybe if God was a totalitarian. . .

It doesn’t matter (and shouldn’t matter) if God helps Tebow and the Broncos win or not. What matters is that there’s a guy called Tim Tebow, who worships God and, instead of (as far as we know) taking drugs, being involved in sex scandals or be just a problem-filled man, is setting a great example on how to be successful and make people know about Jesus without opening his mouth or make a fool out of himself.

Ariel, you are an idiot. “God” lets you do what you like, but can’t help but get involved with a dumb jock. You’re a real smart on, you are.

so you think god doesnt exist yet he lets half the world live in poverty? god gave us free will, and those who believe and trust in him are never in poverty because he provides everything you need, not riches but what you need, look at the poor in china, india, pakistan and other places they dont believe in god, most people in china dont know him because being a christian there is illegal, in china its just the left wing communism americans are starting to love, look at the road it leads you down, now america is leaving god, he is withdrawing from you and you are becoming a poor country in poverty!

Dear Areil Cardona II , You would make a lousy lawyer because you asked me a question you did not know the answer too that makes you look like the fool you are. I in fact gave my own hard earned money to charitable causes that help feed and clothe people all over the earth.
Yes, I have done something about it.

If God helps Tebow win, why didn’t he help the 3000+ people that died 9/11? (Many of which the were surely praying to him moments before they died)

John, because some people believe God is on our side and a football game being won by Denver not Pittsburg is much more important to religious American’s pride than some NYC building full of people.

Why is it dumb to believe in witches, santa, the easter bunny, zeus, hera, and ghosts?

its not dumb, satan is in the world filling it with evil, disgusting music, disgusting movies, disgusting acts are all portrayed as being cool and if you like anything except the mainstream filth then you are a fool according to this world, but these people are blinded by sin, i hope one day many will find god but the fact is most will lead horrible lives then die because thats what they choose, never before in human history has it been cool to be an alcoholic, adulterous, violent, sick etc but today and for the past 20 years this has become the norm because the time is near

“god” is a meaningless, incoherent concept (a person without a body). however, there are reasons humanity has, for the last 30,000 years since the dawn of our intellectual capacities, been universally prone to the delusion that “gods,” “spirits,” “souls,” “ghosts,” and the afterlife were intelligible, plausible ideas. our brains have developed the ability to create mental models of other people’s minds (psychologists call this, theory of mind). we can imagine the mental states of other people, even people not immediately present before us or even hypothetical people. the ILLUSION that minds can exist on their own, separate from people, is just a short step away. now, of course many other factors contribute to the explanation of the human propensity for inventing and wholheartedly believing in crazy religious myths and “spritual” entities (1,000s of religions and 10,000s of “gods”), but i believe the psychological mechanism i described is at the foundation.

t, you don’t need God to know right from wrong or to know how to treat others. You’re a simpleton if you think that people can’t understand right from wrong without a God daddy.
And stop stereotyping atheists as leftists. There are intelligent right wingers too.

Yep, he sure does things to show he’s real, like earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts and hurricanes that kill innocent men, women and children. While we’re about it, he also designed and put on earth not just cuddly puppies and bunnies, but also thousands of different bacteria, viruses, amebae, vibria, flukes, trypanosomes, etc. etc., plus the means of transmitting them, like mosquitos, flies and ticks, for the sole purpose of causing untold death, illness, suffering and grief. Just to mention malaria alone, that affects over 10 million people each year, killing 1.5 million, mainly innocent children, and leaving the rest crippled for life. Nice huy.

higher hopes for America…. the people that elected obama???????? And YOU “know Tebow is stupid”? You undoubtedly voted for obama. So who’s stupid, as well as abysmally ignorant? The Second Psalm says it all.

Are you saying that in order to believe that God exists, He would have to deliver perfect peace, harmony, no death, no accidents, no jihad, no cancer, no pain, no tears, no starvation, no inconvenience at all?

Th flaw is the basic methodology of phone polls. I never answer phone polls because the selfish morons love to call during dinnertime.

Maybe people who believe God is helping a man play a ball game are more likely to answer the poll to express their religious beliefs rather than just hanging up. Phone polls are completely useless, and reporting on them even less so.

I guarantee there is some local politician in the Denver area pulling some sort of corrupt shenanigan right now that is going unreported and uninvestigated by CBS Denver. But, no, they need to report an some grotty, completely unscientific phone poll. Good job.

Bouviermommy: In order for god to exist, he needs to get his priorities straight. So do you. Otherwise, god rewards football players, and punishes thousands of innocent children who starve to death during each NFL game. Seriously – do you think that’s how god works?

Dude, who gets to decide what order of priorities God should adopt?

AMEN

As with most of my friends and colleagues, I am an atheist, I am not radical and I am not on the left. I follow the path that makes the most sense to me in all aspects of life. I do not have a burning need to be part of a group especially if it means compromising what I believe…I think you watch too much Fox News.

“Without His grace, you won’t be taking your next breath, your heart won’t beat, your cells won’t divide, and you will be quite dead.”

I’m pretty sure physics handles that.

I don’t know how the question was phrased, but Zeus is helping Tebow….he’s helping everyone reading this board too. Without Zeus’s grace, you won’t be taking your next breath, your heart won’t beat, your cells won’t divide, and you will be quite dead. Zeus works His redemptive plan through all things, including you, me, and Tim Tebow.

Billl Vernon
and what handles physics?
A question from an agnostic.

I think it is The flying Spaphetti Monster not God

@Tim – On this comment and others, you are drawing an equivalency between the God of the Bible and various mythical gods — Zeus, Thor, etc. Could you point us to the historical record comfirming that Zeus or Thor livedon this earth?

Brad, That’s a loaded ambiguous question that may not even be valid. Not every question makes sense. For example, is this sentence false?

I suspect the answer you are looking for is Zeus which is the natural assumption when someone answers “I don’t know”.

Bouviermommy – your detractors haven’t a clue what you mean by God’s grace. What they don’t want, they will not get. They freely choose to reject Jesus Christ and spout venom at those who respond to the invitation of the Holy Spirit. They delude themselves that they do it their own way, relishing the lie of Satan. But truth is there are only two ways in this world, God through our atonement by Jesus Christ or Satan’s. The free choice made during our very short life determines where we spend eternity, where there are also only two choices, not freely made.
As previously noted, Second Psalm applies.

they will only attack the true living god because he is not in them and they are not of him, notice they never attack buddists or muslims, thats because they are of satan and satan knows they are false teachings, they go all out to attack christians and hate them, god sent us into this world as sheep among wolves, dont forget it.

@Bouviermommy No, I sure cant. Could you point us to the historical record comfirming that the god of the Bible lived on this earth?

The first verse speaks of the pharisees, but the second does not.

It is directed squarely at the believer and that is why it is written “but >>YOU<<[meaning those who were listening and not the Pharisees] when you pray, enter into your closet and lock your door, and pray to your father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you in public"

Letting our light shine before men starts with our feet, not our mouths. Our walk dictates our testimony as what we say means nothing if we do not apply it to our walk…

A guy is right. Jesus wasn’t commanding his disciples not to pray in public. He was telling them not to pray to impress others. There are numerous examples in the Bible where public prayer and praise to Yahweh were appropriate. See for example Luke 18:43 and Luke 19:37 for public praise. Jesus Himself prayed in public many times as when He raised Lazarus from the dead as recorded in John 11: 41-42. Furthermore, 1st Thessalonians 5:17 says to pray without ceasing so that pretty much includes while one is in public places.

The verse must be considered in context with not only the passage in which it occurs but also in context with the entire Word of God in order to properly interpret it.

amen

Amen !

Assuming your logic’s sound, God could also be a placebo…

Praying without ceasing is indeed written and in all things give thanks as well. However the other verse applies whereas it is written “but >>YOU<<[meaning those who were listening and not the Pharisees] when you pray, enter into your closet and lock your door, and pray to your father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you in public"

As for Tebow, I do not think he has that intention, but take into account the lack of true shepherds in America to instruct him righteously. I think many believers today, many without realizing it, have a self martyrdom issue and almost seek to be persecuted… Not saying that is the case with Tebow either as I do not know the man, but just something I see happening more and more with other believers

Well put, MedicineBowCO

I am not a Christian, but at the same time, I am not offended by it. I see someone like Tebow refreshing, and I wish him success. This generation needs a sports hero that is not a money hoarding, drug doing, sell out for more money, shoot ourselves in the club type. I don’t think that God would care about football, but what irony that Tebow took out Rothlisburger? I loved watching it. After reading some of the comments here, I find it amazing that people with Christian beliefs are criticizing Tebow for doing this or that. Are you serious? This is probably why your religion has been on the decline for quite some time. Take it for what it is, and enjoy it. Be glad he is giving your cause some much needed positive exposure, and quit throwing stones at the kid. Just remember that the Amish still think you are going to hell anyways.

So you would punish your grandkids for something you kids do? The logic is flawed. Either god is a jerk and like hurting people or he doesn’t exist and it is all made up just like every single one of the millions of other “beliefs”

Dan so you think that in order for God to exists that babies should never die or get sick or bad things happen?

Take God out of the equation for a second, when do we as humans grow and mature the most? When everything is going well or under adversity? We become more mature as we work through life’s difficulties.

A guy: How does a baby that dies in pain at, say, 2 months old, mature as he works through adversity? Such narcissism! You think a child you know dying in pain is for your benefit…so you can “mature through adversity”. Just makes you and your god both look like jerks.

@ A guy: So if I punch you in the face, you should thank me, because I’ve now helped you appropriate what it’s like to not be punched in the face.

Your perspective from your comfortable first world lifestyle is disgusting, to tell the BILLIONS of people suffering in the world that their “adversity” is for their own good.

Any god that would allow that is a monster, and any person who would justify that is sickening.

So, the other teams can now blame Jesus for their loss?
“Yeah, we would’ve won the big game, if Jesus didn’t make me fumble!”

@Otto

Maybe. I hear Jesus had a wicked awesome shotgun pass, and was unstoppable when scrambling in the backfield.

“when something bad happens the first thing we ask is, ” Where was God and why did he let this happen!””

I dont ask that.

“God gave his son Jesus, to die for our sins. Which of us would be willing to die for sinners?”

I would if it meant after three days Id get to come back to life and then return to my position as vice-ruler of the universe. Where exactly is the “sacrifice?”

Amen, Joe. Not to worry, though. God will make everything right in the end. On our last day, we can stand before a holy, righteous God who cannot look on sin of any kind in one of two ways — we can defiantly demand to be judged on our own deeds while on this earth, hoping that God will wink and say, “boys will be boys and girls will be girls,” or we can stand before Him as one of Jesus’ own children, washed clean by His blood and clothed in HIS righteousness which is indeed perfect. Praise God that Jesus is my magnificent defense attorney and assures me that “this one is mine” The repentent Christian who understands that nothing but Jesus can deliver is God’s gift to His son for what He did that day on the cross. He paid the debt that none of us can pay. What an amazing savior we have.

You’re certifiably insane. I feel bad for you.

Tim, what are you doing? Just look at yourself. Look at what you’ve become.
why? Whats the purpose of your excessive hatred? Did Christians hurt you at one time? Do you think what you’re doing and saying is the least bit productive? i guess i just don’t get it.

Then it’s okay to use government to force your delusions on Christians who believe God?

@Bouviermommy Which delusions am I forcing on Christians, and how am I using the government to do it.

@Hirk No Christians have never hurt me, but a lot of people out there cant say the same thing.

So if your god ordains the wins and losses of football games, then what is the point of playing them? That means it has nothing to do with how hard a team practices or a player’s athletic ability, its just the result of the whim of a god. That kinda takes the fun out of football, dont you think?