All these Centuries, and no mustard seed

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_ZelphtheGreat
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All these Centuries, and no mustard seed

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King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Not even Jesus did it. Almost no young child getting raped by perverts seem to have enough faith for their prayers to be answered. Nearly no women getting raped and beaten seem to have enough faith to accomplish it.

Since Jesus wouldn't you think at least some have had enough faith to call on the name of Diety and be saved from the terrible fate or to have the 'mountain moved'?
“If paying tithing means that you can’t pay for water or electricity, pay tithing. If paying tithing means that you can’t pay your rent, pay tithing. Even if paying tithing means that you don’t have enough money to feed your family, pay tithing." Ensign/2012/12
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Re: All these Centuries, and no mustard seed

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Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

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29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they [cried] until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.


Oddly familiar.

Jehova/El must be sleeping too deep to reply to the pleas of an innocent. He stopped performing miracles about the same time the camera was invented.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.

Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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