if you believe in god then whatever but i think organized religion is retarded. you all believe in the same thing but slightly different.
i do believe in god in some way but not the super natural being that overlooks mankind as everyone else believes. my view is more of a force than a being. a force that brings elements together to create life on this planet and many more. but it doesn't give a shit about you or me or our personal struggles or morality.
as for the cheating site.... who cares. cheaters gonna cheat. that's just another medium for them to use to do it.
Your belief is transcendentalism? An interesting one actually, has some merit to it.
If being all powerful and all knowing is a necessary and sufficient condition for being the lord....
If you are powerful enough to stop rape, murder, oppression, starvation...
If you are all knowing, and therefore you can stop these atrocities before they happen.....
And you do nothing about it? You would rather watch from your perch high in the clouds?
This does not describe anybody worthy of my respect much less worthy of me falling to my knees in service...
God is someone described by man and no one else? Why is that? It's because he exists only to those who want him to. And those people will never listen to logic, it will always be this excuse or that excuse... He turns his blind eye to us war after war...rape after rape... sorry to be so extreme but it's true
Now forgive me if this goes traditional, I am leaving the milk and dishing out the meat.
Because my friend WE demanded to be allowed to be raped, murdered, and have war. Tis your own fault lol.
By disobedience and eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, we became "Like unto God, but not gods ourselves" as in we took our fate into our own hands and decided to abuse our free will.
Life is essentially the "weeding out" phase of those who will not choose to follow him. What is rape? Damage to a temporary vessel that is destined to become dust...What is murder? The destruction of a temporary vessel destined to be dust. What is war? The mass destruction of temporary vessels destined to be dust...
Your looking at it through worldly eyes, and saying "This is all I got" where as we transcend that, we ascend and look at it for what it is. Trials we chose to endure.
Man is destined to work the land until the final judgement, the final death...
You seem to be blind to the rejection man has shown towards God, the evil man has done and still does to one another and God himself, and want him to rescue every human just because YOU think thats how God is supposed to work? An ungodly man is ruled by fear and suffering, a Godly man is triumphant over it. Christians walk in other countries as missionaries, knowing they may be raped or murdered. They do so without falling to their fears.
Seeing a mans leg being healed, tendons regrowing in a single moment....yeah thats not any proof of something supernatural
God allows us to suffer our choices. Rape could be greatly reduced, if not almost erased if we punished the crime correctly...you know like they used to...Hang the man...NOOOO to many, Non-Christian liberals fought to take away the death penalty...odd.
Murders could be reduced, stealing, even war itself could be reduced if it was fought properly...
Nope, its odd though that it is the non-believers who place all those restrictions... Did it ever occur to you that God gave us a way to prevent, lessen those things? That he imbued us with that power, but people will gladly be blindfolded simply to have a reason to argue against him or his existence.
Don't blame God for the results of the choices of the ungodly. He does watch out for his own, and has done some amazing things even for those who don't follow him. But alas, he will allow suffering for it is like unto the wind separating the chaff from the seed when tossed into the air.
I have never met better people than in a church. I am slightly agains organized religion myself, but in all honesty it is really beneficial due to the fact that it offers support to people.
You want to tax church's? Every church I have seen has paid to put poor kids through sports camps, paid bills for people who lost their jobs, given groceries to the families who are on hard times in the church. Tax what? Their ability to do what God intended? Your focused on those televangelists and mega churchs, both of which I hate with a passion. You have probably been burned by a church or Christian, and in so hold a grudge.
I have only met several non-believers who are capable of intellectual discussion of the subject without reverting back the the age old argument "but why do I get booboos then?".
I am quite analytical and quite a logic based person, in fact often using my understanding in psychology to exert some merit of control over situations around me. I am big on science as I stated, which is all logic based. And it is only logical that God exists. Even Hawking reverted to "The more I explore, the more I believe a God exists" which was years after he said the opposite. now he doesnt name a single one, but hey. Thing about the big bang, every thing came from ONE "source" huh...Didnt God do that? And the old testament even lists the earth as a globe via knowledge they had, which every one else assumed was flat until the middle ages. More and more often now scientists who were once against any form of God, now are changing their minds as the whack job science of old is showing falsehoods, and the things they are finding are showing SOMETHING had to have its hand involved in our existence.
You scientifically explain to me and the doctors how a mans ACL, and other tendons around his kneed that were torn to shreds regrew only in moments during an intense prayer session at our small church, and went from crippled to running around shouting? Dang someone must have injected him with super advanced nanomite technology right? Instant repair eh?
Stuff wont make the news though, even though it happens all over. Too much power would fall back to the church.
Regardless of your faith my friend, mankind is coming to an end at a rapid pace...Maybe 100 years tops. Population 9 billion by 2050, what by 2100? Likely Zero. One simple advanced biophage, modfied Virus or bacteria, could wipe the earth clean.
Not to mention do some research. Humans once had "pure" genetics, which would allow for even inbreeding without any abnormalities whatsover. Today our genes are falling apart, coming unraveled. They are saying unless we find a way to repair them(not really possible) humans will disintegrate...why? Because evolution doesnt work, any alternation or mutation to the genetic code results in cancer/disease. Add in the chemicals we are exposed to today and the process is sped up.
But hey, there wont be this argument in heaven
