sawali
7 Answers
Tommyh
jhharlan
robertgrist
I do not use the term "believe" in reference to God. It seems so whimsey and stumbling-blind to consider your personal Creator and Father of the creation you know of as yourself, to be "believed in". I am a son of God. Everything I have ever known or will know is His loving creation. All I am is Love....believe...is believed to be the 'right term' when you could be wrong and just seek to play along with what's happening.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Bob/PKB
mycatsmom
Sawali, Who do you think blows life and a soul into people and animals and trees and plants......the tooth fairy ? And who do you think who figured out the relationship of how far the planets should be spaced apart from each other and He put the earth on it's axis at the right degree for spinning while it travels around the sun. And Sawali, who do you think made this wonderous creation.......the human body ?
| 10 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
You can talk smack all day long and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Those are the rules of conversation here. You are officially harassing me.
You switching gears after being positive about MCMs answer to now being negative about it in order to side with Bob is problematic to you only. Now do not tell me how to do my job. Only the admin can do that.
terryfossil 1
i asked Christ into my life and i feel and know he is there.. and if i needed more proof..i look at where i came from to where i am now,and then there is no debate..nice talking again sawali ...................................................................................................................................
| 10 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
bigben
No, I'm afraid I don't. I've spent the entire last decade reading and researching this very idea. When my younger brother died in 2003 I began to wonder whether God truly existed and the reason that I started on this quest probably seems stupid to most people, but the reason is that my brother died after a long illness and when we went to the emergency room for the last time a chaplain took my mother, aunt and myself into the room where they had been working him. And as I stood there gazing at him I was struck by how undignified he looked on that table. I know it's ridiculous, but I though "if God was real then there would be more dignity to this and less pain", crazy I know, but that's what went through my mind. So, I began to read intensively on the subject. I read the Bible and interpretations by biblical scholars as well as biblical critics. Books by historians, anthropologist, scientist and countless others. My final take on the subject was that faith is arbitrary and requires belief without evidence and that is deluding yourself, miracles are nothing more than statistical anomalies, and most of the Bible can only be taken as symbolic because a great many things that are promoted as history never happened. For instance, there is absolutely no anthropological proof that the Jews were ever enslaved to the Egyptians and the exodus never happened. And if you want to read something really depressing check into the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And I don't mean read them, I mean read an analysis by historians and even biblical historians.
What's necessary here is to approach the subject objectively and read all the information and not just what you know supports your beliefs. And while it's depressing when you are finished there is also a feeling of liberation. Like I said, I apologize to those this may offend, but that is my honest opinion.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
And there are some things that religions changed that most people aren't even aware of. For example, most of the civilizations that predate the Bible were matriarchal, in other words, run by women. They were seen as the primary source of life and therefore had most of the power. With the advent of organized religions the relationship gradually changed and societies became patriarchal and the rules of the church were used to relegate women to the level of second class citizens and we men have proceeded to screw things up ever sense. Anyway, I've tried to be careful of peoples sensibilities as I've written my answers, but I see organized religion as more of a hindrance to societies than a help.
I prefer to say , " Do you acknowledge God? " or something like that.