What religion are you?

[autodefe]

This thread is going no where... :ponder:

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by entr0py

Many have taken offense to lots of things others have said. If you're going to complain about what your 500th post is about, you could have easily posted something else in its place.

Yes, many have taken offense to many things, but when the post is specifically designed to make people take offense to it, it becomes extremely immature.

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Opio

This thread is going no where... :ponder:

Yeah but it makes a good waste of time and keeps me entertained :D

These threads don't ever go anywhere but they do make you think...

[IanD]

Originally posted by ahodes1

Yes, many have taken offense to many things, but when the post is specifically designed to make people take offense to it, it becomes extremely immature.

AMEN!!!

[baphomet_irl Veteran]

very lapsed Roman Catholic

[Dessimat0r]

I believe in no God!

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Dessimat0r

I believe in no God!

Care to say why? If of course you have a reason?

By the way you said it, you seem almost proud of this, as if it was your goal to defy the world's standards? Perhaps I just interpreted it wrong though

[Mozart]

I believe in the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, the Father of Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior.

I believe in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount.

I believe John 3:16.

I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Unlike most people here, I'm over 14, don't put "Bed Head" in my hair, bolts in my nose or tongue, tattoos on my body. And unlike most, I have actually read the Bible and studied it's history. I know where the information came from. The Dead Sea Scrolls and various Codexes were not made up by men to control people and instill fear in them. These documents are thousands of years old and tell a history of a people and history of civilization.

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me."

John 20:29

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

[Ravager]

I'm Atheist. I don't believe in the stuff that God made this world and we were created by God. I prefer evolutionism rather than creationism... it's also hard to believe something you've never seen and only heard about.

[Dessimat0r]

Well, what reason is there to believe in a God exactly..?

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Dessimat0r

Well, what reason is there to believe in a God exactly..?

That is a tough question honestly, the best reason comes only after you open yourself to Him and that is feeling His presence. As far as why else, well how else can you explain the things that have happened in your life and others? Chance?

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Ravager

it's also hard to believe something you've never seen and only heard about.

This is the most difficult part about Christianity. You can't touch it. However, once you open yourself to God you can feel Him, which is close enough for me to believe.

[Ravager]

Originally posted by ahodes1

That is a tough question honestly, the best reason comes only after you open yourself to Him and that is feeling His presence. As far as why else, well how else can you explain the things that have happened in your life and others? Chance?

That's pretty much what it is. We get lucky and we believe it's a miracle by God... doesn't work for me.

[Cuzzo]

Atheists are pathetic.

Look around and think!

Is life and everything on earth an illusion!

I feel sorry for all non belivers,yes!

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Ravager

That's pretty much what it is. We get lucky and we believe it's a miracle by God... doesn't work for me.

Well, I don't see how you can be satisfied with a scientific explanation either then. Just because someone tells you we evolved from a single cell we believe this, though we cannot feel it, we are simply told this.

[Ravager]

No, it's not an illusion. I can touch it, see it, hear it, taste it... can I do any of those to God?

I rest my case. I know there are believers but that's the way Atheists' minds work.

[undeRliRcs]

why was this topic started in the first place as so many has before which all have ended unpleasantly. We all know neither of the sides are going to back down from their beliefs, why continue?

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Cuzzo

Atheists are pathetic.

Look around and think!

Is life and everything on earth an illusion!

I feel sorry for all non belivers,yes!

They are not necessarily pathetic, simply not blessed enough to have felt God the way some have, and haven't opened themselves up enough to feel Him. Take a few steps back and look at Christianity through their perspecitve for a moment and I think you will see their point in a different light.

[Ravager]

Originally posted by ahodes1

Well, I don't see how you can be satisfied with a scientific explanation either then. Just because someone tells you we evolved from a single cell we believe this, though we cannot feel it, we are simply told this.

But the fact that we were evolved from a single cell makes more sense than an all-powerful god that spawns 2 human beings, to me at least.

The Adam & Eve theory can't exist because in the bible they're both white. If they were both while, how did African-Americans come, what about Chinese and Japanese, Spaniards?

[Chipi]

sorry about the question, but what's JEDI?...:s :ponder:

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by liferay

why was this topic started in the first place as so many has before which all have ended unpleasantly. We all know neither of the sides are going to back down from their beliefs, why continue?

It ends upleasently only because immature people make it do so. We continue because, while futile, we want to make our points heard, and dispute others points. It gives us the opportunity to take in new ideas, even if they aren't radically different from those we already have accepted.

[ahodes1]

Originally posted by Ravager

But the fact that we were evolved from a single cell makes more sense than an all-powerful god that spawns 2 human beings, to me at least.

The Adam & Eve theory can't exist because in the bible they're both white. If they were both while, how did African-Americans come, what about Chinese and Japanese, Spaniards?

It can be simply explained. Adaptations over a long period of time caused the African Americans to have darker skin. Its different from evolution in the sense that a new species does not result.

[Ravager]

Originally posted by ahodes1

It ends upleasently only because immature people make it do so. We continue because, while futile, we want to make our points heard, and dispute others points. It gives us the opportunity to take in new ideas, even if they aren't radically different from those we already have accepted.

I agree. Man, I'm not meaning any disrespect to you or any religious believers at all. I respect what they believe in. I just can't see how God can exist when I've never seen him. I'm the type of person who believes on in what he sees... so many things that say God doesn't exist make more sense to me than the things that say he does.

[Dessimat0r]

Originally posted by Ravager

But the fact that we were evolved from a single cell makes more sense than an all-powerful god that spawns 2 human beings, to me at least.

The Adam & Eve theory can't exist because in the bible they're both white. If they were both while, how did African-Americans come, what about Chinese and Japanese, Spaniards?

An excellent argument. I'd like to see Christians justify this.

BY THE WAY, the reason why there is nothing to do with race in the bible is becuase the person who wrote the bible only believe that there was one. Yes.

[Cuzzo]

You can ofcourse belive what you want!

Maybe you will experiance something in your life,an odd situation that will make you think about everything around you.

I was one of those,God? no way,everything started with a big bang,yes.

Im sure there was a bang when God created earth and everything in it.

Yes,some things in the bible should be questioned and researeched to separate fact from fiction.

You really feel different when you know that god or Jesus has touched you.I cant describe the feeling.