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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
What insightful comments. I am learning at my age.
QUESTION: Would it be a bad thing if I was in support of Christian values and practiced the teachings while doubting the existence of God, Heaven and Hell? I am such an all or none personality, that it is very difficult for me when I see people claim to be Christian yet do and say things that are so contradictory to my understanding of faith.
EXAMPLE: I believe in an eye for an eye and will not turn the other cheek. For me it is as if the Bible was a living changing document until Jesus inspired the current version I will refer to as the King James Version. Then the morphing of Jewish to Christian and heals dug in. That's it, no more modification or updates. Regardless of how many chosen ones there were in the past, we are now the only path to the light. Could Jesus have been a well thought out conspiracy? I think, portions of the Old Testament, the Islamic Koran and the Bible are the way to believe and they should all be considered doors to an afterlife.  |
perhaps my observation is incorrect but I detect a tone of not asking but actually telling people how you feel.
I said it in another post on another thread blind faith requires one come to God (Jesus Christ) as a child. Some people simply cannot relinquish such control. I truly envy people who have blind faith because such a surrender seems to empower them more than those who cannot relinquish such control
Perhaps its all imaginary but to quote "If God did not exist then man would have had to invent him"
God (Jesus Christ) real or inventive is a good thing because man has to believe in something greater than himself or his inventions. godless men commit atrocious acts because one or more of the seven sins over take them. Men who claim to do God's work, but do evil, cannot actually believe because if they did they could not and as such are deceivers
I am by nature a naturalist who believes in intelligent design but cannot determine its origins but there is organization and collaboration to this universe as is evidenced all around us and as the commercial says, īts not nice to fool mother nature" Abortion is one of those meddling and it has had a pronounced effect on our population which ages quickly with a loss of a younger generation to take up the mantle