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Originally Posted by DAWN MARIE
Much of your angst against the bible and/or religion isn't unique. There are literally myriads of others just like you. I've heard these same arguments over and over. I used to have a blog site called "Kickin For Christ" where I would try my best to answer, guide and explain the reason for my faith and the journey it took me to get to where I am now.
It's like if I answer a question they would go onto another objection without commenting on the current one we had been discussing. This showed me they didn't really want an answer but to try and justify their unbelief.
So now you go to Adam, Eve, People of the Amazon and mentally challenged. The answers are all in that book I asked if you read and studied.
I'll take one of your objections for brevity: Adam and Eve and their descendants. They were saved the same way those AFTER the cross were saved. They looked FORWARD in anticipation to the Messiah who would come to take their sin from them and we look BACK in thanksgiving that HE did come and take away our sin from us. Belief. Faith. We are saved by faith thru Grace.
The bible is like a big puzzle. As we put the pieces together we start to see a beautiful picture that was once before a jumbled mess in front of us. Piece by piece in the right place makes a world of difference. I've got a big part of the puzzle put together but still have a ways to go. I'm not finished...but I can tell you this...what I've been seeing these last 40 years of putting this puzzle together is astounding.
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DawnMarie: I have said in previous posts that I envy people of faith because they are content to put their trust in the Lord and that is a good way to live.
This big puzzle you speak of confronts us all. I left home at the age of 17 believing I had been conditioned to think and act a certain way. I vowed to strip myself of all previous dogma and to begin again as sort a rebirth. Like you I have studied and stayed open to and respect every ideology, except that which we broadly define as evil. People like me (pragmatic, naturalist, objective leaning, science based) cannot enter faith as a child because we cannot surrender ourselves. so what makes us good makes us bad but that is our DNA makeup. I do pray and I do obey the 10 commandments because my senses tell me these are good things to do. I do not lie or steal or covet my neighbors goods because my senses tell me they are bad things for me and for society and most importantly I always wanted to set good example for my children. I advanced my education my career. I sacrificed and suffered pain and disappointment in silence. these are things good parents do. My mother once told me that of all her children I had the purest heart ...lucky for me it was over the phone at the time and for obvious reasons. Just as a mother knows her children's heart I suspect a God of love knows his childrens' hearts and in knowing their heart he will know their destinations , if that be the truth