2008-02-24, 03:35 | Link #462 |
Shiba Inu Worshipper
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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I'm a Christian. But I've never met any other Christian that believes the same way I do. Don't read the Bible often, don't go to church often. But I believe God knows how I feel about these things. I talk to God every day, and I know he hears me. Too many unbelievable things have happened in my life to NOT believe in God.
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2008-02-24, 05:17 | Link #465 | ||||
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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My thanks to Ledgem and Kyuusai for elaborating the differences between Judaism and Christianity. Your posts make for very interesting reading. Quote:
Personally, I don't think it matters whether there is any veracity in anything we believe happened in the past. Let's face it, even in matters of secular history, we aren't completely sure if we recorded everything as it actually happened in real life, let alone in matters of religion where miracles are apparently commonplace. It doesn't matter if it's make-belief, or if it's Truth, written large. I'm more concerned about the kinds of actions that such records would inspire, rather than the documents themselves. And I think the record clearly shows that humans can be inspired to really stupid things. They are just as likely to be inspired to carry out the most selfless acts of kindness. That's part of the tragedy of being human. |
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2008-02-24, 17:30 | Link #473 |
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Trinidad.....anyone get me out of here !
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Religion can be a good thing you know. If there wasn't any different types of religion then we wouldn't know how expressive people can be. All these new things we see people do when they are in religion, it's awesome. If possible wouldn't it be a good thing to have more religions ? I support having more of that ! GO RELIGION.
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2008-02-24, 18:31 | Link #474 | ||
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But I wonder what the need to focus on these analogies is! This idea of a "Trinity" has been one of the most vaunted, revered concepts in Christianity... when there's no need for such a concept to begin with. Oh, unless the text is misinterpreted! *grumbles* My thanks to Ledgem and Kyuusai for elaborating the differences between Judaism and Christianity. Your posts make for very interesting reading.[/quote] Thank you. I admit that I'd be talking a lot less here if I weren't so acutely aware of the idiocy demonstrated by so many people associated with my faith.
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2008-02-25, 17:11 | Link #475 |
lover of the g-pa hair
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Merlin hon
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you know what i find very interesting.... how people always put God in the context of "he" when i think the term god should never be inolved with such terms that would lessen such a great spiritual being to be a human
also, if you put god in the terms of a human, why must it be a "he"? personally i think it would be more fitting to have God be personified (if necessary) as a woman... as such thoughts of a great spiritual being giving life to all existence resembles much to a woman giving birth to a new human life... LOL now after just realizing what i just said.... why when referring to such spiritual force must christianity insist on genderizing the term and call him "god" in the first place? ... also is it just me or are woman always being degraded in the bible? most were looked down upon as sluts and prostitutes : / -mary Magdalene was introduced as a prostitute... - Mary the mother of jesus looked down upon as a slut because it appeared that she commited infidelity towards joseph... - and uhhhh since i dont go to church anymore i dont remember her name... but she was married to a soldier and commited adultery with the king or a high official because the king/high official really liked her... and later the king/high official had her husband killed and it made her look like a complete skank in most of the eyes of christians.... this tale is meant to show how adultery is wrong and such and how woman shouldnt cheat on their husbands blah, blah, blah.... but my impression was how men can be chauvenist and believe that anything is theres for the taking.... including women so anyway yeah there are many other examples i just feel like i have wasted enough of your life as it is... |
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Judaism and Christianity absolutely recognize the "feminine" aspect of God in creation, but God doesn't have gender. Such descriptions are just metaphors as we view God in terms of our own experience and understanding. Quote:
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2008-02-25, 18:40 | Link #477 | |
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i can understand why one would see God as genderless, but at the same time it's something that does not make a lot of sense to me. |
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2008-02-25, 22:30 | Link #478 |
Banned
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Trinidad.....anyone get me out of here !
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If God is the creator of all things then who created God ? How was God able to do the things he has done ? Doesn't he need food or had parents ? Did he just appear out of thin air ? And if he is the creator of all things how can he appear out of something he has created ?
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2008-02-25, 22:31 | Link #479 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Earth, the planet of stuff
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Anyways, I'm unreligious, but I tolorate most religions. |
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2008-02-25, 22:36 | Link #480 | ||
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