Quote by marfish14"What" doesnt truly describe anything as well, so
its just as "good" "bad" or"sin". If you could ask what is a "cat", we could
trace this all the way untill we get to the big bang. If you tried to trace any words like good or bad, you would
eventually either not know or revert to "because god said so" and no one knows why he did any of that stuff.
Why did god make the universe? Why did he create man? No one could tell me any of this, not that I believe that a god
did any of this as an atheist. The meanings of the words seem to be hollow if you cannot decribe what they are and
why.
Let me guess,since you cant see what God is thinking of,you doubt his existence and his Words.Do
you really think your being just in the way you judge things?
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Quote by Nephilim07WOW
... i know what you mean.. i have a buddhist belief.. and background... its not really a religion yet it is... ( well
more like a way of life.... )
ANYWAYS.....
these people keep bugging us and coming to our house and trying to convert us @___@ omfg.... my parents are nice and
don't want to tell them off..... but that just makes them come even more.. my brother was about to snap at them
lol..... i want to too =/... idea is.. i have nothing against religions hell i wanna learn about them since its
interesting... learning about all religions and how they work... but don't force convert someone.... =/ let them
stay to their beliefs thank you
well you should tell them how you feel in a calm manor,and they will
understand.If you want to learn,then i hope you learn well.
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Quote by PleaseRecycle
Quote by kingray100Seco(...) likely there arent many religious scientists
since their religion is more important to them.Im guessing that if a person truly believes their religion is
important,most likely they are going to either become a religious teacher or prefer to do something that doesnt try to
disprove their religion.
Science in general isn't out to disprove religion (not just Christianity but all of them). It just so happens that
religions tend to be undermined by scientific findings. It's coincidence. When Galileo said that the earth revolved
around the sun against what the Church said he probably wasn't trying to disprove God. It just so happened that his
evidence undermined the authority of the church and so he was excommunicated for it (and tortured as I recall until he
recanted).
What I was trying to say is that those who are religious especially those who are fundamentalist or biblical literalists
tend to not know as much science as those that aren't. The US has a lot of them. These are the same kinds of people
who vote on things like stem cell research and other scientific matters. Maybe that is a bad example but you get my
basic idea right?
Conversion to a less strict form of religion would not be a bad idea in their case. Similarly it may or may not be a bad
idea to convert all the way. We could argue all day about the potential benefits and costs but let's not because
the same things that have already been said countless times before will be said anyway.
Quote by priincesswut's
good wut's bad, evrything r in the bible. read it, dont asking or complaining before u read.
killing people no matter wut the reason is a big sin!
Well I've read it before (King James) and though I'm no authority on the bible it contains some rather odd
stuff. Let me summarize a post I made in your other thread.
Exodus 31:14-15
Kill anyone who works on the Sabbath.
Here's one that is a little more relevant to this discussion.
Deuteronomy 13:6-10
Kill anyone (by stoning) who tries to convert you to other religions. This includes family members and friends.
So priincess... I have worked on Sunday before. Would you like to know more about Odin and Thor? Or perhaps you want to
know more about Ra and Osiris? Let me tell you something about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I have done both things that the Bible says I should be killed for. If everything is indeed in the Bible about what is
good and bad then "thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die."
You going to stone me or what?
I could have sworn mishmash pointed this out already.In those verses you mentioned,God is telling
the cost of discipleship to his disciples,not us.He just wanted his disciples to be very loyal.
