AndrewJRenko wrote: » As explained above, this isn't about death. It is about the particularly painful nature of deaths by cancer. Why did your God make it so?
twowheelsonly wrote: » That's basically my point !!! Practically every group does worship a God, some without ever being in contact with any other group (and more-so in ancient times) so therefore it would have to be regarded as an in-built intuition. What you're referring to is organised religion, each of whom name their own Gods, but they all still amount to worshipping a superior being, whether that be in a jungle in the Amazon, St Michaels Church in Tipperary town, or the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. For all we know it is the same God that we all worship - we just call him different things.
BurnUp78 wrote: » I wonder do aliens believe in God too?
Guy:Incognito wrote: » I only get annoyed at bull**** peddlers. Religion is nothing but excuses and bull**** to cover up for when people eventually grow up and question the first load of crap. All fire and brimstone and trying to scare people. The older ones are no better than Scientology, they've just been around longer. Al just exist to funnel money to the top. Convincing people to live in fear of bull**** ideas like hell and to buy their way to heaven. Theyre all built around controlling the subjects and how they live their lives. Dont eat this or wear that, dont enjoy yourself in an unapproved way, do this on certain days. Telling people they are wrong or evil for the way they are.
pearcider wrote: » Although to compare Christianity and Scientology is at best disingenuous and at worst symptomatic of Satan..
pearcider wrote: » The central tenet of Christianity is love your enemy. Very difficult to practice. I would say concern yourself with this and this alone.
Guy:Incognito wrote: » No it isnt, its all the same crap. L.Ron Hubbard got the idea from other religions cos its an easy way to milk cash from people. Just because your book is a couple of thousand years older than theirs doesn't make it any more true. You'd think they could even try loving people that are not their enemy. Surely thats not hard? Being all "oh we love everyone and everyone should treat each other nice" while having a list of undesirables that have done nothing more than the likes of being born gay. That **** can get to ****. It's all bull**** and people should really have grown out of it at this stage of our existence. Magic isnt real. It's kids stuff.
Zubeneschamali wrote: » Paper 1: Brain cancer aged 9 months Paper 2: Crack addiction from the womb
pearcider wrote: » Wise people listen only to Jesus and Jesus said you will know a tree by its fruit.
Guy:Incognito wrote: » Wise people know its all bull****. If you were Muslim or Hindu you'd be saying the same crap about their version. Good job the ole Catholics never locked people up and treated them badly, or even more similarities with Scientology could be drawn........
JohnnyFlash wrote: » The God hole. The gaping spiritual hole in a person’s life that would once have been filled with faith. And now they attempt to fill that hole through worshipping the gospel of consumerism. Doesn’t work though.
Minime2.5 wrote: » The Catholic church have a long tradition of specialising in filling holes
Francisco Blue Detective wrote: » Your belief in aliens simply confirms you believe also in a God. To be fair simple probability suggests there is clearly likely (god-like) alien(s) of supreme higher intelligence somewhere in the mighty universe.
Len_007 wrote: » Ok, one more, Calvin, Institutes, Book 2, chapter 1 section 4 to 5. And I say this with the deepest respect to you, because Calvin had the same Question you are posing. The Bible would say that all have inherited.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » So if all inherit sin, why do some two year old children get cancer and others live long happy lives?
auspicious wrote: » God is believed to be omniscient. This is accepted by the majority of believers as it is in the bible. This implies he knows the future. He forsees the moment of the fall of man and all that entails; pain, struggle and death and all the deplorable acts inbetween. Yet he persisted with his whim. Is he the essence of what being selfish is? He knows the future. That would suggest the future is predetermined and would that mean God has no free will? Perhaps yes he can actually change the future. Well, if that's the case he can get lost.
pearcider wrote: » Jesus said all children will inherit the kingdom of god.
pearcider wrote: » Philosophy is perhaps best known by its inability to resolve its many paradoxes. What we do know is life is full of beauty. And each day is a gift.
YFlyer wrote: » Alien and a God two different concepts.
pearcider wrote: » The counter argument would be that those children are innocent of sin and will become angels in heaven. Which is an infinitely greater reward then 100 years of perfect living on earth. In fact Jesus states this directly in the Bible. At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” — Matthew 18:1-5
pearcider wrote: » Why is anything so. Seems to me you would prefer nothing existed at all.
realitykeeper wrote: » I know there is a God and an after life. I was watching a movie some time back and it it a leftist Portuguese intellectual was saying there is no after life and if there were, the eternity of it would be absolute hell. This is presumptuous. It exhibits a limited imagination. Even in this life, eternity is all around us in the form of time and space. God, who knows ever hair on every head, is our architect and as such the eternity which awaits the righteous is tailor made.
realitykeeper wrote: » Ah but you forget, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Even today, a lot of people get killed on the pretense of wolves in sheep`s clothing but at the end of the day, God calls us when he wants us, he does not need people to kill for him. Do you think you would live forever in this life? Sooner or later, you must die.
pearcider wrote: » most education and health services have their origins in the church. Most of the great scientists and thinkers of the modern age like Isaac Newton and Carl Gauss were devout Christians.
pearcider wrote: » Everything dies. That is clear. But some believe eternal life awaits us in heaven.
pearcider wrote: » Think for yourself. The thinking person knows that the wisdom of Jesus blows everything away.
pearcider wrote: » Wise people listen only to Jesus
pearcider wrote: » What we do know is life is full of beauty. And each day is a gift.
pearcider wrote: » You sound very angry by the way.
stratowide wrote: » What happens if both teams go to mass..? Surely this is a dilemma even for god. How will it be decided..the most prayers..?favourite team maybe..? Hmmm it's a tough one for him alright.
