ok just curious... i have my own opinion about this but am interested in what your thoughts are about how we went from believing in many gods to there is only one true god.... now that doesnt mean quote scripture at me that says it is so.... i mean what other factors might have led to the change...
i have no idea if you are serious or just kidding with that post book... but if thats serious then wow what does that say about how other religions might have come to be:eek:
the only thing i know about scientology is they are really excited and cant talk in the birthing room.... other than that i have no clue what they believe in but would love to be educated more on the subject
there is no question that religion has been the inspiration for many beautiful works of art, buildings, songs etc as a non believer one can see how you would feel like part of a whole and that whole is something spectacular just by how it affects those who do believe and yes it has played a...
there is no facination with death and torture here but when you hear about vlad the impaler and crucifiction and you can see how impalement would be bad but what was so bad about crucifition? so you look it up and find out you slowly suffocate by the weight of your own body .... wow thats...
just curious.... have you ever been dead?... if not you dont know what comes after... you believe what comes after.... and again... how do you know G-d exists... you believe he does... knowing and believing are two totally different critters altogether.
and no i dont think everyone who...
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What did i say specifically that was illogical instead of lumping it all together.... and the second definition was of religion... i never said they always MUST be supernatural... although that is the most widely used definition of the word religion... you asked what made them...
im not trying to shake anything im stating my opinion that with the knowledge of the ways men have executed other men that his suffering wasnt as bad as it could have been.... normal crucifiction took days to kill someone and like i said that wasnt even the worse way to go just the popular one...
ok unless im wrong.... this is a debate board right? i mean stop me if im wrong and views on predestination were asked for by the thread starter but because i dont believe my opinion doesnt matter or is destructive? im here to debate and to debate you must have opposing views otherwise its a...
fair enough dawny.... and just in case your ever interested in checking into the many ways that man has gotten rid of those who proved bothersome try reading "The Book of Execution" subtitled an encyclopedia of methods of judicial execution by geoffrey abbott...... crucifiction wasnt the worse...
ok so if he took on the worlds suffering does that mean for 6 hours the world didnt suffer? no its a metaphor jesus is the figure head of a religious movement every religion has got to have something to grab new members... with some its multipule wives (cant think of many good points about that...
truth is in the eye of the beerholder.... no no wait thats beauty.... truth is objective ... what is truth to you is speculation to me i never said i dont care about your opinion just that i dont believe the same thing you do... to me its a story not the truth i was debating the suffering end...
sorry but i wasnt impressed by alot of the stories ive read claming to be religious texts.... and i figure why be so obsessed with the creation of reality if you refuse to live in it im impressed by the size of the universe and the possibilities within it but that doesnt mean i have to accept...
thats all fine and good soy.... but for that to be truth i would have to believe he was the son of god and i dont:banghead3 *wonders why no one has grasped that point yet*
ok so you popped up a link to some organizations website... once again im not duly impressed... there were no sources that i can tell came from any biblical documents so i guess that was someones version of the childhood of christ? and i never said he was the son of god i said he wasnt...... and...
ok i can live with that.... im happy being human its who and what i am i dont need to think that i will achieve god like status to make my life worth something.... heres the secret of life.... live it and stop worring about what comes after because in that case happiness will only be reached by...