ok i know there have been posts before about free will and predestination but there are so many replies its hard to find the reply to your question so heres my own...
when something bad happens to someone that was a good person alot of times you hear someone say it was gods will.... w hen...
i agree and seems how there is only a book and people putting faith blindly into that books or books for multiple religions.... but i guess thats what religion truely is... believing without evidence but for me i cant accept someone elses word without proof that it is true and religion is only...
i believe i shall correct you dawny
this nation was founded by men and women of the christian faith. .. they incountered native people here and everything was nicey nice lovey dovey until we found a bright shiney metal called gold..... then we kicked them off thier land forced them to conform...
mister simplisitic here again gang.... one phrase sums this thread up... seperation of church and state..... but hey if you want religious doctrine to be made law we can always go back to calling our leader your majesty and wondering whether or not he heard me say that outfit makes his butt...
great googly moogly! get out of my head zombie!:slap:
i keep tryin to use analogies to get my view on predestination out there but no one seems to understand a train on a track cant move off the track... unless it wrecks which would be bad... unless the train was full of nuns and somehow...
ok the way i "feel" about religion is simple.... might have something to do with the fact that im a simple guy.... and before you start thinking i need to go soon to see wapner yeah yeah wapner...hehe i mean i cut to the chase.. . dont beat around the bush... and numerous other varied cliches...
How about the Other ancient gods that are assumed today to be mythology that were thought to be real living breathing entities in the days they were worshipped? All of them today are said not to have ever truly existed... why is Christ any exception other than things written down about him? What...
ok first off im not gonna read through 15 pages of text just to make sure i dont repeat someone elses reply... call me impatient. second im new here being why im not gonna do that.
now for the real question here... IF there is a heaven and a hell and people that dont believe but live good lives...