since no one is going to convince anyone else here, can we avoid biting each others' heads off? i didn't mean my comment in spite, andrea. i just wanted to contribute my own thoughts on the subject of God. and really, did you think i wouldn't?
blind faith in what somone tells you that it is the word of god, why is that any better then blind faith in some bible somone like ralph wrote? the idea confuses me, cant be because the bible is old, because there are older books.
okay, i'll allow the phrase "blind faith" because
everyone has blind faith. even you, andrea. as the saying goes, ya gotta believe in somethin'. everyone has a belief they cannot fully justify and prove. and i don't believe the Bible is the word of God because "someone tells me," i believe it because
it tells me.
the difference between christianity and all the other religions of the world is that christianity alone does not focus on what you have to do. in christianity, God has already accomplished salvation for mankind. and given my views on mankind, it's the one that fits the most.
It can't be because a person beileves in the entire bible because the first half controdicts the second half.
no, it doesn't. if anything, the
second half would contradict the first half simply because the first half came
first. ;) but technicalities aside, how do they contradict one another? the first half prophesies Jesus' coming, the second records it and what happened after - the start of spreading God's word to the world.
A person can be strong enough and still hold moralistic ideas based on what they beileve in without ahving bibles and churches to tell them otherwise and still be "good" all oraginzed relegion seems to do is have people claim to follow a certain set of beilfs that they don't actually follow.
boy, you sound bitter.
there is a term in christian theology:
legalism. this means focusing more on what the law tells us to do rather than on the gospel, which assures us (christians) of salvation. most denominations today focus alot on legalism, more than they should. i think perhaps, from the way you sound, that you've had some bad experiences with churches.
where do you get your idea of what "good" or "bad" is? do you think that everyone that belongs to a church has to be perfect? do you think they're all hypocrites?
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