(April 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm)RDK Wrote: Are you sure it is God doing the killing that you read about in scriptures.
If we take them literally... yes. Much of it at any rate.
Quote:Don't you think that man may have observed things incorrectly when they wrote what they believed to be God doing all of the murders?
Yes. However, this is inconsistent with the claim that the bible is written by 'God' using people as his mouthpiece. It would mean that the bible is infact not divine (which as I view christianity is fine).
Quote:A God of love would not want to teach His kids how to kill.
So a loving father won't teach me how provide myself and others with meat?
Quote:Our life is a series of deductions that we make about what we observe all around us.
Our life is an entirely independent device from our personality. Granted that we are dead without our personality... but science doesn't understand the term as I do.
Quote:Where can we learn the best concepts from unless we observe them being demonstrated right in front of us.
'Best concepts'? We don't have to have a thing demonstrated before we can do it... else nothing new would ever happen
Quote:If we can't find anyone from which to learn those best attributes, where do you go next.
The next best.
Quote:Searching outside of yourself seems to be the next best option.
According to? I find myself to be the next best option in a good number of cases
Quote:You go to books, or teachers, maybe family,etc. But when those resources run out, what is next?
This world is not limitless to us creatures, it is perhaps possible that there is no next.
Quote:Sure you risk being fed garbage by asking, but without the asking you will never know the answer.
You assume there is only one answer... that is the first mistake.
You presume we must be correct to know... that is your second.
You suppose the risk to outweigh the reward... that is the third.
Quote:God can communicate to you, but you have to ask. It is just as simple as that!
I've never had to ask anyone before they could communicate with me. Why is this 'God' exempt?
Quote:This is not preaching. It is as much of a fact as any other observation you make in your life. Your proof is only an answer away. ASK!
This might be preaching. My observations are often enough deluded or falsely concluded. If this is so much a fact as they: I am inclined to think it too is untrue.
Proof only being an answer away is lackluster... I got tired of 'Wellfare Epix' in World of Warcraft. And proof is overrated to begin with... i am uninterested.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day