RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 21, 2017 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2017 at 9:14 am by Brian37.)
(April 21, 2017 at 8:53 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 21, 2017 at 12:35 am)Grandizer Wrote: Forget perfect.
Our God grieves and suffers with us in our darkest hours. As far as I'm concerned any God that is powerful enough to raise the dead is sufficiently capable of releasing me from my personal shame and despair. That is why I trust Him with my life. I love Him because He loved me first.
No such thing as a man with magical super powers, just like the Vegas stage magician isn't really sawing the woman in half. Sorry, nobody comes back from death, nobody ever has. Once your body's cells die in enough mass and decay and are beyond repair YOU DIE and that's it.
Humans grieve sure, but not fictional beings. What personal shame and despair? If you did some stuff in your past you are not proud of so what, if you stopped doing that, good for you. But there isn't a sky hero vs a guy in a red leotard using your neurons as poker chips getting you to do good or bad.
I have been through some shit in my life too, I haven't always made good decisions either, I have hurt people myself, and still have baggage I am dealing with even today. The only difference is I know that what I have done, good or bad is me, not the product of a comic book of mythology.
I am telling you it is possible to be good and do good without mythology. If you've hurt people in the past and you no longer want to do those destructive things GREAT, but there is nobody helping you or a ground villain tempting you to do bad things.
No, you love a fictional "him" because you fell for it, not because you have evidence for it. And funny how most of the worlds history in both monotheism and polytheism most of the deity claims are male. So your god has an invisible penis and invisible sperm, because that is what "he" refers to. Well ok, so that also means Allah and Yahweh have dicks too.
But do does Thor and Apollo and Osiris, they too are depicted as male.
Look, if you have stopped doing destructive things good for you, but you don't need to believe in fictional things and old myths of antiquity to do good or be good.
I don't love the idea even the Buddhist notion that suffering is part of life. Yes suffering is part of life, but not because religion is the cure for it, but because good and bad happen, just like volcanos and tornados happen, human's behaviors good or bad don't require religion to explain.
