RE: urge to pray - advice/help
February 8, 2012 at 5:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2012 at 5:59 am by brotherlylove.)
(February 7, 2012 at 1:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: BLove-"I'll call that pagan's god bet and raise him a set of demons".
It's absurd that someone would actually resort to propping up the silly or supernatural with yet more silly or supernatural. How high do you have to pile the bullshit before it makes "sense"? Fucking demons...what a joke. Inserting tricksters into your mythos does not explain anything whatsoever, it only makes the water muddier. Now any reason you have to believe in your god is more than likely demonic trickery, any evidence you feel supports your god..fabricated by demons..etc etc etc.....
It perfectly explains all of the false religions, and supernatural claims.
As far as demonic trickery goes, the deception can only go so far:
If a good God exists, Satan is limited
a good God exists
therefore Satan is limited
(February 7, 2012 at 1:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Good thing there is no such thing as a supernatural and incomprehensibly powerful cosmic trickster. Just a human desire to believe in such things as to avoid critical thinking (which, I'm told..is difficult).
If Satan does exist you would be unaware of it. You could only be completely unable to discern the difference.
(February 7, 2012 at 8:40 pm)passionatefool Wrote: I wasn't an ex-christian. I was an ex-buddhist. While I appreciate your help, I really do not think religion is the answer.
I agree with you that religion isn't the answer. Jesus hated religion too. The difference I am speaking of is that to be a Christian is to have a personal relationship with God.
I'm confused, I thought in your OP you said you prayed to God. Aren't buddhists inherently atheistic?
(February 7, 2012 at 8:40 pm)passionatefool Wrote: about the vision.
What did Jesus looks like? Long-haired long-beared man that looks caucasian? The typical image? You see, most of these people who claimed to see their deity(ies) saw the "typical" image of their worship. Once again, it is just how our brain sorts out information and connecting it to what it could relate to. Christians see Muhamad and Buddhist see Jesus and Christian see Buddha. Who knows!
What you can't explain is people who have never seen that image or knowing much about Christianity having that vision. I hear reports of people living in tribal areas becoming Christian on the basis of these kinds of visions.
Psalm 19:1-2
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
