(May 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm)Darwinian Wrote:(May 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm)Whistle Blower Wrote: If sin(s) do not exist how do you account for murder, rape etc. You are right in connecting sin with religion, and Christianity in particular. The bible tells us that sin/rebellion seperates us from God. It started in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and has continued ever since.
Although sin/rebellion seperates us from God, He has offered us a solution through Jesus Christ His Son the only Saviour, for all who trust in Him and all that He achieved on the Cross of Calvary.
God's offer of reconcilliation and the consequences for refusing this is clearly spelt out in the following passage from The Bible;
Jn 3: 16 - 18 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son."
I am happy to discuss this further, providing it doesn't become a bun fight.
Every now and then I find it so hard to suspend my disbelief that I have to ask, do you actually believe everything that you have just written? I mean really believe that it is a 100% accurate statement of historical reality and literally happened?
It is not my intention to ridicule, although that is probably how this seems but sometimes, even now after all this time, I still find it bewildering that otherwise intelligent and rational minds can succombe to such obvious fiction and when reality disagrees with this fiction it is reality that is to be questioned.
For example, you actually believe that the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis is a literal truth? Despite there not only being zero evidence for and bewildering amounts of superb evidence against but also no way that anyone could have ever recorded these events in the first place.
Anyway, I've managed to suspend my disbelief again so welcome along and enjoy your stay
Yes I do believe 100%, and I base that belief on experience. Having become a Christian at the age of 37 (14 years ago), my life has been completely transformed for the better and I could never go back to my prior life.
