RE: Maybe I never was a Christian?
September 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 22, 2012 at 1:19 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: I was trying to forth a more Biblical view of what heaven will be like....I wasn't trying to make it sound "less silly."If only the bible were an authority...on anything...lol.
Quote:I was apologizing for the way that I've treated atheists/agnostics. I have been cruel to them in the past.
This assertion I made was one that atheists themselves have stated.
Richard Dawkins says, “there is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference. . . . We are machines for propagating DNA. . . . It is every living object’s sole reason for being”?
Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden: a Darwinian View of Life (New York: Basic Books, 1996), p. 133 and Richard Dawkins, “The Ultraviolet Garden,” Lecture 4 of 7 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1992)
And? Is that the "atheist worldview". You're comfortable quote mining for something you feel is objectionable (from one individual) and then ascribing to that the moniker "your worldview"( to another individual or group of individuals)? Good for you.
Quote:My life was a continual chasing of fulfillment through cheap thrills, alcohol, drugs, sex....but each "high" was followed by an increasingly deeper "low."
It seemed meaningless....what was the point?
Sounds like your life blew, ah well, mine doesn't. I have more purpose and meaning than I'm capable of fulfilling currently.
Quote:What changed? I had an encounter with the living God and Jesus became glorious in my eyes. Reading the Bible before seemed about as fun as reading through a dictionary....now I LOVE it!Excellent, so there's that bare assertion that you feel is good enough to suddenly fill your meaningless, pointless life with meaning and purpose. I go with waffles -voila- my life is full of both purpose and meaning.
In short, once I met Jesus my desires changed.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
