(June 12, 2014 at 1:22 am)Eye of God Wrote: For Faith?!?!??????
That makes no sense. You just can't seem to get your small minds around the fact that if there was all this evidence you wouldn't need faith. That's the whole point- one must have faith.
The whole idea of believing in something comes from the understanding that there are some things that cannot always be explained. You cannot tell the all powerful creator of the universe that you'll give him your faith if he can first produce evidence. The first negates the need for the latter.
So stop trying to reason you way out of hell and just accept Jesus as your Savior and your God.
Why let your silly pride and your ridiculous ideas keep you in utter torment for all eternity?!
Your lives are meaningless without Christ.
Say this prayer and BE SAVED for all time!!!
"Lord Jesus Christ, I accept you into my heart. Take away my sin and take control of my life. From this day forward I will live to serve you."
Let Jesus come inside you and make you into the beautiful being you were meant to be.
The Holy Spirit will live inside you and guide you your whole life. How fantastic is that?!!?
AMENGet INSPIRED and accept the hand of Christ. It's waiting for you!
Evidence shmevidence. Ask him into your heart and find out how incredible it is to have the one and only living God as your life long best friend.
Sorry - but YOUR explanation fails to be convincing considering the facts.
Look at the facts of religions on earth
There have been well over 100,000 named gods - and many more different religions - including over 40,000 different version of xtianity.
Given all the possibilities - weigh ALL of the claims of all of the religions equally - because that is what making a decision it about.
There are LOTS of those gods who can be proven to have existed - we have their actual remains - writings - and many other things to prove it. Among them - a long succession of Pharaohs of Egypt - whose DNA sequence proves that there was NO great flood - and no Tower of Babel. WE can prove direct family lineage for over a thousand years. And the language did not change either.
The story of moses leading the israelites our of bondage to egypt is among the stories that are not supported in history. If there were a flood - there would not have been the numbers of people in the world that are claimed at that time first. Second - we have records from egypt that show who was in bondage to them - and it does not include Israelis. And there is NO evidence of a million people wandering the Israeli Desert as well. The earliest known mention of the nation of Israel - is 1207 BCE.
The flood is also disputed by the Great Pyramid - which would have been pulverized by a column of water 50,000 feet high - but shows no water damage at all.
There is NO direct proof that the christ ever lived - there is no mention of him in the historic record of that time - none at all.
WE already KNOW that most of the stories of genesis - including Eden - the great Flood - the Battle of Jericho - and many others - are NOT TRUE.
In the bible - it is said that during his wandering in the desert - the devil took the christ up to a high mountain from which he showed him ALL the kingdoms of the earth - that is IMPOSSIBLE - the earth is a sphere and the most you can see because of the curvature of the earth is about 200 miles - from a height of 50,000 feet. So - there is no mountain from which you could see ALL the kingdoms mentioned in the bible - much less all on earth.
AN intelligent person can easily dismiss the bible as the superstitious beliefs of ancient goat herders and fishermen - but to claim it is true - is Stupidity.
IF a god is all knowing - why would he allow the Holocaust? Explain how the carnage of INFANTS and your children before the age of reason - fit into what YOU expect me to believe - IF the god is ALL knowing and Almighty - it should have prevented this murder
ANd that is the basic problem - it a god "could be" almighty and all knowing - then the god had NO natural enemies that he cannot instantly vanquish - so to claim the "devil" is doing this - only happen if the god ALLOWS it.
So - with ALL of the religious choices - why would you have faith in one that has OBVIOUS flaws. Why have faith in one that the Believers - LIKE you - cannot come up with PROVEN reason why their belief is true?
Why do you even give MONEY to your religion when your supposed god said - give to caesar what is Caesars - and give to God what is Gods?
Then READ 1=Timothy 2 -In the New Testament - where is says that the god will not allow a woman to hold any authority over a man - a woman - because of the sin of EVE - must be silent - and submissive to men - and bear children to be "saved"
Do you believe that?
I don't. So - using logic and reality - and truth - I can eliminate YOUR religion from consideration.