(December 27, 2013 at 11:41 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Once you've determined what god's said you're supposed to snap to it.For the Christian religion, the point is not to question god, it's to verify that a particular interpretation of scripture fits with his plans (or will, or desire, etc). If you believe in the Christian god then you believe that he's right and you are better off doing what he says. The trick is to figure out just what it is that he said, and whether he really really meant it, which is where the 30,000+ denominations come in.
I think that most variants of Christianity take the position that you should verify for yourself that an interpretation is the right one, and that if you do so with a true heart and guidance from god's spirit, you'll recognize that theirs is the right one. You do recognize that theirs is the right one, don't you? Wouldn't want anything to happen to that pretty little soul of yours. *cracks knuckles*
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
