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I often fluxuate on this. Usually in times of peace and solidarity in my life I try to reason with myself on this. However, in times like now, when I feel my knees buckle under the weight on my shoulder, I pray to whoevers there to help me. Maybe that makes me a hypocrit, but when i need help, if i’m in trouble or desperate for advice or guidance, I’ll turn to whoever I can, whether its an all knowing all powerful person I don’t know is there, or a group of 300 strangers on the internet with only experience to guide them.

You “don’t have time” to believe in anything else.

Wow, you must be really busy.

you don’t seem confused.

Reverend Twitch wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You “don’t have time” to believe in anything else.Wow, you must be really busy.

was that sarcastic?? :|

Sorry! It’s just a pet peeve of mine when people say they are too busy for something…

Study. The more you learn about the global history of faith the easier it will be to find your place. Your ideas on Christianity are a good start but there is more than meets the eye. Take the time to learn more and decide for yourself.

Look at it this way. Do you honestly believe, that if there is a god who put us on this earth, which he created along side the rest of the universe, the he would want us to devote our entire lives back to him? What would be the point? If he does exist, I doubt he would want that. He gave us lives and unique abilities. Not to be wasted sitting in a building built as his house and praying to him. He would want us to live a life of happiness. Do you really believe a ‘perfect being’ would judge us on whether we believed in something that was not proven? Think about it.

I’m not religious either. I celebrate Christmas and Easter with my family because they are Catholic but I myself do not believe. I don’t connect spiritually with any religion even though I went to church and mass as a child. If you were meant to believe it will come to you, you can’t find it, I learned that the hard way.

Well, you cannot use human standards or intellect to define God. That’s the first mistake people make. You cannot use human logic to determine God’s will. And, no, Anon, there’s not going to be a “theological pop quiz” before you can get into heaven! It IS important to acknowledge God and worship Him, because we will otherwise end up worshipping someone or something else.

A woman with your beauty must also have a moral compass. God loves you even if you don’t think so. Put others first, it has always helped me.

chev.jame wrote:
Well, you cannot use human standards or intellect to define God. That’s the first mistake people make. You cannot use human logic to determine God’s will. And, no, Anon, there’s not going to be a “theological pop quiz” before you can get into heaven! It IS important to acknowledge God and worship Him, because we will otherwise end up worshipping someone or something else.

If he is beyond humanity’s perception, then whats the point of making any theories about who or what is god? Might just be a big purple Hippo eating planets cause hes hungry.

Reverend Twitch, it sounds to me that you want to firmly believe in something, but don’t know what it is. I would suggest that you pick up a book called Mere Christianity. It was written by C.S. Lewis; the same guy who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. It is short so it is a fast read; only about 150 pages I think. I will be praying for you.

Fortunately, we had the very Son of God visit us in human form and tell us what was expected of us. Unfortunately, some churches have chosen to “add to” Jesus’ teachings, so that He wouldn’t recognize them as his own today.

we eventually achieve the same spiritual level as Jesus,Mohamid,Budda,Krishna,
etc.It is the goal of life so to speak.

Hey I think your right about a couple of things like the fact that mankind have just twisted the bible to keep people from doing bad things so they are to afraid to go to hell. I don’t think that was God’s original purpose matter of fact the bible doesn’t speak of a firey tormenty place. And as far as when you spoke to that preacher and he said “ok God doesn’t exist” it sounds like he needs a new profession.