Had a wonderful day today :)

I am saying that it is impossible for a being who created us perfect to make us imperfect UNLESS that's what it intended us to be, it defies logic. To say it's true means God made a mistake and perfect beings are incapable of that. God had to know why he made us the way we did.......otherwise how can he be perfect and all knowing if we can do something it didn't expect or anticipate? It just does not make any sense whatsoever. If God didn't want us to be the way we are it would have made us different, but it didn't. Therefore we must be perfect for our purpose, because if we weren't, it'd mean God made a mistake which again is something perfection cannot do by definition.

It is not as simple to just 'decide' what you will believe. You must have a logical or experiential reason to believe something. (If someone told you that you would win the lottery if you truly believed it 100% could you will yourself to believe it 100%? Probably Not.

If the Bible tells you that you can move a mountain if you had the faith and belief, could you muster enough faith and belief to actually move a mountain? I doubt it.

I have faith in the law of cause and effect down to the quantum world. It is supported by science and by my own personal experience. That's why I have faith. Not just because of science, but because of my own logic and experience.

You have to have good reason or at least rationalizations to have faith. Most true believers in God have had some sort of personal experience that was spiritual to them and through their own logic, they attribute the miracle they witnessed or experienced to God.

I don't think reading the Bible alone, and deciding to believe in God or in the Bible will actually do the trick.




The human differs from an animal only because humans have a the capacity for a higher degree of awareness. Animals don't normally "screw everything in sight" and why would you give them such a bad rap? They basically follow their natural internal programming and instincts - unless something interferes with that.

Humans also have this internal programming and instincts. But because of a human's capacity for more awareness and self awareness, they can think above their own programming. That is where free choice becomes more apparent. They are no longer a slave to their programming.



The only people that do that are the Elite corporations and yes... they are evil and greedy. Most of the common folk are just trying to survive.



What rules are you talking about? Set by whom? The Church? What Church? The Bible? What rules? Old or new testament? Do we still stone people? Not that I know of.

The ten "commandments"?

Those were rules for and about Joshua's people. (The alleged "chosen People") Apparently they don't apply to everyone. "Thou shalt not kill" only applied to those people. Then according to the Bible story, Joshua told his army to slaughter men women and children without mercy. That was okay because they were not one of the chosen people. So thou shalt not kill only apply to the chosen people.

So, no, I don't think the ten "commandments" apply to everyone.

I feel I had an awakening of sorts, and I feel faith has
been helping me. Not everyone feels the same way, and would
like to think they'd gotten through things themselves, without
the help of God. And no evolutionary theory or whatever some
scientist comes up with, will ever shake my faith in him.

I'm just assuming you may have read the Bible, didn't
have an open mind at all, thought it was some fairytale
and passed it off as fiction. It took a lot of years with
a lot of witnesses, input from scholars and authors. I don't
see it, therefore it has to be fictitious nonsense, right?
This what you think?

I was kidding to a point about animals. I like animals,
but I have seen some dogs and cats try to screw some
inanimate things, like a ragdoll or table leg for instance.
Not saying animals don't have some form of intelligence. They just
have a different form of intelligence, whereas humans were given human intelligence.

Oh, I totally agree with you about the majority of the
greedy hoarders are the ones who own the big corps. I
know what they're all about. And I also agree with most
regular ordinary people, just wanting to survive. I think
it becomes a problem, or sin when some get that sense of
entitlement. A trip somewhere for the family? That car
or nice dress? No problem. When that sense of entitlement
becomes for some envy, self pity and jealousy because
Mr. Jones has a yacht, then I think that isn't what God
would want us to do.

,he's actually d' cookie monster

Thanks Zurielle means The lord is my rock.
and I love the name Ellie, mostly because I am an elephant freak. LOL

Congratulations Penny!...My niece just had a baby girl too...They named her Ellie Marie!

Out of curiosity, where in the Bible does it state that premarital sex is a sin?

Thank You
She is having a little girl. They are naming her Zurielle. I'm calling her Ellie

I don't study the bible anymore because I am satisfied with my conclusion(s)...It's an amazing piece of literature that will influence, entertain, and baffle man until the end of time...What I do agree with is limited to these few "historicities"....Jesus did indeed exist, but in what capacity is not and never will be provable...I agree he was a Galilean Jew who died between 30 to 36 AD, he lived in Galilee and Judea, he spoke Aramaic, and he was crucified by order of Pontius Pilate....The rest of it is based on folklore and theological "views"...I use the bible as I would any other good reference book...In fact, using it that way and rubbing elbows with "christians" is what finally convinced me that Jesus was just a great con man and like so many other great con men, it ended up costing him his life...Spirituality is not developed through religious beliefs, it is developed by living responsibly....