Posted on 09/22/2009 9:33:22 PM PDT by TBP
Thanks to Michelle Malkin for posting it on Facebook. Unfortunately, the atheist militants are hijacking the poll. Please go and vote.
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As far back as I can remember I have always believed. Yes, my parents made me go to church and I was receptive when others talked about GOD, but it wasn’t until I was an adult that the opportunity came for me to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior.
When and if you make that decision you’ll think it was too easy. Right now you don’t see a need for someone to take your place because your offense doesn’t seem so great.
I thank you, because if you’re right I’ll need it. And if you’re wrong, all you’ve done is waste time. In either event, I appreciate the thought.
Just a bit different than eating the worm at the end of the tequila bottle, huh?
Unlike you, I’ve witness that “hard evidence” you say is required. I’ve seen what could only be described as miracles, and they have happened within my family. The only possible explaination is God. You’re now free to believe any foolhardy thing you like.
That’s reasonable. If Jesus or the ghost of Tom Landry helps you get through life, more power to you. It doesn’t hurt me at all. I grew up Apolstolic, but when I did a few years worth of research into ancient mythology it sortof poked alot of holes in the Old Testement. When you started seeing the same stories, almost ver batim except with gods in plural instead of a monotheistic being (yet from thousands of years before the Torah/OT) you can’t help but think of it as the literary equivalent of whispering someone a secret and seeing how much it changes by the time it gets back around to you.
God brought you to this forum, this thread, for a reason.
Just don’t ignore that still small voice you might start hearing because I have the feeling that a LOT of us are going to start praying for you!
...and, I’m sorry for what sounds like maybe not such a great childhood. I truly am.
I was taken to church Every Sunday Possible .... It was a part of our (my siblings and myself) lives..and yet, we don’t seem to have those memories you do. IF IF IF I read your post right..
If you’ve seen it, and believe it is “God,” great. I never have. A big problem I’ve had with praising a God is if glory goes to God for the good things in life, why doesn’t God get the blame for wars, disease, cancer, liberals, famine, ect? I guess that’s why the Egyptians invented Apep.
Atheism is all fun and games till you’re lying on your deathbed crying out for Gaia.
We need some Kitties over here.
Zot.
“I have no idea if Jesus was the son of God or just a really brilliant philosopher.”
I think it was C.S. Lewis was the one who boiled the issue down to this: Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Savior of the World.
I don’t think he could just be a “really brilliant philosopher” because he claimed repeatedly to be the Savior, the Messiah, the only way to heaven, etc.
So I don’t know if you have read the record of His life and all He said that was recorded, but if you have not, you should, and then see which camp you are in - was He a liar, a lunatic, or the Savior He claimed to be?
Actually I had a great childhood in the typical American setting. Nuclear family with a younger sister, white picket (okay, chain link) fence and dogs. My grandmother is the stereotypical holy roller, but to this day she enjoys debating religion. I can say she’s one of the few hardcore Christians or atheists that don’t go insane if you question their belief system. I just never bought into the mythology. There was one pastor, RIP, that I learned alot from. He didn’t just focus on the “Jesus is magic” stuff but tried to relate Jesus’ teachings as a philosophy to live by. That’s something I rarely hear from Christians of any denomination.
If I were only on my home forum, I would rip you to pieces, but we have to be the big tent here in FR, don’t we?
Alas, I’m not in a place where unsaved are unwelcome, anymore.
Look RAO1125 pray that you will be saved.
Of those choices, I’d go with liar but not to deceive but to enforce his points. History is chalk full of cults of personality. He spoke in parables, so perhaps he didn’t literally mean he was somehow the cosmic son of God. Again, that’s why I’m a fundamental undecided. It’s incredible tough to know what was lost in translation, changed, or just plain made up in the 2,000 years since he walked the Earth. So who knows just how accurate these quotations are. Even if he was certifiable, he made some brilliant philosophical observations which is far more important IMO than whether he had supernatural abilities.
FREE WILL - the only answer needed.
“Of those choices, I’d go with liar”
I appreciate your honesty, but I’d hate to be in your shoes come the judgement day.
Honestly, I’d hate to be in your shoes even now. Walking with Jesus in my day to day life is such an indescribable blessing. I hate to hear Him accused of lying, but I asked your opinion and you gave it.
That is what is known as salad bar Christianity. You don’t get to pick and choose what you follow.
You’re the type that believes when we say we want The Ten Commandments put up in classrooms and courtrooms, that you really only want Commandants 5-10. The parts about having no gods before me, worshiping false idols and keeping the Sabbath don’t apply in a “modern” society.
You like to pick and choose. It’s fine by me, but the end result will be the same as if you were an atheist or a muzzie.
My 2¢ And I will pray for you extra hard tonight.
Bingo. I saw a t-shirt once in New Jersey of all places that said “Jesus was the first Libertarian” and on the back had a verse which I forget that speaks of free will.
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