Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm
Yeah nothing personal like restricting others freedom based on your religion right?
WOW!! I never knew I had the power to restrict someone else's freedom based on
my personal religion! Hu-raah! What shall I do first?
Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm
I have a question, why did God do what he did to Job? He did it because another bad angel questioned Job's loyalty to God. God just to prove to this bad angel, tormented Job. Job still believed and worshipped him blindly. He questioned why he let such things happen and God gave no answer. YOu think Job would still have followed God blindly if God told him the truth that he tormented just to settle a bet with another angel?
Read the story again Matt -- you are missing the meaning; most especially that there was
never a "bet" between God and Satan (whom you refer to as "another angel" which at this point of history is incorrect). Job questioned God to ask "Why?" - as we are each able to do (that pesky freewill thing again). However, his friends and family urged him to deny God which he
never did. Job's faith remained steadfast, much like mine is during this continued barrage of nonsensical musings all while avoiding the question of what
you are willing to risk to find out if I am right.
Originally posted by hyyyper
Tcon, you say that if you live your life in your faith and you die and your god exists, you'll end up in whatever heaven. If no such things as gods exist, you have lost nothing. I completely agree with that. But what if the almight person is somebody from the muslim belief and totally hates christians. You'd be pretty screwed then, ey?
I'll take my chances continuing to believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Originally posted by hyyyper
As for the book statistic, what does that prove?
Well, since people love science and real numbers and stuff you can see -- there is a great stat to chew on. Seems like lots of people want to read that, what word was used earlier, "nonsense"?
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.