I've always been grown up in a Christian family but as intelligence would have it, I've started to have a lot of questions about what God is.
I have so many memories of people from churches, even my own Mother saying "God told me..." or "God said..." etc.
As much as I have been around all these Godly people I can never, in the entirety of my life, honestly admit I have ever, even once, heard God speak to me. Not even so much as a murmur, or even an undeniable hunch. I pretty much feel my thoughts have always come from my own head and not something else. So what the heck are all these other people hearing?
Also, if God is unchanging then why does the Bible represent him so much differently than he seems to be today? Why are there no burning bushes? Propecies? Are all these people lying?
As I have grown up I've learned about Science and I am appalled at how quickly people dismiss the bang theory. The bang theory is in no way a theory that denies the existence of God. The only thing the theory provides an explanation for is the fact that our universe is expanding and that all known galaxies are moving o-u-t-w-a-r-d-s (why was this word censored?) therefore this must mean that we started at some central location and the only reason would be moving is because of an explosion. I've noticed that christians never say "God told me the <insert some scientific theory here> is false" they just say it is
It's almost as if religious people deny science out of fear that it might make them wrong.
How can people be so ignorant to these things...why must I sit in church on Sunday when I am half-asleep and listen to a mediocre band play some boring music all saying the same thing and then some boring guy talk about some boring subject he picked out of the bible for an hour or two.
If God gave me this powerful brain I am sure he intended for me to do more with it than be bored.
American religious people tend to be ignorant to other countries as well. Such as Asia being mostly agnostic.
It is a big step for me to say it and for some reason makes me feel somewhat guilty but if some child is raised to be some religion (atheist, agnostic, morman, christian, whatever) are you actually trying to tell me that God is sending them to hell for not being fortunate enough to be raised to believe the right religion? No way can I believe that...
All that said I believe in God but only cause I choose to. It's hard for me to accept that God talks to some and not to others but who am I to say they are wrong. I also believe cause, I want to believe there is something after death. Preferably not getting tortured cause I was wrong about a few beliefs and cause some dispute between God and one of his ex-friends. I'd much rather go to heaven than just have...nothing...and besides, I'd like to believe matter and atoms, and the universe was made by something, and hopefully it's cool enough that nobody actually knows what it is.
How about you?
I have so many memories of people from churches, even my own Mother saying "God told me..." or "God said..." etc.
As much as I have been around all these Godly people I can never, in the entirety of my life, honestly admit I have ever, even once, heard God speak to me. Not even so much as a murmur, or even an undeniable hunch. I pretty much feel my thoughts have always come from my own head and not something else. So what the heck are all these other people hearing?
Also, if God is unchanging then why does the Bible represent him so much differently than he seems to be today? Why are there no burning bushes? Propecies? Are all these people lying?
As I have grown up I've learned about Science and I am appalled at how quickly people dismiss the bang theory. The bang theory is in no way a theory that denies the existence of God. The only thing the theory provides an explanation for is the fact that our universe is expanding and that all known galaxies are moving o-u-t-w-a-r-d-s (why was this word censored?) therefore this must mean that we started at some central location and the only reason would be moving is because of an explosion. I've noticed that christians never say "God told me the <insert some scientific theory here> is false" they just say it is
It's almost as if religious people deny science out of fear that it might make them wrong.
How can people be so ignorant to these things...why must I sit in church on Sunday when I am half-asleep and listen to a mediocre band play some boring music all saying the same thing and then some boring guy talk about some boring subject he picked out of the bible for an hour or two.
If God gave me this powerful brain I am sure he intended for me to do more with it than be bored.
American religious people tend to be ignorant to other countries as well. Such as Asia being mostly agnostic.
It is a big step for me to say it and for some reason makes me feel somewhat guilty but if some child is raised to be some religion (atheist, agnostic, morman, christian, whatever) are you actually trying to tell me that God is sending them to hell for not being fortunate enough to be raised to believe the right religion? No way can I believe that...
All that said I believe in God but only cause I choose to. It's hard for me to accept that God talks to some and not to others but who am I to say they are wrong. I also believe cause, I want to believe there is something after death. Preferably not getting tortured cause I was wrong about a few beliefs and cause some dispute between God and one of his ex-friends. I'd much rather go to heaven than just have...nothing...and besides, I'd like to believe matter and atoms, and the universe was made by something, and hopefully it's cool enough that nobody actually knows what it is.
How about you?