whats everyones beliefs?

I'm a city boy, partially raised in the country. I've partied in barns in Canada, the U.S., France and the Netherlands where I lived on a farm.

Are you sure you can out-drink my city ass ??

BTW, I was also raised on beer that actually has alcohol in it, not like that stuff you drink in the U.S. LOL !!!

Not saying this to argue in anyway, so please don't take it that way. I just have a sincere question:

Why would one think that, IF Jesus is God, that He doesn't love people? I mean, here we are talking about the ONLY God that took the form of a human to experience what we experience first hand and to give us a living breathing example of how we should live. He accepted every single person that came to Him, He condemned none, and instead tried to teach the correct way to go about life.

If there is A God, (not neccessarily Christ), then why would he just accept everyone and anyone no matter if they (for lack of a better term), pledged their lives to him, or if they never tried to live according to how he would want them to? What kind of God would this be? It's like your parents never, from day one, helping you to live in a way that doesn't bring you pain. It's like them sitting back and letting you stick a fork in the outlet, or playing in the busy street lol. Does that sound like a loving god?

Christ knows we make mistakes, yet He offers us forgiveness for those mistakes and simply tells us "now go and sin no more" knowing we will, and we will once again come back to Him asking for forgiveness again. And He'll once again give it. All He really asks is that we TRUELY love Him.


Before anyone says "What about those who never heard of Jesus?" I don't know, I don't have a complete answer. God reveals Himself to those He wants to reveal Himself to period.

like i said too many good hearted, honest, loving, trustworthy, "god loving" people (muslimsa nd buddists to name a few) people go to hell ...ACCORDING TO YOUR RELIGION... im not saying that chrisians are wrong, i just think that most religons worship the same god...

I understand bro. Though there is only one God, not many, and no not just different names. Look at the religions themselves and you'll see just how different they are and how they really contradict one another. With such contradictions between them, they can't be discriptions of the same God.

the big bang theory is poop. if you believe in that tell me where the gases come from to explode. someone had to create them sometime. oh and anyone can read different parts of the bible and make them contradict, but if you read it like a book it makes sence and explains everything clearly. My youth pastor took a class to learn the hebrew language and he translated genisis 1 into english and it still said the same thing the bible we read today says the same thing its just updated for the time.

Im just curious then, if jesus was born in the region of the world that is now jerusalem I believe....then why is he always depicted as a white person, I am not saying for 1 second that I don't believe....I but as a curious person I always find a need to ask questions that bother me. And better yet if jesus was of the jewish faith then why is dhristianity the only true faith.


Just some more things to debate about....

And just for reference the big bang theory is not poop, per se. It is a very viable theory just as god is a viable theory....there has been no discernable proof of god, he is just a theory, albeit a very widespread and well accepted theory. And even then the two theories could both be total truth and lie in coincidence with one another, where what we percieve as the big bang was in fact, the creation of all things by "god".

And heres another good question, what after creating the known univers billions of years ago did god decide in the very recent past to create man in his image....what was he/she/it doing for the rest of those infinite number of years?



And then we have the kicker question.....is there life on any other planet?

Most people of the christian faith say no from my experience. But who are we to say that we are the only life that said god created, who among us knows for fact that god didn't create life on many many planets????



WEATHER I BELIVE ANY, ALL, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE IS UNIMPORTANT, I JUST LIKE QUESTION EVERYTHING????

And wasn't the bible written in both hebrew and aramaic?

Cool Gravity, I like questions lol.

1. Why is Jesus depicted as a white guy? Because an artist depicted Him that way...for who knows what reason...and it just "caught on". I, and most Christians, don't believe, in fact we know He was not white. He is from the middle east and therefore should be most likely dark haired and dark skinned.

2.

This is where science and religion disagree. I don't know if, as someone else above stated we believe, the earth is only 6000 yrs old. I don't however believe it is billions of years old, or even a million. I believe God was active in the creation of this earth from day one. I believe He created man very very shortly after creating the earth, and therefore was involved from the beginning.

I also don't believe the "big bang theory" is absolutely wrong. I just believe 1. it took someone/something to start it. (science hasn't been able to replicate it in models without adding certain things....some of which were not around at that time). 2. I believe the happenings of the theory could very well be correct, and it's just the timing I would differ with.

4. If I'm not mistaken the Bible....or lets say the books of the Bible before they were put together, were written in atleast 3 different languages; Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic.

People act like 1. The BIble was written all at once, and possibly by one person, in one place. This is totally false lol. It was actually 40 plus authors, spanning some thousands of years. Covering 3 diferent continents...if I'm not wrong with my memory

2. People make the comment, "The Bible's been translated so many times it doesn't mean the same."

In most cases the translations, NIV, KJV, NKJV, NASB, etc. go back to the original language. In other words, they are translated directly from the greek, hebrew, and aramaic languages. We have extremely old texts in the original languages that are still avaiable to us to refer back to.

If you study the different translations of the Bible, KJV, NIV, NASB, etc. you'll find they all say exactly the same things, they're just put in different ways of speaking. KJV is old english, NKJV is more updated old english lol. NIV is modern english, etc, etc. Now if you go for the "Living Bible, or The Message", these are paraphrases, and not literal interpretations. That doesn't make them wrong at all, they are just written in more of a "story" format to help better understand the Word.

The Living Bible was paraphrased by one man that wanted to make it where he could easily read it to his daughter if I remember correctly.

And please don't forget, there are more "gospels/books" that just weren't included in the cannonized Bible, that are actually good. These gospels just don't add any new information about Christ/God so why include every one of them?

Then there are also the gnostic gospels which don't seem to be correct because they don't show Christ in the same "light" so to speak. They contradict His teaching. Gnostics were also more mystical if I'm not mistaken, and they didn't believe salvation came from Christ's death, but instead from the "secrets" He taught them.

Finally, someone who is saying it like it is...

However, we can observe, quantify and measure the physical universe. No one has ever been able to proove the existence of "God".

My personal pet theory is that the concept of "God" was invented by pre-scientific man to explain the world around him. What better way for a pre-scientific person to explain the stars, the sky, the sun, etc., than by saying that (insert name of favourite mythical creature here, and "Lord" knows there have been tons of them over the millenia) created them. Just because there is a widely distributed and "accepted" book called the Bible in which God is mentioned doesn't prove his existence.

Go back in time and talk to a Hittite or a Babylonian and he will tell you his gods (Arinna, Marduk, Teshub, Anshar, etc.) are as real as our current version of "God". Don't worry, this too shall pass.