Do you believe in God?

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

I have no interest in disproving the bible. I have more interest in proving the things that actually happened, and disproving the things that were added or scewed by the corrupt in order to preserve their status in the world. I can't tell you how much I would like to get my hands on some of the lost books of the bible. I think if we had the entire thing, including the parts where the writers change their minds, people would realize that faith or religion or whatever is supposed to be a far more active undertaking. Simply relying on the same old passages to guide your life will kill any progress we are capable of.



And just to clarify, I do believe in Jesus. I just don't believe in him as a Messiah. If you look at the other major religions, they all have very prominant prophetic figures. If anything, I believe that Jesus was a prophet who attempted to inspire the masses through his martyrdom. I think that, if God, Satan, Heaven, and Hell all exist, it is up to the people to prove themselves by living good lives and bettering the world in some way. In a world full of so many choices, I have a hard time believing that believing in God and Jesus and saying "I'm sorry" before you kick it is enough.

There was a story in one of the Ancient Egyptian religions that I really liked (and no, I didn't steal this from The Bucket List). When you reached the gates of heaven, you were asked "Did your life bring you joy? Did your life bring joy to others?" If you could answer yes to both questions, you got in. I really think that should be enough.

We have many threads documenting his existence. He was a shady bastard and i hope he burns in hell.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

I believe in King James.

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

We have many threads documenting his existence. He was a shady bastard and i hope he burns in hell.

Truf. Bastard scammed Dante. Kind of ironic if you think about it.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

i do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/bowdown.gif.b85b23b82970bd22fb6b549c3392f016.gif

 

[▼)Ñ╩fZΣµ& 10+ year member]

i also believe that the church is a good place to get food on sundays

lol

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

i also believe that the church is a good place to get food on sundays
lol

Yeah, if you like Christ Flakes and crappy wine.

 

[▼)Ñ╩fZΣµ& 10+ year member]

Yeah, if you like Christ Flakes and crappy wine.

lol

not meee no shit food there!!!

straight up hulla fruits, doughnuts, and like fvckin juice whatnot //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

As someone else stated earlier, it seems that most of the people who are disillusioned with religion grew up Catholic. There are many more "denominations" that are nothing like Catholicism. I'm glad that you aren't blaming God for what happened. The encouragement and support that you can receive from a Christ-centered congregation is unbelievable. But the key is for it to be Christ-centered, and not religion-centered, man-centered, or tradition-centered.

that was me

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

Yeah but sometimes people abuse that 'forgiveness of jesus aslong you put your faith in jesus'. For Example, Fu'ck it im ma kill this mu'Fuka tonight or rob this store, jesus e'll forgive me anyways. PFT!!!
Religion is pure bullshitttt to me. God left his word in the bible etc for all of use to live in peace and harmony not to seperate in groups(muslims, christians, catholics etc) wich has caused many conflicts through out history. I use to be a so called christian but i came to a conclusion that religion is garbage, the word of God and himself is all that matters to me, not some shit called religion, God didnt create religion nor is he religion. Well thats what I think on the religion tip. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Great post. Out of curiosity, do you read the Bible regularly? I'm not trying to prod you into an argument...I honestly want to know. Also, what brought you to the conclusion that religion is crap? Was it a human fault, or a God thing?

yeah, i'd like to know to know too

 

[go_go_thrash 10+ year member]

I can't find it anywhere for some reason but I know the bible says "not to disregard the wisdom of the ages". Do you think your intellect out weighs centuries of humans just like you?

You do realize that a modern human being has access to more information in one issue of the New York Times, than the average Victorian era human had during their entire lifetime?

There is a God and He does communicate with His creation. What the bible says is true.

So you don't eat pork, have *** with women when they are on their period, you disregard the 10 commandments because Jesus replaced them with the Beatitudes? You believe that Abraham lived to the age of 175, and that many other people lived unnaturally long lives, well past what we, today can live to? I am not disputing the use of the bible as a tool, or even a great historical work, however blanket belief that everything it states is 100% true, is just silly. Furthermore, which version do you even read, and what happened to the books missing from the Roman Catholic Bible? If the bible is the word of god, and you believe it is true, how do you omit books?

Don't get me wrong, I think religion has its place in society, however self righteous folks like you, ruin it for a lot of people. Why can't you just do what the bible says, and lead by example, not by words?

 

[sonic purity 10+ year member]

You do realize that a modern human being has access to more information in one issue of the New York Times, than the average Victorian era human had during their entire lifetime?

Wisdom and information are two different things.

 

[Speedbump3]

I get blumpkins from GOD.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Everytime I see this stupid thread it makes me think of that flyleaf song called Cassie. Do you believe in god? And Cassie pulled the trigger.

We are not meant to understand GOD. Just believe or don't believe. That is it. Mankind wrote the bible for their own good. What we need to know, what he have to do is built into our code and it is just who we are. We even get to ignore it if we want to. How great is that?

 

[notw 10+ year member]

Someone please help me understand this, people here believe in God, but not religion.
So we fellowship together cause we all love and worship car audio, and want to be around others who love and worship car audio. We abide by all the rules of the forum and even adhere to most of the dogma about car audio, although we discuss it back and forth.

If you replace all the underlined words in that sentence with God, you have religion.

lol

 

[notw 10+ year member]

Are you aware that when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found and translated the words on those pages didn't deviate one word from the present day Old Testament?
The Jews have a system that guarantees one hundred percent accuracy when scribing a new Bible. It involves counting every single Hebrew character on a page and it it is not exact the text is thrown away and rescribed.

That is true. Shocker to the unbeliever.