Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsactually, eve was made from adam to be a companion to adam. because god said "it's not good for man to live alone"

I was a christian my whole life, so I know a thing or two about it. I know all the stories. why do you think I have CHOSEN to not follow christianity now? well, despite what jolly may say, no it wasn't just because my girlfriend broke up with me. but it did really open my eyes. and I started seeing things in a new light. I couldn't just blindly trust anything anymore after that, I had to know what it was all about. so I looked back on everything I had been taught in sunday school or church, and it really doesn't make much sense. believing in some god out there. I mean, when I was at one sunday school, the youth pastor was going around asking people why they believed in God.. for most, they said "well, he's just always been there for me" or "because he's answered my prayers"... how do you know those answered prayers are coincedences? I mean, why else would some prayers be answered, and not others? don't start on me with the "well, God knows what's best for us, so sometimes he has to say no in our best interests" because it doesn't always get better because he said no to the prayer. and the whole "he's always been there for me" thing.. now, having a hope to hang on to may have pulled you through, but that doesn't mean he's there. he didn't do anything for you. you pulled yourself through with that hope of a God.

if you ask alot of christians about other religions, they wouldn't be able to tell you much about other religions.. so if you don't even know what other religions believe in, how can you be so deadsure that you're religion is right? it's because it's what you've been taught your whole life.. but that doesn't make it right. some people have been taught evolution since they were little, and now they are deadsure it's right too... but you obviously can't both be right. if you would really open your eyes, stop being so hard-hearted, and really look into it, you may come up with the same conclusion I did. of course, I still couldn't prove there is no God, and I couldn't prove evolution is real either (I still don't believe in evolution btw) right now I don't really believe in anything. I know that I'm here, where I am right now, doing what I'm doing right now, and I just live out one day at a time.

Belief in God is a very personal thing. Its not something taught in church at all, in fact it cant even be "taught". You will find people (myself included) who have been going to church for years but have absolutely no belief in God. The choice to believe is yours and yours alone. God will wait, he wont stop being God.

God did not come to set up a new religion, man did that. We were just supposed to believe first and accept. That is the only condition. We never have to give money or do fancy rituals or have a "church time".

Many christians find it hard and they get into situations and get discouraged and start to doubt when things do not go the way they thought it would go. They want to "work" at being christian. This is something we simply cannot do since being a God-believing person is so against our human senses. We were not called to "work" at being a christian, it is simply by faith.

Church is not something that we are forced to attend once we become believers. The reason that going to church is advocated is simply to bring a person in touch with other people who believe in God so that you can be encouraged. You wont lose heaven just cuz you decide to stay at home, so far as you stay at home and believe.

In short belief in God is not something that we are taught or have to work at. its a decision that we make when we come to a point in our lives and God reveals himself to us.

Long post but there are a few things i had to set straight. :)