Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsGod also made Eve because Adam was lonely.


Brainwashing:
Intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs.
The application of a concentrated means of persuasion, such as an advertising campaign or repeated suggestion, in order to develop a specific belief or motivation.

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Trust me, I wasnt brainwashed, simply too young to understand why I was believing. Did your parents leave alone in a room when you were a kid with a tv and left it on news channels and let you decide what you thought for yourself? Thats a silly assumption to say I was brainwashed because everyones environment somewhat dictates on what they think.

Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsThe bible itself isn't really a religion. It's the interpretation that people make from it that becomes the religion. Think about it. How many different versions of Christianity alone are there that are all derived from the bible? And it's a long stretch to say there's no corruption involved considering the problems we've been having with the catholics.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I read what I had wrote and that wasnt what I was trying to say. I meant to say the guidelines the Bible has given us are the ones that are considered moral in todays society...Thou shalt not kill, steal, etc.

Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsAnd everyone beleives in this while they believe in that and we've all got our own beliefs but in the end they're just that. Beleifs. Not knowledge.[/QUOTE]

Youre point? Never tried to pass it off as factual, just giving reasons why I believe what I believe.

Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsI read a bible that said "kill thy neibhor." Is that prophecy? Can't say man hasn't been naughty over the years.[/QUOTE]

Dunno really what youre talking about here......


[QUOTE=Cryptic Excretions]And that's something I don't get. There's plenty of scientific knowledge and facts that prove that the bible isn't possible. And that's fine because the belief in God and that God defies rational possibilities is quite present in the christian perspective. But if they believe so heavily in this being that can defy everything then why is it that they go to such lengths to explain how it's scientific and logical? Back in the day when I went to church the pastor blatantly called every other form of religion false and stated that god was a 100% scientific fact. But fact and faith do not work at all together. And if God is entirely faith then why do they go to the lengths to state it as fact? Pick one, research it and whatever the proof is, take it like a man. And if down the road things look differently, then compare notes and go from there.

As I said, the basis of how things of occured cannot be explained scientically, but Biblical occurences such as the Great Flood can explain a multitude of things. Its not like its speaking of events that the Earth shows scientifically could not have occured, because that certainly is not the case.


[QUOTE=Cryptic Excretions]There's actually no prove of God in specific what so ever. All links to God are strictly faith which holds no proof what so ever since the basis of faith is believing the in the impossible or irrational.

All Im saying is you can make sense of Biblical occurences and look at prophecies that are coming true today.


[QUOTE=Cryptic Excretions]Knock yourself out.

I will :D


[QUOTE=Cryptic Excretions]Would you give up on faith because the other alternative finally started making sense? And what kind of all loving God would go against his beloved creation?