Life after death, interesting read

[jcb]

I personally don't think anyone fully understands the Bible or the meaning of the words. Again if it is Gods words it was still written by man who has probably screwed it up somehow along the line.

The Bible has been poked, prodded, and examined under a microscope for centuries. Yes, there are some differences of opinion about a section here or there, or about interpretation, but if you take the earliest manuscripts we have of Scripture, today's Bible lines up to them remarkably well.

A lot of people say they "don't take the Bible literally." Well, no one should. To take something literally means you ignore metaphors, symbolism, exaggeration for effect and the like. Did Jesus really mean someone could swallow a camel? No. That was a metaphor.

The way the Bible should be interpreted is the same way any work of literature should be interpreted. It its entirety, and with the intent of discovering the author's meaning.

[waterdog101]

a little something for those that think we came from a big bang, isn't it crazy to think a bang made everything around you. I could type all day putting names to every thing we see around us, like rocks, trees, water, the air we breath, all the different kind of animals, and the million's of different kind of insects. and man and woman. and every one made with both male and female able to reproduce. now that is something that blows my mind. for someone to think a big bang could make all that. if you want to have more faith in God, pray to him every day and night. when you are by yourself fishing, going somewhere in the car. just talk to God about what bothers you. the more you talk to him, the more you will want to. this life is over almost before we know it, it goes so fast. and we will live forever somewhere, I do believe this with all my heart. so don't let the Devil cheat you out of Heaven my friend. Prayer is the Key. we all will pray to God some day, so start today, right now as you read this, just say help me Jesus, < Romans 14-11 > For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God

[jcb]

I'm Christian, and I believe 100% in the so-called "Big Bang". I think it's proof positive that God spoke the universe into existence.

[Hlleonard]

a little something for those that think we came from a big bang, isn't it crazy to think a bang made everything around you. I could type all day putting names to every thing we see around us, like rocks, trees, water, the air we breath, all the different kind of animals, and the million's of different kind of insects. and man and woman. and every one made with both male and female able to reproduce. now that is something that blows my mind. for someone to think a big bang could make all that. if you want to have more faith in God, pray to him every day and night. when you are by yourself fishing, going somewhere in the car. just talk to God about what bothers you. the more you talk to him, the more you will want to. this life is over almost before we know it, it goes so fast. and we will live forever somewhere, I do believe this with all my heart. so don't let the Devil cheat you out of Heaven my friend. Prayer is the Key. we all will pray to God some day, so start today, right now as you read this, just say help me Jesus, < Romans 14-11 > For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God

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The scientific explanation of how it all came to be does seem far fetched as in everything coming from nothing in a gigantic expansion of some kind is as hard to accept as it all coming from a supernatural source of some kind but it takes more faith for me to believe it all came from some supernatural entity than I can muster... It just seems odd that folks can believe some being we can't see or hear did all this on a whim for seemingly no rhyme or reason except to have someone warship him.... How can folks be so skeptical of the mystical world and then accept the concept that is taught in the bible as truth without a shred of evidence to support that belief and simply pointing to the way life and the world in general works and saying "see...that is proof that god had to be responsible for it all" is simply not proof of anything.... It is the same as the folks who dwell on the ufo concept, not knowing the explanation of something doesn't mean there isn't one and doesn't mean it has to be of extraterrestrial origin simply because we don't know all the facts.

[jcb]

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The scientific explanation of how it all came to be does seem far fetched as in everything coming from nothing in a gigantic expansion of some kind is as hard to accept as it all coming from a supernatural source of some kind but it takes more faith for me to believe it all came from some supernatural entity than I can muster

So it's easier for you to believe something coming from nothing in a gigantic, spontaneous expansion? Not deriding, just asking.

[Hlleonard]

So it's easier for you to believe something coming from nothing in a gigantic, spontaneous expansion? Not deriding, just asking.

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As I said, both of those scenarios are equally far fetched to me but the scientific community is continually re-analyzing and changing theories about how they might think it all came to be and I do believe the true answer is on that side of the equasion someplace instead of in the realm of the supernatural... I just can't accept there was a creator of some kind that for reasons of his own decided that there needed to be one creature amonst the millions of others living now and in the past that qualified as a receptor of eternal life as long as he followed the rules that were set down by this said creator... I do believe a persons faith adds a great deal to his life if he happens to have a belief in that sort of thing... The more preachers I see in glass churches preying on folks who have faith in their god, the more I think it is all a scam to bolster his/her own bank book.