06-18-2002, 02:12 PM | #51 | |
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These acts are sins. So, does that mean that gays or those who have abortions are condemend to Hell? A lot of Christians would say YES, but I say NO, at least not automatically. God hates sin...but HE LOVES THE SINNER!!! We are ALL sinners and we ALL fall short of code of conduct He would like us to follow. That includes everybody from the front-row Bible thumper to a killer on Death Row. Some sins are considered more heinous by society, but not by God. In His eyes, no sin is greater or lesser than another. So if I, as a sinner, can receive free pardon of my sins through God's Holy Grace, there is NO reason that ANYBODY else cannot receive the same pardon. For your broader question, I realize you were addressing ALL religions as a whole, but I don't know enough about the Muslim or Jewish faith to comment on them. You are correct that almost every religion - Christianity included - believes they have "the right answer" and that others are wrong. I agree with that - up to a certain point. That's no different than scientist who have opposing hypothesis regarding the same data. When trying to explain something, different scientists will naturally approach the situation from different perspectives, and will give more weight to different types of data. Does this mean that both are being narrow-minded because they believe their theory is right and the other is wrong? Sometimes yes, but not necessarily. In the end, they will say "OK, PROVE to me that you are right and I am wrong." The same principle CAN be applied to religion. God has PROVEN His existence to me on more than one occasion. He has answered prayers in little ways and in grand ways. He has given me comfort when I was emotionally depressed, and He has spared my life when doctors said I wouldn't survive past the next 72 hours. God has proven His existence to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. So I know that - for me - Christianity is the right religion. However, I don't expect that to be valid proof to anybody else. Each of us must decide for ourselves if we will seek Him or not, and what will prove his existence to us if we do.
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06-18-2002, 02:26 PM | #52 |
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Good post Cerek. I too have been blessed in that God has chosen to prove his existence to me time and time again. He made it easier for me to accept him. As you said, in small little ways and in some grand and wonderous things he has done for me. For me he made it easy to have faith, for others it seems he has decided to let it be more dificult. I suppose that doesn't sound exactly rational, but faith is not about being rational or logical.
As for who is and is not going to heaven, I think that no matter what the Bible syas about it, that it would be the height of presumption and arrogance for us to make that determination which only God is qualified to make.. Just my 2pennies. P.S. Would you believe I was picking my color HEX numbers at random and came up with the same exact color as you? what a coincidence [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 06-18-2002, 02:28 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ] |
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06-18-2002, 06:35 PM | #54 |
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Science is not religion, science is trying to work out how. How what you ask, well how everything really.
Religion is the belief that anything and everything is an act of some god or/and that certian path in life will aid us better in the after life. While both have caused death, one only makes weapons and the other starts wars. One has improved life a given hope and healed the sick, the other gives only hope and rarely heals. Mind you science has something had something to say about religion, about a few billion years worth HAHAHAHAha!!!!! |
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Science is not a religion. Never should be and never will be even though people confuse it as such and willfully confuse their religious beliefs with scientific research.
The canonnical example of science as religion seems to be evolution. Before I go any further let me say that I'm not pushing one point of view or the other (evolution or creationism), I'm merely trying to make a small example. In short, this post is not about evolution vs creationism or anything. Just science as religion. Evolution. Contraversial, unproven, an evolving theory (sorry for the pun.... couldn't resist. ). Now, say I became a scientist and me and a hundred other scientists spent years and millions of dollars researching the beginnings of human life and found that lo and behold Humanity was "seeded" here by alien beings. All the stuff that we attributed to evolution was actually carefully planned advancements carryed out by the aliens via microwaves, shot from invisible space ships that orbit Earth (now that I think about it, this scenario sounds like something by Phillip K. Dick). The evidence found is compelling. The proof goes far beyond anything that backs the theory of evolution. What would happen next would be very similar to what occured after Einstein said that Newton was kind of wrong. There would be a period of intense debate, probably a few other experiments would be done to correlate findings and then acceptence of the Alien Plan theory. Not, of course, complete acceptance. There would be a few who hang onto evolution with religious fervour and then there would be those who would go and try to prove the theorem wrong or find a different one. Religion on the other hand, or I guess I should say Western Religions would respond differently to a similar situation. Each acceptance of difference comes with a great deal of rhetoric about how the church wasn't wrong about whatever it was that they had purported in the first place. The Church's adherence to Aristotilien theory set science back quite a bit. Several hundred years really. When they finally decided that the Copernican view of the Solar System was correct they reneged on all the rhetoric that had been spewed about the Earth being the center of the universe. Quote:
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Well explained Yorick. I would have explained my reasoning myself, but I couldn't think of any words or phrases to use.
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