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Old 12-14-2011, 02:35 PM
 
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^^^^^ and the heavens gate crowd committed mass suicide because god was sending a spaceship to pick them. People do irrational things based on irrational concepts.
that's why we compare what we think God is saying to the Word that He has already revealed. Do that and stupid things like that don't happen.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:39 PM
 
Location: West Virginia
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that's why we compare what we think God is saying to the Word that He has already revealed. Do that and stupid things like that don't happen.
That didn't have a positive outcome at The Peoples' Temple.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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First, I visited the grand canyon for the first time - with a belly full of hallucanegenic mushrooms. Spent the whole day hiking inside the canyon, and just kept telling myself, this beauty isn't random. yeah i know, a little creek became a river and ate away all the rock until it was a big canyon, but again, in my mind, it was more than just the science behind how the canyon was formed.

The second event was a friend had a baby, and I was over at her house when she was nursing her baby. Again, i know how the body works and where the milk comes from, but in my mind, this wasn't just "evolution." It was G-d himself.
1. That sounds like a really bad trip. You know the real explanation, so why insert a deity?

2. No, it wasn't "evolution" at all. It was the natural way of things. Many other animals nurse their young.

Obviously, not all agnostics and atheists think alike.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:46 PM
 
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That didn't have a positive outcome at The Peoples' Temple.
If the People had actually read the Bible it would have.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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that's why we compare what we think God is saying to the Word that He has already revealed. Do that and stupid things like that don't happen.
God has revealed something? What? Where? Have you seen it? What is it?
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Old 12-14-2011, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Free State of Texas
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God has revealed something? What? Where? Have you seen it? What is it?
The Bible.
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Old 12-14-2011, 06:01 PM
 
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The Bible.
Which one?
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Old 12-14-2011, 06:20 PM
 
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Which one?
Which translation.......... which version............ which interpretation........
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Old 12-14-2011, 06:38 PM
 
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Which one?
Pick any Christian Bible. The different translations matter little. They all have message of Christ.
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Old 12-14-2011, 06:54 PM
 
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Pick any Christian Bible. The different translations matter little. They all have message of Christ.
Why Christian?

Would you be saying and feeling the same thing if you had been raised in India?
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