Re: Unanswered prayers, or unintended blessings?
Originally Posted by onehundred80
I believe that no super being made the universe, it was always there in one form or another and continues to evolve. In the infinity of time everything can happen and will happen. One event was the human race happened along and in due time it will go.
People have a hard time wrapping their head around the fact that something exists that was not made by someone or something. To explain that to themselves they are told to believe in a supreme being rather than accept the fact that it exists just because it does. I think that to believe in something like this we have to cast all common sense to the wind and do as the religious leaders say have faith.
Religion is power; this power is held by a few for their own use, to keep the masses in place and subservient to some god.
Ask yourself a simple question, which length of time will be the longest, the time before you were born or the time after you die? If the universe was created then the time after death will be the longest, they always speak of an eternity after death. Surely we have an eternity before and after life, eternity does not start nor does it end.
Amen, and pass the plate.
I respect your opinion even though I may completely disagree, but just remember that your belief supports a line of thinking that you are just as right as I am. Can that really be? Maybe that comes back to my point in my original thread.....
Religion has jaded oh soo many. IT has been a tool to control, manipulate and support the selfish end of mankind. But as I also said in my thread above Christianity been highly misappropriated to the world.
Oh and for the simple question "Ask yourself a simple question, which length of time will be the longest, the time before you were born or the time after you die?"
simple answer it depends on whether you realize that time and space were also created...
Oh and you make very big assumptions if you believe that eternity does not start or end. We can create words that support any of our manmade goals. Funny thing is that we can never prove eternity at least for now because you and I are finite little beings. So all we know is a beginning and an end so maybe just maybe there was a beginning which has no end!
Oh and on the common sense and the wind comment: I think that to believe in something like this we have to cast all common sense to the wind and do as the religious leaders say have faith.
We should probably consider a famous line from the bible and ponder this "The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going." not even our high paid meteorologists can predict this. If only we did have some common sense we probably would be less blown by every wind of doctrine that we hear.
Respectfully,
Plate passed...
Last edited by nate_man; Aug 11, 2009 at 03:25 PM.