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08-21-2007, 04:09 PM | #61 | |
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and i went through the same things as you...my parents not letting me listen to the pumpkins. but that was when i was 15-16. they eventually lightened up. |
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08-21-2007, 04:27 PM | #62 | |
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shit. |
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08-21-2007, 04:29 PM | #63 | |
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i believe everything's black and white, too. |
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08-21-2007, 04:34 PM | #64 | |
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I met the assistant dean of the largest seminary in Canada, and she called me an idealist, telling me I need to be realistic. But hey, its worked so far! |
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08-21-2007, 04:34 PM | #65 |
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my kid told me the other day that she thinks everything in the 50's was black and white. As in, you know, really black and white. Kids are funny.
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08-21-2007, 04:36 PM | #66 |
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idealists are my favorite kind of people.
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08-21-2007, 04:36 PM | #67 |
Minion of Satan
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it WAS. that's colour photography you're looking at - it's just, there's was no colour!
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08-21-2007, 04:42 PM | #68 | |
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you've just blown my mind. |
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08-21-2007, 04:43 PM | #69 |
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like in the book "The Giver". what an odd one that was.
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08-21-2007, 04:46 PM | #70 | |
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08-21-2007, 04:53 PM | #71 |
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i read it in 8th grade. it blew my young mind.
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08-21-2007, 04:53 PM | #72 | |
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08-21-2007, 04:55 PM | #73 |
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what if she decides she doesn't believe? how will you feel? react? be honest.
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08-21-2007, 04:58 PM | #74 |
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I will just have to have faith that she will eventually believe. I am already praying for her daily. I can't push it on her, but it will sadden me if she doesn't. I think that's where a lot of Christian parents go wrong. It's as if they don't have faith in God or their kids to find Jesus out of his/her own choice. Did that make sense? I feel like I can't type or express myself today. lol!
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08-21-2007, 05:00 PM | #75 |
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It makes sense. My parents prayed for me everyday too, and felt the same way, but I don't believe. I'm not saying this to freak you out, but when someone says, "I really want my child to believe not because I do, but because they found the truth on their own," I hope they realise that there's a good chance that child will find another truth to believe in. Something different from yours. I respect my parents belief, but I don't share it.
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08-21-2007, 05:17 PM | #76 | |
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08-21-2007, 05:30 PM | #77 |
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This is how I put it to my parents, and ever since, we've just moved on. "If you truly believe in a merciful, all-loving God, then that God doesn't need constant edification and will love his creation no matter what they do. And if such a God is truly all-loving and merciful, why would he EVER create a hell that would cast those he loves into forever damnation? It makes no sense. I have chosen not to believe in any such God, but if you believe, then rest assured that in the end, I very well may stand corrected before Him/Her and still be fully accepted."
Even if I was a Christian, I wouldn't believe in hell. Such a contradiction. |
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08-21-2007, 05:37 PM | #78 |
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Testimony time? Here's mine:
I grew up thinking I was a Christian. I didn't do drugs. I didn't drink. I didn't sleep around (except I secretly really wanted to). I didn't swear (except when no one was listening). I read my Bible regularly (except I didn't really like it). I thought I was a pretty righteous dude. But when I hit my 20s it all came crashing down. I entered a period of doubt, extreme-fear, and depression and all my "sinlessness" did nothing to help me. I would lay awake late into the night fearing death. I was sure that I was going insane and that terrified me. (For example: one night I laid awake early into the morning fearing that my tongue was too big.) I was obsessed with sex and this caused massive guilt and I had no ability to shake either. I was hugely nostalgic: All I wanted was to be a little kid again. At this time, I was making close to six figures at my job. I owned my own home - a long ambition of mine. And I was (still am) married to a wonderful girl and we had two kids. These were all things I had dreamed about and none of them made me happy. The job and the house just stressed me out. The wife and the kids just made me sad because the kids were going to grow up and I or the wife were going to be separated by death someday. This went on for about two years. In the midst of all this I got "saved". I now thank God for that horrible period of my life because in the midst of my depression and terror, my faith became real. Just reading a few verses from the Bible would bring me to tears because it spoke so directly to my state of decay. Church service was like a beacon of light at the end of each week - during the service I could feel the presence of Christ and it brought such peace. In those few hours I wasn't afraid of dying or the future. In that time I truly "found" Jesus. Honestly, I think every person comes to Christ this way: Broken, terrified, guilt-ridden. Become a Christian isn't like climbing to the top of a mountain, it's like being rescued from a pit. Before I knew Christ, I had worked out my own religion that for all appearances looked like Christianity. But this religion was driving me to insanity instead of saving me. But when I finally came to Christ, desperate for a rescue from myself, wretched and afraid - well, it was literally like being born again. I had come through the birth canal and was blinking and alive in a new world. In the years, since then I feel like I've rediscovered the joy I had as a child - only it's greater. Anyway, that's my story. |
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08-21-2007, 06:04 PM | #79 | |
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Think about it: What happens to our physic energy when we die? If there is no heaven, what happens to it? This world is so wonderful, our bodies so comforting, everything is logical. But what if it's all a thin rind over a much more horrible existence? But what happens when our bodied are stripped away and we sink to whatever metaphysical reality lies beneath the physical world? Are ghosts just manifestations of decaying mental energy, desperately trying to hold on to the physical membrane so they don't descend further into the non-world? It would certainly explain why ghosts haunt their old houses. They're trying to retain something of the real world. Also, what a horror to meet a loved one in that state of existence! To love with no hands to touch, no lips to kiss, and no arms to hold. It would be living in a nightmare. This future seemed very plausible to me when I doubted the existence of God and also very much like Hell. So when I did become a Christian the physical resurrection of Christ and all its implications was an enormous comfort to me. |
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08-21-2007, 06:09 PM | #80 |
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I'm glad you find comfort in it. Watever is true for is great. Hell became less real to me after I realised I WASN'T a Christian - I believe it was a fear tactic mainly used by the church in the Middle Ages that continues to this day.
I don't know what happens when we die. If anything, we return to where we came - non existence. Or we simply get recycled and come back. Who knows. But I don't believe in some alternate universe where we suffer for eternity because the five senses that "God" gaves us (sight, smell, touch, hear, taste) showed us He didn't exist. How can such a loving God ask us to believe in him when the very senses he gave us said he doens't exist, but then he expects us to use those same senses to get through life for everything else? It's not about doubt and faith - it's about the character of God and the contradictions that lie within it. God in the Bible is inconsistent - to me, that's a huge sign of man's inconsistencies in creating a God to believe in. |
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08-21-2007, 06:14 PM | #81 |
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remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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08-21-2007, 06:16 PM | #82 |
Minion of Satan
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i like you.
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08-21-2007, 06:19 PM | #83 |
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@this thread
anyway, I guess I'm more appreciative of being raised by nearly complete secular, yet self-described catholic parents after reading this thread. |
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08-21-2007, 06:24 PM | #84 |
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"Jesus was an only son for you"
I've never understood that line. He was an only son for me? wtf? |
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08-21-2007, 06:28 PM | #85 | |
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Hellfire isn't taught in the Bible, as waltermcphilip pointed out. God told Adam and Eve after they sinned "For dust you are, and to dust you will return," at Genesis 3:19. For further proof of this, see Ezekiel 18:4 - "The soul that is sinning -- it itself will die." No immortal soul that burns in a fiery hell. Another scripture that clarifies the meaning of the term "Sheol" or "Hades" (commonly translated as "hell"), Ecclesiastes 9:10 states: "All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going." Consequently, Sheol / Hades refers to the common grave of mankind, and not a place of eternal torment. In short, you're right in believing there's a contradiction between the loving nature of God and the doctrine of hellfire. "God is love," says 1 John 4:8. EDIT: I usually refrain from speaking about religion on the internet, and will probably turn down any challenges by people who disagree with the Scriptures I quoted, but the subject was present, so I figured I'd add what I could. |
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08-21-2007, 06:30 PM | #86 |
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I've met many semi-Christian folk (I mean in the sense that they've taken the Christian faith and modified it to suit their logic) who don't believe in Satan or Hell, but that just baffles me! I don't believe human beings go to Hell at all... but I believe it's the home of Satan, all alone or with his demons (as God has His angels).
See... since I DO believe in God (like I said, my own idea of God, not necessarily the Bible version) I can't not believe in Satan (or a Satan-like being). There can never be good without evil, because there is nothing to compare it to. If there was only good, it wouldn't be good anymore. It would be normal. There needs to be dark to have any light. Like... what makes Aragorn so noble and strong? The fact that other men are weak to the power of the Ring. If there wasn't that weakness, the goodness and strength of Aragorn would mean nothing, and he would just be another man. (hehe, watched LOTR today for the first time in a year... It's a sort of tradition that I watch them right before school starts up again. Mmmm good stuff) |
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08-21-2007, 06:32 PM | #87 | |
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08-21-2007, 06:33 PM | #88 |
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i_adore_adore = bad philosophical debator
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08-21-2007, 06:34 PM | #89 | |
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However, where do you think the Bible came from? Humans. Christians. It's not infallible. It wasn't until the Nicence Council in 300 AD that what is contained in the Bible was voted on to be *******d. And guess what? It was at this same council that they VOTED to call Jesus the Son of God. Up until that point, they never officially acknowledged him as such. Technically, Jesus never claimed it. So I go back to the inconsistencies. And there are in the Bible as well, but I don't want to get started. |
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08-21-2007, 06:36 PM | #90 | |
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"And I still believe that I cannot be saved," etc... this theme is found throughout the song. |
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