who can be considered my peers? Is that based on i.e.., social status, race, sex? I think america ignores that now and does that negate what we call justice? Is the government ignoring the constitution? If you were to face a trial do you think you could truly have your peers as your jury?
So I was thinking today, isn't everything predestined? You start with a persons environment and childhood, how you are raised determines your future thought process and reactions to outside stimuli, and your genetic makeup determines the intellectual reasoning you use to react. The same applies...
Are our theological views responsible for the actions of those we instruct and debate?
So I've spent the last month trying to convince a friend of mine that morality is purely subjective and I've finally started getting somewhere with him.... Well today I found out that he just got arrested...
I'm sure we have all heard such terms spouting from the mouths of Christians. How true are those words and how are the applied? Does not the Bible talk about being a slave multiple times completely negating the terms breaking the shackles and freedom? As for peace, does any Christian feel true...
So I just had an argument online where someone said God defines morality. Obviously I had to argue that point but how do you define right and wrong, how is the conscious developed, and what is morality exactly?Is there such a thing as right and wrong?
Do you believe in different levels of awareness of different forms of existence? You have physical, mental, and spiritual. I believe in different levels of physical and mental awareness. After all I'm more familiar with my existence since I experience every aspect of my life so my life takes on...
The Bible talks of souls being destroyed in a fiery pit. Does that concept scare you as it does a lot of Christians or are you more like me who thinks being destroyed permanently, the oblivion of existence and awareness, would be a relief? What are your thoughts on the Biblical fiery pit?
So how does masturbation line up in various religions. How do different religions approach that subject. Is it frowned upon only in Christianity and the Jewish faith. How can the various religions against it argue that its a sin while ignoring the major health benefits involved? If God is the...
Only this time I want evolution argued for by creationists and creation and young earth theory argued for by evolutionists. This is to give both groups a chance to not only see how good they are at debate but expose both strongly help beliefs to the opposite view point without malicious comments...
Alcoholics anonymous seems to be very popular and I've had people get in my face before when I unthinkingly called it a cult. What do you think, cult, religion, or self help or maybe you can define it better than that.
Society is like a herd of cattle, they never know where they are going or where they have been. They are just wadding through bullpoo and starring at the but in front of them.
I am 31 years old and lately I've been questioning my belief in the Bible, not the moralistic values just the Biblical truth relating to God and salvation.
About my solid belief: there is a God the perfection of the universe makes that evident to me.
Background: Abused as a child, raped and...
Many people say that they can't believe in a God based on faith alone but yet isn't 90% of life just accepted by faith? Atoms, protons, neutrons, the operation of the human body, evolution, molecular and medical studies, you believe it on on faith. You might see something operate or function in...
Due to 2000 years of scribe errors between 300,000 and 400,000 different errors between ancient manuscripts including entire sections of Scripture not even in the oldest manuscripts, "the adulteress woman and mark 16:9 onward", how much can you trust the Bible?
What are your view on drug usage by Christians includind the use of caffeine which alters the brain in the same way as cocaine and heroin and is highly addictive. Also, the modern church has changed the definition of the word idolatry, what do you believe idolatry is?
Where does legalism end and Christianity begans? Right and wrong have to exist like Yin and Yang, what determines what is right and what is wrong. If you obey the Torah so many things are considered against the law that about the only way not to sin is to be in a coma. The things we are told not...