I know someone who talks and meets with Odin who says that Odin has helped them also. Belief is wonderful but does not provide evidence. How do you even know the god you believe in is a him? Belief in something is different than evidence that can be demonstrated.
I agree...there are just as many poor deluded souls in psyche wards who think they are Jesus Christ.
Evidence though is in the eye of the interpreter. How the godless interpret "evidence" may be the opposite to how a believer interprets it.
Interpretation doesn't make it right just because someone fits all the bits into one box. I can fit all the bits into one box too. We have to choose the box.
The belief in other gods or goddesses has just as much reality as your belief in your god.
I beg to differ. No one has impacted on the lives of so many for so long, more so than Jesus Christ, who only walked in this world as a preacher for three and a half years.
Napoleon once noted:......“An extraordinary power of influencing and commanding men has been given to Alexander, Charlemagne and myself. But with us the presence has been necessary. . . . Whereas Jesus Christ has influenced and commanded His subjects without His visible bodily presence for eighteen hundred years.”
And again he said:..... “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires, but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his kingdom upon love.”
You can choose to ignore all that if you wish. We all have the same choices.....but we also have different reasons for making them.
No greater and no less. Just because you believe one way does deny other views.
People are welcome to hold any view they wish...that is why we were given free will...to make choices. Some choices have everlasting consequences.....some don't. We just have to hope that we make the right ones.
The bible does not answer all of the questions. It does not come even close.
Again, I beg to differ...it answers all of mine and very satisfactorily too. I never felt that way before I learned what the Bible teaches as opposed to what the churches teach. Nothing made sense to me then....but it does now. Most people have no idea what the Bible teaches.
Great for teaching the beliefs for its followers but clearly cannot explain our natural world.
We are doomed if we just sit back and say a god will clean up our mess.
The creator of nature is also its guardian....he has already told us what he will do with those intent on ruining his handiwork.
Speaking about the time in which we now live, it says in Revelation 11:18...
"But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining (or destroying) the earth.”
That was written almost 2,000 years ago. Humans did not have the capacity to destroy the earth back then, but God knew that they would in the future.
He will deal with them because we cannot rely on greedy and corrupt humans to solve the problem, when they ARE the problem. Unless God steps in we ARE doomed.
So you are saying god put life down and is continuingly changing the genetic code? There is evidence for this?
No, that is not what I am saying. I am saying that the Creator did exactly what he said he did. He created the basic "kinds" of life with the inbuilt ability to adapt to any change in their environment. This produces infinite variety and provides a constant stream of material for scientific study. He made us to be intelligent and to use our mental faculties, including our unique abilities to take care of what he had made.....to be curious about the world and its makeup and our purpose in the big scheme of things. Life wasn't meant to be a boring existence swinging on hammocks in paradise. We were build for work and there is plenty to do. Once all the 'kinks' are ironed out down here, there is nothing stopping the Creator from populating other planets...it is a big universe and forever is a lot of time to accomplish the Creator's purpose for its existence.
Explain how fossils fit into the creation story or were the mistakes made by the god of the bible which the god disposed of in the ground?
Who said anything about "mistakes"? God is a Creator, not a magician. That is what evolutionists seem to misunderstand. Creation was a process that took a very long time to work out to God's satisfaction. At the end of each creative period he expressed that satisfaction because he had worked through all that he wanted to accomplish in that allotted time. By the end of the 6th day he was very satisfied with his efforts and said so. But the 7th day has not yet ended. The Bible tells us where we are in the stream of time, and what will happen next...it just doesn't tell us when.