I'm not really the religious type but I am gifted not with a sense of perception but more strangely with the same as everyone else but not the same sense of denial. It's as though everyone is born with eyes and a blindfold to match.
When I look at the story of genesis I see a birds and the bees story. The thing we humans don't appreciate is that we're not all knowing and not all God. Even those who try to get close often fall astray. Part of the point of the story about the apple is about the curse of knowledge. I don't think people get it or want to. It's a story of the extent of our knowledge and to accept it yet no one does so they make up that the knowledge they have is all their is to have and yet some claim to a greater being with more? Get over yourselves.
The hidden curse is that in spite of raiding the vault and tapping that we're still not know it alls like God yet cursed with something worse than belief in God, the belief that we can be. True enlightenment is the acceptance of our limitations and learning to make the best of what we have. A little bird tells me he's quite disappointed with all the people demanding more knowledge to compensate for their inability to make do with what they have and failing to the best out of it so they need more ammunition. You demand for more when your plate is still full? At least Oliver Twist didn't return for more until his plate was empty but his stomach still not full.
The real story of Jesus is about human instinct. We always gang up against and turn on the innocent. Jesus is one of millions. The whole lesson was what if one of these people is the son of god?
What if I'm an alien sent here in this body to understand you more but because I'm alien I'm different and then everyone turns on me and tries to kill me like the runt rather than putting of the inevitable as slaves to their collective nature?
What happened to Jesus has happened to hundreds of millions but they are not significant enough to be noteworthy as the son of God. It is also our own undoing. Look at us doing it to Putin despite that he can order effectively the end of the world and the equivalent of the flood with his nuclear arsenal? Now that's what I call the great reset. Look at us doing it to our own like Trump imploding and risking sending our country into disarray and instability.
They talk about white privilege but look at what they do to Trump. Where is his white privilege card? When has he been given immunity to allegation or false accusation because he's white? This is true madness. It is beyond mass hysteria.
The world will not tolerate so well an armed nation falling into chaos. Though I don't know if God exists or not these stories of old contain humans which do exist and we must heed them at our peril because we got it wrong then and as time goes by the stakes only increase.
I never thought as a militant atheist I would come to understand the Bible not only in a way beyond my failed peers but to potentially exceed Christians as well. Perhaps if something as miraculous as my being and soul can exist then so can a God but I shall have to wait and see.
In the mean time we have true demons manifesting themselves before us to slay. I only truly believe in what I see and what I see is real evil. Yet I do not seek simply to remove it from my sight. It must be removed from all plains of existence.
I repent from Atheists these days because I can learn from anything. Science papers, the Bible, the Koran. They're too pussy to even stand up to Muslims.
The problem is that the moment one of us steps out of line it reveals the rest too cowardly to also put their necks on the line.
I don't know how I came to be but I know I'm not a perfect being. This is the true critical theory. Theirs consists of question not everything but everything else. They refuse to question themselves. They believe they are beyond being questioned. To be fair it is true. After all they don't have all the answers so why ask them anything? It only serves to remind them of what they are not.
The left want to eliminate individual responsibility so they can get away with anything and the blame will be distributed spread far and wide. They like to make it so for them to get off the hook you have to. Then they sit back and let you do the work for them.
I'm not an atheist because of what I don't know or how educated I am but because of what I don't know. I don't know if there is a God. I only know what I know. I've come to learn that not all people come to the same conclusion for the same reason. Most of them are atheists because of how offensive the concept of a perfect being is when it preludes the chance of them being so. To them it's like sorry that throne is taken.
quran*, and you're still pretty naive, don't run before you can walk. start reading the new testament tonight, it starts at matthew. I can tell you definitively, without doubt, that God is 100% real, but I can't prove it to you. you'll soon see what I mean. keep seeking.
That's a matter of personal preference. I still say Burma and Rhodesia.
We're all naive. It's inescapable. My ego would love to plod along but I'm never going to escape that maze despite believe me being less naive on many fronts than others. I am naive, we all are. Though not all in the same areas so we can share. If you tell me what you see.
The true understanding is not to simply rally around the lure of what we don't have that we want but also to congregate as equals around what we don't have. This for example is the purpose of hope. When things are beyond us.
I don't care if you believe God is real or not. It's enough that you made that best of what you have. If to do that you need to believe in God I'm not going to challenge that.
Whether it exists or not if you do what would be deemed good not only in the eyes of one all powerful which is immaterial but one all knowing and the best possible judge should be lauded. Be careful though. You are only you in your eyes and not you in the eyes of a God. The road the hell is paved with good intentions.
Uncertainty is the sign of a good soul but also yet another exploit. Don't let them pervert you. Ultimately you just have to learn from your own mistakes.
Perhaps I'm too egotistical and a bad example for many but I'm not going to turn to something like God until I have exhausted all that I have been given first of all.
you can't know what good is without God. watch the video I sent. all the best.
Working out what is good is hard. I once tried to argue science could and I was wrong. Good is not guessing and getting it right first time but knowing when you've gotten it right. Millions of people made that mistake.
Yet how many do you meet that say I'm sorry I was wrong? Probably not many but the opposite amount will tell you you're wrong. If anyone is going to tell you you're wrong and it to be worth a damn then it probably has to be that one in a million.
Personally I think if there were a God that understanding right from wrong is so hard it might even be beyond such a being. If there is such a being then as I discover right from wrong as an unwitting test pilot then I shall share it.
I don't know if God is the answer but I do fundamentally agree that good is often beyond us in many situations yet we do strive for it. It's not as easy as people appreciate.
I think you might be just as wrong as thinking good is as easy as following anything associated with God or a great authority on knowledge as leftists following anything with science vaguely associated with it which is a specific and not general authority on knowledge.
Perhaps your heart is in the right place but it is really difficult. You need to take confession seriously. I first confess to myself. Learn to get over yourself. They overs will get over you and if there is a God perhaps that as well. One of our biggest crimes is holding ourselves to an impossible standard. The longer it takes for people to confess the longer it takes to forgive and when they refuse to ever confess they earn their place in eternal damnation.
I didn't get the video.