what about those who die? well, thats sad to me too. Grant smart (K.E.C teach that died in the head on collision earlier this year) went to my church and was good frineds with my bro and his friends. when he died i was so sad. it made no sence. he was young, he should've lived. God had huge plans for him. but God still gives us free will. God gave the other driver that free will weather to switch lanes or not. if God would've saved Grant, then he wouldn't have given the other guy free will. what about cancer?? there are diseases in a fallen world. in those cases, i dont think God will let someone die unless he has a plan for that situation. we are no better or superior to someone who's family member, DIDNT get the answer they wanted. God still answers, but he answered "no" to some people and "yes" to others. to others still, he'll answer "wait" all these are still answeres. but we need to just trust God sometimes to give us the faith and the strength to survive some of his answers. maybe the cancer is an unfortunate consequence of
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What makes it a miracle then? What's the point of praying or saying "god answered our prayers it's a miracle" when other people pray just as hard and it DOESN'T happen? How come having amazing things happen to you or feeling very spiritual and amazed at the world proves the CHRISTIAN god
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i'm prettymuch done arguing over this because i can see we arent going to reach an agreement. all i'm going to say is that i really love you tina. i love you and everything i say is out of love, and not pride. the old testament is old law. they had to make sacrifices for their own sins. but jesus came as the ultimate sacrifice to die for all sins. Hebrews 10:10 "And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (new testament) jesus was like the lamb that the old testament people would sacrifice to ask God to forgive their sins. he was the ultimate sacrifice. so that is a huge difference. we dont do sacrifices for our sins, we ask for Jesus to be our sacrifice (hence easter and good friday). and as for food (jews dont eat certain meats) the new testament says that that law is abolished too. Romans 14:20 "Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble" all food is clean... and
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anyway i love you tonnes, and maybe in your head, even if you dont listen to them, try not to get angry at a christian when they are witnessing to you. cause how i feel that should be taken is "wow! (i dont believe them at all) but the fact that they love me enough to take the risk of telling me this, says alot about what kind of friend they are!" i would hope that those brackets wouldnt be in the thought process but if they are, they are. it isnt a "na na na na na na! i'm going to heaven!" (that would be the jehova's witness. if you are insulted by christianity, just wait till you check out what THEY believe...) its saying "i love you so much that i want to share this amaizing paradise called heaven with you! its so cool! no tears, no pain, no sin, all Good! its a party 24/7, but a good safe party. it wont be dull, i can promise you that. heaven will be a blast! and to top it off, one on one conversations with the creator of the universe! i want to share that with you, because i love you!"
Read that for strong similarities between the story of Jesus and another famous hero story, the story of Odysseus by Homer.
You call the entire world being flooded a few thousand years ago, a man building an ark and finding two of EVERY species to repopulate the world with historically accurate? You call the world being created in seven days historically accurate? You call absolutely no evolution (despite vast amounts of scientific evidence for it - where d'you think cats and dogs came from? They're evolved from panthers/cheetahs/other wild cats and wolves, much like many people believe humans evolved from monkies...which still exist, yes. Panthers and wolves still exist, too.) historically accurate?
But yeah...let's stop this. I'm getting frustrated and I'd rather not go on about it.
disclaimer: This is not meant as an argument... just so you know... and in fact I do believe that evolution is possible - even though I'm a christian. Let's assume for a moment that evolution did happen. I just wanted to let you know that actually humans did not come from monkeys, scientifically speaking, humans and monkeys would have come from the same ancestor, which was neither a human OR a monkey. Just wanted to be clear.
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that is all.
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Read that for strong similarities between the story of Jesus and another famous hero story, the story of Odysseus by Homer.
You call the entire world being flooded a few thousand years ago, a man building an ark and finding two of EVERY species to repopulate the world with historically accurate? You call the world being created in seven days historically accurate? You call absolutely no evolution (despite vast amounts of scientific evidence for it - where d'you think cats and dogs came from? They're evolved from panthers/cheetahs/other wild cats and wolves, much like many people believe humans evolved from monkies...which still exist, yes. Panthers and wolves still exist, too.) historically accurate?
But yeah...let's stop this. I'm getting frustrated and I'd rather not go on about it.
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and in fact I do believe that evolution is possible - even though I'm a christian. Let's assume for a moment that evolution did happen. I just wanted to let you know that actually humans did not come from monkeys, scientifically speaking, humans and monkeys would have come from the same ancestor, which was neither a human OR a monkey. Just wanted to be clear.
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