Religion - - - - - just stories - - - - prove it?

Question

Ha,,,, you can't, it's all in your head and your just too scared to think when your dead, your just dust

Answer 1

Let me tell you my story, and you can judge for yourself.

At 7 I was diagnosed with a nervous disorder that meant I had to spend 3 months in Great Ormond St and Tadworth hospitals. I was put on Phenobarbitone. My parents were told I would have to take this for the rest of my life. Pretty powerful stuff for a 7 year old?

My family was into Spiritualism. One relative went to see a medium called Harry Edwards. He did what is known as Distant Healing.

Now, my parents and my doctor did not know about this. What they did see was that, suddenly, my symptoms disappeared. Experimentally, they took me off of Phenobarbitone. Remarkably, there were no withdrawl symptoms. I was cured. Soon afterwards the letter arrived from my aunt to say what she had done.

This is when it gets wierd. I had an invisible friend from that age. Nothing unusual about that. But I got more and more obsessed with folklore, the occult and ESP. I gained telepathy and saw glimpses of the future (it was like looking through a photographic slide of what would happen later that day).

As I got older I practised a form of Yoga. I was hooked on stral projection, I also got involved with trance techniques and self hypnosis. I could use these to release seratonins and endorphines, just thinking myself high.

I experienced telepathic static on many occasions. That is, while you relax, you become more sensitive to other peoples thoughts. It is like being in a party with everyone talking at once. It is extremely distressing.

All the time, my invisible friend told me to do things, guided me and controlled me. When I got to 21 I was seriously worried about my sanity. Had I not been so secretive I would certainly have been diagnosed as psychotic and schizophrenic.

Fortunately at that time I met two Charismatic Christians who explained that what I had was a demon. That was on October 31st 1978. That night the voice told me I was going to die. It was going to kill me. Twice I walked out onto the road staright in front of oncoming vehicles. Fortunately I escaped being run over both times.

November 5th I went to St Marks Kennington and was exorcised by Reverand Nicholas Rivett-Carnac. I also received The Holy Spirit then. My head felt as if it was filled with a blue white light. I felt as if my mind was, at last, my own. I felt drunk. All the good bits, none of the bad. I stuffed money into an offertory slot because I did not care. I was free.

I had one further experience of telepathy the following week, and it took some time to stop astral projecting, but that is how it all started for me.

Now it is almost 30 years later. My Christian life has been worthwhile. I have made my mistakes but I can see how God has been guiding me to where I am now. Some of His plans have developed over 10 years or more. But I see it because it is made up of things I had no power or influence over. Situations that formed around me, all for my good.

I am surrounded by friends, each with their own story of God's work in their lives. None of them could think of living any other way. Knowing that a loving God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves gives amazing security.

Answer 2

No thinking person, nor an educated one accepts bible stories as truth. Only those who have "faith" and have turned their lives to jesus believe such stuff. Historians, scholars, and the informed already know that we are all $14.00 worth of chemicals, and get about 80 years of fun with it. We have no memory before and there is no memory after we die. Death is final, and absolute. There is nothing past death. Quite frankly, that is indeed comforting to most intelligent people -- to believe that one will burn forever, or just lounge around on a cloud and find that wonderful is insanity. But man, ancient as well as modern, has always feared death. And when we loose someone we love, we can barely accept that we will never see them again. Out of this fear was invented religion -- probably the first to experience it was Homo erectus. For sure Neatherthals place some reverence upon death. So , no, when you're dead, you're dust is quite acceptable......

Answer 3

Prove otherwise...All Stories have a foundation of truth! either way the dead sea scrolls where not stories but more like diary entries of times forgotten, I guess you can be content with thinking there is nothing after life..but whats the point in existence if nothing exists beyond our own lives?
Life is to be adored and cherished in this world and the next, because your spiritually dead doesn't mean everybody else is. if you think everything you feel is chemical or a biological reaction your a fool, go live in the wild of the world on your own for a while, open your eyes and take in every moment...maybe then you'll find some truth! God Exists because he is every part of mother nature to pain, suffering, sorrow, grief, love joy, compassion, warmth and peace....
Seek and yee shall find..other wise get a face lift you need one!

Answer 4

It may or may not be true but it brings comfort to a lot of people who need comforting. There are places named in the Bible and historical and archiological places found that mimic what is being said in the book. So who knows-it could be like Mark Twains books-he wrote about the Mississippi River but in a fictional way. Who the heck knows for sure.

Answer 5

You think this whole world just came from a big dust or some chemical reaction. Your heart that beats, Look at all your different systems, your bones and everything are so perfect. Our brains, the plants, the animals, you think they just dropped from somewhere. It was created, by someone way more advanced than any of us. That some one is GOD.

Answer 6

No one can prove gods existence one way or another. He may be, he may not. No one truly knows. In the end we will all find out the same way. The only thing we can do is stay true to ourselves and believe what we think is right.

Answer 7

Religions also proclaim what you have said ..that after death we will be returned dust to dust and ashes to ashes...things can be proven... a lot was true and a lot of written to regulate people and make them see sense...the fear of God can make a bad person good...we all exist is a proof enough of a supreme power...

Answer 8

Someone started of religion and yes your right a lot of people believe that there is life after death which is a load of bollocks anyway because there is no way of proving it.

Answer 9

Eternal Life in Eternity -

In the height of heaven (Job 22:12), in the third heaven (2 Cor.12:2) God inhabits eternity (Isa.57:15) and dwells in Zion (Joel 3:21, Ps.23:6), the city of the living God (Heb.12:22).

Christ chose us (the church of God – 1 Cor.10:32) before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love (Eph.1:4): and He gave those He chose eternal life (Jn.10:28-29, Jn.3:36, Jn.17:2).

Having been given eternal life, we in Christ Jesus are passed from death unto life (Jn.5:24), never to die, to live with God in Eternity (Isa.57:15), in His kingdom (Dan.7:18, Dan.7:22), an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that does not fade away (1 Pe.1:3-4).

We are of the household of God (Eph.2:19).



Pat (ndbpsa ©)

Answer 10

Well try to think logically there is only one God and it says when you die you shall remain dead till Jesus comes to fetch you besides what if God made the Big Bang?!?!?!?!You cant think so rationally because you cant just make other people p*****d just because you dont believe,Im sorry but you just cant do that!