I don't understand, as I've look through the topics and discussion. I am depressed because we all know that God is soon to come back. But we still want to live our own lives. You must know that if we don't want to burn, and I don't mean Africa, then why are we acting like this.
So here is the question
1. Are you afraid to be saved
2. Is it pride
3. Or are you lost.
I really wanna know people.
2006-09-05 05:40:11 · 19 answers · asked by Victoria M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None of them, it was common sense that did me in.
2006-09-05 05:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"We all know that God is soon to come back?" Who are the "we all" you are speaking in the name of? It certainly doesn't include me, or plenty of other people.
You are limiting the reasons that people do not follow your line of religious thought. It seems as though you start with the conclusion that everyone really wants to be religious and believe the same as you do. How can one be afraid of religious theories that they do not believe in or desire to follow? If you really want to know what is going on in this area you first have to open your mind to the fact that people actually question and seek out their own personal truth. This does not always include an automatic belief in a higher power or the desire to be part of organized religion. I do believe The Great Architect exists, but I do not believe in organized religion (for myself that is). I don't expect everyone to follow along behind me just because I have chosen to believe it. It doesn't have anything to do with fear, pride, or being lost. It has to do with the questions I've been asking my entire life and the answers I have found in my search. I came to my own personal beliefs through an open mind, not through fear, pride, or a feeling I was "lost."
Just as you have the right to believe how you choose, so do the rest of us. Religious tolerance is learned behavior. If someone has taught you differently, they have done you a disservice.
2006-09-05 05:59:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is there a choice #4?
Out of those 3, I'll take #1. Having been saved once and having recovered, I speak from experience. I'm afraid to give up the brain that God worked so dilligently on.
2006-09-05 05:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by georgia b 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Your question is a good example of how some Christians are adopting sales techniques. In this case, it's called "assuming the sale." Even though you know that different people have different religious beliefs, you subtly--and dishonestly--pretend that your beliefs are somehow more factual than others by saying things like "we all know that God is soon to come back." It's not as blatantly dishonest as some things we see today, but it's still being dishonest to yourself and others.
JMB
2006-09-05 05:49:35 · answer #4 · answered by levyrat 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
On this planet there are many types of animals, including human beings.
The unique thing about human beings is that they can think better than all the other animals.
My dog can think sort of... about going outside for a walk and stuff.
Monkeys and primates can think even better, to the point they can solve complex problems and use primitive tools, like sticks to extract bugs from trees.
But humans are the best. They have reached a critical milestone of "self awareness" and have developed a complex communication language to pass on learning from one generation to the next.
The downside for humans is that they are aware of their own mortality. We all know we are going to die. This is a terrifying thought! Not only for us, today, but also for "primitive" people thousands of years ago.
Those people thought up all kinds of supernatural beings to explain things they could not explain and also comfort their tortured minds about the realization of their own mortality.
Some of these "religions" died out as people realized they were ridiculous (Greek mythology) and some "survived" because the religious arguments "evolved" to evade being disproved by real life observable facts.
The surviving religions today are therefore axiomatically based on "faith". If they weren't, they would have been eliminated as bogus along the way.
Today, there is no physical evidence of any type of god whatsoever.
Religion simply lives on as an "anesthetic" for the human mind, which despite its roaring success vs the other animals on our dirtball, has yet to come to terms with the fact that it has a limited lifespan.
Religious fanatics want to believe so badly that this is not the case (and that they will magically go to a fairy-tale heaven) that they will discount any real physical proof of their fallacy, or attempt to suppress it.
Ask a Christian why they are a Christian..... the answer for 99% is.. "because that's how I was brought up".
If they had been transported to Saudi Arabia aged one month, they would be a fervent Muslim.
Religion is just anesthetic for the mind to dull the pain of mortality.
A couple things I've noticed: people who want to share their religious or political views with you almost never want you to share yours with them, and Organized Religion, and a personal relationship with God, are often mutually exclusive.
There is not one shred of real evidence that there is a God or that he/she is coming back.
God exists only in the imagination of his followers.
The god of the Muslim exists in the mind of the Muslim, and according to them he's going to judge and condemn the rest of us. The god of the Christian exists in the the Christian mind as well... and according to them he will certainly pop in sometime in the future to judge and condemn everyone who doesn't think like they do. And they both have a book to back up their deluded thinking. A book writen by other men.
Humans have had various gods all through history. Each god has had its followers and professional religionists (priests, etc). Each group of believers always thought that they were correct in their thinking and the rest of the world was wrong and condemned to some form of punishment, either in this world at the hands of their professional religionists, or in some unseen future world. Most of them talk love yet wield "fear" like a two edged sword to coerce people into following their way of belief. The future will show a world where Christianity and Islam are mere chapters in a history book. But there will be other gods, other holy books, other priests, and more fear and money grabbing. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it....
2006-09-05 05:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by J B 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe Christianity is a way to control the world which is why I don't believe in the bible. I don't believe in Heaven or Hell. I don't believe in A God. I believe in Gods and Goddesses. I have never seen Christianity help me. I have seen more good come from my beliefs than I did when I did believe in Christianity. I control my own future. I have seen too many contradictions in the bible to believe in it. If you don't like it, you don't have to read this.
2006-09-05 05:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by theodore.story 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I had no idea Christians had these beliefs. You believe a soul can burn, and that an omnipresent God had gone somehwere he needs to come back from? All I need salvation from is people who don't think clearly.
2006-09-05 05:49:34 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
isnt it pride to believe you have the only way to God? remove the thorn from your own eye before attempting to remove the tiny speck from your neighbors, ps judge not lest you be judged the same way you judge others.
Im Taoist and our beleifs have been doing what we do loooooooooong before christianity came along, oh and Taoism is called Wu Wei, which means the way another thing christians stole from pagans, if you dont believe me that christianity has stolen from other beliefs then do some research and stop being so ignorant and arrogant!!!
oh and choice 4 i already have a belief and i dont need christians telling me what to believe.
2006-09-05 05:43:37 · answer #8 · answered by brianna_the_angel777 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
How can a person be saved if they're not lost or in danger? I've been baptized twice and do not attend church. I refuse to be brainwashed. I believe in God.
2006-09-05 05:47:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You forget that not everyone is to be saved. We are saved by the grace of God ALONE. God chooses who He will save and who will not. We do have free will but we cannot choose Him before He chooses us, Those that are really saved have had their hearts changed by God.
It is not pride to say there is only one God and only one path. It is faith in something that is bigger than we are, something outside of ourselves. We all need to be saved from our sin, Jews and Gentiles alike. That is why Christ died so that all who are chosen can be saved.
It is not us who choose it is God so call God prideful or arrogant, not me. I have nothing to do with it. Not even with my own salvation or lack of it.
2006-09-05 05:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by N3WJL 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Wow! How incredibly arrogant of you! How about a fourth choice...I'm Jewish and I don't need to be "saved" from anything; I have pride in my religion and heritage and I am certainly not lost. I know exactly where and who and why I am...
2006-09-05 05:44:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋