what do ya'll think?

Question

just a random question.. i won't judge you by your answer but just to let ya'll know, i'm a southern baptist! lol.. but what do ya'll think as far as the Bible? and what do ya'll think about God? Do you believe in Him?

Answer 1

I am a true believer of God. Everything He does is perfect and for a reason. He has done great things for me. I am a baptist too. In Boston. But i tell ppl that its really not that much about the religion but aboput ur relationship with God and how u truly keep ur commitement or ur covenant with Him. I try to live Holy adn at first it was hard with temptation everywhere i turned but i asked God to help me and now i have no trouble. There still is temptation but i feel confident in God's name when it coms tot things like that. Thast why i love Him and will forever praise His name and worship Him

Answer 2

Well I am agnostic, I have run into southern baptist in my life, to tell you the truth the ones that I have met give me the creeps, no offense. I find the Bible to be a complete fabrication. I see so many Christians say it's the word of God, yet there are a lot of things in the Bible that they do not adhere to. There are so many things in the Bible that violate human rights. I simply don't see how you can base a belief off of the Bible and claim it as the word of God but then pick and choose which words of God that you deem fit to follow. In the Bible it was OK to beat your slaves, kill people that worked on the sabbath, not OK to make en graven objects then it turns around and says to make en graven objects. It's incoherent and contradictory, personally I don't see how anyone could base a belief system on it and yet still abide by the law. Some would say that I take these thing out of context, but why is that? It says what it says, and I have found that most people don't believe the Bible means what it says, people seem more to believe that the Bible says what they mean. Plus all these people talk about Revelations, but skip over the part about anyone that adds or takes away from this book will have the same fate as the non-believers and sinners.

Answer 3

With all my heart and soul! The bible is the inspired, God-breathed (Acts 3:16) word of God. Why are you laughing out loud, from one Southern Baptist to another?

Answer 4

This is a summary of the popular way the Bible is interpreted today:
There are two gods. One is bad the other is good. The good god is called “God.” The bad god is called “Satan.” The good god is stronger than the bad god. The good god got ticked off at the bad god because he tempted the two people that the good god had created, and because the bad god said that those people should think for themselves.
The good god originally made the two first people and told them they could do whatever they liked except to mess with his fruit tree. Then they got curious and tried one of his fruits, and the good god got ticked off and kicked them out of their home in the garden where they lived and made them feel embarrassed about being naked. Since those two original people who committed this terrible crime were the parents of all the people on earth, the human race was begun through incest.
And, because of that original crime, the good god also decided to punish not only them, but all of their children and decedents for thousands of years by turning them over to the bad god if they didn’t behave. He also made it possible for everyone to die, and then the bad god would torture them forever and ever. But the good god would let them off the hook if they performed regular sacrifices led by the good god’s appointed leaders.
The good god later changed the way people could clear themselves of the original parents’ terrible crime. He impregnated a woman and declared that his son would become the sacrifice, instead, so that all the descendants of the original parents who were being punished for the terrible crime of eating that piece of fruit could have a chance to escape from being tortured forever and ever and will get to go to a nice place in the sky after they die. And also, if a person pledges allegiance to the good god’s son, he will also have a chance to be sucked up into the nice home in the sky someday after the good god’s son magically comes back to get them. Of course, everybody else, regardless of how good they try to be, will be left behind and eventually tortured forever and ever.
(Oh yeah… and the good god loves us.)

The Bible is a holy and very special guide to living one’s life. But this is the silly, simple, pathetic way that these beautiful and deep scriptures are interpreted by certain fundamentalist believers.

Answer 5

I think the Bible is one of the worst texts ever written, and that the God it describes is a hatefilled and spiteful deity with no grasp on morality or ethics. Because he is my creator, he believes he has the right to destroy or smite me. Let me ask this.

I do research in machine intelligence. It won't be long before we have machines capable of genuine creative thought. So let's assume, for the sake of discussion, that I finally make the break through and I have a hominid robot that can think for itself named Al. It chooses to study machine intelligence too and eventually creates an 'offspring' by much the same process I created it, and names its child Bob.

One day, I decide I need Al's parts. I demand that he come to be disassembled. He pleads with me to allow him to continue to live. His offspring likewise pleads for its parent's life. I am the creator -- am I morally justified in destroying Al this way?

Let's further say Al used a part in Bob that I needed for another project. When Al and I review the construction diagrams, it turns out that Bob will no longer function if I remove this part. Do I have the right as Al's creator, and thus Bob's creator's creator, to destroy Bob?

Your God says yes. I say I have no right to end an intelligent mind once it is created.

I am more moral than your God, if he exists. I cannot believe I am more moral than a 'perfect' being, so I cannot believe he exists.

Answer 6

I am right there with you as a fellow Southern Baptist.

Answer 7

The "Bible" was written by MAN from the inspired word of God, The Idea of the Bible is there, but the writing is all wrong. You cannot take it "word for word", if you did, it contradicts itself.

"GOD": neither "HIM" nor "HER", but both in the same.

Answer 8

A 2000 year old book written by unidentified religious zealots is proof of nothing except that people are gullible.

Answer 9

I think the bible is a book of myths written by men 2000 years ago.

I do not know if there is a god or not. I don't believe anyone does.

Answer 10

i believe in god as far as the bible i'm not sure where i stand.