We all think that we are unique and special. The idea that one day that we will die scares us and to simple cease to exits is difficult to comprehend. We want to believe this world this solar system is unique and it is more than speck of dust in the universe among trillions of other similar planets were there may be billions of life forms more advanced than us. We think that we are above other creatures and that this planet is special, we are special. Therefore, we want to believe in religion like Christianity that tells us what we want to hear, rather that what’s true.
It isn’t fait that derive but our fear of our own mortality. That one day we will die and we simply shall disappear just like the wind in the dust.
Christianity tells us that god is watching us, love us, and that we are unique. It says we will never truly die, appeasing our need to believe we will live forever, in a better place. I will be honest I want this who wouldn’t? Is it possible probably not? I would have a better chance to believe in genetic research than religion.
2007-07-23 13:50:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You said "Christianity tells us that God is watching us, loves us and that we are unique."
Christians only say that because God said it. In God's Word, the Holy Bible, that God clearly inspired is where they get those messages from. No man could Word the Bible, only God.
God said you are fearfully and wonderfully made. God said He knew you before He formed you in your mother's womb. God says there is life in the blood and therefore life begins at conception from the dad's blood.
God tells us that He will never leave us or forsake us. God said that He loves us so much that He gave His Son as redemption for us. His Son Jesus won us back from spiritual death at the cross of Calvary. That Great Branch of God that took away the sins of the world by His shed blood for you and for me. God said, "The wages of sin is death (spiritual death). Salvation, the gift of God, brings eternal life. All we are asked is to believe in Jesus (Yeshua). The promised Messiah from God.
Jesus said, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world (all the genetic research out there) and lose his soul?"
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.
Have you read the Bible lately? Read the Book of Daniel and then read the Book of Revelation. You may notice the front page of the newspaper.
2007-07-23 14:08:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've lived with other species for most of my life, and have never felt that my own was special in any way. The knowledge that I will someday cease to exist has never bothered me. I care only that those I love have ceased to exist because they're no longer in my life. Maybe this is why, in part, it was easier for me to recognize that humans created god out of ignorance, rather than that gods created humans out of their need. Religion offers nothing that I want or need. Gaining knowledge, on the other hand, expands my mental horizons, and is more powerful than any fantasy could ever be.
2007-07-23 15:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should take up genetic research.
Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells. Just one of those cells contains enough information about our bodies to fill 500,000 close-typed pages. Scientists who study DNA have not observed huge amounts—or any amount, in fact—of new information originating by chance. The information stored in our DNA is only rearranged or decreased as it is passed from parent to child. So where did the information in all living things come from in the first place? Current scientific observations show that information can only come from a source of intelligence, ultimately. Since God is infinitely intelligent, it makes sense that He is the author of all the information.
2007-07-23 14:01:46 · answer #3 · answered by G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the Mormon faith,- God refered us to have a mortality.A mortality within us as our souls, that lives on forever within each and every one of us...God made this so,that for souls to could re-new the past.We may know this as reincarnation within the human body,spirit and soul. We are here physically,but within us we have a mortal soul that is continuence of life tomake the differences between what once was and what is of now.
2007-07-23 14:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Seeking 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree. But, remember death is the end of that fear. Enjoy this life as much as you can, it is the only chance you'll ever have. Embrace reality.
2007-07-23 14:00:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or, could it simply be that God actually made us?
2007-07-23 13:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Little of both
2007-07-23 13:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋