i really want to believe it, but, sometimes it is very difficult to figure out how it can be from god.
i mean, in the old testament, he seems horrible in some instances.
the adam and eve thing doesn't make to much sense to me.
The Bible contains "scripture," which IS from God. But not all of the Bible is "scripture." "Scripture" is Moses, Psalms and the Prophets
So the genocide, slavery, sexism, witchhunting, stoning, baby-stabbing, and general overwhelming dickishness parts...
All "from god"?
i really want to believe it, but, sometimes it is very difficult to figure out how it can be from god.
i mean, in the old testament, he seems horrible in some instances.
the adam and eve thing doesn't make to much sense to me.
I really want to believe it, but, sometimes it is very difficult to figure out how it can be from God.
Maybe god IS an asshole.
I mean, where do we get off expecting that the universe owes us a good, kind, loving god?
His natural world is for sure not exactly overflowing with warm fuzzy compassion and love.
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i remember an elder in my congregation gave the talk "godly view of sex and marriage" in the 90's.
he was talking about masturbation.
he said to the audience if you have any problems with masturbation, please let him know, he also said please do not be embarrassed.
Perhaps the elder wanted to get every publisher he knew into a circle jerk so they could overcome masturbation together. You know : brings more unity to the congregation.
Maybe someone should point out to him that the bible very clearly speaks against this very practice:
"But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse."
- 1 Cor 11:17
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http://abc.go.com/shows/v?partner=rm&cid=knc-rm+v_title_fall_launch+google+v_abc.
anyone gonna watch this?
looks awesome!.
Hey, it's Juliet from Lost!
Awesome
hey!.
introduction.
here is a quote some of you may recognize:.
Although the reasoning is sound ... to consider WHO the first EVE was is quite a difficult one for you must first define wat a human is.
Wait, but I thought that "Eve" was simply the most recent common female ancestor of all currently living human females.
Therefore, "what" eve was, "fully" human or some previous species, dosn't factor into the calculation... right?
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want a "child-in-peril story with a happy ending" that is actually newsworthy?.
here you go:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqsvlffqxwe.
Want a "child-in-peril story with a happy ending" that is actually newsworthy?
Here you go:
i've been having some small but effective chats with my wife of late.
she is, i hope, starting to think about some things a bit better now regarding the wts.
when i told her of the rule about not hugging in the prayer, she thought it so absurd and thought i was telling lies until she saw it herself.
Funny thing though that the bible does not mention dinosaurs
This was always extremely disturbing to me as a kid.
I mean, the Bible has page after page on every tedious aspect of life,
but not even a single sentence about dinosaurs??? My dad tried to tell
me I shouldn't get hung up on unimportant little details, but this was
not a little thing to me. I mean, my big top three things that mattered:
meaning of life
what happens when we die
dinosaurs
not necessarily in that order.
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i've been having some small but effective chats with my wife of late.
she is, i hope, starting to think about some things a bit better now regarding the wts.
when i told her of the rule about not hugging in the prayer, she thought it so absurd and thought i was telling lies until she saw it herself.
This is classic evolution of "evolution" due to more fossil and genetic evidence. Really good little show:
Listening to it right now... This is really cool!
i've been having some small but effective chats with my wife of late.
she is, i hope, starting to think about some things a bit better now regarding the wts.
when i told her of the rule about not hugging in the prayer, she thought it so absurd and thought i was telling lies until she saw it herself.
In addition, much of evolution favoring one trait (for survival) only comes at the cost of losing another trait.
Ahh, right. Good point.
Body parts are expensive. Costly to build, costly to maintain.
If a species can live without something, it will lose it if at all possible.
(blind almost-eyeless cave salamanders come to mind.)
Before they found themselves living in a nut-only world, my theoretical
animals would have no need to especially strong jaws/teeth, and so
growing them would be wasteful, and hence "penalized" by natural
selection.
Once you drop the fear that your faith in God will be destroyed and your life will morally fall apart, these are fascinating finds.
Hear hear.
Learning about the history of the sculpting of life on this planet is one
of my most treasured rewards for finally having the courage to think
outside my faith.
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i've been having some small but effective chats with my wife of late.
she is, i hope, starting to think about some things a bit better now regarding the wts.
when i told her of the rule about not hugging in the prayer, she thought it so absurd and thought i was telling lies until she saw it herself.
As the generations go by, we would start to see, on average, an
"improvement" in natural inborn nut cracking ability.
Now, imagine what would happen if some of these animals had teeth/jaws
strong enough to crack the nuts, and a few others had CLAWS sharp/strong
enough to crack the nuts.
There would then be two groups that would survive into the next generation:
The jaw-crackers and the claw-crackers. As the generations went by, these
two groups would become better and better at opening nuts in thier particular
way, and would also become increasingly DIFFERENT from each other as a group.
If they become different enough, they become "incompatible", and only mate
with each other.
Hence from one species, two are formed.
The Origin of Species.
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