Gemma Therese

So you say.



Gemma Therese

Gemma Therese

Also, honestly, if there is a God (of any sort), I don't really care. If a God exists, He/She/It/Whatever is obviously not involved in what we do here, and is therefore none of my damn business. I'm here to live my life for X years and die, not waste those years worrying myself to about something completely beyond my control.

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Gee, how convenient!

Gemma Therese

Answerer

I'm also sure that there is no christians or muslims who have or had 100% faith in God, they are sure to have some doubts about God's existence.

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Megatron

Gee, how unimaginative.

You can live your life jumping at shadows, worrying whether some imaginary being thinks what you're doing is somehow incomprehensibly wrong - that's your decision.

Whether or not you believe that your life is what you make it (and not what someone/something else judges it to be) is your problem.

I simply choose to accept responsibility for my own fate, and not to hide behind superstitions.

Arrowman

To quote someone on the Baptist Board (back when open debate was allowed there):

Is not collecting stamps a hobby?

Gemma Therese

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Answerer:
[QB]I'm also sure that there is no christians or muslims who have or had 100% faith in God, they are sure to have some doubts about God's existence.

Answerer,

I must work out my faith on a daily basis, and lately, I have been bothered by the question, Would I rather be killed, or renounce my faith in God?

Gemma Therese

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Gemma Therese

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Echo

[quote]Originally posted by Gemma Therese:
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What bothers you about it?

If someone held a gun to your head and demanded that you renounce God, and you did so, wouldn't it just be an empty claim meant to spare your life? After all, you would still believe in God. Nothing would have changed. You were only pretending to reject him in order to thwart a would-be attacker.

It seems like a trivial offense to me. Kinda like the guy who tries to ensure an evening of R&R by telling his wife those pants really don't make her look fat.

Gemma Therese

What bothers be is all the horrible ways there are to die. To go quickly would be so merciful in such a situation. The dying part does not bother me, for I would be with God in an instant. It is how I would die.

Burning at the stake isn't really my idea of a good time.

If I renounced my faith to ward-off would be attackers ... is there anything more cowardice in the world?

Gemma Therese

schu

One can know for sure that the god of the bible doesn't exist. Here are just some of the reasons.

The God of Christianity punishes the innocent for the actions of the guilty. He took eternal life from everyone for the crime of fruit theft by two.

The God of Christianity drowned every innocent child on earth.

The Christian God murdered 70,000 innocent Israelites just because their leader had taken a census of them.

The God of the Bible ordered women and children beheaded and butchered and influenced Moses to order the rape of innocent young girls. (Numbers 31: 1-18)

The God of the Bible caused wild bears to slaughter 42 young children for laughing at a man's bald head.

The God of Christianity murdered the innocent baby of David & Bathsheba.

The Christian God murdered all the firstborn children of Egypt.

The God of the Bible smiled upon and did the bidding of his anointed leaders who had many, many wives and hundreds of live in lovers all at the same time and in the same houses.
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As each of you was reading these charges you minds were working overtime trying to rationalize and justify those evil, horrible atrocities by your God, weren't they?

All this goes toward proving that Christianity is no better than dirty politics. All the excuses Christians make for their god's evil behavior are motivated by the desire to gain Heaven and avoid Hell.

It is just one more extension of the "Looking Out for Number One" syndrome. Shame on all of you.


1. In Genesis 32:28, an angel of God said to Jacob, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob". After this, the Bible calls him Jacob in verses 29,30, and 32.
Also in Chapter 33, verses 1,10,17 and 18. And later, God himself called him Jacob in Genesis 35:10.

The inspired, inerrant scripture Second Kings 23:30 says Josiah died at Megiddo in the Inspired, inerrant scripture Second Chronicle 35:24 says he died at Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:5 says Arah had 775 sons but in Nehemiah 7:10 says Arah had 652 sons.

Solomon's temple had 3,000 baths according to Second Chronicles 4:5 but it only had 2,000 baths according to 1st Kings 7:26

There were 3600 overseers according to 2nd Chronicles 2:18 but there were only 3300 overseers according to 1st Kings 5:16

There were 40,000 stalls according to 1st Kings 4:26 but there were only 4,000 stalls according to 2nd Chronicles 9:25

In one incident, there were 7 people slain according to Jeremiah 52:25. But according to 2nd Kings 25:19, there were only 5 people slain in that incident.

Talents numbered 420 according to 1st kings 9:29 but they numbered 450 according to 2nd Chronicles 8:18

The numbers of persons slain according to 2nd Samuel 23:8 was 800. But 1st Chronicles 11:11 states the correct number slain was only 300.

Nebuzaradan burned Jerusalem on the 7th day of the month, says 2nd Kings 25:8. But according to Jeremiah 52:12, Nebuzaradan burned Jerusalem on the 10th day of the month.

David was offered the choice of 7 years of famine, according to 2nd Samuel 24:13. But not so, says 1st Chronicles 21:12. It was only 3 years.

Ahaziah was 42 when he began to reign. 2nd Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah was only 22 at that time, says 2nd Kings 8:26.

Hezekiah was 25 when he began to reign according to 2nd Kings 18:2. At that time, his father Ahaz was only 36 years old, says 2nd Kings 16:2.

2nd Kings 24:8 says Jehoiachin was 18 when he began to reign. 2nd Chronicles 36:9 clearly states he was only 9.

All of the Amalekites were destroyed in 1079 B.C. according to 1st Samuel, chapter 15. They were destroyed 23 years later according to 1st Samuel, chapter 30. (Even then, 400 of them escaped.)

Bethel and Gezer were conquered in 1450 B.C., according to Joshua 12:12-16. They were not conquered until 25 years later, says Judges 1:22-29.