03-04-2004, 11:47 AM
It's your life and you can gamble with your soul if you like, being that you believe that you
have a soul. I personally don't find any humor for playing with your eternal future. The older
you get the more you think of your finite existance on this Earth. You start to realize that you WILL die
one day and there's nothing you can do about it. You need to believe SOMETHING and be ready to go
to the grave with those beliefs. You could die in the next minute from ANY life affliction (stroke, annurism, heart malfunction..etc). Are you ready to face what's on the other side or are you just gonna play it 'safe' and wear your armor of invincibility? You can do what you like. I am gonna believe what I think is the right way for my life and take my chances.
Religion is not the source of strife and pain in this world as so many have said. Man's nature and self-absorbed plans are the source of this. Some people have said that the Bible is just another book...a fantasy storybook...written by man. The Bible is written by man; copied and distributed by man all over the world, but it is the Divine hand down of God. The Bible is proven divine by being filled with prophecies in the Old Testament and the fullfilling of these prophecies hundreds/thousands of years later in the New Testament and present time. There are over 500 prophecies listed that have came to pass. You might think that Christ was just a man...a philiosopher? I don't think that anyone can deny that Christ was really here on the Earth 2000 years ago. There wasn't anyone who ever lived who made a bigger impact on our chronological history. Christ was prophesied thousands of years before he even came....even before the Bible you see in the bookstores was written.
All in all, we will have all the answers one day when you leave this life. Do what you want. They don't call it a 'personal choice' for nothing.
Peace
have a soul. I personally don't find any humor for playing with your eternal future. The older
you get the more you think of your finite existance on this Earth. You start to realize that you WILL die
one day and there's nothing you can do about it. You need to believe SOMETHING and be ready to go
to the grave with those beliefs. You could die in the next minute from ANY life affliction (stroke, annurism, heart malfunction..etc). Are you ready to face what's on the other side or are you just gonna play it 'safe' and wear your armor of invincibility? You can do what you like. I am gonna believe what I think is the right way for my life and take my chances.
Religion is not the source of strife and pain in this world as so many have said. Man's nature and self-absorbed plans are the source of this. Some people have said that the Bible is just another book...a fantasy storybook...written by man. The Bible is written by man; copied and distributed by man all over the world, but it is the Divine hand down of God. The Bible is proven divine by being filled with prophecies in the Old Testament and the fullfilling of these prophecies hundreds/thousands of years later in the New Testament and present time. There are over 500 prophecies listed that have came to pass. You might think that Christ was just a man...a philiosopher? I don't think that anyone can deny that Christ was really here on the Earth 2000 years ago. There wasn't anyone who ever lived who made a bigger impact on our chronological history. Christ was prophesied thousands of years before he even came....even before the Bible you see in the bookstores was written.
All in all, we will have all the answers one day when you leave this life. Do what you want. They don't call it a 'personal choice' for nothing.
Peace