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I haven't posted on the boards for about a month.. and saw this...I won't keep posting but did want to say something.
Where is the morality in youth? ...Like many others, I would not look just at the youth.
I don't think we (society) believe morals have changed because we slowly over time change with the changes. If a pot of water starts out as being tepid....and ever so slowly gets warm...and then by small degrees gets warmer still over time, would we realize it was getting warmer? I don't think we would. NOT until it got so hot one day that we'd wake up and say "how did it get this hot?".
God or Not.
I am a believer and yes I believe the Bible is God's Inspired Word. But if I was speaking to an unbeliever, I'd start by suggesting he or she look at proofs such as Design in Nature, Laws, Answered Prayers that were nothing short of a Miracle, Creation requiring both a Creator and a Sustainer, and Life coming from life.
Just a few and I'll be quiet...because I don't like to babble on about my beliefs...but If I'm questioned, I'll answer...or like this...topic, I'll speak up if I feel like I can offer something.
We're all born into a ready made world. Many of us, like Jim is saying, do NOT question what we're taught. We don't take the time to research it out...we trust...we believe..with out taking the time to really investigate what and why we believe.
It's been stated in evolutionary textbooks that the "big bang" started with an exploding atom.....hmmmmm...If true, who created the meticulously designed atom, which in itself is like a little universe...incredibly complex!!!.... Some folks will say Christians are crazy for believing "In the beginning, God"...yet...will say..."In the beginning, the atom". In order for an atom to have started everything... A Creation, itself, had to be in place. Because it took an incredible designer and sustainer to make the atom to begin with. Pull up and study the atom in any search engine and see if you feel it required a designer.
The laws of Gravity and physics are absolutes!!...They required both a Law Giver...and A sustainer. I don't wake up in the morning and Thank God for the laws of Gravity...but I really should!!.What if there was not a sustainer?.( even for just ONE second?)..
Answered Prayers. Like many others I don't like to see deceitful practices like "some times" are shown on tv...where someone who really isn't sick to begin with starts ...miraculously jumping about. But there are many doctors out there who would agree with the statement..."The only possible explanation was a Miracle."
Life coming from Life.(life coming from the LIVING not inanimate). I had parents, my dog had parents, cows have parents, etc..... Life comes from Life.
and...Design... God says...that we can know he exists...by looking out our windows. (paraphrase). Snowflakes, the human body, the colors of a sunset, the patterns of stars in the sky, how the ocean waves come so far and then stop, and just being able to breathe in.........and breathe out each day... I'm thankful there is a God.
But like you, Jim...I would get bored playing a harp and floating on a cloud for eternity. Thank God....I believe He has something much greater for us planned than that.
and why is there such heartbreak,pain and sickness about?...God explains that in the Bible in the book of Deuteronomy in the old testament....I'm doing this from memory and I think it's chapter 28....Basically it comes down to we're stubborn....., we think we have all the answers...and can solve all our own problems...God's giving us a certain span of time to allow us to do just that..(try). That's why He doesn't always intervene. Thankfully, There will be an intervention when He will once again send his Son to this earth....at the point where humans would wipe every other human off the face of the earth.
One other thing....How many atheists are there...on a lifeboat..adrift in the middle of the ocean...with sharks circling about..?
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