Buddha is just another person who thinks humans can become perfect if they think long and hard enough about being perfect. But when you are broken you can't fix yourself. Tell me have you ever seen anything that was broken ever fix itself? I know Nirvana sounds nice, but humans just aren't capable of it. Plus his stuff that I've read just doesn't sound logical, he wants to lose himself in WHAT? To God, we are all valued and wonderfully made, and he doesn't want to distroy us so we can be perfect, he wants to fix us to be perfect but keep us.
Have you ever harmed or spoke against another person or spoke against God? Lied, stolen, coveted, lusted after someone, been Prideful or even hated? Then it's too late for you to be a good person. Good people don't do those things. There is none good but one, that is God.
That isn't true. Nothing in the eightfold path involves self destruction. Self-detachment perhaps, but not destruction.
It says to me that something's wrong with God's creation since we were made in his image. I just don't buy it.
Would it not have been just to smite Pharoah himself for his crimes, not innocent children who were not at fault?
So it is okay to kill children if the leader of their country don't care about them, but only once?
Imagine that Abraham Lincoln had decided to deliver the same biblical punishment on the Confederacy, as both Pharoah and the confederates indulged in the evil of slavery. Would you believe someone who said that Lincoln could order such a deed without hatred in his heart? Or would you consider it a just decision?
Have you ever harmed or spoke against another person or spoke against God? Lied, stolen, coveted, lusted after someone, been Prideful or even hated? Then it's too late for you to be a good person. Good people don't do those things. There is none good but one, that is God.
Oh man, you can't believe how really bizarre this whole string is to a non-indoctrinated/non-Kool-aided logical person.
Serious 'decultification' needed from the serially spurious Opening post right on down.
And there are the lies I mentioned. I call BS. Sure, I've been proud of myself from time to time, and I do tell a few white lies. And if you believe that makes me a bad person, then you need some serious help.
You know that's actually the crux of the issue. Either someone realizes they need a Savior or they don't. The message of the Bible convicts the heart and separates right and wrong. Everyone's free to make that very choice. That's why Jesus is different from the other religions, because they all have some kind of manmade work attached, or a heaven that pleases men's carnal sin nature (being a "hero" in Olympus makes you earn a "better" title than someone else, feeding on pride and boasting, and Jesus's free gift makes no one be able to boast) and why Jesus said the path to eternal life is narrow and the path to destruction is wide. It has to do with whether you need him or not.
Lol. You sound like a car salesman, the way you are talking about how Christianity is a great and loving religion, without ever really saying anything at all.
Let's pretend that Christianity is loving and dandy religion that has never done anything wrong or bad. What makes you so sure it's right? Do you have any evidence to say that Jesus really was the son of god, or even existed? Or is it all based on people making you feel like a monster over nothing, and a fuzzy warm feeling you get in your gut by telling yourself that someone loves you?
Lol. You sound like a car salesman, the way you are talking about how Christianity is a great and loving religion, without ever really saying anything at all.
Let's pretend that Christianity is loving and dandy religion that has never done anything wrong or bad. What makes you so sure it's right? Do you have any evidence to say that Jesus really was the son of god, or even existed? Or is it all based on people making you feel like a monster over nothing, and a fuzzy warm feeling you get in your gut by telling yourself that someone loves you?
What? When you think about all the countries, creatures, etc. the bible does not seem historically accurate at all as a literal history of our world. And what's this nonsense about the chicken and the egg being "proven"? I'm sorry, but you're just not making any sense or presenting any kind of logical argument.
...the Messiah came and died for the world, promising to return as the King of Israel...
Jews would disagree. Why Jews Don't Believe In Jesus << Big time.
How do you feel about the rejection of Jesus among the Jewish people?
I believe it was in God's plan, and he still loves them, and he loves the rest of man as well.
Also, I'd like to apologize to anyone I've offended about the other gods. I meant this thread to intruduce God and his love to the best of my ability, but I had to tack on the bit about other gods at the end which I regret. I hope y'all will forgive me for that, but I stil stand by the rest of my OP.
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