Quote Originally Posted by geoff View Post
furry rabbit i was not "raised" to believe in Christ or what the bible says. i found God when i was 19. i looked on my own without any outside influences.

you say it was written by flawed men. the bible was written long ago and at different points in time. if you took the time to read it you would see that it is written in such a way that its literal and figurative and has deeper meaning, people thousands of years ago just didnt have the knowledge or skills to write the way the bible was written.

i dont understand how people can say and believe without a shadow of a doubt that the bible was man made to put morals into a developing world and to control them. Thats your point of view but i disagree. my view is this, the Bible was written by men that were spoken to and moved upon by God. He did not leave His creation alone to figure things out by themselves. He gave them a manual and plan to live by, along the line mankind didnt want to live holy any more and came up with their own ideas and theories and their own selfish lives drew them away from their maker. that brings us to today. if the bible was written by men to control and instill fear then why these days does government and society as a whole write it off and push it to the backround?

men are not good by nature, we are evil and selfish creatures, you can say that your good and do good for others, but take all the things you have away and put you in a struggle or a crisis situation and we would all resort back to our primitive natures. would you lay down your life for an innocent person you have never met?

Why does "God" have to be some intelligent force that somehow cares about each and every human to you?
God most likely is an energy that is completely indifferent to our self important species. God is most likely nature on a much larger scale than our puny brains can comprehend. God is most likely an energy that keeps cycles in the universe moving.

Who the hell knows. All I know is that I am just a human, and for me to claim an obsolute knowledge about such things is very foolish.

I am human, I know nothing more than what effects me in this life. Everything else claimed by humans is merely speculation, and some poor speculation at that. Bottom line is that everyone interprets the bible to fit their agenda. Just agree that God is the universe. Your God can be an entity, your God can be whatever the hell you want, but logically it cannot be what the bible says it to be. That's just ridiculous.