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puszysty at 03:14pm on 01/04/2005
puszysty at 03:14pm on 01/04/2005I believe in God. I believe God is good and perfect and that he created all mankind.
I do not believe in relgion.
Christians believe that the only way to heaven is to believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God and savior. Since Christians are the only ones who believe that Jesus was the son of God and that he died on the cross and rose again, this implies that only Christians (well, at least those who have Jesus in their heart) can go to heaven.
Let's go back to my belief, one common in more than just Christianity, that God is perfect and created mankind. If this is so God must love all mankind. If he loves us all, why would he allow only a small select population be saved? Why would you bake a whole batch of cupcakes, eat one, and throw the rest out? Maybe someone would say, well God only created certain mankind. So who created all the rest of them? Mankind? That's the chicken and the egg question, it can't be answered.
Even Christian doctrine provides evidence to the contrary- "For God so loved the world..." Not jews. Not gentiles. Not Israelis. The world. Everyone.
In addition, it is a common belief in Christianity (and maybe others) that God wishes that we serve him and worship him. Humans have free will to choose to do this or not. But if a human chooses to worship God, why should it matter how he worships? Going back to the cupcakes, why does it matter which one you take out of the pan first if they are all coming out of the pan anyway? So whether it be done in a mosque, in a church, in the privacy of one's home, why would the one person be rewarded and the other punished even though they are doing the same thing?
It seems to me that a lot of institutionalized religion is just a way to unite a culture, and in many ways control it. Some beliefs seem to me not to serve any real divine purpose- don't eat meat on Fridays, women should be the property of the man, etc etc. When you read a lot of doctrine, it contradicts itself in places. If they tell you to do totally opposite things, how can they both be the will of God? Even within religion, its rediculous the amount of sects some of them have, but what purpose do they serve? The sects just came from the fact that one group didn't like how another group ran their church. It has nothing to do with worshipping God at all, it seems to be just a way of uniting people that have the same belief of how to run a church.
By the way, my last post was for classroom purposes, please ignore it.
I do not believe in relgion.
Christians believe that the only way to heaven is to believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God and savior. Since Christians are the only ones who believe that Jesus was the son of God and that he died on the cross and rose again, this implies that only Christians (well, at least those who have Jesus in their heart) can go to heaven.
Let's go back to my belief, one common in more than just Christianity, that God is perfect and created mankind. If this is so God must love all mankind. If he loves us all, why would he allow only a small select population be saved? Why would you bake a whole batch of cupcakes, eat one, and throw the rest out? Maybe someone would say, well God only created certain mankind. So who created all the rest of them? Mankind? That's the chicken and the egg question, it can't be answered.
Even Christian doctrine provides evidence to the contrary- "For God so loved the world..." Not jews. Not gentiles. Not Israelis. The world. Everyone.
In addition, it is a common belief in Christianity (and maybe others) that God wishes that we serve him and worship him. Humans have free will to choose to do this or not. But if a human chooses to worship God, why should it matter how he worships? Going back to the cupcakes, why does it matter which one you take out of the pan first if they are all coming out of the pan anyway? So whether it be done in a mosque, in a church, in the privacy of one's home, why would the one person be rewarded and the other punished even though they are doing the same thing?
It seems to me that a lot of institutionalized religion is just a way to unite a culture, and in many ways control it. Some beliefs seem to me not to serve any real divine purpose- don't eat meat on Fridays, women should be the property of the man, etc etc. When you read a lot of doctrine, it contradicts itself in places. If they tell you to do totally opposite things, how can they both be the will of God? Even within religion, its rediculous the amount of sects some of them have, but what purpose do they serve? The sects just came from the fact that one group didn't like how another group ran their church. It has nothing to do with worshipping God at all, it seems to be just a way of uniting people that have the same belief of how to run a church.
By the way, my last post was for classroom purposes, please ignore it.
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