TheMelodyMaker wrote:What's to debate? I totally agree with all those answers.
[Edit: By the way, welcome to CAA, Akane. ^_^ ]
Radical Dreamer wrote:Well, stuff like this always causes major controversy in non-Christian environments, but here, since we all basically agree with you, there's no real reason to debate it. XD It's refreshing, huh?
In a Bible study book I'm reading now it asks these four questions:
1. Who is God?
2. How did the world begin?
3. What is your pupose on earth?
4. What will happen to you after you die?
TheMelodyMaker wrote:What's to debate?
Akane wrote:Lol, yeah. In a way I'm not surprised that there hasn't been many replies. Because, like you said, we all basically agree. The answers I got from the other forum however...yeah But mostly, I just felt sorry for them....
dyzzispell wrote:I would just add the fact that we are all sinners, and that THAT is what Christ saved us from. I figure that was to be assumed in your statement, but these days everyone is so afraid to use the word sin, you never know anymore.
ducheval wrote:4. Don't know. will find out in 60+- years.
Originally posted by ducheval:
4. Don't know. will find out in 60+- years.
Or tomorrow. Best to be prepared today.
Akane wrote:I posted these questions and my answers on animenation and everyone on there was offended and twisted. Infact, one of the members referred me to this forum because they didn't think it was appropriate to ask there, I guess. I thought I'd post it here and see what would happen...
In a Bible study book I'm reading now it asks these four questions:
1. Who is God?
2. How did the world begin?
3. What is your pupose on earth?
4. What will happen to you after you die?
Here's my answers...
1. I believe God is everything He says He is. The Creator. The Alpha and Omega. Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent. The Sacrifice so that we might believe on Him and be saved. I believe He is Love and that He is Truth. What life is all about. My true Friend. I believe in the Trinity. And that God is the only one that has the power to save people from Hell and to condemn them.
2. I believe God created the universe in 6 days (Day 1: Light and Dark. 2: Water. 3: Land. 4: Sun, Moon, & Stars. 5: Sea creatures & the birds. 6: Man & the land creatures.) and rested on the 7th day.
3: I believe my purpose is to serve God and rejoice in Him. Tell others about Him and what He has done for them and what He could do for them if they believe on Him. To live abundantly and to love. To use my gifts to help others and honor Him. To study His Word and build my relationship with Him. To be more like Him with His help.
4: I believe that God has saved me from eternal damnation and that I will live forever with Him and other believers because I have excepted what His Son did for me on the cross and trusted in Him. I will be renewed and complete, in every way (spiritually/physically/mentally/emotionally). Without God, I could never go to heaven.
What do you think?
ducheval wrote:I don't feel the need to have one.
A life without meaning or purpose is a life in which having lost the direction of a compass one now has complete freedom to go anywhere and yet nowhere at the same time.
ducheval wrote:Avoiding the subject of intellectual foundations of religion as I consider that to have nothing to do with my reply, the reason why I replied to you was that I found it somewhat absurd that I needed a purpose or meaning of life to get somewhere or do something.
Life doesn't have to have meaning or purpose to me. It's simply a process that I'm caught in the middle of, working my way through, and doing the best I can at morally, financially, etc.
I've run into far far too many people that take up half hearted religious conviction because they're so ridiculously scared of the possibility that their life might have no meaning or purpose, which I consider a very poor basis for faith. I would not wish to be one such as that, so I consider it doubly important to not require some kind of artificial meaning or purpose of my life, but rather to simply live my life and choose faith because I feel it's right, not out of fear.
GhostontheNet wrote:if you're so apathetic to whether any religion is true and what intellectual foundations can be given for why to believe any religion is true, why did you bother coming here and posting at all?
if you're so apathetic to whether any religion is true and what intellectual foundations can be given for why to believe any religion is true, why did you bother coming here and posting at all?
Alright, fair enough, I admit I've seen a fair number of people like that come through, though with a certain limited amount of shelf life. It was my original perception that ducheval's original intent was to simply be a kind of hit-and-run nuissance, though the reality turned out to be much more subtle.Pascal wrote:I could actually think of many reasons why a person apathetic to religion would want to join CAA, first, they may share the same moral or ethical views as are commonly accepted by most Christians and thus find CAA an interesting enviroment to be part of while avoiding moral and ethical concepts that they are against. Second, they may have friends on CAA and thus wish to have a place where they can talk with their friends. There are probobly many other reasons as well. It doesn't really matter in the end, if this is the type of enviroment they want to discuss topics of their life in, should we really turn people away? In the end, I think we have improved the world in some manner, even if in slight way.
Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Sorry. But thats the attitude that deters some people from joining this place.
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