IMO, to believe in God is to believe in perfection. How can an imperfect being such as a human know what perfect is? How can we know perfection (God) if we haven't clue what it is? To know what prefect is we would have to be perfect ourselves first, no?
...to claim we know God is to claim we are equal to him. The bible says otherwise - it says he is our maker, our savior etc.
God and Perfect are loose words. The very fact that they exist is almost stupid to me.
Why would God give us a gift like free will and then impose a set of rules? It's like giving your teenager a Ferrari and then telling him not to use it on weekends.
There are so many why's and if's in religion. Why didn't these Gods make it this way? Do they actually really want us to believe, blindly, in them?
If so, then they gave us the gift of independence and free will without any intention of allowing us to use it.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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PB,
I agree with you completely - I follow the concept of good and evil based on the bible and have to agree that what it teaches is pure and good. But I still don't understand it. And I have difficulty allowing myself to follow something ever so blindly. Is excessive Pride a sin?![Stick out tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
...to claim we know God is to claim we are equal to him. The bible says otherwise - it says he is our maker, our savior etc.
God and Perfect are loose words. The very fact that they exist is almost stupid to me.
Why would God give us a gift like free will and then impose a set of rules? It's like giving your teenager a Ferrari and then telling him not to use it on weekends.
There are so many why's and if's in religion. Why didn't these Gods make it this way? Do they actually really want us to believe, blindly, in them?
If so, then they gave us the gift of independence and free will without any intention of allowing us to use it.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
PB,
I agree with you completely - I follow the concept of good and evil based on the bible and have to agree that what it teaches is pure and good. But I still don't understand it. And I have difficulty allowing myself to follow something ever so blindly. Is excessive Pride a sin?