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They do?

I like being a Christian, it's nice to know that when I feel like I am unaccepted I have a God who loves me........regardless. I was raised Baptist, my husband was raised Catholic. We both strayed for a long time away from our faiths. When we dedicated our lives back to God we were in the Jesus movement. My parents didn't care that I ended up at a different church, but my husbands parents were not happy. My husband and I met at a Bible College, and have been together ever sense. In spite of our differences, I love my in-laws and wouldn't trade them. I am going to start going to their Churches Catholic Charismatic meetings. I use to go to one when I was in high school. So much fun. Good people.I don't know if my in-laws will join me, but hey...they are cool with us now, and know we are not anti Catholic. We love our Jesus, and thats what matters, they pray for us, and we pray for them. Sometimes we pray together. And God does answer prayers.

hmmm, is it not interesting how-

The Apple tree of sin was placed in eden just to tempt what was supposed to be perfect to begin with? perhaps it was meant to be that humans was to eat of this apple in the first place? and if so why punish Adam and eve for what was first planed in the first place? if god is perfect and knows everything even whats in someones heart then he/she would know that they would eat of the apple in the first place, and if so why tempt them in the first place but instead make them the way we was meant to be in the first place? did he/she just want a reason to pick on us and blame us for something? perhaps his/her own mistakes? oh thats right god don't make mistakes does he/she/it?!?!.

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If Adam and eve only had two sons where did the sons get their wives? was the girls apes? or did they bread their mother for more children? its not Adam's children (girls) for if it was then the rest of his children would have been noted wouldn't they? and if he did have more children that was not noted then wouldn't those girls be the sisters of his other two sons?
hmmm incest and bestiality, are not those sins them selves? perhaps Adam and eve was not the only first ones god created, but then again if thats the case where did the others come from and why was they not mentioned? and that would mean that Adam and eve was not the first wouldn't it? because if they was then where the extra wives come from?
was others made from the clay of the earth as well but not mentioned in the bible? and if so what was their sins to be rejected from the garden of eden them selves? or was they not given a chance to be in eden because of Adam and Eve messing up? and if thats the case why blame them for others mistakes and if they made mistakes why make more imperfections?

Alas, this does not help with where the dinosaur's bones came from, perhaps they was just placed to throw us off track, and if so is that not a lie in its self? god sinning?!? hmmmm.

They werent. There are two creation stories in the bible.

I think 99% of the Bible is just made up. I think it teaches some important lessons and I also think that some of the stories are based on actual events just like all other myths in history. For the most part, though, you might as well read any other fictional book.

1) let there be light, 2) garden of eden

I'm reading a book at the moment called The God Code. It links the Hebrew name of God (YHVH) and the Hebrew name for man (YHVG) by their letters and numerical values to Hydrogen, Nitrogyn, Oxyen and Carbon. It also links this and the names to our DNA which then reads as the following message:-

The Eternal/Within

ElfMan

I dont think it is necessarily 99%, false. If you just take out all the fluff, much of what is left is based on older stories, which are most likely based on actual events, like Noah, based on Gilgamesh, based on a tale of an actual Mesopotamian King.

The search for Truth. My life long obsession that I can't brake away from. I was raised in a methodist church. I went until I was 18. I was a christian for maybe 3 years between the ages of 10 - 13. I am always wanting to do the right thing and get very anxious when I don't know how to do the right thing. Trying to be a christian only made this feeling worse. As well as that, I am obsessive about truth. From very young I could not see God and a bearded man somewhere up there. God is the blade of grass and the snot dripping from the cows nostril and the splashes of colour within a single petal as well as whatever it is that links them all together that I cant see. The people at church had put God in a box and painted a personality on it. Given it a gender and attributes that relate to humans. So I only see them doing to God what they try to do to me. If they can't figure me out when I'm standing right there doing my best to explain who I am, then I don't have much faith in their perception of God either.

I have searched for truth constantly and I want to stop but I can't. I just keep going deeper and deeper and further back and further back, searching through myths and stories. I have tried out christianity. I have been working in a Spiritual Healing Centre as a volunteer for the last 2 years. (Unitl recently when 2 of them said they didn't want to know me but wont say why). I have searched into Buddhist phylosophy (which sits well with me). In fact I wouldn't be at all suprised if Buddha was HFA.
I have run out of space for belief though. Someone said something to me about a year ago about beleif and truth and since then I do not know if beleif is real either.
About 6 months ago I realized my perseption is all in my brain, but I know that my brain does not perceive what is there correctly. (For example:- counting crosses that turn into boxes and looking at them as seeing boxes even though I had just seen them as crosses, my brain refuses to see them that way.
So if my interaction with the world is based on my perseption of it, but I can't trust my perseption where does does that leave me? It leaves me not knowing what to beleive.


(sorry if this is a bit of a rant, I'm in one of those moods)

ElfMan

Bec

My favourite Buddha quote comes from the show Monkey.

To desire not to desire is still to be caught in the wheel.

and Pigsy says to Sandy :- "your only young once, over and over again"
but I don't think he was quoting Buddha.

ElfMan