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Originally Posted by So when all you Christians die and go to Heaven, what do you look like? I'm assuming that since God created man in his own image that you'll retain some sort of prairie ape characteristics. Do you exist for all eternity as an adult or as a kid or just whatever state you're in when you die?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
We'll be human, not spirit-beings or some wacky jazz like that, provided Christianity is true, beyond that, how should I know?
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Originally Posted by Why did "God" tell all of us to cover up our naughty parts? Didn't he create our bodies? Shouldn't we be proud of his masterfull design... or did certain parts of our bodies become evil all of the sudden after Adam and Eve ate some fruit or something (right, don't you dare eat the fruit of knowledge if you want to remain perfect, ignorance is bliss)?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
they aren't evil, we are evil, it is symbolic of how we have to cover up our uncleaness, and in the Bible sexuality is often used as analogy to uncleanness spiritually...
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Originally Posted by Were there 2 Polynesians, Native Americans, Blacks, Caucasians, Arabs, Indians and Pygmies on the Arc with Noah? <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
nope, just Noah, his wife, his their sons, and their wives... Those races came from them...
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Originally Posted by Why would God have some plan for all of his beloved children to "return" to him and then only make this plan well known and popular in a limited part of the world to a limited number of people (and a small minority I might add)? <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
God knows who will accept Him and who will not, therefore He can work the Word so that it reaches those who will accept it. Also, He is known throughout the world by His works(creation).
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Originally Posted by Why would God want you to pray at all, doesn't he know everything you're thinking before you do? <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
What is prayer, but deep thought and pleading?
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Originally Posted by What makes all of you take Abraham at his word? Do you know the history of Abraham and his travels? Do you even know how the Jewish tribal Gods system worked back in those days? Do you know that all Jews used to believe in multiple Gods and that Abraham went around trying to convince everyone that there was only one God, El, and eventually the idea caught on because the Jews were sick of having to change the Gods they worshiped every time they got relocated (and in those days the Jews got relocated quite a bit)? <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
You are obviously the one who is quite mistaken as the Jews came from Abraham, he started the whole Jewish race, it was not existent before him. Abraham was a wealthy man from the land of Ur who brought His family and servants to Canaan and brought them all, or at least most, to the Jewish faith. Althoguh really, it was mroe a belief in God than the true Jewish faith... the true Jewish faith with all its domestic, cultural, and religious laws, was not existent until the time of Moses.
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Originally Posted by How can anyone say that Abraham and the three religions he spawned are any less a product of social systems naturally creating a belief system then the religions of the Hindu, Shinto, Druids, Native Americans? You can't. <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Why can't I?
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Originally Posted by Lighten up everyone. There's no reason to believe in some ancient book filled with obviously fabricated stories. You don't need to live forever. You don't need to have some invisible jerk telling you what to do.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Frankly, I wish life were only life, with no afterlife, then there would be more incentive for people to do mroe in this life, though perhaps selfishness would also creep up.. Also I would not have to live with the thought of some going to hell. Also, 'obviously' fabricated? slight bias wouldnt you say?
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Originally Posted by For those of you that were athiest at one time and swithced over to religion, I'm sorry something really painfull happened to you that made it hard for you to let go of someone, but do you really want to think that you're conscience will exist forever? Don't you realize that eventually you will be sick of everything including sitting around and playing a harp for the all powerful creator of the universe. What could you possibly want to do FOREVER?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
First, you have a very strange view of converts, as if all of them turn because of personal crisis... that were true, then how come so many in personal crisis do the exact opposite?
Second, your view of heaven is quite corrupted. Most likely you have been propagandized by the Catholic and popular notions which have no biblical basis. and I'll tell you one thing, whatever is in heaven, even if it is nothingness, a cessation of existence, its still preferable to endless damnation, which to me seems like the only option... either one of our optimistic religions is right, or we al lgo to hell... because frankly, if the God up ther isn't merciful, we've done plenty to deserve going to hell forever... all of us have, including me... heck, I wouldn't be surprised if that's all there is for everyone, hell...