Do you believe that God's word is true when there is proof all around us that the universe and this earth are much older than the approximated 6,000 years old? Is there no room for mistakes in the bible, or is science just a test of faith?

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• Please explain the contradictions and the many "cover ups" that you have uncovered.

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  by JRNelson9 on January 23rd, 2009

• Well, the fact that god answers prayers is just coincidence, and god makes all men in his eyes, but then he hates homosexuals, so then why would he make them? The whole world was made through incest. Hell was a concept stolen from the underworld, used by mane pre-christian religions. The name of "Hell" came from a norse goddess named "Hel" who was the keeper of the underworld. Saint Brigid was a Celtic goddess so beloved by the common people that the Church adapted her story and canonized her. The pentacle used to represent the 5 wounds of christ. Until the church saw that people used it for witchcraft, and then they made it seem as if it was the symbol of satan. And the list goes on.

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  by Rabid Octopus wears a COAT of life on January 24th, 2009

• You don't know that God does or doesn't answer prayers, you just don't want to believe that He does. Homosexuality is a sin created by the devil. God created the man, not the sin. Yes, "incest" made people happen, but remember that God can do anything He wants. He made it work early on because there was no other way. Eventually, when there were enough people, He said, "Okay, stop doing that, we have a pretty good population base here" (I'm paraphrasing). Remember that Christianity was created after Jesus even lived. It did not write the Bible. Judaism was around for thousands of years, and it used the concept of Hell pretty early. The word "Hell" itself is an English word, and the Bible wasn't written in English. So, yeah, the word probably came from somewhere else, big deal. Most of our words do. The concept is important. If you're talking about canonizing saints, you're talking Catholicism, which is a messed up religion, you'll get no argument from me on that one...

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  by JRNelson9 on January 24th, 2009

• As far as the pentacle, if I was using a symbol and then discovered someone else was using it for witchcraft I probably wouldn't use it anymore either. That's just common sense.

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  by JRNelson9 on January 24th, 2009

• The norse religion pre dates the abrahamic religions by thousands of years, your just being a bigot. There are homosexual animals as well, does that mean they are going to hell? I think, that if your god is so loving, he wouldn't put people in hell for who they are. I know that god doesnt answer prayers, because I prayed for my aunt for years to live through her cancer, but guess what, she died, in her bed, of cancer.

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  by Rabid Octopus wears a COAT of life on January 24th, 2009

• Just for the record, the Norse religion certainly does not go back "thousands of years" before "the Abrahamic religions". The Norse people didn't even exist as such until around 2000 years ago, and Germanic/Wotanic religion and culture from which it derives began only in the early northern European iron age around 800 BC.
  
  But contrast, the Torah was composed c. 1400 BC; the last of the OT (Malachi) was written around 400 BC, and all the books of the entire NT were written during the period of 40-100 AD, most before AD 70. The earliest documentary sources on Norse religion date to no earlier than the 800s AD, and most from it comes from the 13th century written by Icelandic and Danish Christians. As for Germanic/Wotanic religion in general, what little is of it is described by Roman sources (Caesar, Tacitus, et al) gives us no parallels with Judaism or Christianity, though it does indicate some albeit superficial commonality with Greco-Roman religion and Indo-European paganism in general.
  
  Again, virtually all of what we know about Germanic/Wotanic religion was written by Christian sources in Christian times.
  
  The Christian and Germanic cultures were also considerably separated by space and commerce, not to mention language, culture, politics, and some pretty imposing natural boundaries. Christianity developed out of the urban Jewish Diaspora of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
  
  So, if there is any evidence of "borrowing" or "copying" it goes the other way (Germanic pagans assimilating Christian motifs), or, what is more likely, was a case of Christian commentators projecting Christian ideas onto non-Christian practices and cultures, thinking they were seeing commonalities that weren't really there.
  

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  by Stormarm on July 11th, 2011