Post by -*- Little Miss Strawberry -*- on May 4, 2003 8:51:57 GMT -5
The problem here lies in that how do we know that path is the way to God. How can we be so sure?
You can't be, therefore faith is necessary.
You sit on a chair, how can you be sure it will hold you? You can't, but you sit there anyway. If it breaks (very rarely) then you just go find another one. If it doesn't break, you stay sitting there, content. The same with a religion, you believe and if you find it to be right then you continue believing that it will hold you up, sustain you, and keep you from falling... If you're sitting on a chair and it doesn't break, you don't suddenly doubt it and say "oh no, what if my chair breaks" do you? In the same way, believing in something is about putting your faith into what is to some extent unknown, and allowing it to shape your purposes and sustain you.
Agreed that the Bible and stuff once were the Word of God. But that they still are I disagree. A word is only as good as its meaning. Over the centuries man has corrupted this Word of God so much and changed the initial path of the religion so much that its more possible than not that it is a long road in the wrong direction.
I disagree. If something was once the word of God, and God never changes, then how does his word change? And how does man corrupt the word of God if everything is translated from the oldest and most original transcripts possible and if, to sense what God thinks, they look in his word? I don't believe everything is the word of God. I don't believe, for example, that the Qur'an is from God... if I did, I'd be a Muslim. We all believe differently, but that does not mean everyone is right or that everything comes from God.
I'm not saying we dont need God. I'm only saying religion is not neccesarily the right way to Him.
Let's look at this process:
1) You believe something
2) You find someone else who believes it
3) You find many people who believe it
4) You come up with a name for your set of beliefs
... what do you have? A religion. Christianity is just a set of beliefs which millions of people believe in. What's the difference between that and something which 6 people believe in? Religion in itself is simply a path to God.
Not to mention the conflict religion causes.
Not religion, the people.
What is it that u wanted to know abt Buddhism and stuff?
You said you'd been through it; what did you find out?
You can't be, therefore faith is necessary.
You sit on a chair, how can you be sure it will hold you? You can't, but you sit there anyway. If it breaks (very rarely) then you just go find another one. If it doesn't break, you stay sitting there, content. The same with a religion, you believe and if you find it to be right then you continue believing that it will hold you up, sustain you, and keep you from falling... If you're sitting on a chair and it doesn't break, you don't suddenly doubt it and say "oh no, what if my chair breaks" do you? In the same way, believing in something is about putting your faith into what is to some extent unknown, and allowing it to shape your purposes and sustain you.
Agreed that the Bible and stuff once were the Word of God. But that they still are I disagree. A word is only as good as its meaning. Over the centuries man has corrupted this Word of God so much and changed the initial path of the religion so much that its more possible than not that it is a long road in the wrong direction.
I disagree. If something was once the word of God, and God never changes, then how does his word change? And how does man corrupt the word of God if everything is translated from the oldest and most original transcripts possible and if, to sense what God thinks, they look in his word? I don't believe everything is the word of God. I don't believe, for example, that the Qur'an is from God... if I did, I'd be a Muslim. We all believe differently, but that does not mean everyone is right or that everything comes from God.
I'm not saying we dont need God. I'm only saying religion is not neccesarily the right way to Him.
Let's look at this process:
1) You believe something
2) You find someone else who believes it
3) You find many people who believe it
4) You come up with a name for your set of beliefs
... what do you have? A religion. Christianity is just a set of beliefs which millions of people believe in. What's the difference between that and something which 6 people believe in? Religion in itself is simply a path to God.
Not to mention the conflict religion causes.
Not religion, the people.
What is it that u wanted to know abt Buddhism and stuff?
You said you'd been through it; what did you find out?