Re: A VERY IM****TANT QUESTION

"Pastor Frank" <PF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Lee wrote:
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>>> >>> An im****tant question.
>>> >>> There are hundreds of different God and religious beliefs.
>>> >>> How does one know which if any is the real God and which are
fakes?
>>> >>> Why would any REAL God permit his creations to be so misled???
>>> >>
>>> >> People seem to have been asking this question for millennia, the
>>> >> Christians seem to have worked around this quite successfully by
>>> >> plagiarising earlier religions and nicking their ceremonies and
folk
>>> >> tales, The islamics are a bit more forceful and in some locations 
>>> >> enforce
>>> >> the belief in Allah by fear of death.
>>> >> There seems to be one thing in common though that the believer 
>>> >> nomatter
>>> >> what religion need his or even her peers to conform to their own
>>> >> supernatural belief system or it all just falls apart.
>>> >>
>>> >     No Christians have been asking themselves "this question for
>>> > millennia"
>>> > for we know our Christian "God is love" (1 John 4:8,16) become fully
>>> > manifested in Jesus Christ giving His life for us sinners on the
cross 
>>> > of
>>> > Calvary. We therefore know our God and have seen Him. (Jesus in John
>>> > 14:6-10)
>>> >    Atheists don't know our God and therefore cannot recognise Him, 
>>> > (Jesus
>>> > in John 3:3)
>>> >
>>>
>>> Nobody really knows your god or there would not be so many Christian 
>>> sects,
>>> your god belief is dying worldwide from lack of evidence and the
answer 
>>> to
>>> life the universe and everything will eventually turn out far more
>>> interesting than anything our primitive yet wonderful ancestors could 
>>> ever
>>> come up with.
>>>
>>> A child will ask "were do we come from daddy" and the overwhelming
urge 
>>> is
>>> to find some answer, any answer. No doubt ancient tribal leaders 
>>> experienced
>>> similar feelings with their charges but the honest thing to do is not
to
>>> make stuff up and admit that you are unable to answer the question, at

>>> least
>>> until credible evidence is available.
>>
>> Seconded
>>
>    Irrelevant!! Knowing where you come from etc. will not make you a 
> person fit for the Kingdom of God. Only repentance and practicing to be 
> loving and caring as Jesus commanded, will.
>
> Pastor Frank
>

The question of where we come from and we go appears very relevant to
people 
when you count the thousands of religions the have come and gone over the 
millennia, why invest time in any of these myths when a person could be 
happily involved with family or helping others to give expression to any 
altruistic feelings they may have.

My pets are fast little critters and I would not leave my dinner
unattended 
so they could steal from it and then chastise them for the rest of their 
lives so what's with God and his knowledge fruit tree, is the deity
insecure 
and needs to chastise or just irresponsible. If he took on human form
would 
he be allowed to adopt children given his past record?