All I was saying is that as both genders have inherent flaws, and neither can be perfect in itself, God can't have a gender. It wouldn't make sense, to me at least.
Besides, since when has the father taken care of the kids? If this were 'traditional', our "heavenly mother" would be taking care of us, while God went out and worked in a tiny cubicle all day trying to support the universe.
"We all have mothers too" Very true which is why, I theorize is why catholicism doesn't acknowledge Lolth. "You want me to populate the what now?" And was cast out because she wasn't raising that many babies.
I don't know... But is certainly the reason pagan/folk ideology was either absorbed or rejected outright.
"you believe the Dogma, it technically is real blood
That's another thing Ck. It's not enough that I gotta' a bloodsucker, but the whole flesh of his flesh! Cannibalism too! Next they'll have us in confession wiping our @ss with the shroud of Turin. Of course the package will say Charmin.
Each person will read it and see something different. that is what i see that it says. that is how the Lord speaks to us and if that is what i see in it then that is what i see but you may read it and it means something completely different
if you read the bible and that is what it tells you then that is what it means to you.
I cannot make you believe and im not gonna preach to people i know are not gonna believe but i will explain to people who will listen what i believe.
church is more or less a place to get together and discuss what we believe the bible says. thats my opinion anyway
"Christianity wasn't the first to depict a single soul to be crucified for the action's of others. in fact, Greece was the creative force behind that concept. The word, religion, it self is derived from the Grecian word "religio", which means one who is in control."
I thought it stemmed from the Latin word, "Religionem", which means to unify and bind.
Ironically... religion and individual beliefs have been adversely responsible for most of the diversity on this earth. Hmmm....
^ Maybe that's got something to do with the inherent faults in mankind, and nothing to do with religion itself.
Anyway...
"Then where teh crapdiddly did God come from eh?!?! And why does he hate women?!? T_T How can God even be male, that's sexist and imperfect?!? !!!"
I don't know where God came from, and I don't think anyone does. Maybe He's so clever that He made Himself.
As for the "God being male thing" - you have to remember that the OT is the product of the patriarchal society of the time. Any reference to Him being "male" is there to help the people of the time understand the concept of God. Back then, if God was referred to as a woman, then no one would've understood at all, because males were deemed as superior.
Which we all know today is a bunch of crap, no matter how you look at it.
Personally, I think God's beyond gender altogether, but that's just me running conjecture off of the back of my head.
But since no one's and call God "It", I think the term "He" is there to stay. You can call God "Her" if you like, I don't think "It" will mind.
"but there are different religions inwhich we believe different things"
Actually, no. The fundamentals of almost all world religions are pretty much the same.
Don't steal, don't lie, don't kill, don't commit adultry, love thy neighbour as yourself, honour your father and mother, and all of that, form the Ten Commandments in Christianity, right?
Well let's take Buddhism, for example.
They have the Four Noble truths and the Eightfold Path, which basically preach the same values as our ten commandments.
Those core messages are the same in pretty much all religions. The only differences we percieve from religion to religion stem from the cultures in which they came to exist.
the bible tells me that the man is the head of the house and there are many things pointing to treating everyone the same. there are isrealites and jews and hundreds of different kinds of people in the bible and they are all shown the power of God equaly
After you take a look at Greek and Roman mythology, you can start finding all the parallels that exist in the Christian Bible. Stories they more or less stole... it made me sad.
You wanna know what killed religion for me? Studying religion. I wish I was kidding.
Me too. Religious private school. 5 years. >_<"""
How can you believe that?!?! No man will be the head of my house unless I choose to make it so!! T_T I don't care if you're a baptist, I don't care if you believe in God, but how can you believe THAT?!?!?
this blows my mind to think about it but God has no beginnig and no end he has always been there and he always will and men are the stronger so they have more of a resposability
"After you take a look at Greek and Roman mythology, you can start finding all the parallels that exist in the Christian Bible. Stories they more or less stole... it made me sad."
If I take a rose and get one person to sit on the floor looking at it, and then get some six foot five dude to look at it while standing up, they're both going to be seeing the same rose, right? Just from different perspectives.
