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Quote:Ardie, greetings sir. been reading your post for a long time and if I may, I would like to ask you a few questions.
If I may.
Quote:1. Despite all the contradictions in the bible why do so may people of colours and creeds take it as the absolute truth?
There are many answers to that question here is two.
1. Because religion does not feel it has to comply to the laws governing common sense, in short religion is based on the miraculous.
2. In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Quote:2. I've seen and heard of sick people calling on the name of Jesus and being healed. How comes?
So Have I.
Then again when I call on my mother I feel better
Some people call on Allah or Shiva
• Sugar pill experiments has taught us about the placebo effect - a genuine healing can arise not only from a conscious belief in a drug but also from subconscious associations between recovery and the experience of being treated—from the pinch of a shot to a doctor’s white coat. Such subliminal conditioning can control bodily processes of which we are unaware, such as immune responses and the release of hormones. Check out the new field of psychoneuroimmunology
Quote:3. Is there any part of the bible you believe to be true? I've heard they found Noahs Ark in Turkey. More proof the bible is the truth?
Yeah all of it…..
Quote:4. Is there one God if so who is?
Yes
Everything - Nature
Quote:5. Where do we go when we die?
No where – time and place(space) no longer exists
Quote:Ardie I'm not asking these questions to ridicule you or to try and catch you out I'm just curious and I would be interested on some other posters input as well. Thanks
Catch me if you can?