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For God's Sake !! Submitted by 'Grizz' from Alexandra, New Zealand. |
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God, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah ... The list is long. It depends on the believer as to what name is used. Same goes for which book is used. The bible has a vast number of versions (too many to list here). It seems each religion has it's own version of events. For a Deity that is supposed to be loving and benevolent, God is responsible for more human suffering and death in the history of man than anything else!!!
Each religion will tell you they are the ONE and that all others are False and their God is a false God and some go to war to prove it. And yet no one can give us positive proof that their God actually exists! "It's a matter of faith" is the standard answer! Faith in what I ask you?
It all sound like nonsense to me!! I have more faith in the existence of aliens and little green buggers than in an all powerful entity.
It All Started With...
No believe me, I would love to "spill blood" on this topic because I believe your intial comment, which advocates"the blame God game", truly has no relevant basis when discussing the nature and existance of sin and world in the world.
XBN ( 35 posts / 6 fights ) from Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) on 06/23 at 11:05AM PT
I’d like to address a few things before discussing the main topic. God, Allah, and Buddha are not the same god as you advocated in your initial post. God and Jehovah are the same name as they are used interchangeably within the Old Testament. But Allah and the Islamic religion, proscribes a far different set of rules and standard then that found with God or Buddha. So when one decides to pray to Allah and one prays to Buddha they do not believe they are praying to the same god just using a different name. I’m not suggesting that multiple gods exist or that one religion is better then the other. I’m simply explaining that it does not depend on the believer as to which name God goes by but that people pray to these different names because the different names hold different meanings and different beliefs.
XBN ( 35 posts / 6 fights ) from Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) on 06/25 at 03:25PM PT
It’s true that a vast number of versions of the Bible exist. However, the changes within those Bibles are, in general different, versions or perspectives on the same events that took place. Still, the Bible’s core message is that God sent Jesus to save the world from sin. This message, I assure you, does not change through the different versions of the Bible. The differences are minuet across different version of the Bible as the basis and foundation of the religion remains the same. Each sect may have its own version of events but this does not mean that one religion is better then the other or that one version falsifies the other. The key overall is to believe one’s own religion while respecting other beliefs.
XBN ( 35 posts / 6 fights ) from Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) on 06/25 at 03:33PM PT