Andrew

Exodus 20:4-5, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."

Praying to a cross or picture of jesus or any saint IS idol worshipping. Also, if you spend more time watching reality TV, working out at the gym, playing sports....doing anything more then you go to church and pray to god, well, your an idolater in they eyes of your god. Do you have a picture of a celebrity on your desktop hanging on your wall, at your desk or anywhere else for that matter? Do you watch the cooking network a little to much? Seems a bit unrealistic right? Yeah, well thats the life you've chosen I guess.

Revelations 21:8 "idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

i·dol·a·try

/īˈdälətrē/Noun

1.Worship of idols.

2.Extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone: "idolatry of art".

Christians, if by ignorance alone or simply lacking the means to "get the memo" I went through my whole life with no knowledge of god at all. Would I go to hell when I died?

What are some good websites for arguments against atheists?

I saw a question the other day asking what the meaning of life was. Then came my current question, "Is there meaning to life?" As far as I can tell, life serves no purpose but its own. What good has come of life, that doesnt serve life its self?

I'm not a sad morbid person, I dont need god etc....I'm simply being realistic and looking at the big picture, the grand scheme of things. If life as we know it on earth died out over night never to return, the universe would continue to spin on as if nothing ever happened....nothing would change.

P.S. any pro-god related responses will be broken down and thrown back at you.

Evolution is no longer a theory, it is a scientific fact. There are many independent lines of data from several different sciences that all point to one conclusion, that life evolved. A few examples would be; geology, paleontolgoy, botany, zoology, biogeography, comparative anatomy, physiology, genetics, molecular biology, developmental biology, embryology, population genetics, genome sequencing and many others. In fact, the origin of human morals can be accredited to evolution as well. As a social primate species we evolved a deep instinctual sense of right and wrong in order to reward reciprocity and cooperation as well as to attenuate and punish excessive selfishness and freeriding. It would not be possible for a social primate species to survive without some instinctual moral sense. On the constitution of human nature is built the constitutions of human societies.

If not, how or why do you not believe in something that has mountains of verified evidence?

How is it that a story about the most thorough and horrific act of global genocide in "history" became a childrens story?

I was having a discussion on religion and had an interesting though. If the bible is the "word of god" wouldn't any form of translation be nothing more then conjectures? As no one person wrote the bible in its entirety and it seems there are many variations anymore, couldnt many versions today themselves be incomplete or tainted by man?

This is not meant to offend anyone its just an observation and I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

The bible makes no mention of other life outside of our earth. According to the bible the earth was created specifically for us.

The milky way galaxy makes up less then .1% of the observable universe. If you scaled down the universe to equal the volume of all water on earth we have seen the equivelant of 8oz's out of the whole shibang. So picture even a 20 oz bottle floating in the midst of roughly 332,500,000 cubic miles of water and our entire galaxy only takes up less the .1% of that 20 oz bottle......pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things if you ask me. Keep in mind this is just the observable universe.

So, when we find life outside our planet or solar system.....what then?

ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html

In my opinion the simple fact that there are so many different religions now, and countless more through out history tells me that no one religion is true. So in turn there is no 'god' of any kind. Please explain why are there so many different religions, and why you feel that your religion is the one true religion.

and invest all this money such as the $345 in aid given to yemen, back into the economy. Create more jobs by becoming as self sufficient as possible. Bring back all of our troops, fortify our boarders and handle all of our own problems before we go taking on the rest of the worlds problems as well. What do you think?

Im no wizz when it comes to scripture but I would assume that satan would take a liking to those whom also defied god as he did. Why would he want to torture those who simply followed in his footsteps? If god and satan do exist I would imagine hell has its own rewards similar to that of heaven. It simply doesnt make sense. Satan defied god and supposedly still does to this day.......so why would he follow god's word and torture all the non-believers or sinners in the name of god? A little @$$ backwards if you ask me.

You have to admit that the majority of the world thrives on technology, it makes life more comfortable it saves lives and prolongs lives the list just keeps going. So knowing the benefit of technological advances today, what if ancient man had realised the benefit of advancing civilization through technology rather then fabricate a 'god' as the answer to all the unkown essentially replacing religion from the get go? Kind of as if the dark ages never happened. What would the world be like today? Do you think we would be better or worse off?

If your gonna tell me the world would be total chaos and it could never happen either save your breath or be very descriptive and mature when explaining why you feel this way.

A while back I had seen a question from a woman asking if a certain person in her office should be fired for having a sign at his desk that said "proud atheist" She went on badgering about how he was weird not believing in god etc. Then just the other day I was driving to work when I found myself behind a late 90's dodge pick up. On the back window was a bumper sticker stating "REAL MEAN LOVE JESUS" While Im not really offended by this as I know its just a bumper sticker. The point is this bumper sticker is clearly stating that I am not a "REAL" man because I dont love jesus. Having no official defenition of a "REAL" man, this could be taken as an insult in many different ways.

Would you be offended if I had a similar bumpersticker stating "DUMB PEOPLE LOVE JESUS"? Its not the same insult but one of equal offensiveness in my opinion.

So essentially if there is a 'god' out there and the previous statement is true, then one would have to assume he created us non-believers for a reason.......I think the most common assumption would be that we are here to test you as christians etc.....how are you (christians as a whole) doing? If we are here to test your faith, your morals etc. What kind of grade do you think christians as a whole would get/have at this point?

and still believe in god, whom has all the same super natural characteristics that we label as science fiction or fantasy in any other manner or speaking?

Which do you prefer and why?

How do you explain the lack of water markings on the pyramids?

How do you explain the epic of gilgimesh, written 2000 years before christ?(word for word of Noahs ark)

As pointed out above, how do you explain the discrepencies in the bible?

Explain to me where the dinosaurs came from.

Why is christmas on Dec 25th?

Why do you display a christmas tree to celebrate the birth of your savior?

Can you tell me the origins of the your sabbath day?

I would like to see one solid response to any one of these questions that includes "VALID SUPPORTING EVIDENCE" but I wont.....

?! If 'god' was real why would he not make himself known to all of his creations. Why would he leave it to the imperfect man to spread his word and obviously scure it to high hell for personal and financial gain? God and Jesus are supposed to be just and true, so why the hell would he make half the world aware of himself and ultimatley damn the other half that didnt have the means to "get the memo"?

Also, why was the bible written so long after christ's supposed death and why are there so many variations of the bible?