Icy U

I understand that you pray to these saints and ask them to pray for you. But, who determines who becomes a saint? Doesn't the church make that decision? I'm sure there is some criteria, but is that not judging? What if this "saint" had a completely secret evil life that the church didn't know about? Isn't it entirely possible that a saint could actually not be in Heaven and be seperated from God, so that God would not even hear the saints prayers? So, if that is possible, why pray to a saint?

James 2:8-12: If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Therefore, all of the bashing, attacking, and fighting back against nonbelievers is just another sin for you. So why do it? Why not let them believe what they want? Why continue to provide scripture to nonbelievers? They do not believe what you are telling them, so using that to convince them is not going to work. Scripture can only convince someone who already believes.

Aren't Christians supposed to not worship idols and such? Isn't praying to a cross or having paintings of Jesus a form of idol worship? Wouldn't any religious symbol be considered an idol?

Everyone always asks if we have free will because God knows all, thus if he knows all than we don't have free will. Knowing for certain what someone else will do does not take away their choice to do it. But, if God knows everything, then he also knows his own future. If he knows everything that he will do, then does he still have a choice. He can not make a different choice than what he knows because he knows all and so no matter what "choice" he makes he already knew that he was going to make that choice and act in that way. So, does that mean that God does not have free will?

Why does everyone seem to be mad that Mel Gibson made that comment? Does that really make any sense?

Why do Evolutionists seem to find it hard to believe that two people (Adam and Eve) could have populated the planet? If that is hard to believe, then why is is so easy to believe that some primordial ooze mutated to become all life on the planet? Each new species would have to have a male and female to start the population. When humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, you have to belive that a genetic mutation caused a male and female to be born that created a new species (meaning they can not breed with the species they evolved from) they would have to then go about populating the world. Since the chances of a genetic mutation occuring at the same time in two different pairs of monkeys is very unlikely, those mutations would have to be freternal twins. How is this easier to belive than beliveing that somehow humans were created by something/someone else? Is there another possible theory than Evolution or Creationism?

The answer is not as simple as it looks.

To a God not bound by the limits of human practicality, every tiny part of your body would be as action-packed and meaningful as the parts of any rock or tree or bug. And the sum of your parts that form the personality and life we find so special and amazing would seem neither special nor amazing to an omnipotent being. It is absurd to define God as omnipotent and then burden him with our own myopic view of the significance of human beings. What could possibly be interesting or important to a God that knows everything, can create anything, can destroy anything. The concept of ‘importance’ is a human one born out of our need to make choices for survival. An omnipotent being has no need to rank things. To God, nothing in the universe would be more interesting, more worthy, more useful, more threatening, or more

important than anything else.

Is there anything wrong with this thinking? (Atheists, I know you will say it is all wrong since there's no God, assume there is and then tell me).