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Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox are all united under the Nicene Creed. (With the minor difference of who the Holy Spirit Proceeds from (Just the Father, or both the Father and the Son?) in the updated creed at Chalcedon, I believe) I think there would have to be some give and take on all sides. Assuming that coming under the authority of the Pope is likely out of the question for most non-Roman-Calthoics, how could the church be united again? Give your opinion, I'm interested to hear. (Oh and I'm Evangelical, but Ecumenically-minded)

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1. What religion do you consider yourself to be?

2. How did you join this religion? (Born into a family that believed it, etc?)

3. What benefits does this religion do for you? (peace, joy, meaning, etc?)

Thanks!

If there is no first cause (ie. God) how do you deal with the beginning of a finite universe? Saying there are an infinite number of multiple universes just pushes the question back.

I'm not asking whether not not God exists. What I'm asking is that now that you have decided that God does in fact not exist, how do you deal with the feelings of emptiness and meaninglessness?

So here's a question for you Christians out there. Why are you a Christian? What event in your life brought you to make that decision, and what do you see as your own reasoning behind it?

Secondly, Why do you stay a Christian? Do you have stories of straying and returning. Once again please include the circumstances and your reasoning for returning.

If you used to be a Christian, but gave it up, please cite reasons.

Thanks!

I feel like my life has been a little boring. I want ideas!

For my own personal use. How would I go about creating a book that contains several other copyrighted books in my own custom anthology?

I was talking to someone that told me that people used to get thrown in jail for infidelity. Was this ever true, and if so, when?

Or are they basically the same. I've been taking fish oil for cholesterol and triglycerides. Are they basically the same, or is one better than the other? What about the milled flax seed vs the flax seed oil? Thanks.

Infinite regress is what you get when you try to explain the existence of the universe by natural causes. The only explanation is to have an uncaused cause that is not part of the natural order that started everything. Otherwise you're just dealing with infinite regress.

Thoughts?

I checked out craigslist, and have done google searches, but I'm only getting minimal results. Anyone know of a good website to find a place to live?

I'm trying to buy a microscope but I don't want to spend too much money. How do you go about buying one if they do?

The idea that nothing suddenly became something for no reason, and then had laws and order that governed it so that it evolved life all on it's own to be able to understand it seems pretty far fetched to me. A bit like magic under the guise of scientific conjecture. For any of this to happen something greater must have put it in motion.

Just curious. I don't believe that the bible was about describing the natural order, but to present the characters of God to us.

What do you guys think?

Answers from anyone welcome!

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Thanks.

Science tries to explain how the world works, and has no information about what caused it to begin. People will say the big bang happened. But what caused the big bang? Saying that because we have science there must be no God is like saying, because I am a mechanic and can fix my car and understand how it works, there must not be any engineer who designed it. The existence of God is a philosophical problem, not a scientific one. The bible on the other hand does not attempt to be a scientific document. It's a story to tell us about who God is and who we are etc.

In this translation, 1 John 5:7 mentions the trinity explicitly. We know from church history that the first mention of the doctrine of the trinity did not appear until Tertullian (born in 160, after all books of the bible had been written). Research has shown that this verse was added in the 14th century. I'm genuinely curious what your answer is to this, which is why I'm asking.

So in light of this verse, is the KJV reliable?

So I know priests do this in the Roman church, and there have been protestants too, like John Stott. But just curious if anyone on here thinks that's how they'd like to live their lives, and why?