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Originally posted by ButterCookie
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Originally posted by ButterCookie
1. If one states that Heaven is "paradise", I ask them to describe their paradise image and realize that is a personal ideal, existing in ones own mind. They have to then ackowledge that they believe it to be totally imaginary....but then where are the biblical angels falling from, descending from, or ascending up into?
Originally posted by ButterCookie
Then you must ask, "Which planet or galaxy does this place exist? Definatley not Earth....think about it: if one is coming down from this place or going up into this place it has exist above this planet. In the bible Heaven is also depicted as "the place beyond the clouds"....if you looked through a telescope and saw beyond the clouds, what are you looking at?
Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by ButterCookie
I'm 34 right now. I was a christian until my mid 20's. I delt with guilt about it until a few years ago. So I am confidently agnostic at this point, and can curse god without any shame. But when I -was- a christian I thought the same thing as you. I thought heaven was space or a place in space. I thought jesus and the angels rose into space from earth and that their home was somewhere out there. Similar, I think that one explanation for jesus/angels/etc is that they're aliens. But all of this assumes that the bible is an actual account. Since I no longer believe the biblical stories, then I cannot entertain the idea that angels are aliens and so on.
"I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies."
edit on 19-9-2011 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Republican08
reply to post by ButterCookie
For the evolution part, Just because an ape, well in all honesty it's not apes, it was chimpanzees, evolved, it doesn't mean, the whole species, goes flip and turns over to humans, it's a slow and long process.