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Originally posted by littlebunny
Hello misinformational,
I could ask the same question as to why anyone reads the morning paper or votes in an election. However, just because some aspects of a document, statement, or person's character can be questioned, it doesn't mean you reject everything they have to say. The Bible has some very deep truths, and I believe that all Religious Texts have truth within them. That doesn't mean that all Religious Texts are true. It takes a patient person to take the time to discover where truth lies, and how every lie contains truth within it!
With regards to the questions as to the authenticity of the Book of Daniel and the link provided earlier... I am familiar with a couple of the questions raised, however it was of interest to me the things that were not said... Like the two historical figures of that time who are held in high regard in our own time... and the reason Jerusalem was spared by Alexander the Great. However, I have no intention in getting into a historical measuring contest, that is not the point of this thread... What I find entertaining is why all this energy is being expended to tear down this thread without checking to see what can be learned, and then directing the conversation from there. I hope that helps answer your questions. I would like to leave you with the very first poem/words to live by I wrote when I was eighteen. Perhaps this will give even greater insight as to why I never reject anything and look for truth everywhere.
Originally posted by Reevster
I don’t believe in God, I KNOW God exist!!! Its not even a question, it’s a statement of fact.
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When I read this I almost stopped reading ...but beening open minded I will read it later as it does appear interesting ...
Originally posted by Hitotsumami
I think our reasoning should equal reality. Reality is everything we can observe, test, predict, and show to others. If it doesn't fall into these categories, then it can't be shown to actually exist, even if it does. I think you should believe what you can show to be real.
You're an exception of course, because, if what you say is true, you have been in contact with God personally. So you are justified in your belief of God, but I am not. God knows exactly what it would take to convince me that he is, yet he does not act upon it.
I believe in what can be shown to exist. I do not believe this is a selfish universal view, because the universe is very large, and I am very insignificant within it. I could not exist, and the universe would not care. I do not see this as a selfish view.
A final point about you claiming that many religious texts are not the truth about God, that man in some ways have altered it to fit whatever agenda they are trying to accomplish. If this is true, why does God allow it? Why would God not make sure that his truth and his word was perfectly preserved in all ways and never underwent any kind of change that would affect the truth? Why would God allow his word to be changed at all?
Kind regards
Originally posted by littlebunny
I don’t believe in God, I KNOW God exist!!! Its not even a question, it’s a statement of fact.
Originally posted by g146541
Ok alarms are going off you are browsing the Bible for truth yet you do not believe in God..... Cmon!!!
Do you have any Gold to sell by chance?
You say you have found other prophetic info before elswhere?
CMON!!!
This is akin to saying that you do not believe in the existence of Superheroes but, Batman saved you last night.
Originally posted by Section31
reply to post by littlebunny
Originally posted by littlebunny
I don’t believe in God, I KNOW God exist!!! Its not even a question, it’s a statement of fact.
Even though I am a Christian who believes in Christ, I am not naive enough to make that statement in front of non-believers. Who are we to tell other people that they got their religious beliefs systems wrong?
Onto the main theme...
I see some interesting points in your posts; however, you are missing the whole premise behind the bible. It is not about revelations and end-time prophesies. Sure the book of Daniel and Revelation are important, but they are only warning signs of what happens when man looses itself.
Before the arrival of the new millennium, I was a silent and conservative revelationist. After reading through the bible and also accepting science, I completely understood what God was all about. Revelationists have missed the entire message. While they were too busy looking for signs, they completely missed all the biblical road posts along the way. Fundamentalists also missed those same road posts.
Here is Daniel and Revelation's real interpretation...
Regardless about what humanity does to hasten the end, God has the final word on the time, day, and year of his return. Every sign in the book of Daniel and Revelation has happened countless of times; thus, almost every generation has witnessed them in some magnitude. Wars, plagues, famine, etc... Nothing has changed except for Earth's population.
Whenever the end does come, today or 4,000 years from now, the only thing that maters is if you were a good Christian. God can come at any moment, and there is 'nothing' we can do to hasten his arrival. Period.
None of those signs mater. Once you see what I am saying, throw the book of Denial and Revelation aside and focus on what God wants you to do. Armageddon will be fought when 'God' is ready, but it will not be fought on humanity's time table.
[edit on 26-8-2010 by Section31]
Originally posted by Masterjaden
reply to post by Kaifan
What he's trying to do is to NOT manipulate you, not the other way around.
He's giving you a cipher, a key to use while reading daniel, to see if you, using the same key, see the same things that he saw. He's using peer review to determine if his logic holds sound while not telling you too much and poisoning the well as to the results.
Jaden
Originally posted by Toadmund
reply to post by misinformational
Nostradamus looked into a bowl of darkened water to make his predictions, the water in his bowl is everywhere today, we probably have these same water molecules in our bodies now. What did the water tell him about there locations in the future, if anything.
Originally posted by Masterjaden
reply to post by Kaifan
What he's trying to do is to NOT manipulate you, not the other way around.
He's giving you a cipher, a key to use while reading daniel, to see if you, using the same key, see the same things that he saw. He's using peer review to determine if his logic holds sound while not telling you too much and poisoning the well as to the results.
Jaden
Originally posted by littlebunny
[The question becomes, if this was all done on purpose, was there a higher power helping to direct how this conspiracy would be revealed at the right time... The Book of Daniel seems to suggest so... But these are things people need to discover on their own and then we can talk about it.
Originally posted by Kaifan
Hi, this is not what's happening here, first a couple things:
- If you want to see if someone else thinks or gets to the same conclusions as you do, first ask them to go read the book without reading what you think of it, then check if they get to the same mindset, right now, he first described in detail what he thinks, the well is already poisoned, that's pretty obvious
- What he is giving me is not a cypher, is a set of ideas based on what he believes, read again his words, is pretty clear what he believes, you are putting words into his mouth, you may believe what you said, but this thread is not about that, and if it is, then his doing it wrong, people are not toys or test subjects, don't go playing with other people minds.
Originally posted by Kaifan
No, i'm sorry but you are wrong, this thread will be proof of that, it will just die with no one with serious knowledge coming to discuss with you.
Kai