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Howdy Derek... Have you ever read any Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He was a Priest that Hitler had murdered. He is an incredibly interesting read, basically because he lived what he read. I think that Bonhoeffer would say that the reason for your questions is that with the fall in the garden of...

Hi everyone.... A little over a year ago I had to do a lot of thinking about this...I will give you what I came up with. We have some close friends who lost a 26 day old baby. At the time I was teaching a Sunday school class of senior high students, and because I was the teacher, I...

Hi Julia....thank you for an interesting yet controvertial question to the board. I am a memeber of the United Methodist Church, the position is to accept members that are homosexual, although they have not as yet....(at least to my knowledge ordained a homosexual pastor). That being said, the...

It seems that we almost always take a view that science is against religion, execpt when science is helping us, as in the case of healthcare. I am not really sure where this idea comes from. What if as we grow as a species we are allowed to have more responsibilities (in the from of science)...

that is kind of like the teacher who showed a box to her students and asked them what would come out of the box. After much guessing, one quiet girl finally said that would would come out of the box was whatever was in it.... that is much the way we humans are....whatever is in us is what is...

Good thought prevoking post. Although this is kinda off the cuff (I may post more after a bit more digestion of this), I find myself wondering if this is the archetypal serpent, (aka evil, satan, bad karma etc..) desinged to keep us from seeking that which will help us overcome the disunity...

I am not sure that the conflicting will ever end. Basically as humans we want the end all be all answer....Which actually we have. But we tend to lose sight of the fact that there is satan, evil, bad karma, call it what you will, trying to divert us at every turn. Just to clairfy, I am a...

Juantoo, I do not think that the explanation is contradictory at all. I understand and pretty much agree with your explanation. I was glad that I got my point across this time. One of the things that concerns me is that there are so many who do not pick a point of reference, and just go off...

Ya know....most of us try so hard and look so deep for the part of religion that will make us suddenly say "ureka",and I am as bad as anyone, and maybe worse than most at this. But what if, when we all get to heaven, reincarnated, reach nirvana, or simply pass from this life, we suddenly learn...

Here is an interesting thought about the devil and his purposes, although I have to admit that this is not one of my own, it is still very interesting. What if this world is one big experiment allowed by God for satan. Satans goal is to try and get everyone on earth to worship him. Then he...

Thank you for the warm welcome Juantoo3, I will try to clarify some of my points so as not too be misunderstood. The normal that I refer to is basically what is accepted by most of the major religions. I do not have a problem with thinking outside these lines, but I do think that one needs...

I hope the way that I used the quote worked....folks forgive me if it did not, I am just learning the ways here. One of the things that I find interesting, is that we view thier minds as closed if they will not listen to our ideas. Again I think that it comes down to language. We can...

One interesting point in relating to fundametalists, is that generally we are not speaking the same language as they do. Example. When the government moved on Waco and the Branch Davidians, they had loud speakers blaring for the folks to come out and surrender to the "authorities". The...

What I find most interesting about subjects like this is a simple question. Have we, in our own search for "enlightenment" managed to make the mysteries of faith mundane? Do we need to search for things out of the normal realm of belief to make religion interesting? It seems to me, when we...