There are Christians who believe everything the bible has to say word for word, and there are some who use their brains. I've only met one christian family who believes dinosaurs are here to test our faith.
I've got into huge moral debates with atheists over the Homosexuality issue, and I don't wish to get into that one, just because the verdict generally boils down to, "I believe this, you believe that, lets agree to disagree." The Bible was written in a time when there were no laws, and there were no morals nor guidlines to live your life by. In a time, where you would rape and pillage and destroy and kill and lie, and sodomize. Also in a time when the population on earth may have been in the millions or less. Because we were given freedom of choice, or "free will" every man has the potential to evil or Good, and our nature and instinct often lead us to do evil things. Greed jealousy lust and the other deadly sins are naturally ingrained in our very being, and without guidance would follow them, apart from a righteous moral standing. Ever notice that many of today's laws are based on the commandments in the Bible.
In today's society we believe that Women are equal to men, and i support that belief. But back in the old days men would be the hunters/ gatherers, and the women would cook and care for the man when he got home from a long days work. They aren't to be subservient to the man, but a mutual respect should be attained. Women work hard, men work hard, we understand that, and respect that, why get angry about that.
The idea of saying grace is more a time to pay respects to the meal that you are taking in. To pay attention to the person who made it, and the creator who made it grow, and the people who harvested/ gathered it. I believe the food is already blessed, as it has gone through millions (billions?) of years of evolution and to simply devour it without coming to realize or appreciate its worth, would be disrespectful.
We aren't made of clay per se, but the idea that we are all comprised of the same things that make up our earth, and solar system, and our galaxy, and our universe would be easier to believe, and given we'd known that in 2000BC or whenever the creation story was written I'm sure different words would have been used. What a lot of people fail to understand including many Christians, is that the book of Genesis, and the entire Creation story is written as a poem in Ancient Hebrew. The "women was made from his rib" part is kinda like the first "what came first? the chicken or the egg" riddle.
Believe it or not some Christians, Including my father, Owen Abrey (a retired minister of a church in Cranbrook) believe in an Old Earth. And Heaven forbid, even perhaps the theory Evolution to having truth in it. Now even if God truly wiped out the whooole earth with water and Noah was to save even a handful of animals, or perhaps all the animals of his area (because without the transportation of today their whole world would be perceived as much smaller than "our" whole world) would those animals he grabbed and put on his boat not be a whole bunch of different animals today? 8000 some odd years of natural selection and evolution may change a horse into a zebra, and deer into caribou and elk, Goats into Gazelle and antelope. I'm not one to say what, i wasn't back in that time.
I believe that i was created by a higher power. I'm not sure if it was a man in a cloud, with a big white beard whose house is protected by pearly gates, or aliens or a pandemensional life form, but I don't believe that the big bang happened out of happenstance, and that something(one) must have caused something. I believe that i was created with a powerful tool i call my BRAIN, and that if i chose to turn it off and not use it would be disrespectful to whoever gave it to me (lets call that someone God).
I've got into huge moral debates with atheists over the Homosexuality issue, and I don't wish to get into that one, just because the verdict generally boils down to, "I believe this, you believe that, lets agree to disagree." The Bible was written in a time when there were no laws, and there were no morals nor guidlines to live your life by. In a time, where you would rape and pillage and destroy and kill and lie, and sodomize. Also in a time when the population on earth may have been in the millions or less. Because we were given freedom of choice, or "free will" every man has the potential to evil or Good, and our nature and instinct often lead us to do evil things. Greed jealousy lust and the other deadly sins are naturally ingrained in our very being, and without guidance would follow them, apart from a righteous moral standing. Ever notice that many of today's laws are based on the commandments in the Bible.
In today's society we believe that Women are equal to men, and i support that belief. But back in the old days men would be the hunters/ gatherers, and the women would cook and care for the man when he got home from a long days work. They aren't to be subservient to the man, but a mutual respect should be attained. Women work hard, men work hard, we understand that, and respect that, why get angry about that.
The idea of saying grace is more a time to pay respects to the meal that you are taking in. To pay attention to the person who made it, and the creator who made it grow, and the people who harvested/ gathered it. I believe the food is already blessed, as it has gone through millions (billions?) of years of evolution and to simply devour it without coming to realize or appreciate its worth, would be disrespectful.
We aren't made of clay per se, but the idea that we are all comprised of the same things that make up our earth, and solar system, and our galaxy, and our universe would be easier to believe, and given we'd known that in 2000BC or whenever the creation story was written I'm sure different words would have been used. What a lot of people fail to understand including many Christians, is that the book of Genesis, and the entire Creation story is written as a poem in Ancient Hebrew. The "women was made from his rib" part is kinda like the first "what came first? the chicken or the egg" riddle.
Believe it or not some Christians, Including my father, Owen Abrey (a retired minister of a church in Cranbrook) believe in an Old Earth. And Heaven forbid, even perhaps the theory Evolution to having truth in it. Now even if God truly wiped out the whooole earth with water and Noah was to save even a handful of animals, or perhaps all the animals of his area (because without the transportation of today their whole world would be perceived as much smaller than "our" whole world) would those animals he grabbed and put on his boat not be a whole bunch of different animals today? 8000 some odd years of natural selection and evolution may change a horse into a zebra, and deer into caribou and elk, Goats into Gazelle and antelope. I'm not one to say what, i wasn't back in that time.
I believe that i was created by a higher power. I'm not sure if it was a man in a cloud, with a big white beard whose house is protected by pearly gates, or aliens or a pandemensional life form, but I don't believe that the big bang happened out of happenstance, and that something(one) must have caused something. I believe that i was created with a powerful tool i call my BRAIN, and that if i chose to turn it off and not use it would be disrespectful to whoever gave it to me (lets call that someone God).
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