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Default Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience" - 07-05-2010, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by undecided View Post
So, you're basically saying that you should not use your mind to make decisions, but rather you should blindly follow the Bible and let it make all your decisions for you? I disagree with that. The mind is the tool of human survival.
And what about the soul?
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We are not animals. We have no claws, no sharp teeth, only a wonderfully intelligent mind, capable of logic and reason. But you propose that we abandon our tool of survival and follow this book, blindly making decisions based off of it. How are we supposed to survive, if we leave behind the only tool that keeps ourselves alive?
God is what made us live in the first place, so trust in him and everything will be fine.
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Do you even know what survival is? Since this site seems to define good as "the avoidance of evil" you may define survival as "the avoidance of death." That is wrong. By that logic building is just the avoidance of destruction. Yet centuries of abstaining from destroying will not raise one building for you to avoid destroying, just as not dying does not mean that you are surviving. Survival is not the act of reproducing so that the species continues, which you might find as evil according to your book anyway. Survival is the act by which you are able to lead a productive, happy life. Productive because you can have a job and support yourself through free trade. Happy because you can follow your moral values, the moral values given to you by your mind, because it is your mind that allows you to survive.
Following your book, the Bible, will not bring you the great life that it tells you it will. Following that book will simply erase your mind, bit by bit, until the time comes that you are no longer able to make decisions based on your own judgement any longer. It looks like some of you are already at that point, and for you my post is useless, because you aren't reading it trying to understand it, but you are reading it trying to not understand, to use your non-mind to blank out my logic. I am appealing to those of you who are not at that point. Come back to your mind. Use your mind to make decisions, rather than the book you blindly follow.
Some background on myself: I was raised roman catholic, but my mind has been telling me otherwise my entire life.
Again, you ignore the existence of the immortal soul and of God altogether.


O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.


God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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