Is there a God?
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THE PATH TO LIFE:
In 1972 or 73, I went to Bronx Park
in search of a Queen ant for my ant farm, you had to have a Queen in order for
the ant farm to thrive. A man on a bicycle saw me up in the tree and inquired
as to what I was doing? I said I was looking for a Queen ant for my ant farm.
He told me he new a place where there were many Queen ants, me being 9 or 10 I
believed him because I trusted adults and went with him. While walking at some
point he held me by the back of the neck, when we arrived at the place where
the Queen ants were supposed to be, he pulled my head toward his pants, afraid
I broke free and ran away. The predator then chased me through the lonely Bronx
Park woods. I managed to lose him
only for him and a few others to start chasing me again but this time I new it
was to kill me. They chased me to a bridge that was over a stream with a small
island in the middle. I new I had to get away, so I decided to jump off the 20-foot
high bridge onto a small Island that separated a stream
in the attempt to save my self from the predators. The men found their way down
and still chased me, I ran toward the fence to the highway and climbed the
fence, one of the men caught up and tried to grab me as I went over the fence tearing
my jacket, and they then scaled the fence after me. At a very busy highway, I
had to make a fast decision whether to run across the highway or be killed. As
they came closer, I ran across the highway and a car nearly hit me skinning my
coat. For years, I blocked it out of my mind until one clear summers day when I
was 20; I was walking in that same park hand and hand with a beautiful Puerto
Rican girl name Theresa. I was walking over the bridge with her and I remembered
what happened to me at that park, I had not been at that park since that day. I
went to the bridge, looked down, and could not believe that I had jumped over
the side. That day I retraced my escape and decided it was a miracle I survived
that day. There were at least six men
after me and I was only 9 or 10 years old.
People there is a God, because when I was hiding from the
men, I was praying to God and something guided me to a path of escape. There is
much more to this story, but I don't want to be to long winded. I will leave
you with this, God may not advertise but he is their. For some reason he did
not want me to die that day or maybe die in that horrible way. God is real,
where he comes from or where he is I cannot tell you, he is a spirit that roams
about this earth, he may not give you the winning numbers in the lottery but
sometimes he will save your life, or show you THE PATH
TO LIFE.
In the bible, it reads “God said let there be light” and
there was.
It takes a photon 500 thousand years to go from the center
of our sun to its outer rim then on into space.
How did the bible know that in the beginning, there was no light?
Can you be any more intolerant and argumentative?
Hell even Bill Mahr said anyone who claims with certainty on either side is a fool
Religion is a closed system and refuses to accept any knowledge or updates to its ideology and has consistantly denied any teaching that does not agree with its religious beliefs. It has done that through out the centuries and was responsible for the Dark Ages as well and set humanity back hundred of years of progress as a result.
Its people that are horrible to each other not God.
Religions sometimes divide and I admit many are close minded. I believe in God but I also believe in science, I respect both. I don't believe in religions that divide people or that hurt people. Believing in God is a choice of the individual and whether he believes in God or does not, does not decide whether he is good or bad, its the content of his character that decides that.
"Andrew Coulson, a researcher in the field of educational history, points out that whereas the Greeks were fascinated by the natural world, taking pioneering steps in such sciences as anatomy, biology, physics, and meteorology, the Christians replaced efforts to understand the world with an attempt to know God; observation-based study of nature was, accordingly, subordinated to faith-based study of scripture. A decline in learning consequently afflicted every cognitive subject. “What limited medical knowledge had been accumulated by Greek and Roman physicians was supplanted by utter mysticism.” For example, St. Augustine believed that demons were responsible for diseases, a tragic regression from Hippocrates"
"W. T. Jones, the 20th century’s leading historian of philosophy, succinctly captured the essence of the decline, and of Christianity’s causal role in promoting it, when he stated: “Because of the indifference and downright hostility of the Christians . . . almost the whole body of ancient literature and learning was lost. . . . This destruction was so great and the rate of recovery was so slow that even by the ...
"Andrew Coulson, a researcher in the field of educational history, points out that whereas the Greeks were fascinated by the natural world, taking pioneering steps in such sciences as anatomy, biology, physics, and meteorology, the Christians replaced efforts to understand the world with an attempt to know God; observation-based study of nature was, accordingly, subordinated to faith-based study of scripture. A decline in learning consequently afflicted every cognitive subject. “What limited medical knowledge had been accumulated by Greek and Roman physicians was supplanted by utter mysticism.” For example, St. Augustine believed that demons were responsible for diseases, a tragic regression from Hippocrates"
"W. T. Jones, the 20th century’s leading historian of philosophy, succinctly captured the essence of the decline, and of Christianity’s causal role in promoting it, when he stated: “Because of the indifference and downright hostility of the Christians . . . almost the whole body of ancient literature and learning was lost. . . . This destruction was so great and the rate of recovery was so slow that even by the ninth century Europe was still immeasurably behind the classical world in every department of life. . . . This, then, was truly a ‘dark’ age.”."
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