Nothing!You have lost nothing .Because there is nothing wrong with trying to live your life the way that God wants you to,being nice and kind and good. NO not every christian is doing this. But if you go through life making fun of God turning your back against him and in the end you find he is real.TOO LATE.You have lost everything! It is like a pill for your health. Just because you say it won't work doesn't mean it won't. And even if you belive in the pill,just having the pill is not going to make you better you have to take that pill inside you.  You ask for proof of God YOU are proof.  I am proof. The millions of flowers that are there for our viewing pleasure. All the fruits and vegetables that we have to eat. If we evolved.Why did we evolve into so many different things?If 300 people die in a palne crash and 1 baby lives is it a miracle? YES it is.And it is a tragidy that the other 300 died. Crap happens!But so do good things. You make fun of me...I pray for you!
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I'm religious, but your question is still offensive.  If someone doesn't believe in God, she or he can still be "nice and kind and good".  (And, as you noted, there are religious people who are not.)  But someone who doesn't believe in God *does* lose something by somehow being forced to believe--her/his freedom of choice!\n\nJust as you have the freedom to believe in your religion, and I have the freedom to believe in what I assume is a *different* one, others have the freedom to believe that we're *both* full of crap!
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I find it very depressing.  Without a God, there is no absolute moral standard.  The only morals are what people and society "feel" is right or wrong, which change with every generation.  Also, if there were no God, and after we die there is nothing...then what is the point of life?  Why not just run out and murder and rape and do whatever you feel like?  Very good question.  I'm glad I am assured that I have eternal life thanks to my Savior Jesus Christ, and that I have an absolute moral standard to live by...the Bible.
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Well.. you sure noticed that things around you are always changing, developing, transforming and sometimes it even seems like some things return and happen all over and over again.\nAs you try to determine where your own path will be leading you you might want to have something like a roadmap, or a handbook on survival.\nYou might even get to a point of questioning yourself, where you would like confirmation that you are still doing the "right" thing.\nThats where religion helps. \nYou arent on your own anymore. \nYour life gets a purpose, you know you will be mastering even the greatest challenge and you dont have to be scared of anything because you cant lose, no matter how things turn out.\nPretty cool thing, if you want my opinion.\n\nThen theres something else... the fact of life itself is that you are going to die, no escape from that.\n\nNow I asked myself..if the chances are like 50/50 for a "heaven and hell" \nor "just being born all over again" and what not...\nwhat do I have to lose????\n\nSeriously, Im on the save side with religion. \nIf in the end there was no god ...then I didnt lose anything by being religious, on the contrary, life was easier at times because of having something to rely on.\n\nBut if in the end ..there is a god and I ignored him...\nnah...I wouldnt take that chance in a lifetime!
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ingest about one good helping of religion weekly for about 12 years thats around 625 hours of indoctrination that causes brain damage and irrational thought for the rest of the persons life. they can move no further on the evolutionary scale then the world is flat people and they are barely above them 2000 years of people hidding the truth  the sun goes around the earth oh no clitch some of my religious training seaping in sorry the earth goes around the sun thats it  .So much crap in my head 6 days to make the universe and flood the whole planet and kill everyone and start over crap come on people.\nFORgive them for they no not what they do  "IF" this was said by jesus and HE WAS REAL(no records except the bible not the only reference of the rimes) thats the only thing i agree with i remember.SO i forgive the idiots who are trapped in there fears and they call it freedom .TO do what is all i ask MATE after marriage till menopause then no mating is required with unfertile women so you have younger ones to mate with then jesus come s and says what one wife only .OK but what about the old rules never mind the new ones are almost the same mate after marriage until menopaaause and then refrain from earthly pleasures .well we do not like that so change it one wife no divorce for some lame reason .WHAT hypocrits these people are .THEY must be druged or absolutly brainwashed to beleif the crap they spout .I agree that life begins at the moment the sperm and egg join  this begins the process of lifee and needs to be protected unless we allow parents total rights over the lives of the children to a certain age . \nIF leaving a child were you have it if you are in the woods hikeing away from others is wrong then poping a pill or sucking it out is wrong to.ALLOWIng harm to come to the life growing inside a women is no different from saying two months after birth  i no  longer want a child and leaving it alone to die .your body protects the life growing inside and all science tells us this life goes through many stages of development from conseption to old age and senility but we care for the dying in the last year why not end it then early to  before its natural time .THERE is no reason on earth including the mothers life to end a life .try to simply treat the cause and save both if required no greater glory then man has but to lay down his life for another and if the baby will live and mother die the child lives in a civilized society that needs the next great leap in technoligy to be born . ii\nI ramble its been that way my whole life .\nthis is not the only ingreediant  in the neocons brainwashing a healthy dose of constant they did it to them selves and they all have the same chance you do drummed in year after year.INSTEAD of my parents telling me black people were poor because of economic and social injustes dating back 300 years in america i got the old story its because they are lazy and un-educated .does this sound familiar at all with current thinking on why 35,,000,000people are at the poverty line and 15,000,000 are buried under it .MILLIONS OFAMERICANS WORKED HARD BOUGHT HOUSES PUT KIDS THROUGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WITH NO MORE THEN 8 YEARS OR LESS OF SCHOOLING RAN LARGE COMPANYS EMPLOYED THOUSANDS AND TODAY A CEO NEEDS TO COME FROM HARVARD OR YALE THIS IS CLASS DISCRIMINATION AND VERY FEW OF THE BEST JOBS ARE ATTAINED BY WORKING CLASS AMERICANS .I am not fooled one bit by the rehetoric spued by neocons against good hard working americans.THEY have begun to treat us the same as the minoritys were treated in america up until just a few years ago.POOR WHITE TRASH was mentioned around my home too.THEYwere drunkerds and lay-abouts with no ambition to succeed .I DO NOT hold the veiws of these twisted and warpped minds that were part of my upbring but i have lost 2 members of my family to this tragic affliction neoconism.educate them if you can but i have found over the years this is harder then pulling teeth without a loc
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HAHA I can see what your getting at. This isnt a battle that you can win. Neither can I. I'm christian but a relaxed one. People have their opinions and who am i to tell them different. I dont beleive everything I hear. I beleive things that i know however. And I dont know for sure that a god even exist. I guess thats the whole concept to a religious faith alone. People tend to take the bible TOO literal. Then things begin getting mixed up. I am a scientist as well, some things in the bible just dont make sense. But if you read a book that offered a way for you to live in a sunny nice beach, and youve lived in the projects all of your life...and all you had to do has follow the books teaching...would you take it? I'm sure you see what i'm getting at as well.
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I wanted to start by saying that I am a Christian.\n\nPeople who are non-Christians are not going to feel better after reading your post. This post comes across as the same pushiness that people don't like anyway. I understand that you believe very strongly, as do I, but please find a new way to share the love of God. This just seems pushy and it almost sounds like you think you are better than the "poor unsaved people."\n\nGod bless you though for trying!
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The ingredients you find to rationalize your disbelief amuses me! Come on, dude, FLEAS!!!LOL that is your way of proving their's no God!? Weak proof at best. You should go back to the guy who put that into your head and slap him!!!LOL( just kidding, don't do that!) Appendectomies, right? Well I don't remember any of God's prophets killed from a lack of appendix surgeries! Yet God has always healed HIS CHILDREN who love Him. God uses such problems as the appendix to judge grown ups,yet things go wrong, and little children die, but isn't it better that they don't have to go on in this world but rather in a perfect world with their Father? Ohh yea, you believe that's it for the child, no chance, no hope, no love. Your beliefs sentence those children to nothingness and loss. Is that right? The "beef" as you say is in the Bible and you're starving yourself trying to devour the scraps dropped from Darwin's table. But his table is empty by Darwin's own admission. Darwin said "If one could prove that single-celled organisms can split then I am wrong." (I'm paraphrasing) And they can split as your precious science has proven. So why do scientists continue to back Darwin's THEORY? Because they would rather back a lie that they discovered rather than the truth that makes them useless. I'll tell you another miracle of God, friend. The miracle of God changing your heart, and that's the one that's harder than any other, but IT CAN HAPPEN if you'd let it.
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God has sustained you and your family, my sister. To find out more of this I lead you to The king James Bible to find out why He saved you! You believe in Him, I can see that. Perhaps you can build a new life around this faith and maybe even change your screen name to something less provocative for a Christian???LOL I hope you find more faith and turn you and your daughter's lives into something meaningful before our God. God bless you.
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I am deeply sorry for your loss.\n\nI think this is one of the hardest questions to answer.  This is what nearly cost me my faith and my sanity.\n\nI've lost three babies and have no living children.  I have wanted children since I was very young.  I always though I would be a mom.\n\nI don't believe that they die because they are bad or because of any wrong they have done.  I don't even think it is a judgement of their parents.\n\nIt's hard to know who to blame when it happens and you want to blame someone.  And I did.  Mostly I blamed myself, and I thought of a million things I should have done differently.  It was those sinus pills I took or all that caffeine I had before I knew I was pregnant, or it was the time I slipped and fell in the grocery store.\n\nSome people will say Satan took your baby and some will say God took your baby.  So let's answer that first.  It's an answer that needs a little background.\n\nSatan brought sin into the world.  Sin brought death.  In that way, Satan is responsible for death.  It is his domain, and God allows it - for now.\n\nJesus came to redeem us.  He conquered death.  So even though Satan takes us out of the world (through death), Jesus takes us to be with God through redemption. \n\nBabies are sinless.  They go to heaven.\n\nOf course I would rather them be here with me.  I miss them.  But I know that they are safe and that God can keep them from ever feeling hurt or sadness.  They have joy now that I cannot imagine.  Even though I miss them terribly, I don't have to worry about how they are doing.  I know they are safe.\n\nIt took me several years to process everything and really feel better.  There were a couple of verses that helped me.\n\nBut Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  John 6:68-69  \n\nNo matter how angry I was at God, I still believe in Him.  Where else would I go?\n\n\n“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.”  John 1227-28\n\nWhat if it was for this purpose that I came to earth?  Losing my babies was the single hardest thing I have ever dealt with.  What if the purpose of my life is to deal with that well?  How I come through shows my love and devotion to God in a similar way to how Jesus showed His love and obedience - by gracefully facing the trial before me.\n\nHe who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32\n\nIt was hard to be mad at God for not sparing my children when I thought about how He didn't spare His own Son for my sake.\n\nGod was parted with Jesus for a human lifetime.  I am parted with my children for a human lifetime.  Because of the gift of salvation - God's sacrifice for me - I can live eternally with Him and with my babies.\n\nWhen you are tempted to believe that God doesn't see how badly you are hurting, try reading all the passages that talk about God being for us, our Help, our Shield, our Shepherd.  Passages about His love, care and providence for us.  It really is overwhelming.  And at times like that, you need to be overwhelmed with love.\n\nIf at all possible, join a support group for those with similar losses.  It's very helpful to be around those who understand where your heart is.
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1. your born lost\n2. you reach the age of accountability and GOD pushes back the  blindness in your mind and gives you a chance(many many chances) to get saved\n3. if you take your free-will and ask JESUS to come into your heart when GOD pushes back the blindness\n4. your spirit gets recreated and you become a Child of GOD\n5. as a Child of GOD, you are suppose to read your Bible, Pray, Fellowship with other Children of GOD(gathering)\n6. as you do all of these things, you should grow\n7. if you grow enough(get enough of the WORD of GOD in you)OVER TIME(it takes time, it is not INSTANT)\n8. you will become a CHRISTIAN(CHRIST LIKE)\n9. not all Children of GOD are CHRISTIAN's\n10. but all CHRISTIAN's are Children of GOD\n11. don't let this confuse you, it is hard to understand\n12. ask yourself this question: How many people who say that they are CHRISTIANS(not that they aren't SAVED and on their way to HEAVEN) can walk on the water, command the wether, let the HOLY SPIRIT use them to instantly HEAL other people, multiply bread for the thousands etc., CHRISTIAN means CHRIST-LIKE, you have to walk in HOLINESS to get there, and you can loose this elevated position, very quickly on this EARTH(but you don't lose your SALVATION if you do, just your status, which can be re-claimed over and over again).\n13. TECHNICALY, Born-Again people are CHRIST-LIKE in their invisible Spiritman(after they are RECREATED), but you'll never see them CHRIST-LIKE in their SOULS and BODIES untill they RENEW their minds, which let's whats in their reborn Spiritman, come through into this EARTH(miracles etc.)where others (lost and saved) can see it.\nA fountain shouldn't put forth sweet water and bitter?\nOut of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing?\nTherewith Bless we GOD, and therewith curse we men?\nYES, my Bro.'s and Sis.'s in CHRIST should learn some more. And that word CHRISTIAN shouldn't be used so freely, cause it sure causes confusion when we say one thing, and act another, even though we are saved and on our way to HEAVEN.\n               Have a GOOD Day!!!!!!!!
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Sin IS inevitable.  The point is that you keep trying to do what is right and ask God to help you.  He loves you---he's not going to abandon you if you are doing your best!  As long as your heart is sincere, just live your life doing what you know is right, and you have nothing to fear.
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I appreciate the level of thought you put into this question and I will give you my "opinion" rather than assume to have an answer. Maybe it's more telling to ask the question, "why do we lose sight of what we want?" or "why do we give up on ourselves and our dreams?". Additionally, we should ask the question(s) "why is someone else so influential in a decision that affects my hapiness and sense of purpose?" and "do I value my own opinion as much as others?".\nIf you believe that you are born of light, love and God (or whoever your higher power is) then you will reach a state of enlightenment that may lead you to discover that life choices in the past may not be exactly suitable for you now. DON'T IGNORE THOSE DISCOVERIES!! It's easier to stay with the comfortable, known past instead of facing an exciting, but uncertain future...NOTHING CAN KEEP YOU FROM YOUR DESTINY!! Live your life, simply letting love lead the way and faith to light your path. YOU ARE PERFECT!! If that bothers you, too bad! You are born of light, love, God and nature. We are all ONE, part of each other and God...that makes us all the same, and PERFECT. Like nature, we all have unpredictable elements...when you cheat yourself of hapiness, you're cheating me too. You might consider any change in life a new state of awareness and enlightenment. This works for me as I face my physical death from cancer...each change is exciting and I look forward to it.\nPeace\nMark\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/mrknstktn
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At one point in our lives, we all go through situations that will test our faith, that would want us to end our life.  I should know because it happened to me as well.\n\nWhat I am trying to say is that no matter how bad things get, never give your hopes up:  For yourself, for your boyfriend, and your situation.\n\nYou need to pray and seek God because at the end of every line, it is only Him who can give us all the answers we need.\n\nJeremiah 29:13 says "If you seek me you will find me when you seek me with all of your heart."\n\nIt means that you need to seek God with every fiber of your being.\n\nSometimes, we may not like the answer He will give us thinking that ours is better, but know that He will not do anything that will cause us harm.\n\n”‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’” (Jeremiah 29:11-13, NIV)\n\nEnding your life should NEVER be an option.
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I have been a Christian for 18 years, I'm 51 years old. #1 That I could be loved (after years of abuse).#2 That God will be there when you need him. When my vary abusive parents were dying I went home and forgave them and reconciled with them. Believe Me the strength to do that ,came only from GOD. Praise Jesus. I think the purpose in life is to praise God both in spirit and with our lives. Remember the fight is Gods we serve no purpose telling people they are goimg to hell. When the time comes when God wants you to answer questions He will give you the answers. Until then treat every one with love.
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I too faced a similar situation where bad things happened at my "old church" and I ended up leaving it. At the time I was immiture in my walk and I ended up turning away from God for a period of time. That was the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. What I should have done was seek him more than ever before. \n\nAt that time I felt like I was going against God becasue I didn't agree with what was going on at the church. This couldn't have been farther from the truth. The truth is we live in a fallen world and people do make mistakes. Even those we look up to and count on are not perfect. They too can dissapoint us. What happened at your church was very wrong. If you want to stay that's fine, but if you feel lead to leave, that is perfectly fine too. As you pray about it God will speak to your heart. Don't be afraid to listen to him. The important thing to remember is that people are people and God is God. People make mistakes but that doesn't change who God is. He is still perfect. He still loves you like crazy. And He never changes. No matter what is going on around you or how you feel, God is still the same.\n\nRight now you are going through a time of testing in your walk with God. You're right if you want to leave your old church, and if you continue to trust God He will lead you to another, the right one where He wants you to be. However you don't know yet because before He does He's allowing you to go through this time of testing. Will you trust God still even though you don't have an answer yet?\n\nRemember God promises "I will never leave you or forsake you" ((Heb 13:5)\n\nRight now I'm reading a book called The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. I highly recommend you check it out during this time in your life. It is changing my life. It's a popular book you can get at Wal-Mart or any bookstore Christian or otherwise.\n\nDay 14 is titled "When God Seems Distant." Here are a few quotes I highlighted as I read it. They might help you out.\n\n"God is real no matter how you feel."\n\n"The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking God during a trial, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while suffering, and loving him when he seems distant."\n\n"But often this feeling of abandonment or estrangement has nothing to do with sin. It is a test of faith - one we all must face: Will you continue to love, trust, obey, and worship God, even when you have no sense of his presence or visible evidence of his work in your life?"\n\n"God ios always present, even when you are unaware of him, and his presence is too profound to measure by mere emotion. Yes, he wants you to sense his presence, but he's more concerned that you trust him than that you feel him. Faith, not feelings pleases God."\n\n"Tell God exactly how you feel. Pour out your heart to God. Unload every emotion that you're feeling...God can handle your doubt, anger, fear, grief, confusion, and questions."\n\n"Never dubt in the dark what God told you in the light."\n\n"Trust God to keep his promises. During times of spiritual dryness you must patiently rely on the promises of God, not your emotions, and realize that he is taking you to a deeper level of maturity...so don't be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God."\n\n"When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way." \n\nHope this helps. Just never forget that God will never leave you and He will get you through this time. You will come out of it stronger in Him than ever.\n\nMany blessings!
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First please let me say that your grandbaby is in my prayers as are you and his parents. As for the why, there is no why, I wish there were, but God doesn't take children or anyone else as a punishment, in fact he doesn't take them from us, life does. This earth belongs to Satan, not God, (It's in The Bible) Our suffering is due to Satan not God, when we hurt, God weeps along with us. God Bless all of you in this sad time. We lost our grandson back in July, try to find comfort in the fact yours is still fighting, and just might win. I hope and pray so. Please try not to lose faith.
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Summerflower, you make me think of poor Dana Reeves, wife of "Superman" Christopher Reeves. I could not believe she is dead at 44 years of age. There is no quick, easy answer for your question. GOD knows when it is best for certain people to "fall asleep"....you heard me...they are not gone forever. Your Bible speaks of 3 RESSURECTIONS!!! Most people are not "judged" or "saved" now! GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EVERYONE! Aborted babies are not LOST! And all those people born hundreds of years BEFORE CHRIST are NOT LOST! PLEASE BELIEVE YOUR BIBLE! Fairy tales are fun..."Stephen King" tales of a "hellfire" burning Marilyn Manson and who knows who is NONSENSE!!! WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE???!!! I don't know who is going to a lake of fire--and neither do YOU...So why don't we seek GOD and find out just how merciful HE really is!!!!