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This topic is almost as controversial as life itself and I have always maintained my own belief without necessarily be sensationalized but given all the celebrated topics on the blog lately, I am so tempted to yet again, explore a very sensitive and almost excruciatingly injurious and laborious to the mind discussion: The belief or no belief of GOD.

The question is why do you believe? Reasons? And if not, why?

Below is my personal reasons and I have maintained these reasons after so many books I have read and after so many discussions I have engaged with.

I believe because, if the collective geniuses of the world including but not limited to Dr. Neil Tyson de Grazzie, a Quantum Physicist and Dr. Richard Dawkins, both well known professors at well known Universities, can't explain to me in layman's word the origin of this universe and until today CAN'T TELL ME WHERE THE END OF THIS Vast and expanse of space, then I have to give my belief to whom I call: God, and I am just and insignificant being. Having said that, I also believe that yes, there are other planets out there similar with us otherwise, all this space would be such a waste. If we truly are just but a tiny speck on this planet among millions more of galaxies in the Milky Way. (Coincidentally, NASA reports to keep discovering so many planets that are similar to ours but can't be sure about sustainability of life yet.)

Thank you so much for your participation and opinions.


I respect all other's belief (except those that are bent to harm and kill others) and no way am I imposing mine to anyone as I expect them not to impose their beliefs on mine.

Thank you all for your contribution and or reading.

And for the fellow members of the Christian world, may we all have a Happy and Joyful Easter.

WTF

Why didn't someone tell me





I missed my calling

So who wants to join my congregation first prayer meeting as soon as I pay my small fee and find a place of worship

For centuries (if not longer) the Anti-Christ has been talked about. We have been led to believe that the Anti-Christ was going to be a figure-head (person) and he would at one time or another in our future come. When he has arrived, it was supposed that it would not be a good thing for humanity, and some would say he would bring outright evil.

Now, talking with a friend, it had occurred that with the turning away from the Christian religion...I am not saying that everyone should convert to Christianity...but I am talking about the decline in people being part of the Christian religion. I think I heard one time, about 10 years ago, there has been a 40% decline in people proclaiming to be Catholic, compared to the 1950's.

With this decline, people, by default, are turning away from the Bible. The Bible is the teaching of Jesus Christ (Word of God). Does it not make sense, if you are turning away from the teaching of Jesus Christ, you are therefore an anti-Christ?

During the recent Easter season, there was a focus on the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
According to the Biblical account, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot.
Jesus, who is also God, (being part of the Godhead or Trinity), knew beforehand that Judas would betray him.
God is said to be infallible, that is, he can never be wrong or mistaken.

To have free will, one must be free to do how one chooses.
Judas was not free to avoid betraying Jesus. If he did not betray Jesus, then it would mean that God was mistaken.
But God is infallible and can never be mistaken.
Therefore, in the context of God's infallibility, Judas did not have free will in the matter.

What do you think?

(I look forward to any relevant comments, criticisms, etc.)

Those christians who seems to believe in Jesus but disobey his commandments,will be in the left side,
And Jesus will say to them: i don,t know you,depart from Me!And they will be so disappointed,
they are the wolves in sheep clothings!
But those who obey commandments of God,they will be in the right side of Jesus and Jesus will love them.
So there are two greatest commandments to obey:1.Love God with all heart,with all mind ,with all spirit,
and with all strength.2.Love your neighbours as yourself.neighbours are people you see daily.
And then are ten commandments in exodus 20:2-17.
So those who obey commandments will be saved.
Those christians who don,t obey the commandments,they seem to believe in Jesus, but is false their believes without obeying commandments.
They are the false prophets who do against truth of God and against men,they let people not to go in heaven with their teachings that says to not obey the law and commandments!
So wake up and don,t be misleaded and deceived from their teachings!
nice day.

There is no real evidence that the character, Jesus ever existed, and certainly no eye witness account of miracles being performed. If such miracles were seen at the time, there would have been widespread interest in the geographical area. But there wasn't. Not till 70ce did the first gospels appear and started to mention such events. The information copied between the gospel writers who never saw Jesus or any miracles. There were many men who in the period that Jesus was alleged to have lived, thought they were the unnamed Messiah mentioned in the old testament, and stories of miracles were common.
There was no objective evidence in the Bible, just letters and opinions.

Daft question, has anyone ever heard of such angelic souls?

I never have, yet strange unexplainable experiences are leading me to believe soul keepers exist

JMO of course

An American missionary trying to meet and convert one of the most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the world offered them fish and other small gifts before the tribesmen killed him and buried his body on the beach, journals and emails show.

John Allen Chau, 26, of Vancouver Washington, an Instagram adventurer who also led missionary trips abroad, traveled to the Andaman Islands - an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal - this month to make contact with members of the tiny Sentinelese tribe, police said. The tribe, who have remained alone for centuries, reject contact with the wider world and react with hostility and violence to attempts by outsiders to interact with them. The island is off-limits to visitors under Indian law.

Chau's riveting journal of his last days, shared with The Post by his mother, shows a treacherous journey by dark in a small fishing boat to the area where the small tribe lived in huts. The men - about 5 feet-5 inches tall with yellow paste on their faces, Chau wrote - acted angrily to his presence as he tried to attempt to speak their language and sing "worship songs" to them, he wrote.

"I hollered, 'My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you,' " he wrote in his journal. One of the juveniles shot at him with an arrow, which pierced his waterproof Bible, he wrote.

"You guys might think I'm crazy in all this but I think it's worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people," he wrote in a last note to his family on Nov. 16, shortly before he left the safety of the fishing boat to meet the tribesmen on the island. "God, I don't want to die," he wrote.

Fishermen saw the tribe burying his body on the beach the following day, a fellow missionary wrote in an email to his mother, Lynda Adams-Chau of Vancouver, Washington.



What are your views on the above-stated situation?

Open discussion welcome!

When we are threatened, our lives are at stake, all the events are leading to one fact, you wouldn't be scared, you would want to understand and either accept, or do something to stop it.

I am spreading all these facts because of the global activities that threaten the whole of humanity. I know so many of you don't share my opinions, my ideas and you are not affected by these terrorism, but I am, the majority of my fellow countrymen are, according to Cruz, Trump, and all the nationwide media. I don't only look at the events of the present situation, I research and truly examine the whole picture.

Here is what I found.

The islam religion is truly a religion of violence, according to the teachings that I will upload. Now with 1.3 billion of them, they don't seem to be presently following these teachings, but the San Bernardino killing is an example that those that we assume and or think of being peaceful and don't follow the strict covenant of their religions, where did it get us? Making us the laughing stock of the world for having failed to prevent it, when in fact all the investigations done prove that that terror took as long as 2 years to prepare.

Of course, I am scared, why wouldn't I. Terror means exactly what it says. Terror. If you are not scared of terror then good for you.

If the move to caliphate the world is their motive and we are not doing anything to stop it? Picture the world's future and be the judge.



Why Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing religious group
BY MICHAEL LIPKA AND CONRAD HACKETT

The expected growth of Islam around the world is perhaps the most striking finding in the recent Pew Research Center report projecting the future of religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group.

Islam Growing FastestWhile the world’s population is projected to grow 35% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 73% – from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050. In 2010, Muslims made up 23.2% of the global population. Four decades later, they are expected to make up about three-in-ten of the world’s people (29.7%).

By 2050, Muslims will be nearly as numerous as Christians, who are projected to remain the world’s largest religious group at 31.4% of the global population.

The main reasons for Islam’s growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. Each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.7) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.3). In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility.

From Wiki.

If reality does not exist without observation...Do we exist because we are "observed?"...