oceanz wrote on Dec 15
th, 2007 at 8:14am:
Quote: I don't see how anybody can be an atheist and live with themselves?
Agnosticism I can unserstand, since there's so much organized religeon in the world. It's hard to trust one faith.
But at least they believe in a life after this one.
If you're putting your beliefs in atheism, you're basically saying "My life has no purpose, I've got one life, then nothing at all. I'm gonna do the best I can and (not) live with it"
Buddhism would be closer to my belief system at present but I love the idea of Christianity... this love of Chistianity was supported by Sunday school and Bible studies as a kid insisted upon by my Catholic mother.
I think the reality of God/Jesus is based more on ones own perceptions than actual proof that God/Jesus ever existed at all.
Evolution gets in the way of this for me. Dinosaurs.! I can see that a few ppl, Christians here, who have a problem reconciling the existence of Dinosaurs / evolution, with a creation by God.
For myself, this is not a problem.
I firmly believe in creation, and i believe in a 'Young Earth'.
The only real problem is that, today, there is a lack of awareness, among Christians, of the overwhelming evidence, and information,
which supports a creation, and a young earth.
The ungodly [God deniers] have been very successful in suppressing much of this information, TRUTH.
The free dissemination of information on the net today, has been able to reveal much of this suppressed information.
Before you dismiss this assertion [above], please, may i suggest you view the video seminars of Kent Hovind,
Go to....
http://www.drdino.com/downloads.phpSelect, 'Seminars Video', then click, Display.
If you hold the mouse over the links which appear, they will reveal links to, Hi or Lo definition d/loads in wmv format.
I got the Lo definition videos, and they view ok for me.
Each video seminar is about 2 hrs long!
....but these presentations by Hovind are quite entertaining, and they are very informative.
Just watch the first one,
The Age of the Earth, before deciding on viewing the others.
In watching these video seminars, i was not disappointed.
Any devout Christians who watch these video seminars, may, or may not, be convinced by Hovind's arguments, and the evidence he presents,
but they will not be disappointed, or bored!