thepatriot wrote @ April 27, 2006 at 8:44 am

No joke…I ask myself this question “Am I in trouble because I don’t think or care enough to ask questions like that”. For some reason or another if a question such as that would come to my mind I almost instantly have an answer to it. I don’t know if it is a defense mechanism so that I won’t feel bad not doing something or doing something or if I truly believe that maybe God doesn’t really care about what we did with oil or as long as we are in search of helping others we don’t need to feel bad about keeping the planet he left for us in good working order. My mind never stops.

  The Pudgeman wrote @ April 27, 2006 at 11:43 am

I have all kinds of very good questions and not a single good answer. Sometimes it does bring us to the point of change so that is a good thing. B4T

  Brandon D wrote @ April 27, 2006 at 11:28 pm

So am I allowed to ask one? OK, good.

If Christians believe that salvation must be obtained through hearing the word and believing, and that all who die before they believe will go to hell, and that we are charged by God with telling people the good news so that they would hear, and believe and not go to hell; then how could we ever advocate war where we know people will be lost? Or a speed limit above 20mph? In fact why don’t we push for legislation to require all non-believers to wear helmets and sit very still until we can get to them? Or take all the money we are currently throwing into keeping prayer in school and stems cells out of school and put in towrds daving people’s lives all over the world. Now that would be a Christian lobby I could get behind.

I’m sure I’m going to get hammered on this one, but please understand, I’m not trying to derail your train here, I’m trying to derail my train. I’m trying to figure out what I believe, and I can’t do it arguing the finner points of religion before we figure out the big stuff. (this is the big stuff)

  Tom wrote @ April 28, 2006 at 12:23 pm

I’ve come to the conclusion there is tons of stuff that we may think is important, that, in reality, God could care less about! We are so easily diverted from what’s really important…in the words of Erwin McManus, the greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity. B, it’s time to derail the religion train….let it crash and burn! The big stuff is simply love God and love our fellow human…..everthing else is supplemental.