Religious Guidance Please - Hello. Many questions.

You have something in your ear called the vestibular system. Maybe you could call it your six sense of balance. It's a measure of force. There are no instruments to measure spiritual or "God" force. Good and evil are "forces" in a way, but they come from people, not the "super-natural realm". That only occurs in movies and comic books.

I can't say this is news, but I didn't know that exactly... Huh. I have another suggestion that may help you further your studies; it's a DVD (compiled by the 700 Club I believe) called The Quest for God. I haven't watched it (as I don't have money to order it with), but from the previews, it looks like it compares all the other religions (maybe not all) to Christianity. I'll tell you straight up that it is from people who are in favor of Christianity. I'll leave you to judge whether it's biased or not, though.

That's really interesting about the ear thingy. I might look that up later.

I'll give you the short answer. Christianity, Islam, Judisim and Satanisim are the only religions that I know of who's God is alive. Why worship a God who is dead. Seems pathetic to worship a dead guy or inanimate objects who are worse off then you. Satanisim doesn't make sence to me because I don't want to follow what's evil. Evil is bad and bad is wrong. Not very confusing... Judisim ignores the fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled every requirement for the Messiah that they've been looking for for the past 2,400 years or so. And Islam has the Holy Bible as one of it's holy books but claims that Jesus Christ was just a high ranking prophet instead of the Son of God all while the Holy Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the Son of God.

That's the logical answer. My personal answer is because I have found love, joy, peace, self-control, meekness, gentleness, kindness, faith, and goodness in Jesus Christ.

True. You must have faith in the Old Testament to have faith in the New Testament, unfortunately (from a Christian perspective) I've neither; especially not the Old Testament. I'll certainly agree with you, the bible is full of good teachings and parables and meanings. These are all very important teachings about how to become and/or be a good person on a complex and simplistic level.

You really can't "make" yourself have faith to believe in Jesus Christ's saving power; it has to come from God (base your faith not on the winsome words of men, but on the power of God, alone). If you are truly open-minded, then you can tell God that you will give Him your life, if He will reveal the truth to you, and if you really mean it, then He will do it. It sounds like you might not be at a point where you would really mean it yet (which is fine). However, if you ever are ready to level with God, then go straight to Him, and let HIM show you The Way. Because you really shouldn't take ANY man's word for it; that would be a blind faith. I'm not into blind faith, and I don't incourage you to be, either. Go straight to The Source! (when you're ready) Love, -Nichole

You can find similar things from other countries.

For example... I've seen an Islamic film that shows why Islam is the one true religion or way to God. It had English sub-titles. Very convincing perspective in some ways, but just as impertinent as I am sure that the video your suggesting is.

This is awesome.

Go straight to the source.

Whenever I hear you say "I've read the Bible and learned it", it reminds me of this verse from the Wisdom of Sirach:

Sirach 22:8 He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?



Its like you did not get the message of the Bible. You are blind to its Divine Wisdom.

In the Bible

Writers from the time of Christ and before; humans wrote down their supposed divine thoughts. God can't write, unless I'm mistaken. It's the "inspired" words of man, because God speaks in tongues.

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has made known:

[1] What the world is; where it came from; why it exists; where it is heading; how it will end;

[2] What man is; where he comes from; where he is going; what he is made of; what his purpose is; how he will end;

[3] What animals and plants are; what their purpose is; what they are used for;

[4] What good is; where it comes from; what it leads to; what its purpose is; how it is attained;

[5] What evil is; where it comes from; how it came to exist; why it exists--how it will come to an end;

[6] What the righteous are and what sinners are; how a sin*ner becomes righteous and how an arrogant flghteous man becomes a sinnerNow, where those adjectives really necessary, or are you sending a message between the lines. You couldn't have just said, "sinner", like you said, "righteous"?"; how a man serves God and how he serves satan; the whole path from good to evil, and from God to satan;

[7] Everything--from the beginning to the end; man's entire path from the body to God, from his conception in the womb to his resurrection from the dead;

[8] What the history of the world is, the history of heaven and earth, the history of mankind; what their path, purpose, and end are.

In the Bible God has said absolutely everything that was necessary to be said to men. The biography of every man-*everyone without exception--is found in the Bible.

If you could show me how to get to the source that would be wonderful. None of this individual journey. That translates into, "We don't know where the source is, you find it."

To cut through all the dogma, It is all about your relationship with Christ. when you are ready to be loved unconditionally and accept the tremendous gift of forgiveness you will know it is real. You will know that you will never be alone no matter how difficult the road is. You will not have to depend on "inner" strength because you will have the most powerful force in the universe, the One who created the Universe on your side. Take that step and surrender, it will change your life. I once thought that all roads lead to a generic God but when I surrendered I knew that the Truth of Jesus Christ had altered my life forever including delivering me from depression and guiding me through the consequences of some bad decisions in my life.

How's this: "God, I don't know if you're real or not. So if you show me, UNDENIABLY, who you are, I will give you my life. Otherwise, no deal."

Thanks, but that task has already been completely.
Also, I tried speaking outloud to the Spirit, there's never any answer. I am not going to pretend that some part of my life was the answer.
If there is not a prompt answer the entire exercise is fruitless because the probability that something in my life (THE ANSWER FROM GOD/JESUS/HOLY SPIRIT) will appear, increases, exponentially. I tested this in an experiment once. I set a prayer time asking for guidance in a matter. Then I constantly waited for something that seemed like the answer, a day past then another, yet the moment the matter was somewhat resolved I instantly believed my pray was answered. I did this for a month. Marking the start dates of prayers and the resolution dates. It was clear as time passes, the likely hood of an answered prayer increases exponentially. Most prayers were answered when anything good happened, because prayers are so ambigious, some not at all. The number of prayers answered increases the further from the origin date you are. My old papers looked like this where I kept tally. i.e. {day, prayers answered) (0,1) (1,1) (2,3) (3,5) (4,7) (5,9) (6,15) etc. i.e. probability of answered prayer increases closer to always answered or 1 if the process could be continued infinitely, i.e. {day, probability answered} (0,1/33) (1,1/33) (2,2/33) (3,1/11) (4,5/33) (7/33) (3/11) (5/11) ...etc -->
As you can see it's statistically likely that a prayer will eventually be answered. As the amount of time spent waiting for an answer increases, so does the likelyhood that it will be answered.
The real question is, are they everyday events were you have the will to change and affect them or does God manipulate or influence the lives of human beings?

He gave you your life, look at the miracle of a human body, there is proof all around you. If you are closed off to it then He could stand before you and declare He is God and you would still not believe.

Buddhism is a way of life not a religion necessarily. Many Buddhists also claim to be Christians.