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Thank you for your kind words. Though I must confess surprise that spoken says amen here yet promises punishment eternal in an earlier post. Allow me for one second to give you my outlook.
The human race are insignificant little creatures on an insignificant little rock in space. At some point, that rock is going to become uninhabitable for the creatures. After that, the sun which warms it and makes life possible is going to burn all it's fuel and become and start to grow and shed it's material. Obliterating the closer planets and making life here as impossible as mercury is today. Excluding the possibility that our galaxy doesn't crash into another spewing planetary systems in all directions including into the supermassive black hole at it's centre. But of course we may never see any of this due to the countless asteroids being hurled around space, the output from a passing pulsar or many other fatal interactions with our planet or system. But chances are, that none of this will affect me as I will be long dead. At any moment if my fleeting existence, my life could come to a end. When it does, there will be no judgement, no consciousness, no thoughts, just the biological machine shutting down and then.... nothing. `Not even an endless dark, just nothing.
So you may ask, why do I bother to live? Well I live everyday preciously because this is all I have. I try to make what I can in the world a little better because I want it to be here long enough for my children to see it and experience all the things I have. Because that's al they will have.
From what I see, the majority of devout Christians spend their lives preparing for the end of days which thay all predict will happen soon. Please look at this article:
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The antichrist had been born and was massing his armies from around 375 AD. It's now over 1800 years later. He really is taking his time. Or maybe.....just maybe. The scriptures are wrong! So they predicted a couple of things right over the millenia, even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day!
Live each day as precious.
Teach you children by your mistakes and those of your Generation.
Look logically at our planet an how much life it can support.
We may one day move into space and colonise other worlds, but even that will be the intergalactic equivalent of sitting on our own doorstep.
So in summery. I have tried many times to see the world through your eyes. Now wy don't you try to see it through mine. There isn't enough empathy in this world.
The human race are insignificant little creatures on an insignificant little rock in space. At some point, that rock is going to become uninhabitable for the creatures. After that, the sun which warms it and makes life possible is going to burn all it's fuel and become and start to grow and shed it's material. Obliterating the closer planets and making life here as impossible as mercury is today. Excluding the possibility that our galaxy doesn't crash into another spewing planetary systems in all directions including into the supermassive black hole at it's centre. But of course we may never see any of this due to the countless asteroids being hurled around space, the output from a passing pulsar or many other fatal interactions with our planet or system. But chances are, that none of this will affect me as I will be long dead. At any moment if my fleeting existence, my life could come to a end. When it does, there will be no judgement, no consciousness, no thoughts, just the biological machine shutting down and then.... nothing. `Not even an endless dark, just nothing.
So you may ask, why do I bother to live? Well I live everyday preciously because this is all I have. I try to make what I can in the world a little better because I want it to be here long enough for my children to see it and experience all the things I have. Because that's al they will have.
From what I see, the majority of devout Christians spend their lives preparing for the end of days which thay all predict will happen soon. Please look at this article:
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The antichrist had been born and was massing his armies from around 375 AD. It's now over 1800 years later. He really is taking his time. Or maybe.....just maybe. The scriptures are wrong! So they predicted a couple of things right over the millenia, even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day!
Live each day as precious.
Teach you children by your mistakes and those of your Generation.
Look logically at our planet an how much life it can support.
We may one day move into space and colonise other worlds, but even that will be the intergalactic equivalent of sitting on our own doorstep.
So in summery. I have tried many times to see the world through your eyes. Now wy don't you try to see it through mine. There isn't enough empathy in this world.
This doesn't lesson my love for you though and if I could give you a glimpse of God that you might believe, I would. My heart aches when I read your worldview, because I see my savior dying on a cross so that you may have, not just life, but life eternal, but you do not believe in Him.
I long for you to believe in God, not because I need you to agree with me, but so that you might share the life that Christ died to give you. If you were a starving man, I would give you food. If you were dying of thirst I would give you water. If you were naked, I would cloth you. This is the love I would show you and this is the love that the Bible preaches, no matter how other Christians may treat you.
So in this I offer you Christ that you may be saved. I know you reject God, but please see that my heart desires you to believe, because I see it for your ultimate well being, not because I am trying to "make a convert" or get you to simply agree with me.
i don't care about winning an argument, I care about your eternal well being. That is why I am here on this thread, to show those who don't believe the love and truth of God to the best of my ability.