Religion, God, The Bible, Higher Powers Options

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1-If you believed that God could save you, doesnt that mean that you believe God exists? And also, its not believing in God that saves you. Its accepting his forgiveness.

2-The aramaic version can be translated im many ways, as simply killing for survival, or murdering for pleasure, etc, its just a matter of how you choose to interpret it. I choose to interpret it as murder, rather than plain killing, because it seems logical that you should be able to defend yourself if worst came to worst.

3-I have never heard of that before. But if it is true you could be very right. However, I dont think that all missionaries evangalise for that reason. The original reason for evangalism is Jesus' great commission.

Well, thats just how I feel about those things. Its my understanding. I dont think that I know all the answers, but after all, this is the debate forum, so Im doing just that, debating. No hard feelings or anything.

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smthngcrprategrl34 Dec 11 2004, 5:43 PM Post #9

the problem with the bible is that it was written about 2 million years ago! since then it has been rewritten and translated so much that things have been altered and the bible is no longer accurate if it even was to begin with.

yea, its probaly all lies now. the bible is f**k up already. its so misunderstanding.

i found something wierd about buddha's religons althought i'm buddism. one of the eightfold path says that " as a buddism, you should not be wealthy or poor . you should be between poor and wealthy, which it is called " the middle way " it means to be in the middle of too much of something and too little of something.

the problem is .. " Gotama " ( the founder of buddha's religons )

let me repeaT .. " THE PROBLEM IS THAT GOTAMA WAS NOT RICH, HE WAS VERY POOR, HOW DID HE BECAME BUDDHA ? ONE OF HIS EIGHTFOLD PATH SAIDS " ALWAYS BE IN THE " MIDDLE ". HE WASNT IN THE MIDDLE, HE WAS BE LOW " MIDDLE ". DO YOU PEOPLE SEE THE DIFFERENT, HE MADE UP THE EIGHTFUL PATH SAYING " BE IN A MIDDLE " SO YOU WILL NOT SUFFER AS MUCH. HE NEVER BEEN AT THE " MIDDLE ".

DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT I MEAN ? ITS KINDA HARD TO EXPLAIN UNLESS YOUR BUDDISM.

forgive me for my grammer and spelling if you find any.

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smthngcrprategrl34  Dec 11 2004, 5:43 PM Post #9 
the problem is ..  " Gotama " ( the founder of buddha's religons )

let me repeaT .. " THE PROBLEM IS THAT GOTAMA WAS NOT RICH, HE WAS VERY POOR,  HOW DID HE BECAME BUDDHA ? ONE OF HIS EIGHTFOLD PATH SAIDS " ALWAYS BE IN THE " MIDDLE ". HE WASNT IN THE MIDDLE, HE WAS BE LOW " MIDDLE ". DO YOU PEOPLE SEE THE DIFFERENT, HE MADE UP THE EIGHTFUL PATH SAYING " BE IN A MIDDLE " SO YOU WILL NOT SUFFER AS MUCH. HE NEVER BEEN AT THE " MIDDLE ".

DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT I MEAN ? ITS KINDA HARD TO EXPLAIN UNLESS YOUR BUDDISM.

forgive me for my grammer and spelling if you find any.

I'm disappointed in you. Don't call yourself Buddhist when you don't even know how it came about. Please. It gives Buddhism a bad name for having a clueless follower.

Siddhartha Gautama was a Prince. Yes, he was rich, however, he gave up ALL HIS WORLDLY POSSESSIONS which was a part of his enlightenment. Please google "Siddhartha Gautama" and learn more about him.

I'm not a Buddhist, but it seems I understand more than you. *Sigh*. I was actually sad when I read your post.

[DaTru KataLYST]

^ I wanted to say that.