Originally posted by Fire
personaly I feel strongly that society, every society does it, made up God. Like said in the matrix: Hope it is the quintessential human dellusion simultaniously the source of our greatest strenght and our greatest weakness. I think you can place faith in the same category people can do great things when they believe in something but it is also one of our greatest weaknesses as history has shown.
Too true too true. But he also said we're like a virus, i think thats true as well.
Originally posted by Fëanor
in religious texts and beliefs, yes God did create us, but in scientific terms and studies on evolution and the big bang theory then no...my opinions? it varies on both issues. I believe IN God, but i also follow the latter theory...
sort of vague i know...
Exactly. Man, I had to read that Big Bang article like 3 times to fully understand it.
Originally posted by Xena
I am a christian person and i belive that God did created us. I dont have any expertise but my faith keeps me beliving that there is a God in heavens. i also respect the views of those that dont believe in God. Just as long as they respect my views and faith.🙂
I am a Christian and I believe in the Bible... it gives me the answers of everything I doubted for... it helped me enlightened my soul...
There's no reason not to believe in science... it widened my knowledge.
✅ Yes, science gives me knowledge...
... and the Bible gives me wisdom and hope.
... it shows me that God is always there for me whenever I'm all alone.
😎
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Yet another thread about God
I was talking to somebody (I think Aini) about this in a Marilyn Manson thread in the music forum... Somebody brought up how he's a Satanist, and somebody else pointed out that Satanism isn't really as bad as people think. Anyways, I was just thinking about the idea that we all worship the same god. (with the exception of atheists) Think about it--like Muslims for example, they pray to Allah, but Allah is really the same thing as the Christian God. Some religions have multiple gods, but it really amounts to the same thing as a single god. You could even go as far as to say that Satan and God are the same thing (once again, somebody else thought of this)... If God is "perfect" in every way, wouldn't he/she/it also have to encompass evil? Sounds weird, I know, but it's an interesting concept.
Darth> I sincerely doubt that Marilyn Manson is a “real” Satanist. But he may’ve adopted the Gothic “version” of it, simply to annoy and piss off some self-important Christians.
By “real” Satanist I mean someone who decides to worship evil. Not the “hip” evil in the way of committing adultery or some such, or having a lot of sex, or do some illegal drugs or generally do some teen-agy rebelling against the established.
The Gothic “version” of Satanism is simply – as far as I can tell – is simply worshipping something other than what many hypocrites do.
As far as to whether or not Satan is a God. Well… technically speaking he is also Luficer, which is an angel, right? So he was created by God.
In Eastern philosophy you have the Yin/Yang symbol to show that we need balance. We cannot get rid of “evil” feelings by pretending they do not exist, for example, we must accept that we are both good AND evil at the same time.
✅ I forgot to mention the yin/yang thing. You can't have good without evil.
I guess it depends on how you define "Satanism"... I found a site about it:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/satanism.htm
Supposedly there are quite a few different religions that call themselves that. However, I know that Marilyn Manson is some kind of religious official in one of them.