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    Modern day Miracles...

    Well of course they are. People in the age of the bible were horribly superstitious; mainly because everything we can now explain with science was a total mystery to them. For every "miracle" claim I ask to see observable and scientific evidence to back it up. No miracle I know can meet these...
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    Reason for believing

    My reason for becoming a Christian was because of an experience. My reason for renouncing my faith was because that is all it ever was. An emotional experience founded on no sort of rationality or scientific evidence.
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    Except I have am a physical being made of matter, sure.
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    My life looks the same as it has in the past. I didn't renounce my faith so I can pick up a vice deemed sinful by some. The very fact that you think so is dripping with arrogance and judgement. I did gain a belief system that makes rational and logic sense. In fact, I have felt more liberated...
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    What is the "it" you keep referring to?
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    Not to be purposefully demeaning, but every religious experience can be explained by brain phenomenon. Everything we feel and think are chemical reactions which take place in the brain. They are remarkable powerful. This is a really interesting article: HowStuffWorks "Is the brain hardwired...
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    Sure. I can name one that does both at the same time: suicide bombers.
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    I don't know. Why did a few Muslims believe god told them to fly planes into a few buildings? We are a creature with too small prefrontal cortexts and too large adrenaline glands. Study psychology. The human mind is an amazing thing.
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    That is the thing. It isn't well ordered. Chaos is still present around us, we just have escaped it long enough for life to form till as it is currently. One day that will change. As someone who has a degree in physics you should know that we are barely at the tip of the iceberg when it comes...
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    Well I agree with your first paragraph. My belief in the bible as inerrant and accurate is gone. My belief in the actual existence of Jesus is as well, because secular evidence for it is not convincing as best. Plus the notion of vicarious redemption from a human sacrifice that absolves one of...
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    I know there is an origins board, so I am not trying to rehash the old evolution-ID debate. You can say there is order in this universe, and there is to some degree. The universe is also chaotic to a degree that we can't even understand. Galaxies colliding with other galaxies (we actually have...
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    To you what is the distinction? I see no difference between the two. Either it is logical, testable, and observable or it isn't. Placing faith outside of rationality is in my humble opinion a cop-out.
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    Losing My Religion - My Struggle with God

    *If this is the wrong place, my sincere appolgise to the mods. Please move to the appropriate location* First off let me clarify that I do not want this to turn into a religious debate thread. I only wish to outline the struggle that lead me to first question, and then to renounce, my...
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    Are you pro-life or choice & do you believe souls are created at conception or before

    What about twins and conception? Does the soul "split" when the embryo does?
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    my virginity

    ...not sure if serious
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    Is it a sin to smoke marijuana?

    If you are going to call someone an idiot at least spell it correctly.
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    Politics (for Calvinists)

    I agree. That is why I am proponent of clear and renewable green energy. Solar, wind, tide, biofuels, etc.
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    Politics (for Calvinists)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_1B0w7Hzc&feature=g-all-xit
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    Altar Calls - Yes/No Good/Bad

    Asking people in the height of an emotional sermon to come to the alter and say a cookie cutter prayer for salvation isn't repentance. It takes the emphasis off Christ and His work and puts is solely on the persons decision to say a prayer.