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  1. GrayAngel

    Running on Empty

    I was raised in a Christian home and was always interested in God and the Bible, and back in 2008, I experienced what many refer to as a "spiritual high." In that moment, at a Christian retreat with the youth of my church, I realized that I had been living my life on autopilot. I decided that...
  2. GrayAngel

    An interesting conversation at work...

    So a couple of days ago, I had interesting encounter. I was at work, and a customer gave me some advice for how I could do my job better. I would have been thankful, if he had stopped there. Instead, he decided to give me a lecture on his philosophy on the world. "If an employee messes up...
  3. GrayAngel

    A Problem with Armenianism

    I posted in another thread about one of the many problems I have with Armenian theology. The concept of free will has never made any sense to me, even when I did believe in it. Here's another issue I have with it: Matthew 19:24-26 - Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is...
  4. GrayAngel

    Create a Meme

    Technically, these aren't jokes, but they are funny. Create your own clean, humorous memes and share them here.
  5. GrayAngel

    Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

    If there are any active JW's on the site, I'd like to learn more about what you believe. I'm not interested in converting, and I don't expect to convert anyone myself. I'd just like to learn. Here are some questions I have: 1. Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe in Hell? Some stuff I've read...
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    Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

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  7. GrayAngel

    Need a Message Topic

    For about five years or so, I've been volunteering with my grandfather at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation ministry. He usually gives the message and I sing. But last time he told me he wants me to give the message, and he's giving me a month to get it ready. I guess he wants me to take over...
  8. GrayAngel

    Religious Economics

    What would happen if we chose our religious views based on an economic-like view of the options? What if we chose based on what each had the most to offer? This is something that's been on my mind lately. Let's try this out. What advantage does atheism or agnosticism have over other religions...
  9. GrayAngel

    Monism, Dualism, ???

    I've been reading Descartes and Spinoza recently (for my Modern Philosophy class) and their theories about reality. Descartes was a dualist, meaning he believed that humans can be divided into two distinctly different parts: body and mind (what he considers the "soul"). Spinoza was kind of a...
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    How many dimensions are there?

    Some say that there is a possibility for more than the three dimensions that we take for granted. There are multiple theories out there, each taking a different approach at explaining these higher dimensions. Depending on your method, you can reach as many as nine or eleven dimensions. I've...
  11. GrayAngel

    Comprehensive List of Evidence

    This thread is meant to be a reference. Please do not debate in it. I'm interested in trying to build a comprehensive list of every verse that is used for both sides of the debate. If you believe in free will, feel free to add to the list of verses you see as supporting your side. Likewise, if...
  12. GrayAngel

    Life is "empty" w/o free will?

    One of the common arguments for free will is that life without free will is empty. I have a problem with that statement. Not only is this argument used as a substitute for Biblical evidence, but it portrays free will as if it's the central most important thing to them. Suddenly, it's no longer...
  13. GrayAngel

    Question for Muslims

    I don't know much about the Islamic religion, but what what I've read, it seems like the Qur'an claims that anyone who believes in God/Allah is safe from Hell. There is no compulsion in religion. 2:256 Whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. 18:29 Unto you...
  14. GrayAngel

    Feel Like Giving Up

    My life feels empty. I've been struggling with depression now for longer than I can remember, and I think it might be clinical. A big part of it is because I don't have any close friends. I have some friends from church, but we're not that close. The only person I've ever felt comfortable...
  15. GrayAngel

    Double Standards of Secular Morality

    According to evolutionary theory, humans are not made in the image of God, but we are simply an advanced species of animal. But if that's true, then why do we hold different standards for "nature" than we do for humanity? When a wild animal is killed by another animal, or by sickness, or by any...
  16. GrayAngel

    Plagues and Miracles of Exodus - Natural Phenomena?

    I found this video today of a Discovery Channel special, which explains how each of the Ten Plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and other miracles could have been well-timed natural phenomena. It has got kind of a slow start, but it gets better. BIBLICAL MYSTERIES EXPLAINED EXODUS PART 1 OF 3...
  17. GrayAngel

    What do you believe in?

    Just out of curiosity, how many people here believe in free will, and how many believe in predestination? This isn't a debate thread, I was just wondering what the numbers look like and how popular one view is compared to the other.
  18. GrayAngel

    Look Who's Irrational Now

    The Wall Street Journal wrote an article by the title of "Look Who's Irrational Now," concerning some evidence that "nonreligious" people, the self proclaimed rationalists of the world, are more inclined than Christians to believe in superstitions, such as Big Foot, haunted houses, the lost city...
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    Why do Christians not live by what they believe?

    In a separate forum, a question was brought up by an atheist. It started as a conversation about Osama bin Laden's death, and the Christian response to it. He claimed that the Bible was against killing, and he thought Christians were being hypocritical by being so happy he was dead. As I'm sure...
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    Disadvantages of Being Too Logical?

    Each type of person has their strengths and weaknesses. For the logical thinker, they're strengths is their general ability to think before they act, to seek evidence before making a decision. But their weakness is that they have a tendency to lose touch of human emotions. In these forums, we...