Top Ten Creationist Arguments Part 1 and 2

[cindylou]

java, that is where it can so much be on faith. When I accepted God into my life, my life has never been the same. I truely believe something happened in me, and no matter what you say or think, you can't change that. I may not have exact proof that whatever your trying to prove is true. But, God has changed my life, and I feel I am living a happy and fullfilled life because of Him. You can't change that, and you can't change the way I feel. Just as it takes faith to believe in God, it also takes faith not to.

Earthrider that is great...of course no one is going to change how you feel, I agree with most of your post. How do you know Christianity is true? Wouldn't you like to not only be able to know but to show that it is true? It is not just a feeling or blind faith. I don't think my faith is irrational or unjustified but supported with evidencial foundation. The experience of the Holy Spirit combined with argument and evidence...I can barely call it faith anymore. The only faith I have at this point is that God will fulfill in the future what He has promised. The rest isn't faith.

 

[blueta2]

java, that is where it can so much be on faith. When I accepted God into my life, my life has never been the same. I truely believe something happened in me, and no matter what you say or think, you can't change that. I may not have exact proof that whatever your trying to prove is true. But, God has changed my life, and I feel I am living a happy and fullfilled life because of Him. You can't change that, and you can't change the way I feel. Just as it takes faith to believe in God, it also takes faith not to.

well said!!!
I have accepted my high power (which is my God in the non-biblical sense) and it changed my life as well. I'm working on faith every day.

 

[cindylou]

well said!!!
I have accepted my high power (which is my God in the non-biblical sense) and it changed my life as well. I'm working on faith every day.

Hey Blueta!

 

[blueta2]

Hey Blueta!

Hey doll...hug

 

[EarthRider]

I agree with you Cindy.

I was a youth pastor for 8 years, and one thing I have found is if people are determined not to believe in God, there isn't much I can say or do to change there mind. No matter what you show or prove to them, they wont accept it (a majority of the time). It is those who are searching that find Him. I think it is awesome how much you have studied up on this, and learned. I also think it is very important for believers to study too.

My personal life I love Micah 6:8
Do justice, love mercy, live humbly before your God

I also live by this

1 Peter 3:15
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

 

[javaguru]

java, that is where it can so much be on faith. When I accepted God into my life, my life has never been the same. I truely believe something happened in me, and no matter what you say or think, you can't change that. I may not have exact proof that whatever your trying to prove is true. But, God has changed my life, and I feel I am living a happy and fullfilled life because of Him. You can't change that, and you can't change the way I feel. Just as it takes faith to believe in God, it also takes faith not to.

Well, there was a point in my life where I decided that drinking and womanizing were very bad for me. Something happened in me, I thought about my life, and I stopped that lifestyle...not because of faith but decided for java that booze and nightclubs are bad for java. I never needed faith to determine it, it was painfully obvious, I just needed to see the writing on the wall.

 

[cindylou]

Well, there was a point in my life where I decided that drinking and womanizing were very bad for me. Something happened in me, I thought about my life, and I stopped that lifestyle...not because of faith but decided for java that booze and nightclubs are bad for java. I never needed faith to determine it, it was painfully obvious, I just needed to see the writing on the wall.

It's not about changing your life or your ways externally. Aside from being rebellious when I was a teen, some light partying that never hurt anyone (which I wouldn't call immoral) and one moarally questionable act that I was always able to argue was moral (my selfish nature) I've lived a morally upright life (externally at least). People have hurt me more than I've hurt them. At the time I became a Christian I was living a very upright life on my own. Yet, even I knew that I was guilty and had no problem believing that. When I looked inside my own heart I saw the blackness, the darkness...everything I did was tainted with selfishness. We all have it. You have it. Not the thoughts that go on in our heads, but the voice that is in our hearts as we go throughout our days are dark underneath it all. There is nothing external about it at all...you're missing the spiritual element because you've not been made aware of your soul yet. Was your discovery painfully obvious because you were hurting other people or was it painfully obvious that you were hurting yourself?

Forget about young earth creationism java! Why let that stand between you and God? You know I don't share that view, and most Christians (even evangelicals) don't share that view despite what the media wants to tell you and their very vocal movement in some churches. Most of us move on from an inherited faith from our childhood and move on to an adult faith that is our own. Usually it is people's theological presuppositions that usually will determine where they end up. Maybe God wasn't the engineer that you needed him to be. Maybe you couldn't bring together the idea that god would tinker with his creation using evolutionary development, you don't want to worship a God like that. You've closed your mind with naturalism and now that is all you have, you're chained to it. IMO it is best (and more free) to keep our minds open to the evidence and see what has actually happened, what God has actually done, who He actually is, not what I want Him to be for me or what I need to have happened.