I believe god exists but I don’t believe in worshiping him. I see it as the most popular religions believing god is this great being that we have to worship and thank him constantly to go to heaven. But this is where my thought process comes in, I think that if that is true then this great being isn’t as great as we think, he just sounds very egotistical. Like if this great hero asked you to worship him you would see him not as a hero but as a dictator. I just think god isn’t as great as you think he is therefore I believe he exists but I will not worship him. I do think heaven and hell are real too and Lucifer too and the story along with him but other than that I think that’s where it stops. That brings me to another point you hear all these stories about god and these religious events in the Bible but all the sudden they just stop so either they aren’t real or god just don’t care enough to intervene anymore. This is just something to think about.
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>The bible is a fiction book with literally no evidence to back it.
There's no sky daddy, but god exists in that he is the externalized "source" of good, truth, and creativity. God is that force inside you. Satan is the animalistic destructive force. Your base instincts that just want to eat and fuck and kill. It's man that feeds the hungry, treats the sick, and stands on water, but he can only do these things with a good nature and healthy muse.
Further, heaven and hell are not real places, they're the memory of you held by your loved ones after you die - because that's the only way your you-ness exists. You have everlasting life if you go to heaven if your family thinks back on you fondly and often. You suffer in hell if your family thinks back on you with disdain.
And signing the cross is a reminder of your obligations:
>Father
Your forefathers, those that came before you and passed their traits on to you. Your race.
>Son
Your heirs, the generations to come, and the legacy you leave behind to them. Your nation.
>Holy Spirit
Your inner good, truth, and creativity. Your God
It's all metaphors to explain a certain way of life to uneducated folks (who couldn't even read) 2000-5000 years ago.
Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary coincides with astronomy activity where Jupiter passed through Virgo in the sky. It's often stated here that the Dead Sea Scrolls points to the Caesars heavily influencing early Christianity (though I have not seen this for myself). Old religious folk used to say things like "Don't masturbate or god will give you hairy palms!" or "Don't marry that adulterous woman, she's the devil!" or "Keep holy the Sabbath!" and it all sounds so very "Do it because I said so!" But when you find that masturbation leads to chemical imbalances in the brain, or that women who have more than 5 sexual partners develop a psychological condition preventing them from pairbonding, or that church is a powerful social tool for finding solidarity and meeting like-minded people - I suddenly find myself in a pew every Sunday morning.
user heaven is not this idea of paradise, and hell does not exist (literally hell means not having an afterlife)
The only reason god wants you to try and not sin is because to be with him (in heaven) if you are a terrible sinner would be painful and or impossible for you.
god does not want you to warship him out of petty jealously, he wants you to warship him in order to become your best self so that you can reuinite with him in heaven.
I suggest you actually read the bible, i would also suggest Taoist philosophy, it is inteesting.
Your opinion is irrelevant to God.
>I believe god exists but I don’t believe in worshiping him.
A theist is a guy who believes in gods
You're a theist.
>god is this great being that we have to worship and thank him constantly to go to heaven.
That's the Abrahamic gods. They have to be propped up with public welfare or they wither and die.
>he just sounds very egotistical
Not unlike the Bronze age Hebrews who invented him.
You're a very sad Sophist.
uh oh, the larpagan has arrived.
>I do think heaven and hell are real too and Lucifer too
Heaven and hell are fabrications to get child-minded adults to behave. Only the abrahamic religions worship satan as a god.
>paid
I wish.
>Your opinion is irrelevant to God.
Your gods are irrelevant to my opinion
Your gods are irrelevant
>Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary
There's no such thing as a virgin birth and Jesus never existed. You are lying and have Jew Addiction (JA).
I suggest you take what you wrote; break it apart point by bullet points and actually do some research on these things - maybe notice the position of your claims and their alignment with empirical data.
>I suddenly find myself in a pew every Sunday morning.
The psyops worked! Praise the almighty Jew!
>There's no such thing as a virgin birth
Parthenogenesis is real in the animal kingdom, but there's never been a documented human case. In the bible, the ancient Hebrew מיידן is the word for maiden (mægden) in old English, not virgin. The correct Hebrew word for virgin is בְּתוּלָה. The translators screwed up, probably on purpose.
Tanks for sharing your thoughts about Christianity that are based off ZERO knowledge of what the Bible says or what the faith is even about. Please tell us your thoughts on Russian literature (or something else you know nothing about) too!
Shoo shoo memeflag
>Parthenogenesis is real in the animal kingdom, but there's never been a documented human case.
Never in mammals, ever. It's absolutely impossible according to science. Documentation isn't the issue.
Dude I think you ran off all the bible thumpers. That was some rock solid research, btw. I looked it up myself.
>Please tell us your thoughts on Russian literature (or something else you know nothing about) too!
70% of all posts on Jow Forums come from paid Russian shills using VPNs and hiding behind memeflags. How do you know OP isn't one of them?
>Documentation isn't the issue.
Yet theists believe the bible is their {{{ documentation }}}.
I was not attacking Christians my family are basically all Christians and my brother is a firm believer. I was just stating how I view most religions mainly Christianity and Catholicism I do believe there is A (1) god and there is a satan, a heaven, and a hell. But I do not believe it is necessary to worship, get baptized, etc. to get into heaven. On top of that I’m thinking about just stopping believing in any of it because the more you talk about and really listen or understand what you are saying it gets crazier and crazier.
>Stop attacking Christian people
The Abrahamists who gleefully put tens of thousands of atheists to death over the years sure are fragile little snowflakes about the tiniest perceived slight.
Well, that's just like, your opinion man.
>ZERO knowledge of what the Bible says
That's funny, because what makes the bible so unbelievably comical is precisely what it says. We can all read what it says, but the mental gymnastics required to make sense of it reveals it's fictional nature.
Btw, I can read what the bible says in Koine Greek and I have a good online source for translating ancient Hebrew/Aramaic words. The English feel-good translations are deceptive and misleading.
Exactly