Let me get this straight Fishfish... You believe there "something out there bigger than you", that everything began from nothing, that it started instantaneously, and that from a "big bang" a bunch of quarks, anti-quarks, neutrons, electrons, protons, formed an atoms, then a bunch of different types of atoms formed and collided and decided to form a chain, and enough chains had a party and decided to form amino acids and proteins so that they could build a single cell organism. That the organism, could then mutate into different organisms, until it decides its tired of being a simple organism and decides to become a bigger life forum....oh wait, it would have to wait on an livable atmosphere....but that would mean that some of those single cells would have to decide to become plankton and the plankton would become trees that would decide that it wanted to make oxygen so that the other simple cells could become animals and the animals could become intelligent enough to design a computer where we could discuss all this. Man Fishfish...you got more faith than me, friend.
I grew up in a church, but there came a point in my life were I questioned God's existence, mostly because I could not understand eternity, how he could create everything out of nothing (same thing you believe), and I could not understand God. But it really came down to two choices. Either I believe in the first paragraph I wrote and believe when we die, we go into oblivion, or I believe in the man that claimed to come from God, was God, and was man. And I believe the writers that said they witnessed this man perform miracles, showed us how to love one another, and who was hated so much for claiming to be God that they killed him AND THEN rose on the 3rd day and escaped the tomb that roman soldiers were guarding. Also what is not discussed much but the Word tells us is that he was seen by thousands, that others were also raised from the dead during those days, and that these days were so magnificent that we're still speaking of it this day. So again, I have two choices, I choose to believe the latter, because 1, I don't have enough faith to believe the former, and 2) I've witnessed miracles in my life, and in friends and family. Also I came to the conclusion, if I were able to understand God, I would actually place him in a box with limits. So I don't have to understand everything, only that He is the Great I Am. oh, and about your questions about the poor kid, if God is anything he is just, and his Word tells us that he judges us based on our knowledge. So I believe God will only judge my poor friend on his knowledge and his choices based on that knowledge. so if he never heard of Jesus, of course God would not put him into eternal hell. But anyone who knows about Jesus and and rejects the call to "follow him" has made their choice on where they would prefer to spend eternity. It really is that simple. God Bless you all. I really enjoy reading your posts, even the ones I don't agree with. sorry for such a long post.
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