I am a Catholic Christian by birth and upbringing, however I do not practice – I have little faith in priests or those who preach too loudly, being cynical in general does that.

I have some experiance with people being ‘born-again’ as well as non-, slightly and moderatly religious people. I’ve gladly avoided those I consider severely religious or zealot-like. A friend of mine a few years ago, badly depressed, found in religion a way to escape depression and enjoy life, however he also found a bigot’d and racist attitude that opened my own eyes to the reality of things, particularly newspapers, websites and any books.

You should always bear in mind that the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, they are all historic, ancient books. The Bible has changed with time, the Old Testament is full of blood, fire and faith. The New Testament is – to me at least – sweetened for the modern audience, attracting converts by the ‘we’re so nice’ approach. I don’t doubt that any holy book has changed slightly over time, had words added, removed, or their meanings ever so subtly changed. Or wrongly taught, if you are taught only the Old Testament, or the ‘Verses of the Sword’, your in a whole lot of trouble in this modern world and liable to die quite early for what you then believe to be the absolute truth.

I find the Jewish faith and the Islamic faiths quite intresting (often as bloody as Christianity) and read bits and pieces when I like, both in non-fictional and semi-fictional works, as well as translations here and there. It is probably impossible to understand each faith without dedicating a lifetime or more to each. In general I’ve found faith can be a good thing, like all good things though, no moderation lets it become destructive.

In short: I have no faith or devotion to any kind of Supreme God or Allah or anything else, although I do suspect occasionally there is a god or overseer of some variety, often mainly that they have a sense of humor and enjoy watching the world.

More likely about the Bible, Torah, Koran, of-choice book in my view? God is fictional, created by leaders of men (most who probably did honestly believe) to get men to lead to accomplish great and, at least in their opinion, good things. Generally local unification in the early years of humanity, by force typically. There are exceptions, those who did not use force seem to have remained small and fairly local faiths with an ancient history and much respect within and without their own worshippers. For example, if you found out someone you met was a Buddhist – even knowing only the most meagre about their faith, you probably have an instinctive respect for that faith and thus a smaller fraction assigns itself to the person.

I do not much care which religion you follow, I may be intrested if you choose to tell me, which God you support. The most apt phrase to me “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.

You don’t need Faith, to live faithfully. (Readers may recognise T. Pratchett at work there!)

You don’t need to Believe in God, to believe in the people around you.

I think sometimes, people get so fixated on worshipping that they forget that they must perform their own actions and forge their own path, wether their God granted it to them or not they have not and will not force or dictate anything at all, thought the person may force themselves citing belief!

For the record, I am probably a light-to-moderate sinner in any three god’s eyes, given the way we live in the UK. I consider myself good natured, very neutral to most ideas and well brought-up, if a little lazy. If I die and should see God, Allah, Satan or the Antichrist in some kind of Judgement, Heaven or Hell as applies to me, I will be fairly surprised but whatever way, I’ll still be grinning because I will know the answer!

I probably won’t ever worship a God, I will live my own way each day and find out the end result when I see the big ‘Game Over’ screen (sorry, I’m an avid gamer, gaming practically IS my religion*bait bait* ). Everyone dies and finds out in due time, worrying about it on the way there simply takes away true freedom and true choice.

Only your choices, actions and the results of both really matter. Religion, Heaven or Hell, God or not, may help you influence your choice but it comes with so much extra baggage and concern.

Enjoy life, because sooner than you expect the world will go dark and you’ll get your answer, regardless, if you even never asked the question.

Hmm…I rambled a bit. I’ll save this site, if any interesting comments come my way, I’ll reorganise my thoughts to be a bit more legible.

I am a Catholic Christian by birth and upbringing, however I do not practice – I have little faith in priests or those who preach too loudly, being cynical in general does that.

I have some experiance with people being ‘born-again’ as well as non-, slightly and moderatly religious people. I’ve gladly avoided those I consider severely religious or zealot-like. A friend of mine a few years ago, badly depressed, found in religion a way to escape depression and enjoy life, however he also found a bigot’d and racist attitude that opened my own eyes to the reality of things, particularly newspapers, websites and any books.

You should always bear in mind that the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, they are all historic, ancient books. The Bible has changed with time, the Old Testament is full of blood, fire and faith. The New Testament is – to me at least – sweetened for the modern audience, attracting converts by the ‘we’re so nice’ approach. I don’t doubt that any holy book has changed slightly over time, had words added, removed, or their meanings ever so subtly changed. Or wrongly taught, if you are taught only the Old Testament, or the ‘Verses of the Sword’, your in a whole lot of trouble in this modern world and liable to die quite early for what you then believe to be the absolute truth.

I find the Jewish faith and the Islamic faiths quite intresting (often as bloody as Christianity) and read bits and pieces when I like, both in non-fictional and semi-fictional works, as well as translations here and there. It is probably impossible to understand each faith without dedicating a lifetime or more to each. In general I’ve found faith can be a good thing, like all good things though, no moderation lets it become destructive.

In short: I have no faith or devotion to any kind of Supreme God or Allah or anything else, although I do suspect occasionally there is a god or overseer of some variety, often mainly that they have a sense of humor and enjoy watching the world.

More likely about the Bible, Torah, Koran, of-choice book in my view? God is fictional, created by leaders of men (most who probably did honestly believe) to get men to lead to accomplish great and, at least in their opinion, good things. Generally local unification in the early years of humanity, by force typically. There are exceptions, those who did not use force seem to have remained small and fairly local faiths with an ancient history and much respect within and without their own worshippers. For example, if you found out someone you met was a Buddhist – even knowing only the most meagre about their faith, you probably have an instinctive respect for that faith and thus a smaller fraction assigns itself to the person.

I do not much care which religion you follow, I may be intrested if you choose to tell me, which God you support. The most apt phrase to me “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.

You don’t need Faith, to live faithfully. (Readers may recognise T. Pratchett at work there!)

You don’t need to Believe in God, to believe in the people around you.

I think sometimes, people get so fixated on worshipping that they forget that they must perform their own actions and forge their own path, wether their God granted it to them or not they have not and will not force or dictate anything at all, thought the person may force themselves citing belief!

For the record, I am probably a light-to-moderate sinner in any three god’s eyes, given the way we live in the UK. I consider myself good natured, very neutral to most ideas and well brought-up, if a little lazy. If I die and should see God, Allah, Satan or the Antichrist in some kind of Judgement, Heaven or Hell as applies to me, I will be fairly surprised but whatever way, I’ll still be grinning because I will know the answer!

I probably won’t ever worship a God, I will live my own way each day and find out the end result when I see the big ‘Game Over’ screen (sorry, I’m an avid gamer, gaming practically IS my religion*bait bait* ). Everyone dies and finds out in due time, worrying about it on the way there simply takes away true freedom and true choice.

Only your choices, actions and the results of both really matter. Religion, Heaven or Hell, God or not, may help you influence your choice but it comes with so much extra baggage and concern.

Enjoy life, because sooner than you expect the world will go dark and you’ll get your answer, regardless, if you even never asked the question.

Hmm…I rambled a bit. I’ll save this site, if any interesting comments come my way, I’ll reorganise my thoughts to be a bit more legible.

I have blocked your emails on MySpace. Please don’t make me start blocking your comments here. We’ve discussed many things before. As I pointed out to you in the past, you need to stop reading into what you THINK I’m saying. Can you point out where I gave any indication on the salvation status of any group of people? No. I did not. Instead of emailing people all the time complaining about what YOU THINK they believe, focus on yourself. Perhaps start reading more, Abbey. Pick up some commentaries. Listen to some audio books. Subscribe to some podcasts.

Just stop bugging me with your constant need to nitpick. You have a habit of doing this to me and to XXXChurch and to anyone who will listen. Start being FREE Abbie. As I said, I blocked you on MySpace and will not hesitate to do so here.

I have blocked your emails on MySpace. Please don’t make me start blocking your comments here. We’ve discussed many things before. As I pointed out to you in the past, you need to stop reading into what you THINK I’m saying. Can you point out where I gave any indication on the salvation status of any group of people? No. I did not. Instead of emailing people all the time complaining about what YOU THINK they believe, focus on yourself. Perhaps start reading more, Abbey. Pick up some commentaries. Listen to some audio books. Subscribe to some podcasts.

Just stop bugging me with your constant need to nitpick. You have a habit of doing this to me and to XXXChurch and to anyone who will listen. Start being FREE Abbie. As I said, I blocked you on MySpace and will not hesitate to do so here.

So a Pharisee today would be anyone who doesn’t believe that Jesus is the true Son of GOd and that He is the ONE Way to Heaven.

So a Pharisee today would be anyone who doesn’t believe that Jesus is the true Son of GOd and that He is the ONE Way to Heaven.

If you know Christ then you could never say that Christians and Muslims serve the same God because by doing so you’ve forgotten the ONE WAY to Heaven. Muslims are waiting on a Savior that even Jesus Himself will say we need to bow down to….that’s the Antichrist.

So, what do you think? Are both religions destined to the same eternity? I don’t think so.

If you know Christ then you could never say that Christians and Muslims serve the same God because by doing so you’ve forgotten the ONE WAY to Heaven. Muslims are waiting on a Savior that even Jesus Himself will say we need to bow down to….that’s the Antichrist.

So, what do you think? Are both religions destined to the same eternity? I don’t think so.