^CoSMic DoRiS^^ said:
Yeah, we don't know how these things happened for sure, but at least we go to an effort to work it out rather than making up bullshit stories to "explain" it.
A question I've always wanted to ask: a lot of Christians espouse the view that if you don't follow God, you go to hell. Right? Well what about the people who lived in the time before Christ? What about the people in ancient caveman times? Christianity wasn't even around then. (and the fact that it hasn't always been around is partly why I call bullshit on the whole religion thing.)
As for you, Cosmic Doris, I do agree with your first statement; that we should use our logic and intellect to explain things; absolutely correct!
Yet on the other hand, I never mentioned that I am a Christian, yet I do believe that the wrongdoers ultimately go to Hell.
Now, I ask you to be open-minded and thoughtful about what I'm just about to say...
Put it this way; if a righteous man gets killed, and the killer later on dies without facing charges in this life, is it fair that there is no judgement after that?
If there was no Resurrection Day as you confess, then why on Earth should anyone bother about living a 'peaceful, harmonious and productive' life?
Wouldn't we better off just going haywire, following our lusts and whims?
But no, justice is justice, logic is logic, and so life is actually a limited time-span for us to do good, and avoid the wrong...and accordingly, God will retribute us with unprecedented rewards: PARADISE for ETERNITY!
It is time for us to put aside our materialist beliefs that the universe is matter and only matter (OK...then where did the matter originate from?).
May God guide you to the Truth, and to an awareness of the reason for us being on Earth, living short lives that tick away every second...down to our death. (This IS the truth; everyone is going to die).