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Belly35
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 7:49 AMNov 15, 2009 7:49 AM
I’m up every Sunday for Church and Bible study and on Wednesday early morning Men’s group. I have a strong faith and have raised our family with that same dedication to the Lord. I’m not perfect and have my faults but try hard to correct my wrongs to do right.
My faith in God has provided me with many blessing and has given me with strengths to over come much diversity. Without my faith in the Lord I would not be the person I am today and my family would be only a shell of who we all are.
Are you or are you not a believer in God and why?
Nov 15, 2009 7:49am
Keith
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 8:06 AMNov 15, 2009 8:06 AM
I have a strong spiritual belief and express it in a way that is right for me.
Nov 15, 2009 8:06am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 8:13 AMNov 15, 2009 8:13 AM
I am a believer. It was just the way I was raised.
Nov 15, 2009 8:13am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 8:30 AMNov 15, 2009 8:30 AM
I'm in hence my handle!
Nov 15, 2009 8:30am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 8:54 AMNov 15, 2009 8:54 AM
I believe i God as well.
Nov 15, 2009 8:54am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 9:03 AMNov 15, 2009 9:03 AM
I believe in "God".
I'm not sure I subscribe to "God" as he is presented in the Christian tradition anymore, but I do believe there is a force in this universe that is greater that ourselves. I just have a hard time believing that this "force" cares about what I do on a daily basis.
Nov 15, 2009 9:03am
CenterBHSFan
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 9:37 AMNov 15, 2009 9:37 AM
Yeah, I'm more of a spiritual believer than a religious person.
*Sorry gobuckeyes
Nov 15, 2009 9:37am
Gobuckeyes1
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 9:50 AMNov 15, 2009 9:50 AM
CenterBHSFan wrote:
Yeah, I'm more of a spiritual believer than a religious person.
*Sorry gobuckeyes
Why are you sorry? I have absolutely no problem with people who believe differently than me, and I am totally open to the possibility that I am wrong. I am also totally open the possibility that I might be persuaded to change my beliefs in the future.
No need to be sorry.
Nov 15, 2009 9:50am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:19 AMNov 15, 2009 10:19 AM
Believer, but don't agree with a single faith having all of the answers. I feel most people today proclaiming to be "religious", do so out of convenience. These are the individuals that go to their service on Sunday and leave those morals at the door when they leave.
Nov 15, 2009 10:19am
coyotes22
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:25 AMNov 15, 2009 10:25 AM
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Nov 15, 2009 10:25am
GoChiefs
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:30 AMNov 15, 2009 10:30 AM
I'm a believer..although I do not go to church as often as I should.
Nov 15, 2009 10:30am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:34 AMNov 15, 2009 10:34 AM
The price you pay for being wrong if you don't believe is greater than the price of believing and being wrong. I believe!
Nov 15, 2009 10:34am
iclfan2
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:39 AMNov 15, 2009 10:39 AM
I believe.
Nov 15, 2009 10:39am
CenterBHSFan
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:46 AMNov 15, 2009 10:46 AM
gobuckeyes,
No, that's not what I meant. I guess I just can kind of relate with the indecision of it all. Been there and done that.
Nov 15, 2009 10:46am
ernest_t_bass
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:09 AMNov 15, 2009 11:09 AM
Gobuckeyes1 wrote:
I believe in "God".
I'm not sure I subscribe to "God" as he is presented in the Christian tradition anymore, but I do believe there is a force in this universe that is greater that ourselves. I just have a hard time believing that this "force" cares about what I do on a daily basis.
Agnostic?
Nov 15, 2009 11:09am
ernest_t_bass
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:10 AMNov 15, 2009 11:10 AM
gochiefs wrote:
I'm a believer..although I do not go to church as often as I should.
I have a feeling many people would say the same thing.
Nov 15, 2009 11:10am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:10 AMNov 15, 2009 11:10 AM
I am in.............God is number one in my life............
Nov 15, 2009 11:10am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:11 AMNov 15, 2009 11:11 AM
I am not. There are several reasons, but mainly because I think science and history have shown enough evidence to call religion into question, I find most of the organized religions to be full of politics and corrupt, religion seems to me that it was created to control the masses, according to the bible, 6.5 billion people on earth right now are destined for hell, and I think that believing just to avoid hell isn't really what a god would want anyway.
Nov 15, 2009 11:11am
ernest_t_bass
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:15 AMNov 15, 2009 11:15 AM
I have had many spiritual ups and downs in my life. I was raised in a strict Christian home. I went my own way, probably b/c it seemed like religion was forced upon me. B/t my Frosh and Soph years of college, I rededicated myself to the Lord. I fell again. Hasn't been the same since. I have had some hurt in my life, and that has hardened my heart tremendously. I go to church, not too often, and I don't deny the Lord. I just don't openly profess like I once did. I've prayed that God will soften my heart, but I think I'm too stubborn. I've gone sober, and that is a step, but I just don't know if everything is for the right reasons.
There are many things that I have a hard time with in "religion." How "good" people, who literally do less wrong than Self Righteous people, but don't believe, can go to hell. That's my hardest thing.
Nov 15, 2009 11:15am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:24 AMNov 15, 2009 11:24 AM
OneBuckeye wrote:
The price you pay for being wrong if you don't believe is greater than the price of believing and being wrong. I believe!
I don't think it works that way.
Nov 15, 2009 11:24am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:34 AMNov 15, 2009 11:34 AM
My belief is simply that you should be a good person and do the right things, not much more to it. I don't need to reed a book or sit in church to figure that out. If there is a God is he really going to punish me for that?
Nov 15, 2009 11:34am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:46 AMNov 15, 2009 11:46 AM
I believe in a higher power, but think organized religion is a joke.
Nov 15, 2009 11:46am
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 12:12 PMNov 15, 2009 12:12 PM
OneBuckeye wrote:
The price you pay for being wrong if you don't believe is greater than the price of believing and being wrong. I believe!
Pascal's Wager eh?
The problem with Pascal's wager is that it relies on the belief that the god you choose to worship is the correct god to worship.
Nov 15, 2009 12:12pm
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 5:24 PMNov 15, 2009 5:24 PM
Born again. Not for what I have done, but by the Grace of God to me.
Nov 15, 2009 5:24pm
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Sun, Nov 15, 2009 5:44 PMNov 15, 2009 5:44 PM
Eh, I believe in a God, in a Higher Power, that created everything and all. From THAT standpoint.
But, I DON'T believe that there's someone up there, sifting through prayers, deciding which ones to answer, and which ones to ignore. I won't knock anyone that puts stock in that, but that just never made much sense to my personal life.