Attended church for 1st time in a decade...I see why the black race is last...

[DrX]

Here comes the cavalry. If your not involved with the community of Christ then you don't love god its that simple Iron sharpens Iron. When I go to church I soak up everything. Yeah I give sleep, money, and other things but thats the least I could do for Christ and for god, for the thing he has done for me and the people around me.

Why do u need to go to a building to worship God? I praise God from anywhere

 

[Verbal Kint]

Lwas and rules existed as far as human civilization did and earlier than Judaism for example

I asked about you personally.

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

I asked about you personally.

I do what I feel is right/best, doesn't need religion or God for that

 

[thewarrior05]

Why do u need to go to a building to worship God? I praise God from anywhere

Your right you can praise him everywhere. your life style is suppose to praise but in community we praise god together

 

[Verbal Kint]

I do what I feel is right/best, doesn't need religion or God for that

So if a grown looking 15 year old throws it at you, you going there? You derive your entire moral code to doing what you feel is right in the moment? Completely independent of laws and social mores?

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

So if a grown looking 15 year old throws it at you, you going there? You derive your entire moral code to doing what you feel is right in the moment? Completely independent of laws and social mores?

No, because that would not only yield legal consquences but would make me uncomfortable.

As for laws and social mores, thye're often subjective and differ from place to place. In many places, it is legal to marry children or pre-major teens, would you be okay with it since it's the law of the land?

Would it be okay to discriminate based on gender, sexuality, beliefs because it's social mores and laws? What if there were laws that would make the lynching of blacks (or any other group) legal, would that be okay?

 

[Giselle]

So religion is the only way for people to be good?

Religion does help sway lots of people who aren't naturally good to be good. So does shame.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Yawn same old coli, open the bible, the Jews were held in slavery and those were God's chosen people, Joseph in slavery, Daniel in slavery, Israelites in bondage many times from Egyptians, Romans, Babylonians. Prophets hunted snd killed, Stephen stoned, Samson killed, Paul and Peter killed, John the Baptist killed, Jesus killed.

Following God has snd will never be easy, you will be mocked, laughed at and maybe lose everything in this wicked world but so what

Christianity was in Africa way before the Atlantic slave trade

So ditto that demonic slave master who are rotting in hell perverted the interpretation of the bible.

We all will die one day and face judgement , y'all can giggle and laugh but no man can bear death

You don't need to follow God to be a good person or to be righteous.

Why were so many African slaves forced to convert to Christianity

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Religion does help sway lots of people who aren't naturally good to be good. So does shame.

You don't need religion to be a good person

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

So many are hell bound if they don't change. Christians included.

 

[thewarrior05]

You don't need religion to be a good person

Only thing that is good is God. We're all sinners. The difference christian do good deeds to praise god and to love his people while non-believers do good things to be a good person.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Only thing that is good is God. We're all sinners. The difference christian do good deeds to praise god and to love his people while non-believers do good things to be a good person.

That's a huge difference

 

[Athenna]

My aunt asked me recently to come to church with her because apparently there's this old man who used to go to the same church as me (Before I stopped going.) who wants to see me. I really don't want to set a foot in a church again.

 

[Samori Toure]

Lemme attempt to answer you. God didn't kill Satan because he condones the idea of a Satan. God likes it when bad shyt happens and allows it to for the giggles. Lucifer was just a way of diverting blame.

The whole notion of Satan maybe made up. I am not even sure that Satan and Hell exists in some religions. So it may be symbolism.

God gave people free will and most religions advise men to guard against stuff like greed, murder etc.; which makes me think that men make their own Hell by rejecting the teachings of their religion.

 

[Samori Toure]

Only thing that is good is God. We're all sinners. The difference christian do good deeds to praise god and to love his people while non-believers do good things to be a good person.

You might want to read up on Muslims a little be more. They give alms and do good deeds to praise God too.

Jesus even states that he has sheep in other flocks. So other people in other religion find favor with God too.