Questioning the religious people of Yahoo.?

[Francesca]

1...evolution is just a theory without proof.. you can say the same about faith but that's just it.. nether can be proven.. but faith is intuitive and all animal forms have intuition yet evolution has too many holes and does not quite make sense... and I know..you can say the bible does too but to a believer it makes way more sense than we came from monkeys,birds or fish, or that a single cell evolved some into a complex human and others became ants?

2..in the history of humanity, it has been proven that faith is something innate in man..faith that a higher being exists... even the most intelligent of early civilizations, with out a "book" or indoctrination has worshiped some form of deity. even people that were born blind, deaf and without language "knew" that there was a higher being.. e.g Helen Keller claimed she knew before she could communicate in any way that there existed something more superior to man...

3.While we don't know all the reasons God does what He does... it is clear that by the only reason that He is God and that He can, then He does what ever He wills for His own purpose that we might not be able to understand as lowly humans.. just as sometimes you may do or act in ways that to others might not seem understandable or for a reasonable purpose... only you may know that purpose.. God chose to make the world in 6 days for a reason we don't know or understand...just because He wanted to..

4. again,only God knows His own reasons but I will make a small attempt to explain what I do understand about God's character... When Adam sinned, He brought disease upon the world due to sin and corruption... according to the bible.. "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..(Romans 3:24) God is Light and sin free, Sin is darkness.. light and darkness cannot be together at any given time.. Where God is He brings in Light and blocks out darkness... therefore God cannot live anywhere where there is sin (or darkness) .. where there is sin there is corruption and disease.. disease does not respect age,sex,race, beauty, wealth, worldly position or any "human" trait... so because of this, children are subject to sin and corruption just the same as anyone else.. why does God allow this... my thought is because God does respect innocence and prefers sometimes to take a child to be with Him rather than let the corruption of this world send them to their own destruction.. I believe God being the giver and creator of life knows and decides who should live and who should not.. after all He is God.. so he can do whatever he decides is best...

5.. once again.. God cannot live with sin.. He repulses it, it repulses God... light and darkness cannot live together and sin is darkness so if you where to go live in heaven with God you cannot be in darkness(sin) because God repulses darkness.. There is only one way for you to be able to live in God's presence.. to be sinless.. so you have to have your sins washed away through some sort of sacrifice.. (this is the way God made man atone for his sins in the old testament- cleansing and purging sins through sacrifice- in the new testament.. Jesus became that sacrifice- by you putting your faith and belief in Jesus and allowing Him to "change" your heart, you become cleansed so that you may live with God and share His promises... God doesn't condemn you to hell, that just where sin goes.. and God LOVED the world so much, that He gave his ONLY Son to be that sacrifice, so that ANYONE who wants to accept THIS SACRIFICE THAT GOD HIMSELF DID FOR MAN will now be able to enter into heaven cleansed, forgiven and sharing all the good that God has prepared for them..(John 3:16) How is that tyranny.. I see it as the ultimate sacrifice and proof of Gods love for us...

this concept is kind of like the glass half empty or half full concept...
You see it the opposite... "God wants everyone to worship and follow him and, if they don't, they burn in hell for all eternity"
Believers in Christ see it as .... see how much God loves us that He gave the ultimate sacrifice so that you and I can have abundant, beautiful, and perfect life forever and ever... He deserves our worship...
John 3:18
For God DID NOT send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.