Bible Discussion Thread

Please excuse the spelling. I love all the scripture of the bible. What hurts me is when these so called ex-Christians say they grew up in a Christian home but as they got older they realized that scientific theory and what they teach you in public school on evolution is right, and can’t teach about God and creation, it is messed up. There is this tv show called thirty days one of the episode had an atheist live with these Christians for 30 days. She tries saying there is no afterlife. You just die you see it in nature. What hurts me about her is she said she grew up Christian. She believes in science and that we as humans control our bodies well. If she reads the bible she should know that God gave us the choice to follow him or not, is that not the same as giving you control of yourself. My ex boss and I had plenty of talks about God, Jesus and the holy spirit we both are Christians. He goes to church faithfully. I don’t go to church anymore, haven’t gone in about 20 years. My boss couldn’t believe I haven’t been in years. He once said to me that I know more about the scripture than half the people he went to church with even a lot of the elders there who spent their lives going to church. What I told him is I believe there are 3 types of Christian. Let me elaborate on Christians; some people think they are Christians. What I mean is growing up I went to church because I wanted to; my mom and dad did not go to church but I loved going hearing about our God, his son and the holy spirit and all the bible scriptures. See I went to church not because I grew up in a Christian home or was made to go to church. But I went because I wanted to. So when my ex boss said that I knew a lot about the bible I said when you’re made to go or you used to go because you grew up going. If we are made to do something, we rebel if we grew up going. It’s just routine if you choose to go you listen and you want to learn. So when a person grew up Christian and ends up turning to a non believer they never truly let the lord in their hearts because they were either going with the fellow or because they went every Sunday and it’s part of their routine or you rebelled because you were made to go. That is why I believe these ex-Christian are distorting the truth because they never opened their hearts to listen and read the bible. I may not go to church anymore and know that all over the world there are different cultures and a lot of these different cultures talk about a great flood. As far as science and evolution, they can’t pinpoint what happened to the dinosaurs but through carbon dating they say they roamed the earth 60 million before humans. carbon dating is nothing but nonsense. The bible says we were around the dinosaurs. Before they even found a fossil dinosaurs were written in the bible. They want admit that a majority of them died in the great flood. Because they can’t find human remains in the same rock layers as the dinosaurs. In the book of Genesis God told Adam and Eve they came from the dirt, they will go back to dirt when we die. So if I still after 20 years believe after all the stupid things I did, I still believe and it gets stronger everyday. Please out of love to all my brother and sister in Christ. Amen.