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I personally believe that when you die, you die. I was raised Lutheran. Lutheran grade school, Lutheran high school, Lutheran pastor's daughter girlfriend, so on and so forth. but at some point, i acknowledged that the Bible is just the retelling of a retelling of a story that was passed down word-of-mouth for centuries, translated and written down then translated again. it's like the end result of the "telephone game" you play as a kid. not to mention that the Church picked through and chose what they wanted to keep in, what they wanted to discard, and altered it to fit their own needs.
if you believe in a higher being, fine, sure. but the Bible is NOT a book to base your beliefs on. it's got some good messages, sure. but it's far from factual in any way.
a friend of mine once told me "christians can turn agnostic or atheist, but it doesn't work the other way around". think about that.
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Then I guess I'm an impossibility... I'm an athiest turned Christian. What your friend said is completely untrue, there are MANY cases of people coming to believe in a God (not talking just strictly Christianity here) who were athiest, agnostic and everything in between.
You're really opening up too turning this thread into what it's NOT supposed to be... a religious debate. If you want to post things like that, post them in the Christians thread. There's a lot of nice, friendly debating on the subject going on in there.
