Making Light of Biblical Events

I just watched what a lot of people think is a funny video of two anti-religious whiners making fun of the manna in the desert. Their first problem is that they weren't there. They cannot go back and collect evidence to analyze or say it didn't happen. I have seen articles explaining that it was actually a certain type of plant that grew in that region. To me, however, it certainly could have been a miracle. I can't say because I wasn't there, either. What is  a miracle? It is something that needs no natural reason to happen. Sometimes it can be a natural event that wasn't expected. However, the Bible has various types of stories. There are events that happened before the time of Abraham that could have been stories designed to teach the next generation about life, called parables by Jesus, and which he also used. There are events that really happened, mostly in the time of Abraham onward. There are also events that frankly just happened which people considered to be miracles but weren't.
I did not see anything funny about the video. It is nothing but another step in the long ladder away from God into the huge hole of disbelief. Our society has been told how wonderful organized science is for so long that they tend to lean toward its anti-religious doctrine. Organized science preys on the ignorant, that is, those less educated and we-can't-think-for-ourselves types, whether indoctrinated in college or on their TV. People are giving up their belief because they think the scientists are so incredibly smarter with their complicated calculations of the age of the universe and how it began, of which, of course, they have no idea, either.
Science has become very unscientific. It is now a theology and those who question its tenets are frowned upon and sometimes cast out, what the Church calls excommunicated.
The folks who were making fun of the manna were not there. They cannot say it didn't happen yet they are making fun of those who believe it by explaining how illogical it was. Here's a real fact. You can make fun of God, too, and explain how illogical He is and explain how silly it is to believe in God. You can tell me that there is no reason to believe in Him anymore because science has demonstrated that God is unnecessary. Sorry, I look way beyond your findings. You cannot say whether or not there is a God using science. He is not something that can be analyzed. He created the universe and is not subject to its laws (your thinking is subject to its laws, though). The universe began somehow and all the organized scientists can only tell us that for eons nothing happened, then suddenly something did for absolutely no reason. Gee, could this be the part where your excluded God comes in? Was He the reason something happened? And, please, don't start with your where-did-God-come-from nonsense. Solve the Big Bang problem, then get back to me.

Interesting Concept - Agnosticism

I heard an interesting scholar on a talk show the other day. It wasn't that he was an agnostic that surprised me. It was why he was an agnostic. The reason was that there is suffering in the world. Well, quite frankly, the reason for most of the suffering is people. My best friend's brother was in the military in Spain and he said he didn't believe in God. My friend asked him why. He said he saw the most incredibly poor people there and could not believe that God could let this happen.
It's strange to me how people judge God by men's actions. People are people and God is God. God gave gave humans a brain and the ability to make decisions. Some make decisions to be good. Some decide to be bad. I heard a child on a show yesterday who wished all the people in the world would listen to a certain song that would convince us to be good to each other and we would all be happy. Apparently he was not yet familiar with man's inclination toward being like animals.
People act as if they were animals in various ways. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin wanted to be kings of the jungle. Some people rob banks and kill other people like a pack of coyotes. Our government steals our money right out of our pockets and they set it up so it would be legal. In every culture and organization - yes, even the church - there are animals. It takes a lot of effort to be human. God told mankind to master the earth. To act like animals is not what He meant.
Many people refuse to acknowledge God. No amount of logic or reasoning will change their minds. It's like the presidential debates. About the same percentage of people that are for the candidate think that candidate won. People are not generally open-minded.
When I was younger, people would ask me questions about the Bible and I always had the answer. One day a friend invited me into his office to ask me some questions. Instead of having all the answers that day I started to realize how I had been indoctrinated. He was showing me things with which I was unfamiliar. The culture of the Hebrews and other peoples, the languages, and even how English had changed so much since the King James Bible was new. I guess you could say I was reborn that day. I learned that, as he teaches, when confronted with facts you have to be able to consider them and change your beliefs if necessary. It was a feeling of freedom. I could now ask questions about things and I could even ask questions about the validity of my own beliefs.
We went through a period of knocking down bad theology until one day I realized that I no longer knew whether or not there really was a God. I had torn down my foundation and there was nothing on which to rebuild my life. Fortunately I began to study deeper into things and over a period began to piece facts into a new set of beliefs. There are many things I am still not certain about but I now know why I don't know the answers. The one strong belief I have is that we are here and it is by God himself that it happened. The unverified, confused, so-called scientific explanation lacks substance and gets shakier as time passes.
I think God chooses our paths so that we can make up our own minds and learn about reality. He certainly seems to lead a lot of people on rather strange paths but somehow they get there. I suppose He leads them to places where they can go ahead and knock out some of the obstacles before they arrive at the place where they realize who God is.
A lot of great believers have traveled down the path of agnosticism (not knowing whether or not there is a deity) to become great teachers about the Creator of the universe. My favorite was Malcolm Muggeridge (I hope I spelled that correctly). He had a unique radio show in which he began right away to explain how wonderful the world is and what a wonderful gift from God it was. For years he had tried to prove there was no God until God awakened him.
As I have always said, I don't like to talk to atheists because they already are omniscient. Agnostics, on the other hand, have questions and can discuss things without getting angry. I have a blast talking to some of them and learn some things. I don't learn anything from atheists.
To sum it up, it's all right to be an agnostic. It's just not all right to stay one. Eventually, if you are honest, God will show you the way as he did me and Malcolm. God didn't create a bad world. He didn't tell us to choose to be evil. Everything isn't perfect in this world but if there is a next world, this is how we progress to it. If God had created a perfect world I would be hearing arguments of how we don't need a God for the world to exist and why would we? People would be the same there as they are here. They just wouldn't believe for different reasons.

God Needs Money

According to a blog I saw George Carlin said the following: God is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, but he NEEDS money. Cute, maybe a little humorous if you view it from the correct, honest angle. Do people really think about this subject? There's a line in a song where a hippie assures God that he's doing fine and thanks Him for thinking about him as the plate is passed. For those of you who just don't get it, here's reality. It costs money for a group of people to build even a small, special building where they can gather to worship. They want a pastor that spends his time caring for the "flock" and studying the Bible to teach them instead of having a job. There's the water bill, the heating bill, and other things such as materials that have to be paid for. It is a luxury. Those who don't want to give an "offering" because it is the greed of the church or pastor fall into two categories - the liars and the ignorant. Sure it is possible that many churches expect more than they should but most churches get less than they need. Yes, the people who gather to worship God do need money. It's sad that there are so many people that think the way they do but, after all, they do need to buy that X-Box or that bass boat or whatever it is that they don't have yet. Hey, that kind of sounds greedy to me when there are hundreds of millions of people who have trouble keeping food and shelter. I guess that would have to fall into the hypocritical category. Surely you wouldn't want to hand any of that money over to someone who actually cares about and tries to help those barely-surviving people. Those greedy missionaries.

Time for Dumb Questions

Here is a post that humored me:
how could the virgin mary possibly have a baby?
how does did jesus' body just 'disappear' from his tomb?
how could a god scientifically exist?

Other than the apparent illiteracy induced by text messaging, there isn't much thinking going on here. Three consecutive questions, three simple explanations. If there is a God that can do or create anything (the universe, for example), it doesn't seem to be a tall task to make a woman pregnant if you happen to be her creator that made all of her work correctly. Hmm? To the second question, doesn't it say something about the huge stone being rolled away. Gee, then he could walk out just as it says. I cannot say whether or not these first two things happened but it doesn't take much thinking to understand how easy they would be. Whether Jesus was God in the flesh or God used him to show his abilities, couldn't God do these things with no effort? The third question is the one that people who hate God don't like to think about. Why does God have to exist "scientifically"? He created the universe. He established its rule and set things into motion. To us He is all-powerful. What would we do to "scientifically" prove or disprove God? We only have the tools He gave us - the universe, our senses, our logical thought. Unfortunately, all those things are limited to our understanding of what we can determine with our limited resources, including our very limited brains. What is the realm of God? Does He live inside the universe, outside, both? People are so limited in their thinking and the sort of "enlightened" nonsense spewing out of their parrot mouths is pitiable.  They do not want answers. They are trying to appear intelligent and "above it all." Don't waste your time with them. It will be an endless discussion that goes nowhere because there is no more room in their cluttered brains. I think they're funny. I should be sad that they are denying themselves the happiness they don't deserve.

Did God Promote Murder?

I've been reading the whiner blogs. You know, the ones where people with no lives and no one to blame go to to complain about the idea of God and the Bible? There are varieties of peoples in the "Old Testament" that God ordered to be killed. The question is why were they to be killed. It's very simple, liberal minded non-thinkers. It is the same reason as God told the Hebrews to take the land slowly - else the wild animals would kill them. You see, wild animals are competition and many of them see you, humans, as food and competition. It's like the joke about the liberal and his family being accosted by an evil man. Should I try to understand his malfunction and reason with him, or should I kill him before he kills me and rapes my wife and who knows what to the kids? The answer for those who don't get it is to kill him before he kills. I guess you don't listen to the news or you would be quite familiar with a man who did this very thing. Do you think he could have been reasoned with? In many cases, in the primitive world of the "Old Testament," societies were like packs of wild dogs. Many cultures just wanted wealth and slaves to do their work and would do anything to get that. Other cultures refused to be civil at all to the Hebrews. Many cases weren't explained. The so-called enlightened people of our time have no concept of what life and societies were like in those times, yet they are quite ready to judge. I'm sure God would have done a lot of things differently had He had a more advanced world to deal with but, then again, our enlightened world isn't doing all that well, now, is it? And since we're so enlightened, we don't even care to notice Him other than to complain. Get lives, whiners. Find beneficial interests. You're wasting the lives God gave you. That's real gratitude.