Originally Posted by Old American:
If God said it that is not a generic answer, it is the only answer.
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Originally Posted by Old American:
I said in my post that it was people who could give generic answers. If you do not believe in God you cannot get your answers from Him, according to you He does not exist. What you are saying must be you want someone to give you the answers you agree with and anything else is just a generic answer.
i gave you the reasons I believe in God and I will stand by them. I really do not know what answer you are looking for maybe someone else can help. You have the right to your opinion and I have the right to mine. There were times in my life I did not care about God myself, but I changed and now I do. It was my choice no one made it for me. Careful studying on my part brought me to where I am now no one made me. We do not agree on the subject of God .
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Yes, you said if God said it, then it wasn't a generic answer. People always quote God when they give those generic answers. What I meant by generic is that people [Christians] will always give you the same answer. They're the same because people always quote what the Bible/God said.
I did not say that I want someone to give me answers I agree with. Those are your words, not mine. As I said, Generic is always giving the same answers, no matter who it is.
The answer I'm looking for is for a Christian to tell me, if God is so loving, why he allows someone to die a horrible, painful death or why a child or baby is allowed to be raped and/or murdered. No one has ever given me a satisfactory answer, it's always the same generic answer. And that answer never makes any sense. He can either allow it or not allow it. It's His choice.
No one has said you don't have the right to your own opinions because you do & I appreciate your giving them. I enjoy a good debate when it can happen w/o anger & an opinion trying to be forced on me. I came to believe the way I do because of the same careful studying you did, & it brought me to where I am.
People on here have implied that Best made me an "Atheist" & that's just not true. No one person made me anything. I have ask questions to some of the Atheist on this forum but they haven't made me into anything. The one main thing that has made me not believe was the Bible itself.
But I do thank you for your willingness to discuss Religion with me w/o anger.