BelieveItOrNot

     Some thoughts have come to me about why there are so many premature and random deaths that happen everyday to others in this world. It's safe to say that the elderly man who dies of natural causes clearly fulfilled his duties in life at a ripe old age and is now his time to depart. But what about those multitudes of young individuals who die without the appearance of fulfilling anything except for meeting an unfortunate demise? I was thinking about how young children and babies sometimes die prematurely for a plethora of reasons, and also those miscarriages and still births, perhaps this goes for any death that did not occur from natural causes. Suffice to say, I have a possible explanation for why this happens. So then I thought about destiny and free will. I always advocated more for destiny and less for free will. But don't be mistaken, I also believe there's some leeway for free will too which can impact the person's life course. Nevertheless, each individual w...

     There is no explicit Biblical foundation for the Noahide laws. You will never find God saying to Noah in Genesis anywhere, "here are my 7 Noahide commandments to the gentiles." No such verse exists. It's a much later invention by rabbis in the rabbinic era to give gentiles a sense of moral code to live by, much like the golden rule but only with a few more 'golden rules' so to speak.  There are two commandments to Noah in Genesis. One is Genesis 9:4; 'don't eat the flesh of a still living animal.' This is considered a Noahide commandment. The other can be interpreted as a Noahide commandment if you do a lot of twisting and turning of the scripture to make it apply to the concept of murder; this is Genesis 9:5-6. Even so, it's still obscure inasmuch that the "shedding of man's blood" could be justified in war and self defense as two examples.  Even the Torah agrees that if you killed a thief before sunrise there is no bloodguilt u...

      I’ve been doing my own personal research on NDE experiences for quite a while now. And although I never actually had one myself I feel compelled from my inner spirit at this moment to comment on the God that most NDE survivors have an encounter with. I also want to most importantly note that this is my own analysis and personal opinion of the God that these survivors describe in their own NDE experience articles. I will break up my post into two parts; the analysis and then my opinion. Analysis This God is described in summary by many of these survivors as unconditionally loving beyond all human perception insofar that he’s basically unfathomable for any human being. Even so, I will still try to form my own opinion about this God in the next part.  I find it interesting that this God is described as being unconcerned with religion as a whole and takes no side whatsoever with what many people might believe is the true religion.  He is also said to...

          Some of you may or may not have heard about the website religiousforums.com which is a sub-par debating platform for those who want to debate about a variety of topics such as philosophy, science and religion. However, I would advise you, the reader, to stay as far away as possible from this site because it's not a professional debating platform. It caters to those who spread their pseudo-intellectual gibberish and is run like some sort of hierarchal mafia organization. For example, If you are too smart for your opponent and he realizes you're getting the upper hand over him in a debate he will get his gangster buddies to team up against you, release every kind of ad-hominem attack and try to overpower you with his status. Then a moderator will show up, censor the strongest part of your rebuttal and give you a warning on your account for being too smart for your opponent. Of course, since the moderator is good friends with the little shmuch he wil...