Originally posted by Lonestar
Sounds like you beleive to my, Denial is not just a river in egypt.
Not quite, erm...
There are areas in the Bible that hold great interest to me, for example, the Egyptian plagues, since most of those can be proved to have happened in some point in Egypt history, including the 'River of Blood', which may well have been caused by Red silt being washed downriver by heavy rains. Some people like to think this disproves the Bible, personally, I think it helps authenticate it's writing period and the contents of it. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a historical one.
As far as the spiritual side of it is concerned, it's difficult to say, I don't consider myself to be of any particular faith, and if the 'false' christ is really a human who is completely unaware of his actions, how does that make anything different to the way things have
always been?
I don't consider the Apocolypse a prophecy of what
must happen, I think it was someone who knew human nature extremely well trying to give, in the limited explanations available 4000 years ago what would happen if mankind
did keep doing things the way they always have. Theres a lot of spiritualism involved, but theres a reason for that imho....
In your life, what has influenced you more? Cold, detached books about population trends and gross national productivity, or good old blood and thunder space-combat, fantasy combat, Special-ops books etc? I can't speak for everyone, but from my own point, I'd say I read far more of the latter than the former, and because I enjoy them, they stick in my mind

I suppose it is in our own hands, if we were offered an option of the entire world without hunger or suffering, all we had to do was kill 100,000 people out of several billion in the world, is that considered a 'good' thing or a 'bad' thing.
There is what I would truly define as a test of faith, because the Faith itself would most certainly say that such an action would be a 'sin' by definition, but could we resist the temptation. If we do not, we are less than the 'human' that we would need to be to aspire to become as one with 'God' (the perfect existence).
So while I don't actually believe in the physcial entity of 'God', I believe many holy books have somehow managed to cause the very thing they were trying to warn us against.
Deep huh?
