Whom to believe (Part 2)

A discussion of some thoughts I've had about God and the afterlife, continued from Part 1.

What if you died suddenly as a result of a freak accident or just died naturally without any warning? Would a forgiving and good God make you suffer in a burning hell for all eternity? I cannot believe that anyone doesn’t commit what they call a sin verbally or by some thoughts from the time they get up to the time they go to bed.

Good and evil are all around us, day and night. In the past I have seen manifestations of some people that have passed away. I had lived in a house that had a ghost in it and she appeared to me when I looked in the front window when I had initially went to rent this house. At night when I lived there, I could hear her walking in the kitchen moving pots and pans. The lights were coming on by themselves in the day time, the radio was turning off or on by itself. One day my granddaughter came out of the bathroom shaking and white as a sheet, saying that someone called her name while she was in the bathroom. Myself going in to take a shower I could feel a cold draft in that bathroom going in to it. I have witnesses to all this.

My point is that there are so many unknowns about the afterlife, and when I ask about whom to believe when they tell us what they think, it's because I think no one really knows anything about it.

Whom to believe (Part1)

Who is telling the truth about God, or does anyone really know? Or are people just making up stories as they go along and do they really believe that what they are saying is the complete truth? Some people say that God is a good God and yet according to this priest that used to come to our school, if a tragedy would happen we would ask him why did it happen? And his answer would always be it was Gods will. Now does that make any sense? If God is as good as they claim him to be then why would they say it was Gods will`when people suffered?

I don’t really believe in all this goodness and forgiveness that is attributed to God. I know for a fact that the Catholics priest claim that if you die before confessing your sins you go straight to hell and the church of God preaches that when you die you stay in your grave till judgment day when the dead shall rise to be judged at the end of time.

Now if you go to my other blog, Bob’s Ghosts ,you will see quite a bit about people that have died briefly and experienced what Hell is all about -  the suffering of the souls that are there (according to their stories). Now if I would have read about only of one or two people like this, it would be hard to digest but there are too many of them to discredit what they had seen and felt. I have read that if you’re not admitted to the Kingdom of God, your soul is incinerated, never to exist again. What I find hard to believe would be the torture of burning for eternity and I don’t believe a good and forgiving God would do that.

Whom to believe?

In a previous post I stated that if I ran across an article that I couldn’t comment on it at the time, I would bookmark it for future reference.

Today, since I didn’t know what to beef about I went to my bookmarks. I found this

Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women.

The findings, detailed Thursday, Aug. 1, in the journal Science, come from the most complete analysis of the male sex chromosome, or the Y chromosome, to date. The results overturn earlier research, which suggested that men's most recent common ancestor lived just 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.

Now I know that a lot of people have lost faith because some preachers' actions away from the pulpit have cast doubts on them and indeed religion as a whole. The lies and misinterpretation of some verses of the Bible have not helped. But if your faith is deep enough, by reading the article quoted above, you will not be deterred from what science has claimed to have discovered using DNA. Because what they apparently have discovered goes against what is written in the Bible.

These days it’s hard to believe what anyone says - especially when it comes to science. I’m not going to use the same words as they did but how can two people mate when they don’t know each other and live apart from each other? I will say even though I don’t believe what they have supposedly discovered it’s still interesting to read.