i have NOT read all the other posts but i must say, just think about this. I dont like the christian religion for a couple reasons. First, they are always so negative if your not a christian. They say "well you better become a christian soon if you dont want to burn in hell forever" thats just annoying. Next, i dont believe in religion in general because it just disputes people so much and makes us hate each other, dont get me wrong i respect peoples beliefs and they are entitled to there opinion but its just the start of SO many wars. Lastly, some christians ive met, and this doesnt apply to all of them, treat everyone else like dirt. One guy i met came up to me and asked me if i was christian, i said "no" and hes just like "wh..what? how dont you believe in it?" he was just AMAZED, as if it is impossible to not believe. After which he said "ill pray for you and your sinner friends..."

That just makes me mad.., very very mad.

OH i forgot, christians go around the world and make people feel bad about themselves if they arent christians, they recruit people. One guy on my bus was reading the bible, so he asked me what my favorite passage was. i said i haven't read the bible, and he offered to buy me a bible AND membership to his church free of price. This was a kind thing but when i denied he kept adding things to the table, he wouldnt leave till i was a christian. ill try to keep posted on this conv. And thx for reading my blabbering nonsense

"I've always wondered. If God made his children in his own image, wouldn't that mean that all the gays, serial killers, child molesters, rapists, etc.. were a part of him?"

An answer to that question Fierce. What happened was as it says in Romans 5:12 "Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned." All those people are not a "part of him" they were made in his image. So you would be thinking that God is a cussing, drinking, wife-beating scumbag? No, when Adam ate of the fruit that God told him not to eat of, he sinned, and was set apart from the fellowship of God.

I saw this, and figured you guys could use someone who wasn't a jerk. I wanted to discuss this with you. I ain't gonna argue. I'm a Christian. I was saved at a young age, got out of church, and got in about a year ago. I hope my opinion is welcomed. I want to stick up for what true Christianity should be like. I haven't read this whole thing (I mean there is 10 pages), but I'll look back a couple, and answer any new questions toward Christianity.

Are you actually saying that when the bible says we were made in the image of god, it meant in the 2-arms 2-legs sort of sense?

What other explanation have you for Genesis 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:"

An answer to that question Fierce. What happened was as it says in Romans 5:12 "Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned." All those people are not a "part of him" they were made in his image. So you would be thinking that God is a cussing, drinking, wife-beating scumbag? No, when Adam ate of the fruit that God told him not to eat of, he sinned, and was set apart from the fellowship of God.