Jammer, where does it say that God wont let you convert in the end times? I kinda found Revelations boring so my knowledge of that Book is limited.
If people took demons as their Gods, then why did these religions have many of the same sins as Christianity, preach peace, and not tell their followers to act as barbaric bloodthirsty savages? Really, are you going to say that Gandhi worshiped a demon? Buddhism is one of the most peaceful religions out there, so why would you explain that as "Demon"?
Baal, Beelzebub, and Maloch were just some ancient gods spoken about in the Bible which didn't follow the same moral code as the Jews did. Those were the gods I was talking about. But alright, as long as you brought those other religions up I'll follow along.
Besides, saying "Demons!" is the same as if you're writing Lost, and after the third season thing "Hmm...how do I explain all of this...ah, Aliens did it" and then call a break for lunch. There is no reason for demons to create so many different religions with peaceful ideals and moral sins.
The only thing demons have interest in is keeping people away from God. Some peoples might react better if they are afraid, so the demons demand the sacrifice of twenty children a year, or else they get smited. Some peoples might follow them because the demons could promise better crops. Whatever the reason, in the end, all they care about is leading people away from God. It is not hard to imagine they would do whatever possible.
Also, note that the three largest religions are Christianity followed by Islam and Hinduism. Assuming there are demons in the world, it looks like the whole "peaceful idea and moral sins" approach would be worth considering to them if they wanted some followers. The devil loves to pretend to be an angel of light.
And if I have offended anyone with these last few paragraphs then I'm terribly sorry. That was never my intention. Erg, I spent a lot of time here trying to phrase my words in a manner which would be fine with everyone, but it just doesn't look possible.
Tower of Babel has nothing about race, it just says God cursed them into speaking different languages.
Honestly, I see no reason why the passage
should mention race, even if it is exactly how different races came to be. That's my honest opinion looking at it. This neither supports nor disproves anything, unfortunately.
And I guess mutation, changes in habbitat, and what the heck I may as well include inbreeding among Noah's descendants could effect the whole race thing.
And with the flood, how is it love to just kill everyone who doesn't follow you? Wouldn't you say that there is much more sin going on now then before, especially since the Bible preaches theocracy, and almost every government is secular? If anything, we should have a flood.
Genesis 6 said:
5The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
The passage isn't too great on the details, but in one verse it even mentions that God had grieved making man. Note that He never even regretted this when Adam and Eve first sinned. It seems as if the whole world was filled with such evil that it was considered unsalvagable, and this was the best way.
"every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time" was the description of each person. The world certainly hasn't come back to this point again.
Also, although nothing to do with this debate (though maybe you're a believer in it), I cannot understand the people who say "All nations that don't follow God collapse", or that "God is the only way a country can be great/sustain itself."
If you were addressing me then, no, I dont think that way.
coughcrusadescough
Not that I'm sure that there has been what I'd call a completely Christian country in the existence of the world though. I suppose England's main religion at some point was Christian, but there certainly didn't act that way. Inquisition. >_> Actually, I'm not sure how I feel about this issue.
anyway... there's nothing "false" in the Bible. It's entirely possible that there are some minor historical or geographical errors or whatever, because the authors were after all only human, but there's nothing in it that contradicts its basic message.
It s kind of hard to see a politician's real motives as many of them are full of themselves.
