Let me begin by making myself clear. I'm not here to offend any one or make aweful jokes or be in any way disrespectful to any religious people. But lately I've had something on my mind with no one really qualified to talk to about this. I would really appreciate it if someone could maybe enlighten me some. Ok so I'm not an expert on religion or the Bible but I do believe in God, just God, gods the only one I trust believing in. I could never join a church I've tried but I've never felt anything good from it. Only a foreboding feeling like I'm in a bad or unsafe place. Surrounded by liers, pretenders, and fakes. In church just because they want to be seen as honest God fearing christians. I don't go anymore I wont. How can I when I know, with every thing in me, that gods warning me of danger. I don't think God would even claim church or Christianity as a faith. I think it's all lies and deception now. You see I've got severe trust issues with the human race. How corrupt the hand of men. How many times has the Bible been written rewritten edited. How much of it has been removed replaced Kept secret. I can't trust that. I mean why does the old testament tell us " an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth". "Worship no other gods before me" no graven images no idols. God is jealous and vengeful and strikes down with furious anger. But in the new testament Jesus takes the wheel. And suddenly, were praying to Jesus praising Jesus thanking Jesus worshipping Jesus even the title Christian focuses on jesus. But God said no other gods before him, no false idols, no graven images. An eye for an eye became turn the other cheek furious vengeance became forgiveness. Love your enemies? We went from destroying our enemies to loving ppl who dominated the poor thru violence and cruelty and oppression. But according to Jesus were no longer defending our selves. Be docile little lamb. No thanks. I only trust God. I don't need any middle men to talk to God for me. I don't need a church to be close to god. All I gotta do is close my eyes and talk to God. It's a very personal very one on one experience that feels me with peace.

But here is where this gets scary. The one thing that above all I just can't understand is while on the cross, after all he had endured, would Jesus ask God why he had forsaken him? With his followers there too see the son of God in his moment of doubt. Would that not shake a person's faith. Plus the cross was struck by lightening.

Jesus from then till now gets more prais and glory and faith and acknowledgement than God himself. Here is my question? Is it possible that Jesus wasn't really Jesus. Could it have instead been the devil in disguise? Why is he called the father of lies? Christians worship pray to give praise to and put all theyr faith into jesus because a book clearly written to condition poor desperate ppl to peacefully without a fight let bad men do whatever they wanted to with complete disregard for human life. Can somebody prove me wrong? Is their any solid proof? I've already told God what I think about the whole concept of religion. Man made propaganda to control the masses thru fear and guilt. If it were genuine and real then preachers and priests and bishops and evangelists wouldn't be the only ppl prospering. Prayer can get a preacher a new porsche. But can't bring relief for his flock. The real monsters wear suits and ties. Thank you goodbye.

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Im aware according to the current Astronomical Cosmology theory, that by 10^40 years in the future, the universe will enter the “BlackHole” Era. Then, the model postulates that 10^100 years, these black holes will evaporate, leading into the Dark Era of the universe. My question is... would this effect God, Heaven, our Souls, and everything? Would Heaven cease to be? Would God cease be? Or could this also be part of God’s plan?

Hey Reddit! Long story but bear with me!

I grew up hearing about my great, great, great grandmother who could heal bleeding and my great grandfather who could cure warts by “faith healing,” which my family always referred to as The Gift. According to my relatives not much is known except for those it’s passed down to, due to the fact that they would lose their abilities if they passed on specifics to anyone other than the one intended to receive it (which was told to be every other generation, rotating genders from boy to girl).

My aunt is said to been passed this knowledge but won’t use it, for reasons unknown to me. It is said to involve a specific bible verse, as well as a small ritual. M family also has a French and Irish lineage. I’m so curious and eager to learn more but the internet isn’t providing me many answers. If you know of anything related I would be ECSTATIC to learn anything I can about it. Nothing would be more devastating than something that special being lost in a generation, and it’s important to me that I can pass on the tales and history of my ancestors to my own, if only for history sake. I think it would be a shame to let that family history be forgotten and would be a huge tribute to my great grandfather. If you know anything about this and are willing to share I would be soo grateful!

Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, each of his own produce, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's....wtf ! What must be going through the vegan mind's ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/04/17/the-most-important-equation-in-the-universe/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark#711e0df260da

This is all well and good, and it’s certainly fascinating. However, it doesn’t negate the spiritual and overall reality of...well, reality. It just gives us something to think about. God exists, independently of the physical universe/space time continuum. Am I wrong in this assessment?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5527697/Universe-end-collision-bubble-negative-energy.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Would this have any effect on God? Or Heaven?

My question has been, in the past few years, as we find more and more interesting things about the brain, more questions, both empirical and spiritual, come up. One of the most fascinating and kind of disturbing cases are people who, while fully sapient and indeed often intelligent, are medically lacking the ability to believe in God. I can't remember the link, but I'm sure you can find it online. Another case was of people born without the ability to feel many emotions, up to, and including Love. There was the story of the man who found love, despite being unable to feel it.?And when his child was born, he didn't feel the utter joy of holding one's newborn child. My question is what do we make of these people and the circumstances that created them? And how does this effect our ways of knowing and loving God?

(By the way, if I'm wrong, I humbly apologize. Ya have to understand that I'm high functioning autistic, and what some people can filter out, I've great difficulty. I hope you all understand.)