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Longest time I've played without stopping? Probably around 9-10hrs on SF4 with some buddies.

Oh beleive me I have looked up these comparison, but they don't strike me as comparable and anything that I have seen that does have alot of similarities is usually false and has poor sources. You must ask yourself. What is a christian? Some one who beleives in the death and ressurection of christ as well as his teachings and life. There were christians before the bible was compiled, therefore we don't pick and choose what we beleive. We come to conclusions. Not beleiving in Genesis literally as well as those other tales is fine and not needed to be a christian. And the books of the bible are to be judged on an individual basis, not as one whole. 123625

Well, unfortunately, what is 'needed to be a Christian' is a major source of debate - as made apparent by all of its numerous denominations. Which helps my point of the bible being full of purely subjective material, and because of this, cannot be relied upon as fact.

Oh God >_< Christians don't have to beleive half those things. Plus the ressurection is due to God not Jesus himself. Also, Jesus did exist, what similarities? (No Zeitgeist claims, for the love of God, please)123625

Why are you allowed as a Christian to pick and choose what to believe from the bible? According to the bible, Jesus existed, and the aforementioned miracles took place. Whether or not you personally choose to believe some, and disregard others, is irrelevent to the objective credibility of the bible. As for the similarities, if you are indeed interested, you can look up Jesus Christ in comparative mythology.

(Why can't I use the word 'homosexual' or gay in the topic title?)

This topic has been on my mind for a while.

Personally, overall, I'd say no, but only because looking from the adopted child's perspective, having two fathers or two mothers wouldn't be the best way to raise a kid. A kid needs a mother and a father because I find each has a separate role in the child's life.

Also, the child will at least have a home and parents to take care of them.

On the other hand (although it's not nearly enough to make me change my mind to be okay with this), at least gay couples can raise children that they can call their own.

I was just wondering how you guys thought about this.

(Oh, and before anyone gets offended by anything, nothing I said was meant to offend anyone. I've got nothing against homosexuals or anything. If you were offended, I'm sorry, but it wasn't meant as an insult or anything.)

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Of course homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children. Are they not human beings? Do they not deserve equal rights? This is the 21st century, time to get with the program. Will the child face ridicule at school because of it? Perhaps. But children already face ridicule at school, for pretty much anything, so that argument doesn't have much validity, and come to think of it, neither does any of the other anti-equal rights arguments.

You can debate whether or not Jesus himself actually ever existed, thanks to the incredibly odd similarities between him and older Gods, but I digress. What I'm mainly referring to, are the big stories in which impossible miracles took place - such as the creation of the universe in six days(contradicted by science), the age of the Earth(contradicted by science), Adam & Eve and the talking snake(contradicted by science), walking on water(contradicted by science), living inside a whale(contradicted by science), Noah's Ark(contradicted by science), Resurrection from death(contradicted by science), etc., which makes the credibility of other stories within it dramatically drop.

I'm doubting this, but I read in a book that the 500 that silenthps was talking about were people who could be called forward to say that they did see Jesus after his death. At least one of the writers of the Bible referred to those 500, and if the writer was lying, then he could have looked like an idiot. Therefore those 500 were real ppl, who did see Jesus.hydralisk86

The problem still remains, as most of the things mentioned in the bible cannot be objectively proven as factual.

Nightmares about falling from incredibly high locations are my worst.

No, It'd be difficult because we can't comprehend his infinite and divine nature. Nor do we have the ability to see into the future like God does and see his reasons for answering and not answering certain prayer. Also, anyone who says they have does have proof. Moses proved to the Jews he has by the see being parted. Jesus did to over 500 people by raising from the dead. And Millions continue to by being fruit bearing Christians. Oh, and he has healed amputees. Silenthps

Let me point some things out:

You have no proof of God's existence. You have no proof that the God of the bible is the true God. You have no proof God parted the sea. You have no proof Jesus raised 500 people from the dead. You have no proof that God even answers prayers, let alone has ever regrown a limb on an amputee. All you have is subjective experiences, and faith. The whole core of your religion starts with having faith in God's existence, and faith - by definition - is a firm belief in something for which there is no proof. Please note, I'm not bashing your faith, you can have all the faith you want, but don't make wild claims about things in which have no scientific factuality to them.

You do realize that God is not some kind of computer where you insert such and such words and he outputs such and such reward. You can't objectively test a living being with their own free will. You'd have to use psychology, not the scientific method, for God. And well... Trying to understand God's psychology would be a bit... difficult. Silenthps

Right. Trying to understand God's psychology would definitely be difficult. Because you cannot see God, cannot feel God, cannot smell God, cannot hear God, nor prove God's existence. Anyone who says they have has nothing to prove it, because it's all completely subjective, and purely anecdotal. And if what the bible says is true, than God definitely answers prayers. But yet, for some unknown reason, utterly ignores amputees.