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Okay I am a Wiccan and I am proud, when someone asks me a question about Wicca, I calmly explain an answer (unless they are one of those people who ask me and then tell me, no matter what the answer i give, that I'm going to hell, which is pointless cause Wiccan's don't believe in hell, well most of us don't anyways). But one day I was having a decent and calm talk of religion with one of my best friends and I asked a question that bugged me all the time when I was Morman, that applies to all religion with a bible. How do you know... that what is in that bible is really true? I mean the Christian bible has been rewritten and translated so many times that how do you know what it says is true and that someone who messed with it did not change something cause they didn't like what God said? Same with the Morman bible, the man who wrote it was the "only" on to see what God said and wrote it in a book. So basically, how do you know what you're reading is what it was supposed to be and was truely left unchanged from gods word?
Well my friend got all definsive and told me that it just didn't happen. I said but how do you know? These books were rewritten and translated by "the sinful hands of man" and did God not have a follower who betrayed him? How do you know for sure what your reading is true. Again she just got all mad and yelled at me and said that it JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN! Another girl in my class heard the convo and got all mad at me too. I didn't diss the religion and I didn't say anything mean, I just asked a simple question that had bugged me even before I became Wicca.
Why can't someone just say. "I don't know... I just need to believe it's true" or something like that or just say plainly "I don't know" or "I never thought about it", that's what I say when I don't have an answer. So why the do people always insist on yelling?
Be proud of your religion and who you are! I have a good friend who is Wiccan and I think it is a pretty cool religion. Does your school or community have an organization for Wiccans? My friend is going to college and they have one there. It's too bad people won't let you believe your way. This country was founded on freedom of religion. And I agree about the Bible. I think any religion which helps people live good lives is great. I agree with some parts of the Bible, but not all. Just like about any other religion. Personally, I think if you want to attract people to your religion, you should do so by being kind and compassionate to all, not by harrasing them and yelling at them. I would like to learn more about Wicca, if you have any information on it. I am posting this to learn about Wiccan, not Christianity (no offense) as I am extremely familiar with it already. I would ask that people please only reply to me if they have info about Wicca. Blessed be!
Ya we have a group that's hosted by a store called Renassance shoppe but you need parental permission and my mom won't let me for some reason -_-'.... me and my friend thought of a coven but we couldn't find any more people our age who were wiccan. How long have you been into Wicca? Have you celebrated any of the holidays yet? Samhain is coming up ^.~ and the full moon is this friday if you wanna try for an Esbat
the Bible was never rewriten. And if anyone attempted to rewrite then it is no longer The Bible. You can get the bible in its original text and language and so you can see the actual greek text in which it was writen. So the translations are pretty acurate. You can say you dont believe in Hell all you want but that will not change the reality. I can say i dont believe in gravity and jump off a cliff and the reallity will still hit. The Bible is the word of God and it is whole and it is truth.
I can say i dont believe in gravity and jump off a cliff and the reallity will still hit.
Sure that's a great example, you get to see the result of your experiment immediately. If I say I don't believe in the bible then nothing, absolutely nothing, happens to me.
Not yet anyway. the LORD is slow to anger and quick to forgive. That is why He gives ample time for us to turn our hearts to Him. But, we will stand before Him on the day of judgment.
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Sure that's a great example, you get to see the result of your experiment immediately. If I say I don't believe in the bible then nothing, absolutely nothing, happens to me.
beatlejuice disagrees: if you read carefully you will see that i was talking about not believing in HELL not the bible. You have to die first for the reality of hell to hit whether you believe it or not.
Oh...then my answer is the same then: if one does not believe in hell then absolutely nothing will happen to them.
"Not yet anyway. the LORD is slow to anger and quick to forgive. That is why He gives ample time for us to turn our hearts to Him. But, we will stand before Him on the day of judgment"
You know you're making it sound like your religion is completely true and there is no way that any other could be true... we will never know whose religion is true till the day we die.
Yes. I don't claim religion. I claim a relationship with the God of the Bible. I believe the Bible is His Living Word and that it is true.
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"Not yet anyway. the LORD is slow to anger and quick to forgive. That is why He gives ample time for us to turn our hearts to Him. But, we will stand before Him on the day of judgment"
You know you're making it sound like your religion is completely true and there is no way that any other could be true... we will never know whose religion is true till the day we die.
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