{"id":516,"date":"2012-04-03T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/03\/poll-question-god\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:57:37","slug":"poll-question-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/03\/poll-question-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll question.   GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nPlease respond to this poll question. You comments are welcome. If this goes well I will try another topic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stephen C on April 3, 2012, 10:16 pm<\/p>\n<div>I beleive there is a Supreme Entity, however, he has very little influence over Santa Claus. I still haven&#8217;t gotten my Lionel train from Christmas 1962.   \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on April 4, 2012, 4:41 am<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&quot;Stephen C&quot; wrote:<\/strong> I beleive there is a Supreme Entity, however, he has very little influence over Santa Claus. I still haven&#8217;t gotten my Lionel train from Christmas 1962.   \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tI wonder if Santa got us mixed up.<\/p>\n<p>\tDid you get coal instead?  Because that is what I asked for so we could put it in the stove to warm our home.<\/p>\n<p>\tInstead I got this stupid Lionel train that went around in circles while I froze my a$$ off during the cold winter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> ACPA on April 4, 2012, 5:10 am<\/p>\n<div>I believe that God hears our prayers and answers them all, but the answer is not necessarily what we expected.<\/p>\n<p>\tNoah<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stephen C on April 4, 2012, 12:23 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&quot;Skinny&quot; wrote:<\/strong> [quote=&quot;Stephen C&quot;]I beleive there is a Supreme Entity, however, he has very little influence over Santa Claus. I still haven&#8217;t gotten my Lionel train from Christmas 1962.   \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25  \ud83d\ude25<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tI wonder if Santa got us mixed up.<\/p>\n<p>\tDid you get coal instead?  Because that is what I asked for so we could put it in the stove to warm our home.<\/p>\n<p>\tInstead I got this stupid Lionel train that went around in circles while I froze my a$$ off during the cold winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tNo coal Skinny, just stupid socks and underwear.  \ud83d\ude44<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stephen C on April 5, 2012, 2:47 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&quot;Franken&quot; wrote:<\/strong> I am not meaning to be offensive to the true believers but there is no reason to believe in the existance of God. The universe is explained by the big bang and evolution explains how one form of animal or bacteria can become another form. God is no longer necessary for the equation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tYou, in this instance, have offered reasoned thought and not irrational rant. I believe there was a &quot;Big Bang&quot; and evolution too. I also believe there is a supreme being that could have directed it all. Or perhaps God himself is a result of the Big Bang and evolved.<\/p>\n<p>\tBecause you see no reason to believe, however, does not negate our reasons or need.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> the gman on April 9, 2012, 2:00 pm<\/p>\n<div>Religion is a tough issue for many people, how can you beleive in god when you can&#8217;t see him? How can you beleive <br \/>\n\tin a good and just god when there is so much evil around. Hard questions, but to be honest beleiving in anything<br \/>\n\tcan be hard.<\/p>\n<p>\tlook into your grand kids eyes and then explain how this came about from the big bang theory????<\/p>\n<p>\tLook at evolution&#8230; see that explains it all,&#8230;..except&#8230;. what created what evolution started with?????<\/p>\n<p>\tA good god would not allow all the suffering.. so people dont beleive in god&#8230;. you cant hate some<br \/>\n\tthing you dont beleive in..<\/p>\n<p>\tMy point is it can be hard to beleive in god. but just as hard not to&#8230;. one point always stands out to<br \/>\n\tme&#8230;..hope&#8230; to beleive in god is hope&#8230;.that is a human trade mark&#8230;.. to beleive in no hope????<\/p>\n<p>\twell you have a choice.<br \/>\n\tFor me i have to beleive in god and hope, or i would have a very hard time looking into<br \/>\n\tthe eyes of my grand kids&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\tgman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please respond to this poll question. You comments are welcome. If this goes well I will try another topic. Replies: Posted by: Stephen C on April 3, 2012, 10:16 pm I beleive there is a Supreme Entity, however, he has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}