Why is it that we want to break the rules of the bible and justify it in our head?

[soldier king]

Why is it that we want to break the rules of the bible and justify it in our head, why are we so impatient?

Trust in God always, even when you fall down.

[soldier king]

let there peace on Earth!

[FsAshfordd]

Believing in God is what matters.

[yiyagiteller]

what happens to your soul all depends on who you ask and their cultural and/or religious background will give you different answers.
there are plenty those that has met prosperity without god's support and plenty of those that met poverty while seeking god's support, and vice versa.

religion isn't the issue in world peace, its tolerance. you can follow jesus on the path to peace the same way someone else can follow muhammad or buddha to world peace. the key factor is to understand your own views can be different of others and being ok with it.

[soldier king]

very interesting responses:

to the ones saying this is just basketball or we should hide our conversation, what will winning a game do, if you lose your soul?
And how can you prosper without God's support?

You need God for everything.
Personally I'm a Christian. I believe following Christ is the only way for peace in the world.

[Slim]

listen its not that we WANT to break it. its just things that we enjoy may not be what god has wanted us to do. so people do what is not allowed. for their own enjoyment. its not by force.

exactly lol

[AnimalPlanet]

Ya'll have no answers, just an fyi.

[JimmyButler]

listen its not that we WANT to break it. its just things that we enjoy may not be what god has wanted us to do. so people do what is not allowed. for their own enjoyment. its not by force.

[Milks]

Holy shit shut the holy fuck up this is basketball that u play with a keyboard. Go worth ship ur God somewhere else.

[kapidz2019]

I believe in God.

But i'm believe God is E.T or maybe.

Or maybe we are another planet experimented and our God or Creater is another human being. He might be a Genius who created a mini planet called earth and that creator iss biggier than the planet earth and we human size just like microbes.

[kapidz2019]

There ares no right answering. God is in our brain it is our brains.

[V a r s i t y]

God sacrificed himself to himself to appease himself and therefore save humanity from himself. Makes sense.

[V a r s i t y]

The 10 commandments do not save us but rather remind us of how much we need God's forgiveness.

LOL. If god really does exist, he'd have to beg for my forgiveness. Death, war, famine, calamity, disease, corruption, child with cancer, pedophile priests, I mean c'mon if there's really GOD how does he not see this and act? GOD is a man-made concept just to keep common people quiet. "All you need is faith" is a euphemism for "stop asking hard questions".

[Raida]

The 10 commandments do not save us but rather remind us of how much we need God's forgiveness.

[V a r s i t y]

I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don't need that many. I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up to ten. It's clearly a padded list.
Here's how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of reli*gious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God— God personally—had given one of them a list of Ten Commandments that he wanted everyone to follow. They claimed the whole thing took place on a mountaintop, when no one else was around.
But let me ask you something: When these guys were sittin' around the tent makin' all this up, why did they pick ten? Why ten? Why not nine, or eleven? I'll tell you why. Because ten sounds important. Ten sounds official. They knew if they tried eleven, people wouldn't take them seriously. People would say, "What're you kiddin' me? The Eleven Commandments? Get the fuck outta here!"
But ten! Ten sounds important. Ten is the basis for the decimal system; it's a decade. It's a psychologically satisfying number: the top ten; the ten most wanted; the ten best-dressed. So deciding on Ten Commandments was clearly a marketing decision. And it's obviously a bullshit list. In truth, it's a politic; document, artificially inflated to sell better.
I'm going to show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a bit more logical and realistic. We'll start with the first three, and I'll use the Roman Catholic version because those are the ones I was fed as a little boy.
• I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE
GODS BEFORE ME.
• THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN
VAIN.
• THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH.
Okay, right off the bat, the first three commandments—pure bullshit "Sabbath day," "Lord's name," "strange gods." Spooky language. Spooky language designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized human in the twenty-first century. You throw out the first three commandments, am you're down to seven.
•HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.
This commandment is about obedience and respect for authority; in other words it's simply a device for controlling people. The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They should be earned. They should be based on the parents' (or the authority figure's) performance. Some parents deserve respect. Most of them don't. Period. We're down to six.
Now, in the interest of logic—something religion has a really hard time with—I'm going to skip around the list a little bit:
• THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
• THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS.
Stealing and lying. Actually, when you think about it, these two com*mandments cover the same sort of behavior: dishonesty. Stealing and lying. So we don't need two of them. Instead, we combine these two and call it "Thou shalt not be dishonest." Suddenly we're down to five.
And as long as we're combining commandments I have two others that be*long together:
• THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
• THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE.
Once again, these two prohibit the same sort of behavior; in this case, mar*ital infidelity. The difference between them is that coveting takes place in the mind. And I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife, otherwise what's a guy gonna think about when he's flogging his dong?
But marital fidelity is a good idea, so I suggest we keep the idea and call this commandment "Thou shalt not be unfaithful." Suddenly we're down to four.
And when you think about it further, honesty and fidelity are actually parts of the same overall value. So, in truth, we could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments, and, using positive lan*guage instead of negative, call the whole thing "Thou shalt always be honest and faithful." And now we're down to three.
•THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS.
This one is just plain stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going: Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays "O Come All Ye Faithful," you want to get one, too. Coveting creates jobs. Leave it alone.
You throw out coveting and you're down to two now: the big, combined honesty/fidelity commandment, and the one we haven't mentioned yet:
•THOU SHALT NOT KILL.
Murder. The Fifth Commandment. But, if you give it a little thought, you realize that religion has never really had a problem with murder. Not really. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.
To cite a few examples, just think about Irish history, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquisition, our own abortion-doctor killings and, yes, the World Trade Center to see how seriously religious people take Thou Shalt Not Kill. Apparently, to religious folks—especially the truly devout—murder is ne*gotiable. It just depends on who's doing the killing and who's getting killed.
And so, with all of this in mind, folks, I offer you my revised list of the Two Commandments:
First:
•THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL, ESPECIALLY
TO THE PROVIDER OF THY NOOKIE.
And second:
•THOU SHALT TRY REAL HARD NOT TO KILL ANYONE, UNLESS,
OF COURSE, THEY PRAY TO A DIFFERENT INVISIBLE AVENGER
THAN THE ONE YOU PRAY TO.
Two is all you need, folks. Moses could have carried them down the hill in his pocket. And if we had a list like that, I wouldn't mind that brilliant judge in Alabama displaying it prominently in his courthouse lobby. As long he in*cluded one additional commandment:
•THOU SHALT KEEP THY RELIGION TO THYSELF!!!
From George Carlin – When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)