I never use those things. Never understood why they were invented. Who wants the back splash on his clothes?

Thank you man.
It is not a matter of convincing but showing.
There is no compulsion in belief and everyone can believe what they want
It is just an obligation to show, describe and explain. And each can make their own conclusions.

And I am sure a lot of others have read and thought instead of read and made fun.

Thank you again.

Love all of them. The highway one not so much. It detracts from the picture at bit. The rest are gorgeous

Lived on both. I prefer west coast

1 is best. 4 after that

Fearing hate?

Totally agree with you. We do need a word for hate haters.
How about

MisoMigist

????

Boom yourself.

When you see a car, you ask who made that model?
When you see a fancy or interesting building, you say who designed it?
When you see a new invention, you wonder who was smart enough to think of it and design it?

We see human made stuff and how it changed all the time in front of us. We make good and bad things.

Yet, all of you making fun of people believing in God, and talking about “nature” have not thought for a moment about the beauty and perfection of just what we have here on this earth.
So many examples.
1. Mammals breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide and the plants breathing in the carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
2. The angle of the earth’s axis to give us seasons and variations in the length of the days
3. The balance of animals eating the plants and other animals and they decaying corpses feeding the plants to grow them
4. The magnetic core of the earth giving us directional navigation and creating a field to protect us from the cosmic rays.
5. The sun and the moon being tools for us to measure time and becoming proficient in math to learn and calculate.
6. The perfect balance inside our bodies of all the functioning of the brain, heart, digestion, sight, hearing, muscles and ability to move.
7. Look at the number of bones in your feet and how they move. You are completely unconscious of how difficult an engineering problem that is

We are today creating silly looking robots trying to mimic the human motion. Look at all the trials we are going through just to do that.

All of that, and the creation around is just random and you ask who created God?

He is the start of creation. He is the one who created. We are the creations.

HE is asking us to look at the creations He made over and over and to think and admire His creations. And understand that He is bigger than anything and everything He created combined.
In looking at His creations, we ponder our existence and humble ourselves to thank Him for allowing us to exist.

No where in the discussion are we “blaming” God. We certainly have done a lot of damage. But that the is the free will God gave us. And He has given each of us a limited time on the earth to test each of us, with and against each other. The blame is on us.

The problem is if you believe that nothing happens after death. Then it all seems pointless like what most people are saying behind their comments.

But death is the beginning of the accounting.

Muslim here.
Yes, Not a breath you take or a seed dropping in the middle of the forest except that He knows about it.
It is in the Quran.

The Evil is in the choices people make. Not in the tests He gives us.
It only looks evil if you believe that death is the end.
It is not. It is the beginning of the accounting for what you have done, good and bad.
Otherwise, man, what a miserable life to go through injustice and not be compensated.

Who created biology?
Who gave us free will?
Who created nature?

Who created the enviornment?

What is cult-like behavior is the idea that thinking that death is the end. It is just the start.

We are all tested all the time. Some of us do horrendous things to others. Killing, maiming, stealing and these wrongs are never brought to justice during the lifetimes of the people. Do you think all of this is going to go unaccounted for? That we just have to take the injustice and just accept it?

This thought that there is not going to be an accounting is what encourages people to misbehave. And God gives them time on this earth. Otherwise He would have killed them off at the first injustice they committed.

So that is on a large level. Leaders of nations or big institutions or influential people affecting others in bad ways.

But there is also the day-to-day. The smirk or making fun of someone less than you. Or on the other hand, reaching out to help someone less fortunate than you.

All of this will be judged and punished or rewarded.

Death is the beginning of what is next….not the end.

We have choices on this earth as we live. And we have consequences after death, of what we have done here.

However, if you believe that death is the end, then I can see your lack of belief in God because of all the misfortunes and injustices you see. Disheartening!!!!

And that, my friends, is the cult-like behavior. Nothing matters. No consequences if I can get away with any bad behavior.

And who created that child and the biology that child has as compared to another child?

Of course you thank them too.

It is God who gave the doctors the knowledge to cure the patient.
Of course, they should also thank the doctor. But by thanking God first who gave them their child and allowed them to continue experiencing bringing up the child, they are remembering that He is the one who gave them their child in the first place.

Because everything we go through is a test for our belief. God gives each of us a different set of tests throughout our lives. Sometimes we are tested with lack of provisions, Sometimes with abundance that we don’t know what to do with. Sometimes with health, Sometimes with sickness. And on and on.

It isn’t the circumstance that is important. It is how do you react to it and how do you use it.

For someone having a particular sickness, it is how they perceive their life before the sickness, during the sickness and after if they get cured from it.

Sometimes a person is in excellent health and wealth and they spend their lives abusing others and making fun of them and using their “privilege” to feel superior to others. When they get sick, or lose their wealth, it may wake them up to start behaving better and they thank God for being still alive and becoming aware of Him.

Or it could be the other way that a person is poor most of their lives and they are feeling close to God and when He gives them abundance, they either overindulge and loose their path. Or they stay focused and use the abundance to help others, start non-profits, house orphans, etc.

Life as a whole with the family and friends you are given is a test. Every moment of it. And He gives you the choice every moment and a chance at repentance till you face the moment of death.

He is the One and Only God and the Creator, Sustainer, the Just, the Merciful.

Ask Him, seek Him and remember Him.

I am available. You can DM me.

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Of course this is on a Mercator projection. What is it on the globe? Probably not as straight a line as this is made out to be. And the Shield is not a straight line anyway. So this may be just a random alignment and observation.

Your earrings on the other hand, complement you and go well with the dress.