Well actually that's a thing of beauty really, that we are able to help out the weaker amongst us. Not everywhere can they do this. We can do it in the US and other first world countries because we've the time and resources to do it. Our day to day struggle isn't much of a 'struggle' at all. We don't have to devote all our time and abilities to surviving so we can let others survive.
But in nomadic times, and still today, the older and weak were expected to wander off and die. Why? They were a burden to their clan because they have to survive day to day and taking care of the weak, elderly, infirm, etc aren't conducive to that.
Ok.. But in Nomadic times, do you think they still wept when loved ones died? Do you think ancient man had the same feelings we do? All I have ever read in recorded history tells me man has always had a conscience, an idea of what is right and wrong... Good or evil. IMHO, all sane people just KNOW deep inside what is right and what is wrong. People tend to reason their way around their gut when what they want goes against what their conscience is telling them. I doubt science will ever be able to really explain that. Sure, somebody will write up some stuff and it will be accepted because people WANT to accept it, but it does not make it any less true.
I believe that "gut feeling" is proof of the immortal human soul. it will never be explained in a scientific way that will make most happy, but thats fine. Do not take this to mean that I do not understand science, I am college educated and all that, but my life experince has just allowed me to see things in a MUCH different way than you will ever find in a text book.
Be calm and listen to your heart... Thats all I can really say.
It's a matter of what makes people feel good. When I do a good deed, I'm happy about it. It makes me feel good. That's endorphins being released into my blood that makes me feel that way. Thus I want to replicate that experience so I do more good. While the nomadic people may get that experience as well, they have to put their survival ahead of the survival of the others that they may do good upon.
Right... But how do people know what is "good"? If it is simple chemisty, why did evolution allow a "good" feeling to happen when we help the weak and sick? Why do people feel remorse when they have to take a life, even if it is to save their own or a family members? (Yes, I have had to do this in the Army... I don't regret it, but I wish I never had to do it and it certainly did not feel good.)
One thing I do find interesting is that Plato, 200 years before Christ was born, wrote in his book The Republic that the way to control a massive amount of people is through promises of a higher being. Christianity wasn't even around at this time (according to history, that is. Not the history of the bible but historical documentation [excluding the bible]). So right there you have the foundations for a religion and lo and behold 200 years late Christianity pops up with Jesus.
GO my friend... My faith does not ensalve me, it sets me FREE. MEN, PEOPLE, have distorted the Word and used it for THEIR purposes, not His. Stop looking at just the negative things MEN have done in the exploitation of Christianity. (BP... This means you too....) Look at all the great things that have come from it. You will not find these things in any type of main stream media or text book. Ever wonder why? Perhaps we are not the ones "under mind control", eh? LOL
So did Christianity not exist before Jesus? Or was it just people listening to god directly? (Or not in the case of the flood)
No. Perhaps faith's based in the same principles, but Christianity did not exist until He came and died and then rose again. There is a reason that the books of the Bible written before Jesus are called "The Old Testament". The old ways had a complex set of laws and rules for living... Jesus's sacrifice made all of that moot. HE was the sacrifice for our sin...
Again, I wish I was a better evangelist. If you want to learn more, try
www.needhim.org to start.
But in the end, I simply refuse to believe that this amazingly awesome and complex world is just a one in a trillion lucky throw of the dice. To me, that is simply illogical.
What we used to think was impossible is now an everyday thing and what we think is impossible now will be an everyday thing in years from now.
And yet, the more we know, the more we realize we don't know.
So I'm confident that we will, one day, explain the Big Bang and not just have to trust that it happened (there, faith). It may not be in my life time (which bugs the ever living hell out of me because I want to know!) but some day.
That is BIG if man... It is going to be a whopper to explain how you get something from nothing. A like I said above... "Explaining" the big bang will only reveal something else we don't know.
Way to rally for God!
