Hi guys, I know I've been rather missing in action lately (and I promised the scoop on my disturbing encounter with one of the local guides at Redang, but until now I haven't gotten round to it and I'm wondering if I should still bother). Actually the reason for my absence is that I joined an online community called Bolt.com, which has a lot of interesting forums and I have gotten myself wrapped up discussing topics with people around the world. I mostly discuss topics on religion, and especially pertaining to Christianity, which is great for me coz' I hardly get the chance to share my faith to my non-Christian friends (I won't bring it up unless someone else brings it up, and even if it does come up, I'm usually to shy to share too much coz' I might end up saying something stupid-ish), and so being able to do online in a forum specially made for discussing these things (and where I can really think about what I say before I say it, so I have less chance of saying stupid things) is a Godsend for me, especially since I spend most of my life online anyway.
Needless to say, discussing religion invites snide remarks from non-believers on the forum, and not too long after I joined, I was already in a hot debate with a very annoying atheist (not saying all atheists are annoying, but this particular one is. Very. Extremely. Rude. Thick-headed. And annoying) who 'claimed' he could debunk the book of Genesis. So I started a thread to discuss this, and along the way a couple of other non-Christians joined the fray (they were much nicer though) and I've had my hands full replying to their arguments ever since. The number of posts on my thread currently stand at 60! And I still haven't managed to reply to everything yet, coz' I have a day job to do. But even though some people might tell me such debates are pointless and never amount to anything, I don't think so. For one thing, it forces me to do my research, and I learned a lot of new things along the way, not just about the Bible, but also science, which I use a lot in my arguments against these guys. And I believe some of my arguments are making good sense (some of it sounds so insightful, I think it could only have come from God!), so I hope that it will at least open the eyes of some of these non-believers, though I think the annoying person is a lost cause coz' the way he replies to me, it's obvious he doesn't really care what I say and he enjoys acting like an retard (I couldn't help taking my own snipes at him, though in a more polite manner). It got the point where my annoyance at the annoying person was reflecting in my responses to one of the other guys posting on my topic, which was not my intention because he seemed like a nice guy (and also much smarter than the annoying person). So once I realized I wasn't sounding too nice to him, I apologized to him (off the thread) and I also decided to stop replying to posts from the annoying person, because I don't want the topic to degenerate into snide remarks and insults.
Anyhow, the thread still continues on, and if you are interested in reading the debate and possibly picking up some good answers you can give to your own enquiring non-Christian friends (or if you ARE a non-Christian and still interested in what I have to say), you can check it out here, under the topic "Debunking Genesis". :)
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