My mother always told me that and I agree ..so good for you.
Maybe...but please put up a claim wherein it seems we are not able to prove our claims so we can at least make some excuses and demonstrate we are all really not so different.
It boils down to one thing really the claim that JC was the Son of God has not been proven, or that the resurrection is fact or that Mosses was a real person, or that Johna lived in a whale and was vommitted up ok, or that the biblical flood occurred...although it does seem there could be some basis to a flood event, but not total, around the Younger Dryas event..which perhaps was taken up by the Sumerians and later adopted into the bible, which seems to be drawn on possibly three different authors.
It just seems extrodinary that you I expect will agree that thousands of gods were invented but that yours somehow was not.
That should be difficult to reconcile don't you think.
Anyways what was the point you were trying to make with your OP?
May I ask ..do you see the Adam and Eve story as true or merely an anology?
Do you believe there was a flood as described in the bible and two ( sometimes more) animals were saved and that the human race was cut down to only eight people?
I promise I won't tell you are wrong as I am sincerely interested to know if you take the bible literally.
And have you put together the evidence to support your claim that I am a brilliant person I want to know as it could help me manage my terrible inferiority complex.
And do you think your god should play a more active roll in our world by heading off terrible disasters and the resulting human suffering..you know stop these damn Earth quakes, the resulting tsunami...maybe stop wars, cruelty to animals and people and particularly domestic violence...
Can you appreciate why I find it impossible to think for one moment anything that godism suggests is true.
If we need a moral compass could we not just follow budah teachings?
Do you believe all the other gods are inventions?
Anyways what was your point you were trying to make in the op?
Alex
You wrote a lot there and will try and respond at least to a few things.
How is it possible that two of the most influential historical people the world has ever known, Moses and Jesus, never existed?
For Moses, there is extensive evidence sitting on the ground in Saudi Arabia for the Exodus Account.
For Jesus, there is the evidence of the resurrection found within the 3D image of the Shroud of Turin and also the matching face cloth, the Sudarium of Oviedo.
For Noah and the Flood, there are records of the Flood found in many cultures around the World. There is evidence for the Flood and the Tower of Babel events embedded in the Chinese character symbols. And there is evidence for the Flood found in the rock layers deposited by water around the Globe.
Perhaps we could say that Santa has had some influence on the world but even he was a real person.
Regarding the Bible...
Personally, I don’t think that every word in the Bible was ever intended to be taken absolutely literally.
There are certainly many places that Claim to be literal and historical.
Many other places written in different genres, like poetry for example, do not ever make that claim.
There are many things I don’t understand, and try to figure out. I don’t know everything. I don’t have perfect knowledge. There are a number of moral questions I have. Some of the same ones you probably have. I don’t have or need all of the answers to everything I wonder about.
I have been through, probably not all, but many of the “difficult” passages that Atheists like to throw at Christians. And in past years I even went after Christians myself with some of them. There are some that break the heart and are morally incomprehensible to me. I know they exist, because I have read them myself.
If those difficult verses are the Arrows in the hands of the Atheist, or other Critics, my Shield is very simply my Trust in God regarding the hard things I don’t understand.
I tried to address some of your questions, but I do not at all expect to convince you with my “make believe” ramblings.
Gotta get some sleep.
Take Care!
...medical treatment is a better option.
