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Old 01-02-2006, 01:06 PM
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That is your statement of faith.
However in my faith, I would say that your faith is not in the true God.
It seems we are at a logical stalemate.

No Christian has yet to explain in any reasonable or otherwise way how it is that their perception of God is the true one. The lovely argument about faith being the antithsis of logic doesn't answer this concern. Most of the "false gods" you speak of are equally illogical. So just saying that it is about faith trumping logic alone does not point to the God of Christianity.

Face it. If you're God's goal is to get people to have faith in him and he is nasty-tempered enough to punish those who do not, he seems to have a really good time creating other faiths for people to fall for. He must love to punish people. Otherwise he would either place evidence or remove all other faiths.
I have to say, if your God is the true one, I have no intention of spending eternity with him. A guy who only makes sense if you choose not to question him and fully willing to throw you away if you don't blindly accept those things that come from him through second and third-hand sources, especially knowing that part of the core of the main written source is really just heavily altered mythology from an older religion...
If a God is right and salvation depends on his ability to communicate a message, surely that God should be more competent than the one we allegedly have now. If you could step outside of your own head for a moment, you'd understand that.
But it is not actually my wish for you to understand that. Believe what you want. If you want to spend your whole life worrying about souls, that's up to you.
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