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Originally Posted by Ixtellor
Would you please answer my one question. It gives you a chance to go on the "attack" as you called it, and stay off "defense".
WHY NOT ZEUS?
Since you don't look for, nor expect to find ANY empirical evidence, Zeus is no different from the Christian God.
If for some odd reason, you totally reject the idea of Zeus being your creator and God of the universe, then please explain why not Mohammad?
Since you have totally given up the idea of trying to justify believing in God.
Could you at least explain why you reject every other god?
Ixtellor
P.S. I submit that your religion is nothing more than your upbringing. Perham was raised to be Muslim, hence he is muslim. You were raised to be Christian, hence you are Christian. Your total religious experience is the result of you being brought up to believe that way.
P.P.S. Since God is so evident, would either Herk or Perham be Ok with the thought of NOT teaching children about religion until they have the intellect to process it all. Because as we all know, children will believe ANYTHING. (see Easter Bunny, see boogy man)
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Good questions sir.
I will do my best to answer these.
I was raised Catholic. I don't begin for a minute to deny that how I was raised pre-disposes my bias towards returning to my roots. The culture in which we are raised shapes us, certainly our mind sets.
I agree with you. Why not Zeus? Why not Allah? Why not a pink unicorn? I cannot prove the existence of God and certainly not the Christian God.
As I have said. Christianity just made sense to me. I realize this may not be an acceptable answer for you. It's just a gut feeling. The Christian God loves humanity and wants us to love each other. It is God of hope. Perhaps someone feels the same about Buddhism or Hindu.
I just don't sit on the fence waiting for concrete, material, Mathematical proof and evidence of God's existence. I have made a choice in accepting Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It seems to me that a God who wants His children, you and I....us...to understand what God is about, He would create a Son in human form.
Christianity may just be a philosophy, I don't know. I transcend what I don't know into Faith.
Our greatest gift is freedom to choose based upon what we do know. You are a rationalist and cannot accept any God or any religion.
I understand this, I respect your decision.
I ask for one thing from you sir.
Please accept mine.
Even if Christianity is philosophy and nothing else. It is a guidebook for how to conduct one's life. I follow this as best I can, for in that- God exists, because I exist as do
my fellow Christians and our shared Faith.