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Originally Posted by Logic.
You say question and then include multiple questions. -_-
Jesus being prayed to and "idolized" is done in the thought of Jesus being part of God as a whole, you answered that yourself. In answering how do we know they're right, we don't, but how do YOU know there was? The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence but the addition of evidence is not the proclimation of truth. What we believe and have faith in is just like what you believe and have faith in, where's the logical proof that what you believe is the absolute truth?
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I come to all my decisions based on logic.
Which is why I refuse to believe something just because a church group tells me that its the truth. You do make some good points in this paragraph, and you also backed my argument in recognising the fact that you literally dont know if what you believe is right or not. This leads me to believe that you have basically just picked a religion and decided to stick with it, be it your choice, or just what you fell into from childhood. Which is fine, there are plenty of people in the world who can benefit from the idea that religious groups have it all worked out, but ofcourse, when push comes to shove; their really just taking a stab in the dark and hoping it works out for them.
In my eyes, there is absolutly no proof jesus has anything to do with god. Its natural for his followers to come to this conclusion because he was obviously an amazingly talented philosopher and public speaker whom they loved unconditionally and wanted nothing more than to glorify his legacy. But throughout time, there have been countless people of exactly the same caliber of intelligence as Yeshua Bin Yosef possessed 2000 years ago. Are they all avatar's of god? The only difference between them and Jesus is the Christian church itself refuses to recognise them as an aspect of god. And on a logical basis, there is absolutly nothing further than word of mouth to say the christian church is the sole authority on this subject. So logically, there is no reason to believe them.
And to be honest with you.. Its kind of even beyond plausability due to the church's tattered and dirty history when it comes to informing people what to believe and what not to. They have been proved wrong so many times, its kind of like saying "hey, as long as we stick to our guns, maybe one day well get something right"...
You can say logic is not ultimate... But I can safly say, nothing that I believe in this life hasnt been compleatly tested under tight conditions. Anything that isnt fully backed up with solid evidence, I classify as a 'theory'. And you do realise, that if god ever did come to earth in a solid viewable form, only people like me will be happy.. Because in a world with so many different views and belief's based on nothing more than 'faith' in what a church has told you.... The truth will never be able to keep everyone happy.
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Originally Posted by Logic.
(Yes this is my personal story because you're asking why I think I'm making the right choices.) As for knowing that I'm with the right "team", I don't know shit, I believe and have faith that I am, that's all. When I pray and have faith and try to be a good Christian things go better for me than not. There have been too many times when I've been down and out just to be saved by something I can't explain and refuse to discern as luck or coincidence. Stop thinking everything can be conceived by logic, there is something inside that moves me to believe that Christianity is right, even if the leaders of it may be quacks. Just because you're hungry doesn't mean you need to sit down and ask yourself, "Logically, why do I have the urge to eat food?", you just do, and if you're wrong for it, that's on you and nobody else.
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Yes, unexplainable things happen in this universe all the time. But when you attribute them to 'christianity'... Thats called a baseless assumption...
As for that 'thing inside you that moves you to believe christianity is right'
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Originally Posted by Nostradamus
(keeping in mind in the 1600's people also KNEW SO VIVIDLY in their own minds that world communism was an inevidible path of progression and any other form of government just wouldnt work)..
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I wasnt joking either... I've seen a lot of documentrys on communism through these periods.. There have been countless failed experements from countless visionarys that believed in themselves so faithfully that their communist communitys would be somewhat of a utopia.. None of which succeeded. And all their followers always either lost faith and moved, or died trying to protect their vision.