If you were to ask me why I believe in God, how can you appreciate the answer I give, when it is evident in the person I have become?
The best proof I can offer is the change in my own life and the lives of others who have given themselves over to the belief in a loving creator.
It transcends my life and changes the way I think, act, interact, treat people and I can go on. My belief has changed me. That is the only proof
I can offer someone. I HAVE and DO critically question my faith, and I have looked at other faith, but there is something genuinely unique
in the christian faith that sets it apart and changes lives. How can someone describe flight unless the other person has experienced it? How can you
believe the pain of someone else unless you have lived it yourself? It can be subjective, but all I can do is offer myself as proof... but still as an imperfect
and broken person who has a lot of work that needs to be done. That is the uniqueness of it - it's grace.
The best proof I can offer is the change in my own life and the lives of others who have given themselves over to the belief in a loving creator.
It transcends my life and changes the way I think, act, interact, treat people and I can go on. My belief has changed me. That is the only proof
I can offer someone. I HAVE and DO critically question my faith, and I have looked at other faith, but there is something genuinely unique
in the christian faith that sets it apart and changes lives. How can someone describe flight unless the other person has experienced it? How can you
believe the pain of someone else unless you have lived it yourself? It can be subjective, but all I can do is offer myself as proof... but still as an imperfect
and broken person who has a lot of work that needs to be done. That is the uniqueness of it - it's grace.
i ask though, why does any of this have to tie in with any god?
whatever words are in the bible seem to bring you to a better place. but they are, in the end, just words. words that could have been written by any human. hell, it was written by humans, for humans, and we can never know if it was ghost-written (no pun intended) by a god.
if the lessons in the bible are good enough then they should stand on their own. there is no logically coherent argument that i can think of that makes a good written lesson hinge on it being divinely delivered.
if there is one then i think it puts you in a pretty shit position. for if you ever did discover that none of the lessons were divinely delivered then suddenly who you thought you were goes down the toilet. but you know this just is not the case. it just doesn't hinge on divinity. the bible could be proved to be fully mortally authored and you should be no worse off for it.
i hear this bollocks that jesus was either insane or divine, no inbetween. this pure bullshit. it is a false dichotomy, set up by fundamentalist spastics to con the layperson into making the obvious choice. they hope the average punter will think "...well, he seemed alright, he clearly wasn't insane, so i guess he was god's son." wankers. i'm pretty sure many mental disorders can be anything from barely noticeable to fully disabling.

