(November 1, 2011 at 11:02 am)salty Wrote: Lucent is not alone in his beliefs and he's not being arrogant, nor preaching that he's superior. It may seem like he's doing that because he's tactfully and assertively defending the gospel of Jesus Christ, but not once has he declared himself above you or anyone. Lucent is a sinner just like me, like you and everybody else. Lucent is saying that he has experienced the transforming power of Jesus Christ in his life and wants to help anyone that desires God to seek God, like he did. His experiences are valid, like yours and filled with the essence of who he is and where his foundation for disbelief AND belief began. I think Lucent is doing an excellent job of making the claims of the Bible of Jesus, clear! It is very hard to convey the understanding that overcomes people when they believe that God is real and the Bible is true. Anyone can have this understanding, all they have to do is be willing to believe and it will become clear to them too.
What you and Lucent fail to realize is that these are all beliefs and nothing more. The arrogance comes in when you misrepresent them as the ultimate truth and at the same time dismiss anyone else's belief as the work of the devil. It's highly conceited to preach so openly that your god is the one true god when you have no more evidence for this than an ancient book with so many holes in it that people spend their whole lives trying to justify its errors. I would have no problem with what you say if you could humble yourselves a little and admit that those are nothing more than beliefs. The worst part of this whole charade is that you defend yourselves as not being arrogant, but that you are just proclaiming the truth.
Arrogance thy name is Christianity.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
