The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work

[Whateverist]

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Abiogenesis isn't really a theory, it is merely a name for an unknown natural process.  It is simply the assumption that the process when discovered will turn out to have been natural.  

Don't forget that your divinity theory is also an unknown process.  You don't know whether your god used a deeper understanding of the natural world to create life or whether it was pure magic.  Neither of us has any advantage here.  The exact means by which the inorganic became organic is not known .. not by us, not by you.


Abiogenesis is not what is meant by macro evolution.  Macro evolution is merely a term used to indicate substantial change which the theory of evolution would describe as taking place over a long series of micro mutations.

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God may be a theory to you but He isn't to me He is a being. Someone that I have know for many years now.

I accept that this is true for you. You learned that god is a being and have interacted with that being as you would a very special 'person' for many years now. Is it that you would like everyone to join you in this experience of yours? Would you like to convince me of your reality?

If so I would first like to consider how and why you came to have this experience. How is it that a person could come to experience what you do while others learn to experience different special beings and still others experience no god at all. So if you want to argue for the primacy of what you believe this is where I would start.

However I don't contest the reasonableness of your beliefs given your life experience. If I had been born to your parents in your community I might have come to believe as you do. Who is to say? But I had my own origins and am as entitled to my beliefs as you are to yours.

His actions on the cross, His death and resections, give me new life. This is a reality to me because I have experienced the forgiveness of my sins.

Yes I am familiar with the rough outline of what the bible teaches and I understand it was central to why you have come to believe as you do. But the relevance of a literal reading of the bible is not an assumption I share with you. I have theories regarding how we come to believe different things and am happy to discuss that with you. But I am not looking to take on new and (to me) unnecessary assumptions from the bible. I have my own theories about what the bible can mean.

It is logical to me that life comes from life and doesn't just spring from nonliving things.

Yes it is consistent with the rest of what you have learned to believe. Carry on.