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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(April 9, 2016 at 9:06 pm)Rekeisha Wrote:
(April 8, 2016 at 3:49 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Rekeisha wrote:
"There are many thing that you don't believe nor could understand that are real. Just because you deny it doesn't make it not exist. "

-- And just by asserting that these things exist doesn't make it so.  I can assert that silver unicorns exist until I'm blue in the face (just like you are doing with your assertions) and until you can do better than make statements, it's all a waste of effort.  

[b]Rekeisha wrote:[/b]
[b]"I am not going to be ashamed of the truth. What is a shame is that you don't have proof the there isn't a soul or God or an afterlife. I have the Bible, I have the presence of God, the fellowship of believers and history, and nature. You may say this isn't proof, but God deemed it enough." [/b]

[b]--Again, you declare it's the truth, but just because you've been told it is by a congregation, or a book, or your feelings doesn't make it so and isn't convincing.[/b]

[b]"How much of your "truth" is a regurgitation of the world and how much of it is actually reality?"[/b]

[b]--How much of your "truth" is a regurgitation of what you've been taught to believe, because you were born to Christian parents instead of Hindu ones, and how much are fairy tales?  At least we can measure and prove what is in the world.  Until I have more concrete proof of your god than your assertions that you're right and we're wrong, I will not believe that god exists.   The Bible is not proof.  Anecdotes and personal stories are not proof.  Nature is not proof. Feelings are not proof.  [/b]

You say that making an assertion doesn't make it so then prove that I have just been told to believe by the congregation or a book or my feelings. 
As for the argument that I am just a Christian because my parents were there are people who were born to Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Jehovah's Witness and Mormon parent who believe in God. Are you an atheist because your parents were? 
None of the accounts that the writers of the bible wrote down are fairy tales they are backed up by historians and archaeology. The accounts came from a real culture with real people and has not been honestly denounced. You suggested that my feelings make me believe in God. If I had to hold on to my emotions for my belief in God I wouldn't be a christian because it doesn't always feel good. At time my feelings are wrong and lie. I may feel different about a thing for day to day or moment to moment.   My life is not run by my emotions and I don't believe in God because of a "burning in my bosom".

"You say that making an assertion doesn't make it so then prove that I have just been told to believe by the congregation or a book or my feelings. "  Say . . . what?  If that was English - The burden of proof is on you.

"As for the argument that I am just a Christian because my parents were there are people who were born to Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Jehovah's Witness and Mormon parent who believe in God. Are you an atheist because your parents were?"  My parents were Southern Baptists, who went RIGHT wing Pentecostal from there.  If you had been born in India, you would probably have been preaching Hindu beliefs.

"None of the accounts that the writers of the bible wrote down are fairy tales they are backed up by historians and archaeology." The majority of biblical accounts have been disproven by archaeology.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work - by drfuzzy - April 9, 2016 at 11:09 pm

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