well . . .
there is a shared collective belief in Christ, but can we say that 'Christianity' actually exists ??
For instance, if I look in my garage and see my car there, I know my car is there and that I have a car, and my car exists.
If I instead have a windowless locked garage in my backyard, and a family tradition that states grandpa's 1933 Duesenberg is in there, do I really have an actual car??
Is it possible grandpa never owned one ?
Or if it there it's totaled ?
Or grandpa sold it for beer money in 1937 and didn't tell grandma ?
See where I'm at here?? The christians just have their belief, I cannot touch taste or smell it, it is presented not as a material fact but instead as something requiring a state of mind to substitute for reality.
there is a shared collective belief in Christ, but can we say that 'Christianity' actually exists ??
For instance, if I look in my garage and see my car there, I know my car is there and that I have a car, and my car exists.
If I instead have a windowless locked garage in my backyard, and a family tradition that states grandpa's 1933 Duesenberg is in there, do I really have an actual car??
Is it possible grandpa never owned one ?
Or if it there it's totaled ?
Or grandpa sold it for beer money in 1937 and didn't tell grandma ?
See where I'm at here?? The christians just have their belief, I cannot touch taste or smell it, it is presented not as a material fact but instead as something requiring a state of mind to substitute for reality.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.