(June 6, 2018 at 4:41 am)CDF47 Wrote:(June 6, 2018 at 4:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: Raised Catholic in the US?
That must have had it's difficulties, no?
What did you think of the evangelicals, when you were in that Catholic high school?
Were you aware of the creationists back then?
How did becoming convinced that the DNA was designed by god turn you from almost deism into Christianity?
What does Christianity have that deism doesn't? the bible?
You know that serving the Lord might not mean what other humans have told you it means, right?
If the Lord keeps himself hidden and out of our affairs, maybe that means that he doesn't want to interfere... which means that you serve him by also not interfering. And yet, you and most of your fellow religionists insist on interfering...
Being raised Catholic was no big deal. I thought the evangelicals were much like we were but didn't accept Mary as much as we did and some other differences. I found out later how many critical differences there were, like idolatry. I always was a creationists. I was Christian always.
Creationist in the Catholic sense, right?
(June 6, 2018 at 4:41 am)CDF47 Wrote: It was great to fine the design in DNA information and molecular machines. It blew my mind. It still does to this day. It's a miracle.
Biology has some amazing machines at work... but that doesn't mean that they were designed per se... Biological trial and error, memoryless trial and error, along with hundreds of millions of years could do that, no external help required.... and it seems to be working still to this day.
(June 6, 2018 at 4:41 am)CDF47 Wrote: The Bible, yes, I believe it to be the word of God.
Christians are to bring the gospel to the world.
You see?... Imagine that the Bible is a book written by people, believers similar to you, but merely believers nonetheless.
Imagine those people were interested in spreading their belief.
Imagine that they incorporated such desire into their writings.
Imagine that you believe what they wrote when they wrote that what they wrote had been the word of God?
Does that make it the word of God?
This is how I see those things. As people providing stories and beliefs to subsequent people, parents teaching their children, some thinkers expanding on some concepts, but ultimately, religion is a thing made by people and for people.
I'd have no problem accepting an entity capable of creating space-time... after that, everything seems to easily flow from it, including human credulity, human pattern seeking minds, human answer attributing in the absence of actual evidence for that answer... humans... after that, human psychology can account for all beliefs that have ever existed on this planet.