RE: Intelligence is a Curse
September 14, 2011 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm by salty.)
(September 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
You actually haven't given this much thought. You'd need to apply that wager to every faith in order to hedge your bets. You cannot do this, due to the many contradictory teachings of those faiths. Most are also mutually exclusive.
Do you pray to Allah 5 times a day? Might want to hedge your bets.
(list continues ad infinitum)
Also, as long as you're clinging to genesis as an accurate account of material creation (and especially a young earth), there is no chance that you're correct.
Let's recall where we are, we are in the "Christianity" section of the forum, therefore my response is based on the belief that Christian teaching is the only teaching that will lead to a life in Heaven. Even people who do not know the name of Christ, will be covered by his sacrifice because they are obeying his laws in their lives and honoring God. Therefore Christianity splits the world in two: those who love righteousness and justice and those who do not, also known as Jew & Gentile.
Christians are grafted into the Jewish family as spiritual children of Abraham (obviously not ethnically). Once again I believe that by living through the teachings of Jesus Christ I am losing nothing, and even if the chance came about that I am wrong, I am not concerned, a life without Jesus Christ is Hell anyway, therefore no damnation from any other entity would frighten or upset me. Now that I have had God in my life for 12 years, I can't imagine surviving even one hour without his love and mercy.
(September 13, 2011 at 1:42 pm)Faith No More Wrote: So salty, would you say that a big part of your faith is out of fear of being on the wrong side?
No. When I didn't believe I was pretty sure that I would get something good because I rarely ever got into trouble and I was pretty nice. My faith in Jesus came when I decided to invite him to reign over my life. It was a trial period. If he didn't do anything, then I was done with Jesus, if he did something, then I knew he was real and I would follow him. He showed up and I was hooked.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6
