1-"How would you explain Christianity to him?"
Christianity is following the teachings of Christ as outlined in the Bible
2-"How would you convince him that your beliefs are sensible, logical and worthy of investigation?"
I believe there is a being that created the universe. I call him God, he's incorporeal, and as of yet there are no emperically reliable methods we know of detecting him.. In the Bible, Christ claimed to be the manifestation of God, come to teach of God's will for our lives. The people of the time documented his life in the Bible and believed his claims to be true. I currently believe his claims to be true because his teachings and predictions have been useful for me in becoming a better person. I have also tried methods counter to his methods to my own detriment. I also find them consistant and reliable as a moral compass for my life, ergo I treat them as a moral absolute standard. That enables me to better myself and become closer to the ideal of Christ, which is being a Christian.
Christianity is following the teachings of Christ as outlined in the Bible
2-"How would you convince him that your beliefs are sensible, logical and worthy of investigation?"
I believe there is a being that created the universe. I call him God, he's incorporeal, and as of yet there are no emperically reliable methods we know of detecting him.. In the Bible, Christ claimed to be the manifestation of God, come to teach of God's will for our lives. The people of the time documented his life in the Bible and believed his claims to be true. I currently believe his claims to be true because his teachings and predictions have been useful for me in becoming a better person. I have also tried methods counter to his methods to my own detriment. I also find them consistant and reliable as a moral compass for my life, ergo I treat them as a moral absolute standard. That enables me to better myself and become closer to the ideal of Christ, which is being a Christian.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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