(September 24, 2011 at 11:07 am)salty Wrote: I haven't given my opinion because faith does not rely on facts, that's why it's faith. The fact that the earth is round does nothing to impact the personal changes the lord Jesus Christ made in my life.
And here we see exposed the core of all religious arguments: faith and personal experience. Your bible warns of houses built on sand, yet your position really is such a house.
You say that you hold your bible to be "historical and divine". Yet you relate the fact that the Earth is round. Tell me; approximately when did the Earth float up from its pillars and lose its corners, please? After all, that is how your "historical and divine" bible describes the world, so at one time that must have been the way the world worked. Or is that one of those inconvenient facts that get in the way of faith?
If the dictates of your bible is completely at odds with the nature of the Earth and everything else in reality, then anything biblical such as your lord JC (either an avatar of your god or son of same) is also at odds with reality, or at the very least highly suspect. So perhaps those changes in your life that you ascribe to divine intervention might warrant re-evaluation?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
