RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 12, 2025 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2025 at 2:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-as for gods characteristics, it's fairly simple. All christians (I mean genuine christians, not nominal ones, here) must believe that god is personal and intervening and atoning. Everything else...and the specifics of how those three are achieved, too, is up for grabs. That's why there tens of thousands of sub cults, which is itself lower by orders of magnitude to private belief and value sets.
A "just the creator" christian, with a narrow focus and non-specific qualifications for those terms, satisfies those conditions. A batshit crazy jot and tittler also satisfies those conditions, in exactly the same way. The fundamental premises of both types of christians are identifical, which is what identifies them as christian in the first place, and in fact identifies all christians regardless of the profound differences in how those three beliefs play out and how they interact with other beliefs. The difference between protestants and catholics is less about god than the efficacy of ritual magic and mystery traditions.
Thus, any question of why christians believe..a general query, is some exploration of those three things. There are certainly other reasons to believe in christianity, and other things some christians believe in, but whatever causes all of them to accept those three is the basis of all christian belief. Judging by it's common manifestation over demography and time they're very successful beliefs. Christianity could have been different, but it normalized around this. Any attempt to minimize them...because..maybe...someone thinks that they don't look good in an argument, is, imo, doomed to be unrepresentative of christianity in individuals or as a whole.
A "just the creator" christian, with a narrow focus and non-specific qualifications for those terms, satisfies those conditions. A batshit crazy jot and tittler also satisfies those conditions, in exactly the same way. The fundamental premises of both types of christians are identifical, which is what identifies them as christian in the first place, and in fact identifies all christians regardless of the profound differences in how those three beliefs play out and how they interact with other beliefs. The difference between protestants and catholics is less about god than the efficacy of ritual magic and mystery traditions.
Thus, any question of why christians believe..a general query, is some exploration of those three things. There are certainly other reasons to believe in christianity, and other things some christians believe in, but whatever causes all of them to accept those three is the basis of all christian belief. Judging by it's common manifestation over demography and time they're very successful beliefs. Christianity could have been different, but it normalized around this. Any attempt to minimize them...because..maybe...someone thinks that they don't look good in an argument, is, imo, doomed to be unrepresentative of christianity in individuals or as a whole.
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