(February 2, 2012 at 8:10 pm)brotherlylove Wrote:(February 2, 2012 at 7:50 pm)whateverist Wrote:(February 2, 2012 at 6:08 pm)brotherlylove Wrote: Also, in the Christian worldview, we accept the supernatural claims of other religions. What we reject is their explanation for these events. What scripture says is that Satan also has supernatural power, and as the bible indicates, he can disguise himself as an angel of light, and his ministers, ministers of righteousness. He has the supernatural power to create what the bible calls "lying signs and wonders". He can back up belief in a false god with supernatural evidence.
I'm afraid you have been deceived, brotherlylove. As a devotee to the flying spaghetti god I can tell you that the true author of miracles is our own lord. However He is not the only one who can perform miracles. The dark lord, the saucy meatball god, can also fool men into believing they are witnessing true miracles. I am sorry to have to tell you that all the so called Christian 'miracles' are actually the product of the saucy deceiver. Only the flying spaghetti god can perform genuine miracles. Sadly, the deceiver has taken you in as he has so many others.
How am I knowing these wondrous facts you might ask? It is written in our most sacred text, The Joy of Pasta. Antonio, the Chief Chef himself, received the sacred stone menu boards from which all knowledge of the magnificent Flying Spaghetti god was first delivered to man. Antonio, blessed be his name, was an honest cook and had no reason to lie. Though the stone menu boards have been lost to history, their truth, the revealed word of the flying Spaghetti god, can still be found in the Joy of Pasta.
It isn't too late to repent. Turn away from this false god Jehovah and you can still be seated at the table of our true god. There you may feast on the seven blessed courses for all time. Now go and blaspheme no more!
I fully acknowledge there are thousands of religions, some more absurd than others.However, either one of them is right or none of them are. You believe none, I believe one.
For instance, 1 + 1 has only one right answer. We don't accept other answers to that problem as being equally valid. In the same way, I believe there is only one way to know God, and that it is through Jesus Christ.
On the other hand. What if you're wrong? Haven't you pretty much just decided that the religion you happened to have grown up in was the right one? You may have personal reasons for choosing Christianity which you think go beyond the fact of your growing up in it, but are those reasons of yours if spoken by someone of another faith anything that would dissuade you from Christianity? Probably not. I'll never understand your need to enlist the world to your belief system.
