Theists are Insecure

[chi pan]

Pendragon, it's hard to keep track of all your conversations but let me just explain what I believe. I am Protestant though I do not affiliate myself with any denomination. I don't believe in many of the catholic beliefs that are in their catechism of the catholic church examples: purgatory, divinity of marry, and the eternal torture of Jesus. I believe Jesus died for our sins once and doesn't have to do it again. I would say my beliefs are biblical because I don't accept any extra biblical beliefs about God.

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Nah, I'll let Chad be the knowledge bearer. I'd rather hear a christian argue against these things for a change.
(I'm mildly familiar, long time ago, what stuck with me was yet another claim to divine personal revelation, same garbage different face. "These revealed claims are incorrect, my revealed claims are superior." Denied.)

Cool. I'd never heard of it at all. Compared to the severe rule following and eagerness to comply with all God's edicts in order to get their tickets to heaven stamped, I find the beliefs of this sect much more appealing. Of course, you'd have to be inclined to look for non-natural answers to life's questions to choose any form of Christianity.

In their favor, I suspect their beliefs would be much less self-damaging than those of most Christian sects. Much less pressure to follow the herd and abdicate personal responsibility, I think.

Chipan,
I wonder if your religion leads its adherents to be skeptical of science. I always think it should be easy for a theist to embrace science for what it is. Does your faith teach you that the bible is the literal word of God? My sense is probably no. You guys don't think the earth is only 6000 years old and that people used to ride around on dinosaurs and all that rubbish, do you?

I do embrace the creation story as a literal testament. I don't accept any science that tries to say millions and billions of years ago. I don't accept any science that tries to explain prehistoric events. Otherwise I don't have anything against other scientific theories.