RE: Whats even attractive about Christianity anyway that people want to stay in ignorance
March 5, 2012 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2012 at 3:50 pm by Undeceived.)
(March 5, 2012 at 1:37 am)Voltair Wrote: If Christianity is to be based on faith and faith is what you said it is then how can you really stand inside of Christianity? How is it more than simply a desire or a belief you have without substantiation? If you can't substantiate it then what still causes you to believe? Is it something you desire or something that you fear or both?
I can't prove scientifically that my sister loves me, but I believe it. Anything within the mind (what makes us human and not animal) is not testable. It is only accessible through secondary observation. If you simply watched humans and had no inside knowledge (being "in the know" as C.S. Lewis described) you would never come to the conclusion that our species had a morality. God (the source of our persona and spirituality) is unprovable in the same way. He is present in our hearts and minds and that is how we know him. To aid us, he sent his son Jesus in the flesh in ways we could observe and record. Nonbelievers in the 1st century refused to believe for different reasons than today. They said Jesus was demon-possessed or a magician or a mere prophet, but never that he never actually existed or died. God set up the Bible to point us to him. The Old Testament outlines the Law and shows our sin. The New Testament shows God's love and sacrifice for us in Jesus, fulfilling the Law and freeing us from the sins we were convicted of in the first half. No Christian believes on wishful thinking, as you suggest. Everything is based on reason, just a different reason than yours. This is intrinsic in humanity--we can't force ourselves to believe in something unless we believe it is true. Jesus' life and resurrection may have less sensory evidence than, say, the reproduction of rabbits, but that doesn't make the events any less probable. It's hard to believe on faith, but real truth is never easy to come by. God designed the world so we would have to seek him. He didn't force himself on us. But inside, consciously or not, we make the decision to accept him as God or to make ourselves our own god.
