Is Christianity Illogical?

[spockrates]

If so, please explain why. If not, please explain why a logical person should still not become, or remain Christian.

1) Christianity is dependent on an earthly Jesus
2) To date that still can't be proven
3) Therefore it's illogical to believe modern-day Christian doctrine... From ANY of the 30 000+ denominations.

Alternatively, you could explore the possibility that your interpretation is wrong and you don't know the true message of the Gospels or even their intentions.

Reguarding the first alternative, I'd like to ask how you, or I believe anything about the life and death of any historical figure. Julius Caesar, for example--is there anything historians tell us about him that it is reasonable to believe? Or is all ancient history unbelievable?

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Science doesn't put faith in it's methods until they are proven to work. Even then there is always room for reevaluation, improvements or complete reworking of previous models. This has been said time and time again, but religious faith affords truth no such luxury. Instead it manipulates the facts to fit with the original assertions. It goes back to my previous answer to you - if the first assertion/premise/preposition fails, then everything else falls down. Science doesn't work in the same way.

The same goes for Socratic philosophers, and many Christians.



Faith of any kind should never be blind.