(August 2, 2012 at 6:02 pm)catfish Wrote: 7. Christians have no faith in God, just the beliefs the bible prescribes.
So Christians only have faith in God because they have decided to believe what the bible tells them. If you don't like my saying Christians have no faith in God, let me rephrase that to say that their faith in God is secondary to their faith in the bible. Faith in God is owing to your faith in what the bible tells you and prepares you to interpret your experience accordingly.
So what is it that gives you so much faith in the bible? Doesn't it just come down to the indoctrination you received to regard it that way? Had you been born into a Jewish home or a Muslim one surely you would have adopted their holy books and dutifully come to have believed what they believe just as fervently. How can you possibly think that anyone would turn their backs on their own beliefs to embrace your own?
