(January 14, 2013 at 2:33 pm)Drich Wrote: I am not sure about the science behind it, but how it generally works is you can hear something once or it could be something you've heard 1000 times like John 3:16, and you will be able to see it for what it was meant to be. this could happen in a sermon, or it could happen as a result of a study, or you could simply wake from a dream. God is not limited on how He decides to reveal something.
In reality we call it credulity. John 3:16 is not hard for a non believer to understand, stop pretending that we cant understand it. We can, we just dont believe that that book is anywhere near a human biology science book, nor does it explain human psychology. It is a book of myth, nothing more.
No human invented morality. The same motifs of good or bad in myths can also and is also found in fiction like Huckleberry Finn or movies like Star Wars.
"God gave his son".
The idea of giving one's life for a greater good is not a new meme to humanity. People in prior cultures died in battle fighting to protect their clubs too.
All Christianity did was turn mundane human action into comic book super heros.
What the soldiers of D Day did was real sacrifice. And they didn't do it for fame or glory like god does. I only know of one WW2 soldier personally. I do not know the names of any of those who died on D Day.
That sacrifice without greed is something your god character cannot do.
He is a mafia boss as written in that book as a character and will only do you favors if you kiss his ass.
And the motif of the upstart going up against authority is also not new. Plato's story about Socrates had him questioning authority figures too. He too was sacrificed for questioning authority.
Christianity is the greatest myth ever sold.
Not to mention quoting any holy book of any religion is nothing but self serving circular reasoning.
