(February 3, 2013 at 3:03 pm)Zone Wrote:(February 3, 2013 at 2:56 pm)Question Mark Wrote: Can I not feel sympathy or do good works if I don't do it because the bible tells me so?
Yes but you feel the need because you are still indirectly filled with the true spirit from being in contact with the Christian tradition. Therefore you will still get a dosage of Christ in you you see. And this why you're not sitting in a packed collesum crying out for blood to flow or why you're not a concentration camp guard. But if you want the full dosage you'll have to "convert to Christianity" so you can be born anew.
Can someone demonstrate this dosage of holy spirit? I've seen research that tells me that empathy for my fellow man is an evolutionary trait found in a number of animals that form groups and societies, but no one's ever been able to demonstrate the holy spirit to me. If someone could do that, it'd honestly be great, seeing a spirit would seriously be the most awesome thing that's happened in my life so far. I mean that with whole hearted sincerity, in some way experiencing a spirit in such a way that I can confirm its existence would be the single greatest event of my life so far.
Unless the answer is "have faith", in which case I'm just going to get annoyed.
