chatpilot: What do you mean by applying it to other religions too? I don't have a problem with them being symbolic too.
Obivously past peoples were curious about lifes mysteries but its nothing more than your opinion to say that they didn't also know a personal God. You say the same to me except that I experience a personal God you just have a lack of experience.
Adrian: Well certain parts of the gospels are obviously true. Such as there was a man who had followers who preached, who some considered a prophet, who was killed by the romans and whos followers claimed rose again on the third day. Christianity did start in Israel and spread from there.
I think there are reasons to believe the rest of the gospels. That doesn't mean you would agree, but there is rational reason to believe.
I think each gospel has a slightly different emphasis on different things and the contradictions can be sorted out.
Obivously past peoples were curious about lifes mysteries but its nothing more than your opinion to say that they didn't also know a personal God. You say the same to me except that I experience a personal God you just have a lack of experience.
Adrian: Well certain parts of the gospels are obviously true. Such as there was a man who had followers who preached, who some considered a prophet, who was killed by the romans and whos followers claimed rose again on the third day. Christianity did start in Israel and spread from there.
I think there are reasons to believe the rest of the gospels. That doesn't mean you would agree, but there is rational reason to believe.
I think each gospel has a slightly different emphasis on different things and the contradictions can be sorted out.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
