(November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm)chatpilot Wrote: Not that I can't get my head around faith fr0d0 you keep forgetting I was a believer myself. It's that I have come to see faith for what it really is which is believing in something on somebody elses word thousands of years removed from our time.
I'm always mindful of the fact chatty. And I know what it's like to leave the faith, and how little your understanding now will relate to when you were immersed in it. You have your own understanding now of what religion is, you have changed.
(November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm)chatpilot Wrote: You did not answer my question about believing in an afterlife of bliss in return for your faith now. Saying that "The eternal bit just explains the nature of the soul" does not answer that question adequately it just tells me that you believe that the soul is eternal. I want to know if you personally believe in eternal bliss after this life as a result of your faith.
I've said many times on here... I don't really give a stuff about that. Yes it's part of Christianity and ppl, as you do, seem to want to give that an unreasonable amount of credit. I don't think it's relevant only to explain the nature of the soul.
(November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm)chatpilot Wrote: Besides fr0d0 you keep speaking of the bible as if its authors sat around thinking about all these great theological questions that our modern scholars ponder. I am pretty sure that their interpretation of the scriptures (O.T. before Christ) were literal and continued to be so during the early years of the N.T.
How can you say that when you look at the incredible complexity of say Genesis? It's so intensely perfected. What I think is that those people were intensely motivated in producing that and understood a lot better than the dirge that is christianity in the 2000 years after Christ.
