RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 4, 2013 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 5:31 pm by Mystic.)
(April 4, 2013 at 5:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 4, 2013 at 4:54 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: For example, if I write a book about 30 problems in Quran, a person can chose to ignore it, thus he has choice in his beliefs.You can also chose not to accept any apologetic the believer offers in return. What I find praiseworthy is the the result of a person's thinking but the means by which they attain knowledge.
True. I won't ignore responses to the problems. In fact, I posted the 28 Issues on Shiachat.com and wanted responses. Two of them I solved myself on there.
I then posted some of the issues on various forums. I didn't flood them with all 28 Issues.
Now I have about 30-40 issues (even though 2 of them I solved from the 28).
At the end, people can make an informed decision. We can't chose to become 100% objective, but when something is proven, it will hit us, and it will haunt us, till we accept it or we can chose to ignore our conscience.
It took me over a year after finding the "why miracles weren't sent" issue, to finally accept there was no solution.
I didn't disbelieve when I found problems right away and was very hopeful they would be solved.