RE: The most important reason I'm xtian
December 2, 2013 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2013 at 3:33 pm by Jacob(smooth).)
(December 2, 2013 at 3:14 pm)ronedee Wrote:Will answer as best I can. Its not a struggle to be a christian, as I said its a nice thing. It gives me some rules and standards to aspire to. I know atheists do the same but the moral framework I selected from the biblical set menu has worked better than the one I came up with myself. It gives me a good feeling to think that there is something more than cold biology and physics. It gives me a framework for things which seem to defy explanation (like love). What I think of as my relationship with God, whether its the voices in my head, the christian god as described or something ineffable which all the religions have tried and failed to describe, makes me feel good. Its a model which works. Like all models, it represents the reality without claiming to BE the reality.(December 2, 2013 at 12:37 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Any questions? Anyone else want to say why they are Christian?
Hey Jacob! thanks for the interesting, and personal post.
My only question... why be a Christian? You sound more like my own younger brother who is an agnostic.
We were brought up Christians (thanks to my mom), and he is questioning because of his more natural intellect telling him (over our spiritual nature) there is no proof...and there's only the "happiness he makes himself". And, of course the: "Jesus is a nice guy" deal.
Your indoctrination seems marred with various things that you kind of correlate with your religion. So, why the struggle? Shouldn't it be easy to just give up? Give me one good reason....very good reason to be a Christian?
Sorry to be the "devils advocate"... I don't see a point in pushing any agendas on you.
There are several good reasons for me to be christian there, its not a struggle at all. The only struggle is the dissonance between my analytical brain, which wants to understand everything, and my right brain, which doesn't care. I resolve the dissonance by being comfortable with my ignorance.
If there is God, then by definition I think he would be beyond mortal comprehension. If I could wrap my tiny little 4 dimensional monkey brain around him, he wouldn't be much of a God would he?
(December 2, 2013 at 2:32 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Its always nice to have a reasonable christian here. Almost too good to be true
Lol! I've told you I'm following a religion and that it does not matter to me a whit if the stories upon which it is based are even true or not! I'd be willing to KEEP following it, even If I had proof positive that the people in it didn't say the things the bible had them saying, or do the things the bible said they did!
What could be less reasonable than that!?!?
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
