(April 14, 2014 at 10:45 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'm still trying to figure out the sanity of the logistics behind salvation through Christian faith. How exactly does one will themselves to believe something even when the intellect is more certain than most things that the entire Christian narrative is childishly egocentric at best and bat shit crazy at worst?
As far as I can tell, you basically have to be willing to completely disregard any dissenting view point, and then it's relatively easy. I went though a several year period where I didn't believe and couldn't make myself believe. I really wanted to, but I wasn't willing to throw out observable evidence or logic. I was hoping I could come up with a framework where I could keep those thing and my belief and... predictably failed.
Similarly, we see people do stuff like join cults and drink poisoned beverages and die willingly. I think you just have to get to a point where you refuse to consider any other view point.
For a lot of people, they can find themselves in that position out of ignorance, and the well has already been poisoned before they run into a dissenting view point. So, they're already convinced of the argument's/evidence's wrongness before they encounter it.
