RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
July 1, 2014 at 6:54 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2014 at 6:57 pm by Lek.)
(July 1, 2014 at 4:32 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Again, you haven't answered my question. I know you are convinced it's from your Christian God, I'm asking how you are convinced, and how you are convinced it's not the God of another faith.
It's true that I was raised in a country in which christianity is the dominant faith and I was raised as a catholic. I'm not adverse to change if it's warranted. I became convinced that the catholic church held a number of mistaken doctrines and I left that religion. To be honest I haven't examined other faiths very much. I always thought that buddhists were very serene people, but found that to be false after a few years in the far east. What I like about christianity is the unfolding of the faith through history and the continuity of the story of salvation passed along by many different authors. Then there's the fulfilled prophecies which predicted Jesus' coming. If we were making up a story about God, how many people would make him become a man, be humiliated, and be executed as a criminal? Like I've said previously, I have some doubts, like most people, but I've committed myself to following Christ. If I wait until I can remove all doubt from my mind, like an atheist would do, I'll never make the move. And there's too much to gain from my choice to follow God and too much too lose by waiting.