Q about arguments for God's existence.

[Jenny A]

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.

Find a really clear prophesy in the Old Testament fulfilled in the New. Good luck. It's like reading horoscopes or worse. And the biggie, the virgin birth is an out and out lie.

In Isaiah, Christians translate the word "almah" as virgin although it really only means young girl of marriageable age. Hebrews has a perfectly good word meaning virgin: "bethulah". And "bethulah" is used elsewhere in Isaiah. You'd think if virginity were important Isaiah would use the word virgin.

Further the prophesy in Isaiah 7 concerns what will happen before the young woman's son reached the age of reason. The prophesy is fulfilled in King Ahaz's time, long, long before Jesus is born.

The best the apologists seem to come up with is the suggestion that the prophesy was really meant to be fulfilled multiple times. Really, that's it?

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?

The god who sacrifices himself, dies and comes back to life, was an ongoing theme in many religions predating Christianity in and around Egypt and Greece.

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.

Understood. But without any belief at all you must see that there's nothing to gained by wasting the one life you have attempting to live on in heaven.