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Hi, I'm looking for answers
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RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers
(June 8, 2010 at 5:17 pm)Jocenel Wrote: Okay I'll ask questions. Cool Shades

My husband has a good point he makes all the time. The bible is collected supposedly by a bunch of people under the spirit of God. The Roman Catholic church took out a lot of information. How can we believe that the bible is real or accurate?

The same way you believe everything else you believe. Smile It should be noted that your believing a thing to be "real" or "accurate" does not make it so... and indeed if you have any beliefs about anything whatsoever, you should already understand how you can believe that 'the Bible' is "real" and "accurate" Sleepy

Also, 'how' doesn't appear to be the question you wanted to ask. A much better question, perhaps, would simply have been "Is 'the Bible' "real" or "accurate"?"

To which I would answer, "About which points?" Sleepy
(June 8, 2010 at 7:34 pm)Jocenel Wrote: How can people (like my mother) hold on to their faith so strongly? Is it because my mother has been taught that way? Is it because people can't stand the truth?

That depends... people have faith because they are certain of a thing. If your mother is certain that the Christianity is correct: she has faith in it. If I am certain that 2 + 2 = 4: I have faith in it.

Your mother might have been taught that way, and if so very well might be a Christian largely because of her childhood indoctrination.

If she is a Christian only because she 'can't stand the truth'... then I would firstly like to say that she is a coward, and secondly would like to question wether she really has faith at all. Sleepy
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Jocenel - June 8, 2010 at 4:42 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 8, 2010 at 4:48 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Paul the Human - June 8, 2010 at 5:06 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Jocenel - June 8, 2010 at 5:17 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by AtheistPhil - June 8, 2010 at 5:21 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by paintpooper - June 8, 2010 at 5:53 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Scented Nectar - June 8, 2010 at 6:30 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Violet - June 9, 2010 at 1:54 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Rhizomorph13 - June 8, 2010 at 5:09 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by AtheistPhil - June 8, 2010 at 5:16 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Paul the Human - June 8, 2010 at 5:44 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 8, 2010 at 6:06 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Jocenel - June 8, 2010 at 7:34 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Eilonnwy - June 8, 2010 at 7:44 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by AtheistPhil - June 8, 2010 at 8:11 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by mem - June 9, 2010 at 8:13 am
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by theophilus - June 9, 2010 at 1:04 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Eilonnwy - June 8, 2010 at 6:12 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Paul the Human - June 8, 2010 at 6:23 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by fr0d0 - June 8, 2010 at 6:18 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Eilonnwy - June 8, 2010 at 6:44 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by fr0d0 - June 8, 2010 at 8:24 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Ace Otana - June 8, 2010 at 6:32 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 8, 2010 at 6:59 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 8, 2010 at 7:50 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 8, 2010 at 10:08 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Violet - June 9, 2010 at 5:06 am
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Rhizomorph13 - June 9, 2010 at 1:16 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Paul the Human - June 9, 2010 at 1:23 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 9, 2010 at 2:31 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by theophilus - June 10, 2010 at 12:59 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Rhizomorph13 - June 10, 2010 at 1:29 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Minimalist - June 10, 2010 at 1:46 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by fr0d0 - June 10, 2010 at 1:54 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by WingedFoe - June 10, 2010 at 3:09 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by fr0d0 - June 10, 2010 at 3:35 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Edwardo Piet - June 10, 2010 at 3:14 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by Rhizomorph13 - June 10, 2010 at 3:51 pm
RE: Hi, I'm looking for answers - by VoiceOfReason - June 12, 2010 at 11:02 pm

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