(September 25, 2014 at 12:25 am)Lek Wrote:(September 24, 2014 at 10:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... not to mention another five billion adherents of other faiths, who believe their dogma just as surely as you believe yours.
Touche. But most of them have faith and believe in a higher power. I believe christianity is the truth, but I think God doesn't turn away those who are truly seeking him. A good thing is that I don't think there are any places in the world today where one is forced to claim christianity, as it may have been in the past.
Of course they have faith, that's why they're called adherents. They have exactly as much evidence for their claims as you do, zero, and yet are just as convinced as you are.
What does that say to you about your own conviction that you are in possession of the Truth?
Also, if you believe that Christianity is the truth, how do you reconcile your belief in your god's acceptance of sincere searching with the idea that unless an adherent accepts Christ they are damned? If they've never heard the Word preached and testified, can they be punished? And if they can still get into heaven, doesn't that diminish Christ's role in the theology?
