RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm
(October 21, 2014 at 11:34 am)Esquilax Wrote: Testimony is a notoriously fickle and unreliable thing. Additionally, you're playing a little equivocation game here, because the testimony you're talking about isn't quite as consistent or overarching as you want us to believe, is it? How many denominations of christianity are there? And how many individual slight variations on what god wants are there, even within those main branches? How many theists later became atheists?
You're trying to fake a broad, singular trend, using crisscrossing and conflicting, constantly varying accounts to do so. It's ludicrous.
When many people testify to something it causes others to think that there might be something to it. If I get the testimony of 100 people that the food at a particular restaurant is delicious and the price was right, I'd be led to try that restaurant. If I then discovered for myself that the food was delicious, then I'd most likely go back.
I believe that people of all faiths can have real experiences with God, even though their doctrines may be incorrect. God calls us all to him and will not reject anyone who faithfully seeks him. It's my belief that if you truly seek God you will find him.
Matthew 7:7-8New International Version (NIV)
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
