(November 10, 2014 at 8:24 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: So... God paid God the price? Seems pretty arbitrary. How is this something you can really get behind? How is this something you actually believe? Don't you see how silly it is?
No. I can understand why you think it' silly but, I don't think it's silly at all. I think the fact that billions have and do believe should one to at least seriously consider it.[/quote] It is arbitrary. God is just, as well as loving. Those two facts put together caused God to pay the price for us. The price was paid because he is just, and he made the sacrifice because he is loving. My faith is something I wouldn't give up for anything. I couldn't be an atheist because it would preclude the belief in the supernatural. I always look at the beginning and the end--to the extremes. There are two ultimate possibilities about the origin of the natural universe; either it always existed (which I see view as a supernatural characteristic), or it came from something totally immaterial (like God). Also, either the universe has no boundary and goes on forever (like God) or there is an outer boundary. But what then is beyond that? Perhaps heaven.
Why christianity? I'm not sure. I believe it's the Holy Spirit working in me. I'm going to stick with it. If you're right and I'm wrong, Ill be nothing after I die and I won't be aware of whether I was right or wrong, so it won't really matter anyway. Even though I'm already having fun, I won't be sorry for all the strange sex, drugs and all those other things that I could have had because I won't exist to remember it.
