RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
February 26, 2015 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 5:11 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 26, 2015 at 4:01 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I have asked Christians this for years. Yet to get a reasonable answer.Swedenborg already answered that question in the twenty-two volumes of 'Arcana Coelestia'.
Can you summarize the gist of his thesis?
And why should I believe his method as opposed to others that disagree with him?
But why should a god; the most powerful, knowing and infallible being, require a 18th century fallible human to make this clear? Why wait thousands of years?
Why not create the Bible in such a way as to; not be susceptible to edits, copy mistakes, in languages he would surely know would die out and be susceptible to mistranslations, contain historical and scientific inaccuracies, etc?
Surely this god had the ability, the knowledge and the imagination to make sure it was transmitted impervious to the above and unambiguous, right?
This is supposed to be the most important message for all of humanity. Why such a bad method to transmit it?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
