RE: Dear Theists....Why?
September 11, 2010 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2010 at 2:18 pm by HeyItsZeus.)
(September 11, 2010 at 2:05 pm)Watson Wrote: @Zeus- The ressurection of Jesus, whether literal or not, is an example in story form of how God could and does work in this world. Essentially, I don't know if it really happened, but with God it could have. I do believe that Jesus really did exist and really did ressurect from the dead, but I don't know for certain. No one can.
God is literal. He is the literal being that the allegory is pointing towards.
As for not believing in Christianity to be Christian...no. You have it wrong. I believe in Christianity; its principles, its teachings, its messages. I do not believe that the stories within have to be literal to be believed in. I believe the message those stories are trying to teach, I don't believe the events actually occured.
If that could be done with God, why couldn't the story of Genesis be possibly true? I know why. We have proven that that is not the way the Earth was made. The same way we have proven that people can not rise from the dead. It's all stories, as you said.
(September 11, 2010 at 2:02 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote:(September 11, 2010 at 1:59 pm)Watson Wrote: Haha, Nice way to be humble, Zeus.
He's the type of person that's making the world stupid imho. He must be banned.
I meant Doodlebag not You by the way.
(September 11, 2010 at 2:05 pm)Watson Wrote: @Zeus- The ressurection of Jesus, whether literal or not, is an example in story form of how God could and does work in this world. Essentially, I don't know if it really happened, but with God it could have. I do believe that Jesus really did exist and really did ressurect from the dead, but I don't know for certain. No one can.
God is literal. He is the literal being that the allegory is pointing towards.
As for not believing in Christianity to be Christian...no. You have it wrong. I believe in Christianity; its principles, its teachings, its messages. I do not believe that the stories within have to be literal to be believed in. I believe the message those stories are trying to teach, I don't believe the events actually occured.
How do you know he's literal?
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
