Dear Theists....Why?

[HeyItsZeus]

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.

Then why not believe in any another religion and just pick and choose which parts of them you want to take literally? Why Christianity? I'm sure you can find some moral teachings among the hate and violence in another story book. Join Islam maybe? or become a Jew? Is it because you come from a Christian background or are in a predominately Christian country? If you were born on the other side of the world maybe you would have had different views? Or if you were born thousands of years ago you would have believed in fire gods and such? Could it be that you just have a need to believe in something bigger?

Surely taking God literally and then ruling out anything else in the bible as not happening is a bit of a contradiction in what you are willing to believe? God existing is surely the hardest part to believe of all what the bible says happened. If I believed there is a concious, all knowing, all powerful, eternal creator behind the universe who we join in in some sort of after life, I'd be more than happy to also believe some bloke got a shit load of animals on his boat because the sky daddy said it was going to piss it down.

Exactly! Watson, I'm starting to think you are bullshitting me!

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With God everything is possible

How convenient.

Yeah a good excuse if you ask me.