RE: LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!
July 16, 2015 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 11:17 pm by Randy Carson.)
(July 16, 2015 at 9:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 9:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I can't remember whether you told me that you were a Christian or just your wife was, but have you ever actually read a book about Christianity written by a Christian that explains what Christians believe?
My wife was a christian, as are her family. As such, I'm not nearly naive enough to believe that I could find a book, even a collection of many books, that would tell me "what christians believe." That subject is as varied as there are christians. The thousands of different sects and denominations attests to that perfectly, even though a lot of christians seem to assume that what they believe is the only set of beliefs christians have.
That sounds more like an excuse than a sufficient reason. If you were interested in the origins of the universe or some other cutting edge science would you NOT read several physicists simply because their ideas were in conflict? Or would you read them all to try to understand the arguments?
Or if you wanted to understand ATHEISM, for cryin' out loud, you would read Hitchens, Dawkins, Carrier and Ehrman to name just a few even though their views do not coincide perfectly, right?
So, if you wanted to understand what Christians really believe, you could probably get the basics in just two or three books. It would be no trouble at all.
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This is the correct answer.