RE: Rational defense of Christianity?
January 1, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2015 at 1:27 pm by Sillysheep.)
(January 1, 2015 at 1:07 pm)Nope Wrote:(January 1, 2015 at 12:34 pm)Sillysheep Wrote: As silly as it may sound it is only through the heart that it is possible to find God. A great atheist CS Lewis, looked into his heart, and saw something that he could not deny. He became one of the greatest christian authors, and everyone knows him from the books about Narnia
Your heart is a synonym for your emotions. I point that obvious fact out because sometimes Christians make it sound like their reaction to Jesus occurred somewhere other then their minds.
I have a theory as to why people are religious. Our minds are programmed to seek out patterns and that is why we sometimes see faces or animals in clouds. Maybe it is an instinct in some people to look for patterns in the random events of life and try to see the picture or reason behind everything.
Also, if someone is clinging to religion there is probably an emotional need or vulnerability that religion eases for that person. For example, someone from an abusive home might become an functioning, intelligent, nonabusive adult but still have a need to believe that some parent figure loves them. It doesn't matter how intelligent the person, we are all vulnerable and weak at some point in our lives. Some of people deal with those low points in their lives by seeking out religion.
I think that
I appreciate your thoughts. Religion can be exactly as you say, and i am sure that it is to a lot of people. If it was not because of personal experiences that I have had, I would be prone to agree with you. To be honest when I began to seek God, I was like a child, meaning I decided to believe in what I could not see. This led me deeper into what has become a personal relationship with Jesus. There are things that has happened to me that I cannot explain. I am not desperate, but I am in love with the the one who created me.
(January 1, 2015 at 1:14 pm)dyresand Wrote: Christianity it doesn't make logical sense and the stories and anything and anyone who puts it out there is going to get logical criticism.
First off history proves that jesus never existed the places and such in the bible most were made up. Jesus being born on December 25
wrong pagan holiday. Virgin birth no wrong you need to have sex to have a child. God who is god how does he exist if he himself is a complex
being so god cannot create himself so he is not alpha and omega. If god did exist without being created what is stopping him from leaving us and creating
a whole new universe to pretty much torment.
I don't know either on what date Jesus was born, so I agree with you on that one. Now virgin birth. How do you explain the birth of the universe? I find it fascinating to read about the big bang. It all started from an entity so small that it was invisible. Suddenly it explodes in much less than a second the universe was born. We do have two, sorry three choices here. Was it an accident? Was there a creator, or I don't know and therefore believe that it was a cosmic accident.
So if God created the universe, how could He not create life inside of Mary?
