(December 13, 2009 at 9:47 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Belief in belief would be 3rd person and not personal to yourself. By this you assume non direct contact with a deity. Biblical reference is 3rd person without taking anything directly upon yourself. Again if you find a direct communication via the text isn't that 1st person? Christianity is always 1st person.From first person anyone is capable of believing whatever he likes. And so believing in belief is possible from first person. You may not really believe all the crap in the bible, while still attributing positive value to the phenomenon of belief. Nowhere does 3rd person enter the room.
If biblical reference is a 3rd person account, the claim (pretty central in most versions of christianity) that it is the word of god is false.
Christianity is a religion, not an account that can be characterized as 1st or 3rd person. If you ever get that hotline with god himself how do you authenticate him?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0