(January 14, 2017 at 11:03 am)Godschild Wrote: Considering what's a stake I would think you would search for the truth and want to be saved. Salvation is much more than going to heaven, most atheist believe that heaven is the only result and thus miss out on the reality of salvation. Salvation is having a loving relationship with God and He is the one who begins that relationship with love, it's why you hear Christians say, "savior and Lord," without the love salvation would be nothing. Again, because of what's at stake why do you chance you're the one that's correct.
My point is that no one can be certain that they are correct. Many believe that they are, yet they all found different gods or different versions of the same god. Many of them state that it is not difficult to find god, we only need to do A while having attitude B. But if you do not get the result they claim, they tell you that you did it wrong and they make it more and more complicated in order to cover all of the contingencies. The Abrahamic religions even make it so that people who get to know god directly or see him in action still reject him, which means that he is not impressive even in person. Does that make sense to you? I have to take such things in mind when I search for truth, it's one reason why I'm no longer religious.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
