(July 2, 2018 at 8:49 pm)jimhabegger Wrote: I think that a certain kind of faith in God is the best thing that can happen to anyone, and what the world needs most of all, for human progress, and to right the wrongs and repair the damage. Rather than trying to explain what kind of faith I mean, I'll start by giving an example of how it might happen. I'm not sure it can happen this way, but it's the best way I can think of to illustrate how I think it might happen. A person might read the gospel stories in some Christian Bible, and learn to love and trust Jesus enough to want to follow Him, and learn from Him how to live a better life. I don't think that a person needs to believe that anything in the gospel stories ever actually happened, or believe in any god, or even believe that any such person as Jesus ever actually existed, in order for God to grant them that kind of faith.
Hi and welcome.
And - how do you know you picked the right god to have faith in? What if it's not the god of the Abrahamic variety. What if it's the FSM? What if the pastafarians had it right all along?
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
