You've just found a new hammer and now everything looks like a nail.
Of course, Jesus found nails handy too.
You've just found a new hammer and now everything looks like a nail.Jesus was more lawyer than prophet.
In fact...I'm inclined to believe in him being God for the sole reason he was lawyering the pros....without any apparent pro education.
Again I'm not that interested in the Jesus bit. There's written accounts of supernatural beings and events across the world. Do you believe that Odin exists, Dionysus or Vishnu?Have you done any research into this topic? It's a valid question. There are outside non-biblical sources that reference Jesus' miracles, as well multiple accounts of these miracles in the four gospels.
Both of those statements are correct, but I think you're thinking of L Ron Hubbard.I mean there's absolute evidence the Ron Howard existed but that doesn't mean that Scientology is true!
That'll teach me to post between getting up after a night shift and being pre coffee!Both of those statements are correct, but I think you're thinking of L Ron Hubbard.
I think interest in the Jesus bit is actually a critical part in all of it. If a man performs miracles, heals people, predicts his own death and resurrection, then dies in the manner he predicted and then returned from dead, I would listen to what he had to say about the creation of the world.Again I'm not that interested in the Jesus bit. There's written accounts of supernatural beings and events across the world. Do you believe that Odin exists, Dionysus or Vishnu?
Think about what you are saying. That the universe runs in a fundamentally different way than all the evidence shows. That anything and everything is subject to the whims of magic. And the bar for that belief is just that there are some old written texts.
I mean there's absolute evidence the Ron Howard existed but that doesn't mean that Scientology is true!
Have you done any research into this topic? It's a valid question. There are outside non-biblical sources that reference Jesus' miracles, as well multiple accounts of these miracles in the four gospels.
I think interest in the Jesus bit is actually a critical part in all of it. If a man performs miracles, heals people, predicts his own death and resurrection, then dies in the manner he predicted and then returned from dead, I would listen to what he had to say about the creation of the world.
But there are stories of loads of people doing magic/miracles it's just that you reject most of them as fantasy.I think interest in the Jesus bit is actually a critical part in all of it. If a man performs miracles, heals people, predicts his own death and resurrection, then dies in the manner he predicted and then returned from dead, I would listen to what he had to say about the creation of the world.
I'm noticing your posts. I've been there.But there are stories of loads of people doing magic/miracles it's just that you reject most of them as fantasy.
Honestly I think that the Jesus bit just gets in the way of understanding what you believe in!
You believe that an entity can control all matter in the universe with just a thought and the evidence you have for that is stuff that was written 2000 years ago. Does that not sound like something that needs a fairly hefty amount of evidence?
Both of those statements are correct, but I think you're thinking of L Ron Hubbard.
👍 Eeeeyyyyyy! 👍Probably thinking of Fonzieism, the One True Faith.
I mean I'm not that invested in it but I am very interested in how people think about things!I'm noticing your posts. I've been there.
Well yeah. But surely people do a bit of "does this stand up logically" thinking before going "yup. This is definitely how the universe works"?People appeal to emotions far more than logic.
And I'm very interested in how they can reconcile their "I believe this because it make me feel better" with "I can't think too deeply about this because it would all fall apart" thing.Again, you have incredibly smart and smarter people than me that are believers.
Also, some just don't even think or even occur to challenge.I mean I'm not that invested in it but I am very interested in how people think about things!
Well yeah. But surely people do a bit of "does this stand up logically" thinking before going "yup. This is definitely how the universe works"?
And I'm very interested in how they can reconcile their "I believe this because it make me feel better" with "I can't think too deeply about this because it would all fall apart" thing.
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Just like life, there are all cases of how people believe in religions vs logic:I mean I'm not that invested in it but I am very interested in how people think about things!
Well yeah. But surely people do a bit of "does this stand up logically" thinking before going "yup. This is definitely how the universe works"?
And I'm very interested in how they can reconcile their "I believe this because it make me feel better" with "I can't think too deeply about this because it would all fall apart" thing.
Pppl