> Do you really, truly believe this shit? Are you truly a modern intellectually-balanced person who, despite the advances in culture, knowledge, technology and science during the last, say, 500 years can't stop to consider it might be time to get out of the caves and see these delusions for what they are?
I'm Christian - and indeed I do not logically believe this weird little tale about some random Jew that claimed to be god and yet couldn't even save his own life.
I have an entirely irrational faith from a logical standpoint, and I'll cling to this as the alternative is that this life is a meaningless flop in a dying universe.
My irrational faith that Christ died on the cross to destroy death and to save us from our own sin.
Indeed my faith recognizes this and says "we're fools for Christ" 1 Corinthians 4:10
>Whether you care to admit or accept it or not, you believe what you believe due to indoctrination.
To answer your second question - I was raised an atheist. I came to faith through a combination of logic and a realization that I can't save myself from death. Either my own death or the heat-death (or crunch) of the universe.
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I'm Christian - and indeed I do not logically believe this weird little tale about some random Jew that claimed to be god and yet couldn't even save his own life.
I have an entirely irrational faith from a logical standpoint, and I'll cling to this as the alternative is that this life is a meaningless flop in a dying universe.
My irrational faith that Christ died on the cross to destroy death and to save us from our own sin.
Indeed my faith recognizes this and says "we're fools for Christ" 1 Corinthians 4:10
To answer your second question - I was raised an atheist. I came to faith through a combination of logic and a realization that I can't save myself from death. Either my own death or the heat-death (or crunch) of the universe.
Pascal's wager and all that writ large.