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01-14-2003, 04:35 PM | #11 | |
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I think it has something to do (but this is just thinking out loud here... ) with the type of person that can get tied up in details about lots of other things, when it really boils down to "ok, here is what YOU PERSONALLY know, now what are YOU PERSONALLY going to do with it?" IOW, some people say "until I completely understand everything about Christianity I refuse to do anything about it!" instead of saying "the vast majority of this makes tremendous sense, especially as compared to other belief systems in terms of document authenticity and many other areas - I think it is safe to say that I as a finite being can't understand everything, but because of what I do understand, I choose to take that final step of faith (note - it is NOT brainless faith - it comes after a thoughtful evaluation) and put my faith in God and what Jesus did for me". This is VERY rough thoughts - like I said, I'm just thinking "out loud" here. What do you think about any of it? I will enjoy talking this over with you (and anyone else that wants to participate - do you want to try asking your pastor, Khamul?), and I hope to learn more myself. I feel that I learned a lot over in the "melkor evil" thread because I was forced to really think through some things at a new depth in order to be able to post about it clearly. It's hard enough to communicate in words sometimes; writing is even more difficult (at least for me!) I just paged back down to your post and re-looked at your question, and actually, I would say the quick answer is since I believe that the Bible states the truth (for various reasons which I can get into if you want to), the other religions say conflicting things about their god so he cannot be the same as the God of the Bible. But more later....
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