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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all about faith. I'm the type of person who is curious and must have answers to questions. Being a Christian, it's very hard to let go of these questions and realize that we will never know the answer. While it might sound like a cop-out, it really is all about having faith.

I look at it like this: What if Christians have it all wrong? What is there is no God/Jesus/heaven? Well, I'm out nothing. I die and that's it. But if I'm right, wow......what a beautiful and glorious thing it will be!!!!!

I have nothing to lose if Jesus Christ/God turn out to be illusions, but *everything* to lose if they are real. In addition, believing in God has brought me peace and strength at difficult times. [/quote]

Ha!  That's pretty ironic:  I'm an atheist, and live my life as though this were the only live we get.  But I truly believe if there were some sort of omnipotent, omniscient being who shepherds us all that there's no way he'd allow people of goodwill to be "consigned to Hell" for the crime of not believing in Him without evidence.  So while I don't believe, I have nothing to lose if such a God actually exists.  Yay![/quote]

But you see, that's the crux of it all. Anyone can believe in something once they actually see it! It is all about believing, without any requirements for proof.

[i]And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. [/i]Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)[/quote]

Says your Bible.  Of course, the odds that your particular Bible holds such legalistic insight into the rules of the universe (as opposed to Muslims, or Jews, or Hindu, or Shinto, etc, etc, etc...) is absurdly low.  As PP said, Pascal's Wager involves adhering to some microscopic subset of possible religious beliefs, because "if I'm wrong, I lose nothing, but if I'm right?  HEAVEN!"  But that's not the odds.  As a religious person, you're betting that there is some sort of religious rule that must be obeyed.  As PP said, there are a hundred million such creeds that have evolved and collapsed over the last ten millennial. The idea that there are two possibilities:  either there is no God, or the NIV bible is literally The Truth is laughable.  Surely you can see that, right?  [/quote]

Hmmmm...my mistake. I thought I was having a conversation with someone willing to be open to intelligent dialogue. My mistake. I have no interest in engaging with someone whose motivation seems to include belittling another person's faith. Have a good night. [/quote]

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