There isn't really a problem, so long as it doesn't cause people to violate the rights of others or deny important facts. Unfortunately, some religious people get carried away. I have had stuff thrown at me, it isn't fun.
Everyone has their own ideal of what a God is like. What makes you think yours is any better than the millions of others out there? While you may be more informed than the average person, surely you would not suggest you were the most informed person about your faith currently alive?
When we are ready God will send us the teacher we need at that point in our life. We continue to learn and grow.
I do not care about the millions of other concepts that people have. It's every man and women for themselves. We have to do the best we can do to do and be all that God wants for us.
And thus, how can you tell what I think of in terms of God could be in any way lesser to yours, when you don't actually know where you stand in that regard? Mine could be the more accurate of the two just by chance.
Even if it means fooling yourself into believing a myth, I see.
Seems like the conversation is running off its track here. I share something personal and then you react by hard words? I can not guess your motive for doing so, but I suggest we cool it for now. Let's get back in touch another day.
It usually isn't very productive to say stuff like this, I wish people did it less.
My belief in God is based on what I can test and know is true. It is not easy to trust in God because we think we know better then He does. In time we learn that His plan is the best plan and so we learn that it is in our best interest to follow His plan for us and our lives. One thing is for sure, when we trust in Him, He will never ever disappoint us. He will always come through for us. It is not easy to trust everything to Him but over time we learn all the advantages of following God and doing everything His way. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So it is a win win situation. We jump and trust that He is going to catch us and He always does. Only it is not always so easy to do. If people can jump and trust that their parashoot is going to work then we can jump and trust the God is going to take care of us.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, Paul and so on. The books they wrote are often named after them. Moses, David, Solomon, Daniel, and so on.
That could well be the problem right there, if believers were told how others feel about their myth believing and they were mocked when they were younger perhaps they would not believe as they do today. [It works in the UK]
Hard words??? can words shake your faith? is your faith that weak that it can not stand up for itself?
By saying that you have everything to lose and nothing to gain, do you think your God doesn't know that you are only hedging your bets? believing just in case there's something in this religious stuff.
Now I am beginning to see the problem. Go back and read what I wrote again because when you read it you got it all twisted up and did not understand what you were reading. When I became a Christian I had been looking & looking & looking for answers and solutions. I was in a lot of pain at the time. Someone said try God, try the Bible. I had tried everything else and NOTHING else was giving me answers and solutions. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain if finally I had found what I was looking for. As it turns out the Bible does work. Do what the Bible says to do and you will get the results that the Bible says you will get. Other people have the same testimony and they say the same things. Even there are people not able to get the Bible to work for them in their life, I still get the results I am looking for. So I am going to continue to do what I know works for me. As I am sure you will continue to do what you know works for you.
Saint Nicholas is a real person. Santa was a fiction story first written in the 1800's that people continue to talk about today. As Christians we know the difference between the real Saint Nicholas and the counterfeit or fiction Santa.
This is dreadful stuff. Either the people who appear on it are completely ignorant of cosmology, or they are deliberately attacking straw-men.
Now who's twisting words? if parents didn't keep pushing religion as if it were true it would go the same way Santa does, the kids would just stop believing it.
