I never accused you of attacking me. I was simply replying to your post, which I thought to be in error. Indeed, the impression I got from your post was that you were questioning my beliefs concerning your faith (specifically, the nature of Jesus).
If it was so upfront, there wouldn't be so many religions and denominations in the world.
Oh, it's quite all right.
Originally Posted by Wiccan_Child
The two primary deities of Wicca.
Of course I can. There is no evidence that he existed. However, what is the point of this statement? I said I rejected the existance of the Judaeo-Christian god, but I said nothing about Jesus.
Indeed. However, Franklin has independant contemporary accounts to verify his existance. It is possible he didn't exist, but the evidence is rather in his favour.
And it is here that your analogy is flawed: the evidence almost conclusively points to the existance of Franklin, but no evidence points to the physical existance of Jesus (let alone his alleged divinity).
Furthermore, to say that it is illogical to deny his existance is absurd: I can deny his existance because his existance is not proven.
And neither do the affirmations that Jesus was God's son, and God exists, make them true.
No evidence has been presented. What else do you expect me to say?
Care to present it?
Forgive me, this sounds too much like those 'Elvis lives!' claims. Care to present your evidence?
Care to present this documented evidence?
You are well within your rights to believe that, but if you're going to state it as fact, then you're going to have to present supporting evidence.
Of course humanity is trying to rule itself: from it's point of view, it's the most logical way to ensure it's survival. But to say that this is bad, and that this is destroying the world, is nonsense. The world won't end by our hand.
It stands against what you believe to be true. I do not share that belief, so I have no qualms with my non-Christian status.
I think the wiccan faith is an recently invented religion that is sorta a "catch" all... that is that anything goes really. I think it's most common feature is the belief in "magic" either white or black, and the preformance of it (which unites them with any religion that has tried to perform magic such a shamans). They most commonly believe in a mother earth goddess called isis I believe, but as far as pagan, commonly there were no other gods mentioned or thought about. They have preistesses in their cults, ect. Does this sound accurate at all?
What Truth is this, and why does non-Christianity stand against it?
I suppose I could but, you could simply to a search yourself on the internet regarding the same. My father was raised from his death bed, in the hospital, in front of doctor’s nurses and family members and this is documented.
I don't understand. What statement are declaring to be true?
No, I do not. Hard as this may be to believe, but there are absolutist beliefs other than Christian ones. Buddhism is a good example of a collection of absolutist statements.
Correct. However, it still does tell us what is true. It is debateable that Jesus even existed, let alone was begat of a lonely deity.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
