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Probably, the time required to go through the thread and find them. I would offer to do it, but I probably would miss some. Whereas you would know which questions you have asked and not received, so if you would be kind, probably you are best able to list those questions in a single post. Then OP could simply give his thoughts quite quickly.
Thanks.
This is a different situation that you describe though, wherein the other religions you claim are comparable, actually do not make a claim that they have unbroken history from the beginning of human race. That actually is quite a significant claim, and still yet nobody has said that it cannot possibly be true.
First thing I would say is, 100% of the world's population is wrong. So this means that you and I have to agree to a threshold that determines who is right. I think that you and I would need to ultimately agree the threshold should determine those destined for everlasting life rather than everlasting destruction. John 10:16, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 7:21-23 paint a picture that religion is not necessarily a qualifier for salvation. So really, you are asking for something from me, based on a straw man - that only Christians are right and all Christians are right.
I love this, thank you!
He goes on to say that it usually has an effect of making the person believe even harder against our view.
I love this, thank you!
He says at 1:19
He goes on to say that it usually has an effect of making the person believe even harder against our view.
It's an interesting thing to say. While considering why this is, to find out why I tend to do this so much, I see the value of what Jesus said Matthew 7:2 and Matthew 7:3-5 applies fully. I also see that 1 Corinthians 3:7 describes the same thing, and that Galatians 6:2 describes the right way to live supportively with those in whom we see error.
.. So I'm not sure whether you would find value in seeing these scriptures this way as I do. Maybe you will. I thought it was relevant to mention as it relates to what was said earlier between myself and HitchSlap, for an example of how the bible does correlate to reality.
It just seemed to come to mind as I began writing my thanks to you
Plus, considering emotion related to confirmation bias and disconfirmation bias. I guess the real value in this, is awareness of how we are tempted by emotions to accept or reject ideas, when in doing so, we are acting unjustifiably opposed to the truth.
You might notice that I decided not to accept the proposed dichotomy of evidence vs. emotion. I did this because they aren't dichotomies in my view, but rather emotion usually tends to influence one's view of what constitutes evidence. I am thinking of an example, but now I am not sure that I should say it..
It's straightforward enough, just because the author of Genesis wrote about the genealogy from Adam to Noah does not imply that it's historical. Adam, in the first chapters of Genesis, can quite literally translate to "earth creature", much of the myth implies this.
I said that believing that the stories are historical because of the genealogies doesn't make sense, we have similar lists of ancient figures living for very long time.
Its affect...
That's understandable. We all have lives outside of CF. Hope all goes well with the move. I suppose we could start here, since the other questions I asked are also related to it more generally.
