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<blockquote data-quote="“Paisios”" data-source="post: 73672709" data-attributes="member: 356917"><p>Welcome to CF. I hope you find answers to your questions and have some cordial conversations here.</p><p></p><p>My quick, poorly thought out, first answers to your questions...</p><p></p><p>I find the Bible influential because I believe it to be divinely inspired, and further fleshes out the encounters I have had with God. I don’t know that, if left to my own devices, others would find my moral principles very compatible with a functioning society.</p><p></p><p>Parts of the Bible I take literally, parts are metaphorical or allegory. Parts of it are directly relevant to me, parts tell someone else’s story; parts are examples for us and other parts are warnings for us.</p><p></p><p>The incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection are a big topic and beyond my ability to give you a complete answer. I would say, quoting one of the Saints, that “God became man so man could become like God”.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps it is confirmation bias. Perhaps it is all an illusion. My core, my experiences, my emotions, my rational examination (to the best of my limited ability) of the evidence, and the witness of others, all tell me of God’s existence and reality, so I choose to accept it, as the alternative seems very bleak to me. So I guess, yeah, I’m cool with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="“Paisios”, post: 73672709, member: 356917"] Welcome to CF. I hope you find answers to your questions and have some cordial conversations here. My quick, poorly thought out, first answers to your questions... I find the Bible influential because I believe it to be divinely inspired, and further fleshes out the encounters I have had with God. I don’t know that, if left to my own devices, others would find my moral principles very compatible with a functioning society. Parts of the Bible I take literally, parts are metaphorical or allegory. Parts of it are directly relevant to me, parts tell someone else’s story; parts are examples for us and other parts are warnings for us. The incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection are a big topic and beyond my ability to give you a complete answer. I would say, quoting one of the Saints, that “God became man so man could become like God”. Perhaps it is confirmation bias. Perhaps it is all an illusion. My core, my experiences, my emotions, my rational examination (to the best of my limited ability) of the evidence, and the witness of others, all tell me of God’s existence and reality, so I choose to accept it, as the alternative seems very bleak to me. So I guess, yeah, I’m cool with it. [/QUOTE]
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