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^^Excuses, excuses. Don't think I don't know your true agenda: confusing me beyond hope of recovery!
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Re: Is Christianity the only way?
you caught me.
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we could break these chains together.
and you'd become just what you always meant to be.
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What in the world does that have to do with this discussion????? LOL I mean it was so random!
I agree. Please do not start up a random off topic disscussion.
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Re: Is Christianity the only way?
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Let me pose a question (in my designated role as agent provocateur): why is this question so important? Why is it so burningly necessary to slot out where Person X is going when he or she dies? If an afterlife exists, it must, by its nature, be unknowable; this life, on the other hand, is knowable, and while we live it, it's what matters. Couldn't one argue, then, that the true test of the efficacy of a religion/philosophy is its ability to provide comfort and psychological stability in earthly life?
I do not care much for psychological stability if it means believing in something that is inherently false. I may be flattering myself, but I hope that my goal is to understand the truth of my current and future existence. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is, somewhere out there (or perhaps not as far removed as we think), a reality. I may not like it, and I may not “agree” with it, but that doesn’t change facts.
Iagree with you. It is like if you run a stop light. That is against the law. No matter wether you agree with it or not. You will still have to pay a fine. The Bible is fact. Evem if you disagree with it or it doesn't make you feel "comfortab;e' it still is fact.
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I encourage you all listen to the Mosiac Podcast of the title "Is Jesus the Only Way." It's really good and explains things in a way I never really thought about before.
-Alyssa
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Let me pose a question (in my designated role as agent provocateur): why is this question so important? Why is it so burningly necessary to slot out where Person X is going when he or she dies? If an afterlife exists, it must, by its nature, be unknowable; this life, on the other hand, is knowable, and while we live it, it's what matters. Couldn't one argue, then, that the true test of the efficacy of a religion/philosophy is its ability to provide comfort and psychological stability in earthly life?
I do not care much for psychological stability if it means believing in something that is inherently false. I may be flattering myself, but I hope that my goal is to understand the truth of my current and future existence. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is, somewhere out there (or perhaps not as far removed as we think), a reality. I may not like it, and I may not “agree” with it, but that doesn’t change facts.
Iagree with you. It is like if you run a stop light. That is against the law. No matter wether you agree with it or not. You will still have to pay a fine. The Bible is fact. Evem if you disagree with it or it doesn't make you feel "comfortab;e' it still is fact.
Before anyone jumps on this with the typical "that is so narrow-minded" outburst, I was only addressing the first question of "Is there an absolute truth?". First things first, I would love to talk about the questions which naturally follow, but for now I am not sure that we've even come to a concensus on the truth question.
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My feelings on the question of, "Is there an absolute truth?" are that, yes, there is an absolute truth. I am also of the opinion that we have no real way to know what the absolute truth is.
What I know in the here and now is that our time on Earth is limited, and, as that is the only reality that is promised to us, I'm going to try to live my life the best way that I can without worrying about an afterlife that may or may not exist.
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^^Wow. You sound like...me, actually.
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My feelings on the question of, "Is there an absolute truth?" are that, yes, there is an absolute truth. I am also of the opinion that we have no real way to know what the absolute truth is.
What I know in the here and now is that our time on Earth is limited, and, as that is the only reality that is promised to us, I'm going to try to live my life the best way that I can without worrying about an afterlife that may or may not exist.
I agree. However, in my experience, life got richer once I developed a personal relationship with God. So for me, I can't 'try to live my life the best way that I can' without having that relationship. And I know that my life is better with that relationship, and I know that my friend's lives are better, and my family's, because I can see it, so I want to conclude that everyone's lives would be better if they had that relationship. That everyone could have a richer life if they had that. But, in order to try to tell people about how much fuller their lives could be, I have to know what it is about God that's doing that. If it actually is Jesus, or if it's simply the beauty of being able to talk to the creator of the Universe. So, if it's the later, then anyone who has any kind of religon can have that, in some form, but if it's the former, then I should tell people that. So...I think that in life, and in death, it's important to find out, to worry about it. But that's just my opinion.
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