Are people generally good?

[bimmylee]

mirgro said:

bimmylee said:

 

Let's be clear. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." The Bible does teach that Christ is the only way to heaven.

There's a lot of other things in your post that I'd like to respond to, but the bolded part is what I find to be the most interesting. Consider this... If I told you that it takes just as much faith to disbelieve in God as to believe, would you agree?

I won't lie I agree with jsut about everything he mentioned. I have to admit that it does take faith to say there is no god, and stick by it, just a different from of faith, however it takes a lot less faith to say that it's not your kind of god.

Hell, I find the following more plausible than the Bible, and it doesn't take a lot of faith to think that:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

Here, I would strongly disagree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it takes an even greater leap of faith to disbelieve than to believe. How?

One example: Fine-tuning of the universe...

The most fundamental characteristics and constants of our cosmos are perfectly calibrated to support organic life. This is sometimes called the Anthropic Principle (the universe seems designed to produce humanity). The odds against those fundamental regularities and constants happening by sheer chance are smaller than one-in-a-trillion.

But atheists are right in pointing out that this fine-tuning argument does not prove that a Creator exists. For example, maybe at the Big Bang an almost infinite number of parallel universes were created at once and we are in the universe that happens to have everything right...

However, consider the illustration of a poker game in which the dealer deals himself twenty straight hands of four aces. The other players are about to pummel the dealer for cheating when the dealer says, "wait, you can't prove I'm cheating; there are a trillion parallel universes and we just happen to be in the one where the chances of dealing twenty straight hands of four aces has been realized." He is strictly right; it is possible that there are trillions of universes and this is the one universe in which all those aces are dealt. But it's a lot more plausible to believe that he is cheating, so the dealer still gets beaten up. No one lives their life the way the dealer suggests. In the same way, the existence of all those fine-tuned constants is strong evidence that God exists.