| Jay520 said: I'm confused. Are you a Christian and do you believe the argument you've presented? As for the argument though...yeah, I don't like it for obvious reasons. |
I'm not sure where I stand on religion. It's very different than what I expected going in, but as I said, I still struggle with a lot of things. I'm intrigued by it, but I'm skeptical. I am studying the Bible in the hopes of understanding it better, because I don't get why in my life I've seen Christianity change people for the better. I do talk with many Christians as I study, and they have offered many of the arguments I have presented in this thread, including that one. This argument is one that I'm not convinced by, but I believe that's because I haven't experienced whatever change these others have had.
One nagging issue I have is that all these people have felt this transformation... but I don't know if they actually experienced it, or if they just deluded themselves into thinking they experienced it. Aside from the science/religion issues, this is probably my biggest sticking point.
I can't blame you. You won't ever get anything better though, because religion is ultimately based on faith. You have to take the facts of the world around you, and if you believe that they point towards a religion, I suppose that faith becomes a natural step. What I'm trying to see is if there is actually a factual and logically consistent basis for why people believe in Christianity. Many Christians seem to think there is, and I'd like to know why.
