Slimebeast said:
BMaker11 said:
Slimebeast said:
I don't know if you are ignorant or just malicious on purpose.
"There is nothing logical about a faith position; it is devoid of logical arguments and all forms of evidence." That's a very ignorant sentence. It's like you know nothing about philosophy at all. Look up the definition of faith, and how it is used in philosophy and religion. And when you say "faith position" you are opening up for something that is even broader, something more in line with worldview. You have a "faith position" too, it's part of human existance, of human perception of reality.
Of course God is a person. Any Christian agrees with that. Go read the basic ABC of Christianity if that description sounds alien to you. I don't know your exact definition of "person", but you should rethink that too in this case.
Can you really not see the logical difference between the Christian agent for justice (God) and the Bhuddhist agent for justice (a nameless karmic force)? That there is a principal difference.
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If you're talking about logical differences, how do you know all of this is because of God? Why can't it be Zeus? Or Brahma? Or Ra? Why do you believe it to be Jesus that acts as an agent in this world, and not any of those other gods? There's just as much evidence, just as my stories and history behind them, and many people believed/believe them to be true based on their faith, with 100% conviction, as you have your beliefs.
What's the blatant logical difference between Jesus and those gods that makes it so apparent that Jesus is the right way to go?
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That's a different topic which I would gladly return to. It's too off-topic here though.
But my post above was about the principal difference between a God as mediator of justice and a karmic force as a mediator of justice.
Now note I'm refering to the Western interpretation of karmic justice. Some Bhuddist traditions categorize that force differently, more similar to a God.
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It may be a topical difference, but the post I responded to was from a chain of comments in which you asserted that it doesn't matter how much more good a concept does over any other ideas if the other ideas are "true" (true in quotes because of the metaphyisical "truth value" I see your post pertaining to). You went on to say that the idea of karma in illogical and unlikely, and that Christianity/God/Jesus, what have you, is more logical and more likely.
So I responded at the source, in that why is Jesus so logical and likely, when there are other gods, which you don't believe in, than can easily fill his shoes. You've asserted that Jesus is "truth", but there is no more reason to believe in him than there is to believe is Brahma. It may seem off topic to you, but until you can show me how the way of Jesus is more logical and more likely than Brahma (and all the other gods), then your proposition of Christianity being logical can be as easily dismissed as you dismissed karmic forces
