IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
- The fact that a great amount of people have a certain belief does not increase the odds of said belief to be true; nor does it make it more valid. After all, back in the day it was the general consensus that the Earth was flat. And not too long ago many believed in witches.
This doesn't really invalidate any reliogion. As for the Bible having witches/sorcery, some Satanist do that type of magic. You'd have to prove that they can't.
- Unless you are a literal believer, the Bible is all about interpretations. People can take whichever parts they find interesting and shape their beliefs based on those texts, while completely ignoring other parts and dismiss them as results of humans interfering with God's word. This means that everyone believes in a different god that they have created themselves based on their views of how the one true God should be. What this also means is that you statistically have an incredibly low chance of believing in the correct god, assuming he does exist.
If you actually believed in the Bible, you wouldn't cherrypick things out of it.
- If decisions made using your free will is all that will be taken into account when deciding whether you will enter heaven or hell, this means that you will not be able to affect the chances of others entering heaven (or hell for that matter) since you interfering with another person is completely out of their control. Your actions are not something they can pick. And if circumstances affect your chances of entering heaven, we would be dealing with an unjust system. Let me give you an example:
You see a stranger walk past you on the street and have the choice to either hand out a pro (insert religion of choice) flyer or ignore them for one reason or another. In one case you do hand it out and the person is inspired by this flyer to the point where he decides to convert to this new religion. In the other case, you don't hand it out and the person will never find this inspiration and die along with his incorrect beliefs. What this means is that whether he ends up in heaven or hell may greatly depend on your actions, not only his own, which would not be fair to either him nor you if you regret not handing out that flyer. This also means that preaching your faith and, in fact, having any belief can be completely pointless as the only true factor is how you would act in certain situations regardless of the circumstances. In other words, an atheist or a Hindu might be just as likely to enter heaven considering that circumstances (such as place of birth and upbringing) may have brought them to their current beliefs rather than choice.
I think God gives everyone a chance to believe in him or not. There's plenty of atheist that were born in a Christian family.
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