If I literally believed in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy would anyone respect my beliefs? No. Why do we respect faith in some things but not in others? It's perfectly ok to believe in life after death and invisible men in the sky.
2006-10-03 22:46:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are thousands of ancient documents to corroborate the Bible. The same can't be said for Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. Do a little research about the Dead Sea Scrolls and textual criticism and you might be surprised how much proof of the validity of the Bible there is to try to refute.
2006-10-03 23:06:23 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it depends on your definition of delusional. There is no God, and Jesus did not rise from the dead, to give a couple examples, but most Christians would say that they do not hear God talking to them in an audible voice, and so we could say that it is not a delusion. It is delusional to think that Christian beliefs are logically consistent, but everyone is different and people believe for different reasons, so I would say the answer to your question is "most". Most Christians think they believe something plausible, and hence are delusional. The others realize, again to a varying degree, the implausibility of the whole thing and thus are merely desperate.
2006-10-04 05:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, when you have substantied evidence. We don't believe as blindly as you and most unbelievers think. Some of us came to belief slowly and were led to study scriptures that predicted hundreds of historical events that we found out all came true hundreds and thousands of years after they were written, just like they were predicted. Hundreds of them very specifically and on time to the day. That's scary stuff man. When you realize you have in your hands a book that knows everything that is going to happen and you do the research and find that it' right on the money???????? Most folks aren't willing to go to that length to find the truth though, they want to read a few sentences and then just cast it off as hogwash, but that's their loss and they really don't care anyway. They aren't that interested in their eternal future and are more concerned with what is going on in their everyday life. And that's reasonable because we are flesh and blood, but you are in grave error to believe we have to cause to believe what we do......God Bless
2006-10-04 06:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by Prophecy+History=TRUTH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANd why oh why do people not read their bibles where it says the nephilm were on the earth...what are nephilm..they are apparently giants of old...and why do so many follow without asking questions such as these??? ps genesis near noahs ark time of flood apparently at that time nephilm were in the world and it was a bad place... oh by the way nephilm were the by products of angels and humans having sex...and the offspring were called that... so yeah how come people dont read this bit since its in there in genesis.
2006-10-04 06:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by cleo_alter_ego 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the followers of the three paths of Abraham are screwballs to begin with. Unfortunately, these people compose most of the worlds population. So it's safe to say that the Earth is currently one big insane asylum.
2006-10-04 05:55:50 · answer #5 · answered by Wonder Weirdo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i do not repect faith the christians are dillusional i do like santa he is pagan the is no sky god and no life after death
2006-10-04 05:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you start disrespecting my belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, then we're in for a feud. All hail the mighty Pasta!
2006-10-04 05:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing delusional in believing in the truth.
One day you will find out the hard way.
Better pray you make the right decision.
I will pray for you.
2006-10-04 06:54:14 · answer #8 · answered by sworddove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who believe there definitely IS a God are only as delusional as those who believe there definitely IS NOT.
I think agnostics are probably the sanest of us.
2006-10-04 06:08:41 · answer #9 · answered by Michael H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What we know about Christ comes from one of them most historical books in...well...history.
Why do most people believe in anything taught in history class and then think that Jesus was a fictional character?
2006-10-04 06:02:46 · answer #10 · answered by Sudy Nim 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋