Four billion non-Christians would be happy to confirm for you that the Christian story is imaginary. However, if you are a practicing Christian, you can probably feel your "religious mind" overriding both your rational mind and your common sense as we speak. Why? Why were you able to use your common sense to so easily reject the Santa story, the Mormon story and the Muslim story, but when it comes to the Christian story, which is just as imaginary, you are not?
Therefore, the question I would ask you to consider right now is simple: Why is it that human beings can detect fairy tales with complete certainty when those fairy tales come from other faiths, but they cannot detect the fairy tales that underpin their own faith? Why do they believe their chosen fairy tale with unrelenting passion and reject the others as nonsense?
2006-12-06 23:19:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right, although your question is kind of slanted, it is valid.
You are speaking of making judgments about fiction with the mind. The Christian faith has to do with the spiritual realm. For instance, when I was a little kid and read the Little Mermaid, I knew it was fiction. It made me cry at the end. (It's much different than the cartoon movie)..., but it didn't change my life.
When I read in Matthew, "No one can serve two masters," It struck a chord so deep within my spirit that it DID change my entire outlook on life and the message of God. It resounded TRUTH in such a way that my spirit just grabbed it.
I guess that's the best I can do to explain it....at least for me.
2006-12-06 23:32:59 · answer #1 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fool laughs at what he does not understand. If you seek wisdom or understanding with an open mind and search you will find the truth. There facts that shows without a doubt that there was a historical Jesus that was born in Bethlehem just as the Bible narrates. History will point you to the truth that you and four billion of non-Christian laugh at now. Take the challenge, seek the truth and the truth will set you free..
2006-12-07 08:10:51 · answer #2 · answered by Niguayona 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sherlock Holmes said that when you have dismissed all the other possible answers, the one remaining must be true, however improbable.
Faith is believing when it doesn't make sense.
And, paradoxically, that makes sense - because God (if there is a God) is outside human understanding. We know that God exists - but for any human (or religion) to claim a complete and exclusive understanding of God is pride - and silly. To claim that any one understanding of God is exclusive (my way or no way) is equally silly.
Just as it is silly to dismiss out of hand the attempts to come to a deeper understanding of God. The drive for God has been a feature of virtually every society from all of history. For any individual to simply ignore all those years of human endeavor, or dismiss them as "fairy tales" seem as great an example of human pride as thinking one faith or philosophy has all the answers.
2006-12-07 07:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would anyone reject the truth and believe a lie.
In America we have a republic, not a democratic form of government, the reason for this is that our founders understood the the majority was not always right. We would need good leaders to make decisions, we have lost that sentiment but the original theme was correct.
You believe yourself to be superior in thought and wisdom to Christians because you know the truth and they don't. You believe just because the majority believe one way they must be correct.
This train of thought is what you stand by, you believe in unproven science but ridicule those who have faith. You believe what men have written and taught but scoff at the idea of a creator.
I know God personally, I have had fellowship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I know the Truth because I have received the Spirit of truth (Holy Spirit). I would fight for your right to believe what you wish, Jesus died so you would have a choice and you see all this as ignorance.
God Bless.
2006-12-07 07:32:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have been healed by the power of god and I have also seen him heal others I have had prayers answered and come in contact with the forces that oppose our lord and savior. There is no doubt in my mind that he is real. And if seeing is believing no i've never seen god but have any of you seen a dinosuar or a beaked whale? Probally not yet we know they existed because of what others tell us and the bones the say belong to them, we have such faith in man who by nature is flawed yet denounce the one true god who is perfect. We believe history which is the word of man yet deny the bible which is the word of god... Truely this is a lost generation.
2006-12-07 07:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by Joshua 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why do you believe your chosen path with such unrelenting passion and reject the others as nonsense? everything takes a certain amount of faith. however if you think that my christian beliefs override my rationality, then you have undermined us christians. it is my rational mind that drives my belief in christianity.
you may look out the window and see no reason to believe in god, i look out my window and see every reason to believe in god.
2006-12-07 07:27:24 · answer #6 · answered by alex l 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because you or even 6 billion people say that Christianity isn't real or is a lie doesn't make it so. What you believe does not determine reality. Reality determines reality.
2006-12-07 08:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Chad H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a spiritual reality as well as a physical one. Those of us that have discovered this spiritual reality see it's presence every second of our lives. It's like this...Imagine living in a 2 dimensional world all your life. Then you are introduced to a 3 dimensional world. It's a moving experience.
2006-12-07 07:23:58 · answer #8 · answered by Bahaus B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you know you have done such a wonderful thing here!
Not knowing of course!!!!!
How brilliant!!!........because you said how come we can't detect the fairy tales our own faith.We can with santa...you said,and also aMuslim story or Mormon!!!!! ..well its like this, we have no Fairy Tale!!! JESUS CHRIST IS REAL....and in a way, YOU too have confirmed it!..without knowing.
2006-12-07 07:28:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I believe the bible and I am sure there are historical records of the sensuse I do not see it as a fairy tail you may as you do not know Jesus.
may God bless you this day.
2006-12-07 07:47:27 · answer #10 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋