Actually sounding it out, the Basic Christian Belief is like this...?

Question

There is an entity that created the entire universe, all Billions and Billions plus galaxies of the universe, and this entity cares so much about a species of primates on an obscure planet orbiting an ordinary yellow sun in one of these galaxies, that he incarnates himself as one of them.
He dies after spreading wisdom that is at times contradictory with earlier more violent and pathological messages he gave to others centuries prior to his incarnation as a man.
And he winds up being killed by the local authorities despite being all powerful.
He does this in a manner that mirrors many of the local myths (Virgin birth, torture and resurrection, miracles performed, etc)
Not only that but believing in this will ensure that your synaptic patterns will survive the death of your brain.
The only evidence for any of this is a 2000+year old book from Judeah.
And no other proof can be given, because faith is required for this to work for you.
Now that I sound it out-I'm a believer(

crazy ivan-
i was following, enjoying, your little attempt at tit for tat right until:
"Some how, planets come from lifeforms similar to that of a bacteria."
WTF?!?
Planets come from lifeforms?
care to rephrase?

Answer 1

Here's the thing, Ann.
There is no way possible to take the Bible literally.
You are looking at this on a computer.
That means the Periodic table is right.
Electrons move through the motherboard exactly as predicted by the laws of physics, trillions of times every day.
That's pretty impressive in the proof department.
If this works, the carbon dating works, then evolutionary biology works, then astronomy (including the law of Gravity) works.
Granted.
The evidence, HUGE amounts of it are available on the science side. Nothing but faith is there on the religion side.
But without faith, how am I supposed to talk people into dying in wars, giving up money, living miserable lives in loveless marriages on purpose, and flying planes into skyscrapers ( (crazy ivan, which scientist is it that can be quoted as saying planets come from lifeforms? Is that Copernicus, Kepler, Heisenberg? Which one?)

Answer 2

I feel sorry for people like yourself, never seeing a miracle or hearing from God, but your probably to ignorant anyway.
Your synaptic patterns do not survive all is lost, except the eternal spirit.

And you can believe the other version right?
There was nothing, then poof, all of a sudden a big explosion and the universe started from a point small then a pea.
From this, some how the matter was able to escape a gravity well infinitely greater then that of any black hole (which light canb't escape) and go out and create the universe.
From this somehow matter forms which then forms galaxies, these intern create planets.
On one of these planets completely randomly and happening to be exactly the right distance from it's star, life forms (probability less then 1/10^400)
Some how this life form survives without a breathable atmosphere, and reproduces for some reason.
From this it mutates (loss of information) and begins creating creatures more advances (through a loss of information, mutation).
Some how, planets come from lifeforms similar to that of a bacteria.
This occurs before it can mutate into things that need oxygen, even though trees need oxygen at night.
From there we evolve up and up randomly, some creatures going backwards when evolution says it must move forwards, and eventually we appear.
Wow, and you call us faithful

Answer 3

Yes and no. Literally, you are spot on.

But you're dead wrong in your interpretation. It is like questioning how different quantities of oil-based liquid that absorb different frequencies of the observable EM spectrum in a perfectly understood, scientific manner, spread over stretched animal skin or compressed wood fibers, could ever evoke emotion; all while people spend hours staring at the Mona Lisa. Sound from a violin, you know, is nothing more than wood amplifying disturbances in the air due to vibrating strings, but I have seen people cry from a Bach partita for solo violin. Why?

Religion, like art and music, feeds a deep human need. Maybe, just maybe, your view vs a religious person's is the same as reading a textbook on the chemical composition of paint in a textbook vs looking at the Mona Lisa. Or consider that if someone wanted to, they could describe in elegant, concise mathematics every wave form of Beethoven's 9th, down to the last note, timbre, sustain, and pitch. You would get a textbook 5000 pages long and could spend a lifetime studying it. You could know everything there is to know about the 9th, and never understand why it brings me to tears. Never.

Not saying you're wrong. But maybe, before you belittle something, you should consider that someone else may view and interpret the same bit of creation in fundamentally different ways than you, and they may get more out of their interpretation then you could ever imagine.

Answer 4

Wow so much for Christian compassion, whatever happened to love thy enemy.

And crazy ivan 1986 It's not always wise to talk science with an atheist, stick to what you know.

Answer 5

. you have it completely the incorrect way around. that is Christian 'dogma' which could comply with the Hebrew Scriptures - And only WHAT are those "Jewish ideals" we reject. . . .

Answer 6

He created the Galaxies which are Billions of light years wide but he doesnt know how humans feel ????

Do our "feelings" come from some other source ???

That is not MY concept of GOD.

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Answer 7

Lol,,i feel u there..thats what its cracked up to be..It seems contradictory,cause they serve a false god,of the NT,so everything our creator,God of Israel,in the OT, said..JC the adversary speaks against and says another thing is right..But our creator already warned us of false gods,those who listen..And JC's life is just like anyother myth..Lol...The OT and NT..two totally different gods..Ones the creator(OT) one wants to be the creator(NT)..Shalom

Answer 8

By George I think she's got it! Now put it all together by reading and studying the Word of God for yourself! It WILL make sense, trust me!

Answer 9

You think your question is so clever. You only pose your "question" so that you can impress others with your wit and wisdom and to ridicule the Bible. You also use sarcasim at your own peril (not particularly clever), for in the end this very sarcasim is going to turn around and bite you big time, but it will be too late. Your choice. Too bad. So sorry (sarcasm), but hey, we all have free will.

Answer 10

part of what you say is right....much of it isn't I'd go into discussion with you but that would be better for email or chat lol its really hard to discuss something with someone who will obviously have comebacks so to speak....questions regarding things said....but you have about 1/5 of it right.