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Okay. So…lemme ask you…

Does that fact that there are an innumerable and wide variety of competing views and ideologies around the very basic teachings of one simple woodworker not tell you that it’s all bullshit?..or do you think that YOUR concept of this religion’s absurd and anti-factual claims are correct and its everyone else in the world who is wrong?

Not asking in disrespect, but asking of every christian.

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Stabbitha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And let’s not even mention the fact that there are countless other ideologies that also claim to be the sole truth, and which one you subscribe to is heavily dependent on where you were born.

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Live_your_lives@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You have an interesting method of not asking in disrespect, so I’ll just reply this once and leave it at that.

Christianity is based largely around the idea of faith. If God made it so plainly obvious what he was doing that there were no competing views or religions, then Christianity could no longer be about faith.

So how do we know when we are putting our faith in the right thing? Well that would come down to various other factual arguments that, when taken in unison, point to the reliability of the Bible. I, for one, like the minimal facts case for the resurrection and the fact of all the manuscript evidence showing that the message of the Bible is effectively the same as it was in the early church.

I do think that these claims are correct, hence why I am a Christian. Whether or not everyone else in the world is wrong or not doesn’t really matter here, though, of course, it should make one cautious

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- FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That first paragraph about faith destroys all your following arguments.
  
  Faith is nothing more than pretending.
  
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