why do you think christianity is the most rational religion?
Discussion
“I am the way, the truth, the life.”
It’s based in truth, and the truth is verifiable.
No other religion stands up to scrutiny the way Christianity does.
how can i verify that your quote is the truth?
Jesus said this directly, it’s in the Bible, translated for 2k+ years.
The way we “prove” this is through study of the word and practice of the word.
Does practice of the word lead to a better or worse life? Does it lead you closer or further from god?
in other words: something "surviving" for so long we can assume it has to be true, else we would not tell it to the next generation? or does this miss the point?
Missed the point.
It’s survived as long as it has because it’s verifiable.
so how do i verify it?
cause someone saying something, that beeing written down and getting translated for 2k years doesn't mean it is true from my point of view
Right, learn and practice.
what?
Learn
And
Practice
Religion like life is not a spectator sport
i mean what should i learn and practice
I think a great place to start is bishop Bobby Baron on YouTube.
Just start listening to his brief weekly sermons. And when you’re ready he has plenty of deeper work as well.
I’m a Christian, but I don’t believe it is entirely rational to believe God came to earth as Jesus Christ, performed miracles, died on the cross, rose from the dead, and now we consume his flesh every Sunday. That’s why it’s called faith. But I think the idea of this entire thing we call life being the consequence of random atoms colliding, where humans can produce wonderful works of art and shape their environment much less rational.
Furthermore, if you read the Bible cover to cover, you find way too many coincidences to not believe.
Being a Christian is not a passive practice. It requires effort.
#christisking
yes — i agree mostly
The most rational 'religion' is atheism.
That’s the most retarded religion.
You look around you, as the infinite vastness and complexity of the universe, and go “nope, there’s nothing out there. We’re just the creation of monkeys banging on keyboards creating Shakespeare.”
Lol.
Pfft. No. It takes way more faith to only believe in causal, mechanistic materilism than there being a supreme being who created everything at His pleasure.
I'm afraid you are confused:
It's not faith that gives you atheism, but rational thinking.
There is nothing rational in looking the world and going “yup, this is 100% chance”
I'm not confused. Atheism requires more faith than simply observing the realm we live in is created logically and rationally. You cannot be rational and conclude that random chance or purely mechanistic physicality lead to the state of the universe that we can observe now. Heck, the fact that we observe is itself a fact that cannot rationally be explained by mechanistic physicality. There is purpose in the universe, and that also points to a will, and if there is a will, then there also must be something or someone with that will.
Coming from someone who briefly bought into atheism, the thing that snapped me out of it was the aimlessness of it; if there's nowhere for you to go after you die, good or bad, than what's the use in living?
Anything you do will have no impact since once you're dead, that's that. You may have people either loving or hating you on a varied level, but that's short-lived since if you were to believe in the atheist mentality, you won't live with that guilt long after your physical life ends; the only "purpose" you'd have in a godless world is that of material maximization, having the most stuff in a world that rapidly depreciates the value of whatever you attain.
Some fucking life that is.
Atheism is a foundation of people
who are seeking absolute truth .
You assume too much .
That is why you are not worthy
of either benefits of the doubt .
Atheism is a dead end, literally; not absolute truth.
You’re jewish aren’t you?