Christian? On what basis?

From: Sondra Brasile (sbrasile@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 11:58:59 EDT

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    Dear List,

    I was wondering how some of you can disprove every foundation of faith and
    still believe? Does this mean you have even more faith than the next guy who
    believes, say; the Bible has some truth to it? Every day I spend hours
    reading through the posts from this group and heaven forbid I miss a day or
    longer, I spend an entire day!
    These are the things I have learned from this list:

    The Bible should be filed under science fiction, or fiction at best.

    The flood never happened or at least not nearly the way I learned it
    happened...which was; it was an event like never happened before or since.
    According to what I learn on here, it is more likely a little worse than
    what has happened in Texas.

    I wasn't made in the image of God, I was evolved from another completely
    different species, which leaves me with a bit of a problem about how I can
    hope to have received an immortal soul somewhere in the process. Where and
    when did we become more important to God than, say our predecessor or
    predecessors? What, then makes me any different than the animals in the zoo?
    Now, where do morals and ethics fit in?

    That the people in the Bible aren't even who they say they are and they
    speak with no authority whatsoever, just poetry, conjecture, folktales,
    etc....
    How am I supposed to believe that Jesus existed? That he was crucified? That
    he rose again and that I can be saved, and what am I to be saved FROM? If
    the rest is just folk tales, what about Hell? What about Satan? Fairytales
    too? How can I spread these ridiculous stories throughout all the world
    based on a mythological mission to do so? Explain to me why I should believe
    one iota of it when all of you claim you have 'scientific evidence' that it
    is all questionable if not proven completely wrong.

    This is by no means a complete report on the things I have read on this
    list, I'm sure there are numerous other myths I have been taught that have
    been proven wrong. Every day I can't wait to read about the next myth I have
    believed, brought under fire and sunk. In all your fields of science and
    "reason" has any one of you proven that one single thing about the Bible or
    anything related is true? How can any of you remain Christian's when the rug
    is repeatedly pulled out from under it time and time again?

    This list is like a scientific game of family feud, the host says, "and the
    data says?" DING...."it's a hoax!" But what are you guys still clinging to?
    You make a person feel mentally ill for believing in such bunk, but you
    yourselves call yourselves Christians, I don't get it.

    The thing I'm banking on are the things you will never be able to
    scientifically prove, or even claim to prove with any credibility. For
    instance, I have dreams that come true. Scientifically explain THAT one to
    me! How can I know the future before it has happened? Doesn't this go
    against "science" do any of you have any theories on how I can dream about
    things that haven't happened yet? Like Daniel's predictions, they don't
    become prophetic until it happens in real life, I am just beginning to
    recognise them as prophetic BEFORE they happen. I used to just ponder them
    until they happened.
    Please, please, please, convince me that there is a rational, scientific
    explanation for them and every other "miraculous" event I have ever
    experienced because I've already stopped putting any faith in reading the
    Bible since it's so innacurate, now I would like to go all the way and
    totally rule out any existance of God at all. Just think No God, no
    punishment, no rules, no morals, I can stop this useless waste of half my
    life trying to please a God that doesn't exist and store up treasures in a
    place that doesn't exist. Besides, I'm only an animal, and my instincts say,
    if it feels good, do it.

    I guess after blowing off that steam; what the heck keeps you guys
    professing to be Christian's when you have the data to prove that the basic
    foundations of 'our' faith are a joke?

    Wearing thin,
    Sondra

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