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Have you ever been wrong in your life, even once?
Have you ever made a choice which you later regret?
Have you ever failed an exam in school or got a traffic ticket or lost a Super Bowl bet?
Has someone close to you ever surprised you or have you ever bought a lemon?
Did you ever buy a Betamax or a Pontiac or a Radio Shack computer?
I've been wrong so many times in my life I don't like to remember so many times.
Maybe that's part of the reason I'm a Christian.
I like the concept of forgiveness.
Ever think just what may happen if you are wrong about consequences after life?
Denying the existence of after life consequences doesn't make them go away.
I already tried that with the IRS.
so you believe something is true because its convenient?
Yes I have been wrong, so have you...there are 10000 Religions, you most likely believe the one that you where told to believe from a kid with limited or no knowledge of 99% of all other Religions....what makes you think your not wrong again given the zero proof of religion in general , let alone the one specific one you hold?
Yep I have failed a test...is that proof of God? no I don't lose Superbowl bets. ( maybe I should bet more?)
Yes Someone has surprised me, does that mean Jesus is the son of God? Yes, I have bought a lemon, and a lime...Outside that no I have not had a lemon in the sense I think you meant. I do lots of research before I buy.
Yes I bought a beta max...it was 2 dollars at a garage sale and I did so to watch a bowling tape that was on Beta-max..it did just what I wanted it to do. I had a Pontiac...it was a great car and did very well until someone put a screwdriver threw the door lock to break in. No I buy good Computers.
Yes I have been wrong many times in my life...so should I praise Buddha? The Profit Muhammad? Prey to a Aztec God? Will Asking Zeus for help make me not wrong? No...so again.
Your a Christian because your wrong a lot? and you don't think maybe this is yet another time?
So do I...I don't ask for it from a God...I ask for it from those I hurt. Nor do I have a expectation of no matter what it can all just be forgiven by some large deity who for some reason is all powerful yet acts like a spoiled evil child...Sometimes you do something wrong, and will no be forgiven..so be it...you have to live with that burden. Maybe living with the burden teaches you something.
Just wanting to believe in something, is not proof of it. Its not even a slight indication its true. Something is true or not true...your wants, your beliefs, you ideas, mean nothing. It is , or it is not. When there is no proof of something...and in fact science shows it to be incorrect a great many times. When the Book itself you belive is often in contradiction. And when your believing in something, not because of what you yourself know...but rather, what a bunch of unnamed people wrote down hundreds of years after something, 2000 years ago....?