Personally, I choose to follow what I believe is morally correct and do what I think is right, and a lot of my moral beliefs are similar to Christianity, but I've always chosen to stay away from Religion in general.
I'm somewhat of an "tough-minded" person and have trouble with one thing over all: Why, with all the other existing Religions, do people choose to follow one and discredit all of the others?
I personally just find it too closed minded to make the assumption that I'm right, and everybody else isn't, and I find that Religion does this way too much ..
This isn't meant to start any arguments, I'm just curious ..
Is there any underlying factor that makes Christianity any more reasonable than Buddhism, Hinduism, Atheism, etc.?

If so, explain

/edit .. Please don't say "That's why it's called a faith". Of all the other Religions, there must be one thing that stands out to you about Christianity.

This post was edited by Megalo on Jun 5 2011 08:26pm

because Jesus Christ was on this earth he lived, he suffered, he died for us! he was and is the son of god! he performed miracles, he healed!

what did buddah do? was buddah even " real " ? etc etc.... if you look into other religions there obviously man made false idols.

and even if you look at the morals of the bible compared to others, there is alot of amazing stuff from the bible/Christianity :).

And if your a true christian, your not " religion " bound. you dont do rituals, you dont worship the church or a random earthly idol, you have a personal relationship with God!

Here's the difference between Christianity and other religions

In other religions, you are required to build the bridge to heaven on your own

In Christianity, the bridge is already built for you, you just have to choose to cross it

There can only be 1 God. Two doesn't make sense it's like saying the same thing in a sentence twice.
Therefore that 1 God has the power, u accept jesus as ur savior and u will feel wat nothing else can give u.

Sometimes ppl get discouraged for example: Person tries to accept Jesus as their savior but retains very harmful things.

Like i'm talking about Drugs, Heavy Alchohol, Smoking Cigs. Also hanging out with the wrong ppl goes downhill. Like negative relationship, illegal manipulation of business, youngster stealing, negative work enviroment, family deterioration(u have to hang out with them and supposed loved ones but if not handled correctly-boom)

There are several things about Christianity that stand out to me:

1. The documents they are based upon (the New Testament Gospels) are more highly attested and contain more manuscripts than any other ancient writing from antiquity.
2. Christianity is mutually exclusive with every other world religion.
3. Christianity is based upon a historical event, namely the resurrection of Jesus. If this event can be verified to have more plausibly happened than not, then we have good grounds for following Christianity.
4. Christianity is based solely upon a miraculous event, namely the resurrection of Jesus. If this can be shown to be a very unplausible event, then there is no reason to be a Christian.

This exactly.

"Follow Me." -Jesus

this post

This is what I'm getting at .. There can be only one God, so what makes people so adamant that their God is THE God?
Said this a few times .. I just find it way too closed minded. It doesn't make logical sense to dismiss beliefs of millions of other people, just because of your cultural biases.
They're doing the exact same "dismissing of beliefs" as you're doing, and giving the exact same explanations as to why their religion is correct and Christianity is wrong.
It makes absolutely no sense to me :\






I don't dismiss your faith, and you can believe what you want to believe, I have no problem with that, So please don't take this as a flame message, but ..

This statement is exactly what I have a problem with .. People are influenced by their culture to believe that their faith is correct, and stick to it for the rest of their lives, without really giving an answer as to why they're correct.
That's why there's so much Religious diversity, is because everybody does this, and the whole underlying idea of any Religion doesn't support the idea that there is more than one God .. So there shouldn't be Religious diversity at all.

I'm not going to dismiss somebody else's common sense to replace it with a Christian's common sense and insist that the Christian's right .. because to me that's too narrow minded.
I know that somewhere else in the world, people have had this exact conversation with a separate set of beliefs, insisting that Jesus was the "man made false idol", and nobody's really in the position to prove them right or wrong without speaking with a biased slant.
Religious conflicts are frequently caused by people with biased points of view (obviously it'll be biased, since it's a faith), and that's been shown throughout history .. I'm just wondering why in the year 2011, we're still making that same mistake.

I just think it's important to take a step back, look at the whole scenario and then question it all.


All this being said, I'm sorry if I seem to pushy about this. I'm not trying to do the same "influencing of beliefs" as was mentioned above, but rather just trying to provide my reasoning.

This post was edited by Megalo on Jun 6 2011 05:40am

This is the kind of answer I'm looking for, because now I can see where you're all coming from

Nevermind.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Jun 6 2011 05:42am