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Why Are Things Believed ?

Why Are Things Believed ?

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OK, I get it. You can dish it out but you can't weather the blowback.

Probably more of a lesson for you in that than one for me.

In case it helps, I'm not the kind of guy who would tell you to "Grow a skin."

That just seems disrespectful toward the more sensitive among us.

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@divegeester

It must have been too close to the truth to provoke such a reaction.

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@fmf said
@KellyJay
FMF "proclaims" death is the end whether one believes in Jesus or not.

KellyJay "proclaims" that belief in Jesus confers immortality.

Discuss.
It's the belief in conferred immortality that interests me. I contend that if Christianity did not offer immortality, no one would believe the rest of it.

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@divegeester

Are you even capable of rising to an apology?

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In which direction, relative to the One?

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@moonbus said
It's the belief in conferred immortality that interests me. I contend that if Christianity did not offer immortality, no one would believe the rest of it.
Why? You think the only reason people believe is that they get something out
of it?

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@kellyjay said
Why? You think the only reason people believe is that they get something out
of it?
You have talked a lot about the "something you get out" of your religious belief. Because of your faith, you get solace, you get purpose, you get meaning, you get moral direction [a.k.a. "true north"], you get a worldview, you get a "meta-narrative", and you get help from Jesus [in good times and bad], you get eternal life, etc. etc. There are probably more that don't come to mind. Taken together aren't these the reasons you believe?