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>>And...is this belief something you came up with on your own or is it part of an organized religion? You mentioned The Church of England and how you really don't align yourself with them. Just curious if there is a group you belong to or if this is a sort of "home brew" religion.
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>Which "belief"? You'd assert that I don't believe. If you mean the life-after-death belief, I came on that through my mother, once I was grown up, after her encounters with the Spirit Word and the organised religion of Spiritualism.
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>As for the rest of my beliefs and opinions, I figured them out myself rationally.

That's what I thought - that you just figured these out on your own using your own intellect. Let me ask you - how many times have you written code that you thought would work and then found out later that it didn't quite perform the way you thought it would? If you're like me, that has happened many times. For me, to place my trust in something that unreliable would be utterly foolish. You might have a better brain than I do (in fact I'm sure you do.) But, for me, I know how many mistakes I make throughout one day and I'd never want to trust myself for coming up with a theology...

>Where would the human raec be technologically if noone had ever questioned a text, like the fact that everything is made up of 4 elements only: fire, earth, air and water, that when you burn a candle in a sealed jar the air therein becomes "deflagisticated air", that big babies floating in the air, and blowing cause the wind. Yet it all stops at the bible. "No! It's God's word and you ain't gonna touch it!"

Religion is not like science - it is faith based not fact based. You're comparing apples to oranges...

There are things that I just cannot prove and really don't understand. How is it that Christ can be both 100% God and 100% man? How did the virgin birth take place? Why would Christ die for me? Those cannot be proven - but - as a matter of faith I accept them. I hope they are true. I'm counting on them being true. By faith, I believe them to be true. But, I can't prove them.

It's by faith that I accept the teaching of the Bible. No proof is necessary...but...that's just me.

By the way, if I were the only one who believed this way I would be legitimately labelled "crazy." There are many wise, scholarly men who would put all of us to shame intellectually who affirm these teachings. This is not something new. It's been around for thousands of years.

Are you the only one who believes as you do? How long has your religion been around? Who else would agree with your interpretation of the things of God?