>>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.
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>>It's by faith that I accept the teaching of the Bible. No proof is necessary...but...that's just me.
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>Nope, that's the substance of religion. If you need proof, you don't believe. If you believe, you believe regardless of any proof (positive or negative).
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Agreed (I think.)

>>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.
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>Now this shouldn't matter. Your religion (or any other, for that matter) had the same merits on its first day. If an invariable text is true today, it was true the very microsecond the ink on it dried.
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You're right - I was thinking about that over lunch today and that they way I worded that was not the correct way to state that. I guess I was trying to make the point that this is not something I made up...

>>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?
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>Does that really matter? The religion of ancient Egyptians has been around for millenia when Christianity was just a dozen disciples. Does that make them better in any way?

I don't suppose it really does...

Of course, I believe that God was around before the Egyptians...so...His teachings (which is what I believe to be true today) began with His communication to Adam and Eve.