Spotlite
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See below for Walts point.If your claim that belief confers some special discernment was true then one would expect that discernment to unify believers under a common understanding. Yet we don't see that. I think that was Walts point.
The problem is not that I don't understand the claims of Christianity. I do understand. I just don't find them persuasive or moral. You think the murder of someone who lived 2,000 years ago absolves you of your wrongdoings and me of mine if we but believe in Jesus. I find that claim absurd and morally reprehensible. Not because I don't understand it but because I do.
I am fairly confident that you're well versed in understanding the claims of Christianity, but if it took the inspiration of God to write them, it takes it to understand them.
Absolutely there's plenty of room for disagreement. I've already stated that that's a topic of its own, and that would fill up several pages lol. Man will justify his ways. It's a black eye for Christianity but it happens. You hear stories all the time "God told me to do it". Not an exact quote, but everyone that says Lord will not enter in.