Originally posted by joesomebody
If JC was just a man, I would search for my life's meaning. But I do know via faith that He was no man. He was the God-Man. Faith versus knowledge is
something I have struggled with, but have found that faith is what has created much of the knowledge we have today. How do we know that gravity, the
wind, and air exist? We can't see them. We can't touch gravity, etc...
[edit on 13-7-2008 by joesomebody]
...are you joking? They build things called particle accelerators to actually
see the particles that make up air, gravity and everything else.
Remember, you can never, ever, without any exception KNOW anything at all through faith. You can only believe it, which does not make it true.
Faith has not created any of the knowledge we have today, it actually delayed it for about 500 years. If you had done some research into this
subject, you'd know this.
Just because you are sat around in your garden with a beer going "how does this all work then? Gotta be God, innit?" doesn't mean the rest of the
human race is as backwards-thinking as you. They have actually got out there and discovered this stuff, then proved it to be true.
Your mini-dvd cam would be non-existent if it wasn't for the people making the discoveries you are so quick to poo-poo, and yet you actually put
supersitition on equal footing with knowledge, as if it had any comparable value.
If it weren't for people who got past supersitition, you'd have absoutely none of the wonderful things that allow you to make such ridiculous
statements to people on the other side of the Earth, so how about doing some actual, proper research before sitting back and thinking you have it all
cracked?
Read this article about the
Standard Model. I realise that it is very difficult to understand,
unfortunately when you break the universe down into tiny bits, it gets complex, but nothing that requires anything more than faith.
Remember, before you criticise, the brightest minds the human race currently have agree that this is most likely how the universe works. If you think
you know better, you don't, you just have superstitions from a few thousand years ago to go on.
I'm not trying to be harsh, and if you want to believe in a nice, beardy invisible man in the sky, go for it, but don't even think about telling me
or anyone else that religion is actually a viable method for understanding the universe when it is clearly not!