However other religions moral standards differ. Do we have to convert to one religion to have one moral standard?
To my knowledge a personal relationship in an intimate level is exclusive to Christianity. Heart and mind, thoughts and intentions of the heart, parent/child, husband/wife = Christianity
Moral Code, rules to follow, outward actions = All other religion.
I see Christianity as God’s attempt to reach man on his own level. Other religions, in my opinion, are man’s attempt to reach God.
I don’t believe you necessarily have to be a Christian to believe in God. If you look at the odds that it took for random events to occur to bring us where we are today, they are astronomical. If you took a hunk of iron ore, sand and water and threw it over a cliff, and you went down at the bottom of the cliff and found a pocket watch, would you then assume that through a random course of events the raw materials you threw over the cliff came together to form a pocket watch? No, you would assume someone made it and dropped it there. It is a logical conclusion that is totally reasonable.
Why then, when the odds are infinitely higher, do we believe that through random events a fully functioning planet, complete with life forms of all shapes and sizes, just happened to come together? It is not logical. The odds are stacked against it. It is much more reality based that this was created. Chaos does not lead to order. I don’t have to have a PhD to know that.
I agree with you. I don’t believe in the evolution explanation, or the big bang. I believe one day we will have enough knowledge to come up with explanation that will be self-evident to everybody (not likely for me to be alive for this day).
It may be that God will show up to all of us. It may be something equally revealing that has nothing to do with God.
The point of my post is that the ‘turn to God’ solution is not easy. Beck did not say it will be easy.
We have to face the fact that some people in America are non-believers (young people increasingly grow secular). How do we unite? Do we try to unite? Or is it impossible without converting the non-believers?
It is truth - it has to be discussed and make us miserable before it makes us happy.