Funny thing is....everyone has a religion. Some have a religion where the God is beyond themselves. Others have a religion which is themselves.
That all religions cannot simultaneously be true does not reflexively mean that they are then all false.
One thing that has been consistently true is that people tend to make poorer decisions when they make them in a highly emotional climate.
If Dawkins is full of rage, I am not inclined to trust that is is his intellect that is being vented. In a rage, it is usually a spleen that is being vented.
[That all religions cannot simultaneously be true does not reflexively mean that they are then all false.]
No other religion had a God that gave His own life on the cross freely for the forgiveness of sin so that we could then freely accept His pardon for our sins.
I simply can not understand why anyone would choose another religion that put the burden of salvation on ourselves and demanded our own perfection instead of listening to God and accepting a free gift. The gift of the pardon is real, it is confirmed by the Holy Spirit upon salvation, and it is continually reaffirmed through the guidance and teachigns of the Holy Spirit throuhgout one’s life. Which religions are wrong? The ones that ignore God and teach any other means of salvation than the one that God Himself layed out in His Own Word.
People get so bogged down in arguing over the most rediculous claims like ‘The bible wasn’t translated jot for tittle, so therefore non of it can be trusted’ or ‘God surely didn’t mean for His whole word to be taken literally’ instead of just accepting that FREE gift He provided and accepting salvation. They’d rather argue and contend till their dying breath that God’s word isn’t reliable. Makes no sense to me. It literally takes only a minute of trust to ensure an eternity of existence with God, yet people will spend a lifetime resisting that one minute of trust- rather than ask forgiveness as God asked us to do, we’ll fight against it till we die.
It’ls liek the judge standing before a defendant, holding out a piece of paper with a pardon on it, and telling the defendent “It’s yours for the taking- all you have to do is beleive you’ll be pardoned, ask for it, and it will be so” Yet we the defendents, for some reason just can’t seem to grasp this simple eternity changing fact. There are NO strings attached- it’s a FREE gift!