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To: CynicalBear

No one asked you to care.

I ask because I constantly seek to test my assumptions.

Those who don’t are fools.


245 posted on 10/27/2013 7:12:14 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
No one asked you to care. I ask because I constantly seek to test my assumptions. Those who don’t are fools.

Well, here's a test. You have been a Freeper for going on four years now. Free Republic is a pro-God, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-life, Conservative website. If you joined because you also are a Conservative, then you have already made choices about issues that you care about even against those who would hold opposing views. You accept Conservative principles because you recognize that there is a superior way for a society to prosper and thrive which is not found in Liberalism.

There are such things as absolute truths and they are true regardless if anyone believes them or not. Do we agree on this? So a person believing or accepting something does not make in inherently true, because truth is truth.

Do you presume that Christians are fools who don't "test" their assumptions? That people throughout time believed in various ideas about a "creator" or god(s) doesn't make their beliefs true and, IF there is a Creator/God, how he/she/it chooses to manifest to creation also doesn't change inherent truth. Either the Creator/God is real or there is no creator/god and man must look elsewhere to validate his place and purpose in a world with no purpose or place and which has no explanation for why it even exists. Yet, logical people CAN look at the design and order of the universe and the natural, observable world and reason that such could not have happened by chance or from chaos.

Is the problem of mankind being at odds with each other over what is truth CHANGE the truth? When nobody had come up yet with an explanation for gravity and why it worked as it did, gravity STILL existed and was true even when nobody understood how it worked. In arguments among believers, there are essential and nonessential doctrines - and that is true with ALL religious systems - even atheism. You say disagreements among believers is somehow a proof that an all-knowing Creator/God couldn't exist, well I say that absolute truth stands because God created it and the creature's job is to get to the point that, what God has revealed, He is able to open the hearts and minds of those who diligently seek to know Him. I wish you well in your search.

248 posted on 10/27/2013 10:54:43 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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