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Response to Hulda's answer (230 hits)

Thanks for the response Hulda!

I always have a problem when the answer to a question of Christianity is centered on an assertion made in the Bible.

The problem of course being, for people who view the Bible as nothing more than another book created by Europeans to fortify their religious beliefs, why we would hold that book in any more authority than the Koran, or the Kabbalah?

Personally I don't believe that the Bible is any more authority on the truth about creation than any book that you or I might write.

The authority of the book comes from individuals who you would first have to belive were divinely inpired(?) to begin with, and I have no confidence that Paul, John, Matthew, Luke, etc. were anything more than old school versions of bloggers.

Authority to me is what's evdidenced by the world we see in front of us. Indisputable fact, or at least what a rationale human being would ackowledge as closer to truth than conjecture.

People of every religion can offer testimony to support the belief in their religion.

Of course the glue to any religion is the concept of faith.

I have no faith whatsoever in any of the major religious books that have been offered to the world.

When I see a book fall out of the sky, not penned by another mortal, then I will start turning cartwheels.

Until then, as long as there another human being's name on the book, then it is just more space filler in Barnes & Noble.

As I belive that you are obviously a person of faith, please do not take my comments as an attempt to belittle your viewpoints.

I just would like for more people of faith to understand that there are many people who see these religious books as "books written by other men trying to prove their point", nothing more nothing less.