Originally posted by granite1010
Lighthouse, I'm sorry, but all you have is a subjective experience, a feel-good warm and fuzzy moment that just confirms what you already want to think. If you want to pin your life on that, fine; if it works for you, do it. But to call yourself a Christian with this kind of background leaves you totally ignorant of what makes up your faith and your Jesus. But that's your problem, not mine.
Feel good? Warm and fuzzy? You do not know God, my friend. I didn't come to the truth by feeling godd about what I already believed, or getting all warm and fuzzy. I came to the truth by getting uncomfortable. I know what makes up my faith, but your talking about religion, not faith. I am not religious. I knew I had to go beyond that, and I formed a relationship with the Almighty God. I know who Jesus is, and He is far from what most people say He is. He is the prophesied Messiah, and He has His own righteousness, not imputed form anyone else, which shows that He is God.
The thing is, I DO have a basis for my beliefs about the Bible and Jesus, and you're not interested in them. You seem to think I've made all this stuff up, or that I'm lying.
I know you didn't make it up. Someone else did. The problem is that you believed them.
The DaVinci Code is fiction, and the only truth it is based on is that there were other writings about Jesus, but those writings were completely contradictory to those written by the ones who knew Christ. And those other writings are therefore heretical, because they contradicted the things Christ spoke of Himself.
Skepticism about scripture and Christianity has been around for a very long time, and there's a wealth of information out there. So to insinuate that I'm lying or am too stupid to know what I'm talking about is supremely arrogant and naive of you.
See above.
So, I don't know where that leaves us. You can decide to cling to your feel-good experience, and if it does the thing for you, fine. It's probably made you a better person than you were. But don't make the mistake of assuming what I believe doesn't have any basis. If you actually read for yourself and thought for yourself, you'd know differently.
Pay attention. I searched for myself. I sought God, and I found Him. And there was nothing "feel-good" about it! I know that what you are saying has a basis, but its basis is lies.
