I have been writing these posts with the intent of trying to find areas where most people could agree with me and yet still retain their intellectual integrity, no matter if they were Christians or not. We can continue this type of approach, but just remember - sooner of later there comes a time in a person's consideration of Jesus and His claims that you have to take a leap, as it mere... a leap of faith. All questions can never be answered. All claims can never be unequivocably proven. There is only so much that the mind can prove. Accepting Jesus is first of all a matter of the heart, the life.
And let me tell you, it is okay if you are not ready to accept Jesus, or believe in Jesus, or even to make the first step towards God. It would be better and more honest to admit unbelief while staying open to a reasoned presentation of the truth as I see it, than to blindly accept answers based on your acceptance of someone else's authority; or, on the other hand, to blindly reject a truth-claim just because you do not want to consider any opinion or theory other than your own or one that fits into your little box. I do not agree with the overall assertions of a Hitchins or a Dawkins, but everything they say is not false. They have something to say.
I guess what I am saying today is this - I promise to listen to you and bear out the implications of your truth-claims, if you promise to do the same with me.
It's time to go to the next level....
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