Why My Faith?

[Theland]

I consider my faith in the Bible and in Jesus Christ to be legitimate and based on evidence.
This is something I share with millions of other people.
However, on this site, there seems to be a total disregard for the sheer numbers of people, including scientists and scholars from all walks of life, who have found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
The twin issues of First Cause, and Abiogenesis, demand answers, not forthcoming from atheists, who seem to begrudge a Christian explanation for our existence.
Given such a long list of believers from all walks of life, I find myself in quite good company.
Does this mean that all such believers are not as enlightened as you?
Or is there any possibility that you don't know it all?
Have you really no hope for the future? Your future?

[Jackdaw33]

To which religious denomination do you belong? It might help us to understand further.

[birdie1971]

Theland - "... However, on this site, there seems to be a total disregard for the sheer numbers of people, including scientists and scholars from all walks of life..."

Consensus does not reveal truths. Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of people can be, have been and are wrong. You cannot and should not pin an argument for truth upon the number of people who believe that "it" is so. If the truth is determined simply by counting heads, we would still think that the Earth is the centre of the universe and that Galileo was wrong.

Your argument is one of many logical fallacies. The one you are using is well known. It is called, 'Argumentum ad populum':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

[wildwood]

How can you base your religious believes on a fable that professes the initial propagation of humans to be the result of rampant incestuous fornication (Genesis 5).

[Old_Geezer]

You seem to suggest folk should not disagree nor debate with you. I don't think that a reasonable hope. The trouble with any religion's beliefs is that it is inevitably conjecture. Well unless willing to believe in mediumship. So it is up for debate, and disagreement. Were it otherwise it would be in the realm of science; which can only deal with the physical realm. And as knowledge progresses may not even be able to test everything in that realm eventually.

[saintpeter48]

A load of poppy cock!!! All wars and conflicts seem to be about religious beliefs, all are hiding behind something that no one has ever seen, a so called God! Its my belief that your are born, you live, you die ..... end of, make the most of the journey and stop hiding behind the mask of religion!

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, we know you consider your faith to be based on evidence. We also know that you haven't provided one shred of this 'evidence' which holds water.

[naomi24]

// based on evidence. //

Show us the evidence.

[1ozzy]

//Why My Faith?//

What makes yours so special?

[saintpeter48]

Just get on and live your life and don't worry what you think happened thousands of years ago!!

[1ozzy]

I have faith, in my own judgement.
And in the judgement of those that are dear to me.

[maggiebee]

"found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ"

//What a ridiculous thing to say.//

Sorry you feel this way pp as I too have found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As I have just said it's "personal" and I don't expect others to buy into this, we're all free to choose.

[RATTER15]

If I said I have a "personal relation" ship with Thor, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster would that make sense to anybody? or is that just being silly?

[beso]

//The twin issues of First Cause, and Abiogenesis, demand answers, not forthcoming from atheists//

The need to show cause in the Universe went out when Quantum Mechanics came in. QM showed us that that existence itself is random at the fundamental level of Space-Time with particles constantly appearing and disappearing at random.

Moreover, it is theism that has an insurmountable problem with First Cause, providing no explanation for the origin of the most complex thing in the Universe, their God.

The leading hypothesis for explaining abiogenesis is found in alkaline hydrothermal vents where a chemical reaction identical to the most fundamental energy reaction in all of life is found in the Serpentinization of Olivine.

Below is a link to just one article on this process, which was only discovered in 2000. It is only a matter of time before this process, or one very like it, becomes accepted as the source of life on this planet.

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2014/03/from-geology-to-biology-a-serpentine-story-of-early-life.html

[Old_Geezer]

But why/how is there space-time or QM to describe it ? It's asking a lot to believe a 'natural' state of 'something' rather than 'nothing'. There remains an absent explanation.

[keyplus90]

But you do not believe in Jesus (pbuh) the way Bible says his believers should believe in him.

[woofgang]

I am not sure why First Cause and Abiogenesis "demand answers" or even matter very much. I believe in god but am not a member of any church. I don't think it matters one jot how god made the universe...even IF god made the universe. The important thing for me is NOW not then, how I behave and what my belief does for me and to me now.
I don't think that everybody should believe as I do, that my way of believing is the only right way...its what works for me and benefits me.
I am honestly not sure what your motive for posting on here is?

[Buenchico]

"An idiot is an idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party." [Franz Kafka]

. . . or a religion. [Me]

[Khandro]

birdie; //Consensus does not reveal truths// it is you who is introducing the word "truth", it isn't mentioned in the OP. It's a small word with big meanings.

Zacs and naomi; The OP states //I consider my faith in the Bible and in Jesus Christ to be legitimate and based on evidence//. Which clearly indicates that as far as he is concerned, he has found sufficient evidence for his beliefs.
Do you have a problem with that?