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Originally posted by KSig RC


I can appreciate this on many levels, although I disagree with how strict you are on this, but that's just personal opinion/faith-based. For instance, in any language the Bible infers the value of pi to be three ("a circle thirty cubits around, and 10 across") - Do you mean that you believe everything originally written as the Old and New Testament was true, and may have been lost and/or changed by human error along the way? Just making sure I get where you're coming from - this way makes more sense to me, but that's purely subjective.

hummmm.....I'm not aware of your statement about the Bible saying the value of pi is 3, so I can't speak on it. Maybe I'll do some additional research and get back to ya! To answer your question, yes, that is exactly what I believe.

There have been many men that have said things similar to the claims made by Jesus - what exactly has convinced you that he is the Messiah? I think that's the root of what this thread would be, to me - you seem very strongly religious, what provides you with the certainty you have in your faith? How can you be sure that you're not fooling yourself, much like you think non-Christians do? I think these questions are the more important to those that don't necessarily hold your viewpoint, for our purposes of discussion here.

Even if it's just 'blind' faith - which would mean taking one hypothesis as fact, and using it for the basis of other inferences - I'm interested to understand how your faith works. I'm not from the south, and midwestern religion (especially protestant churches) tends to be less in this vein.

O.K. with out getting into another dissertation My believe first starts with there is a 'creator' of this all. I was raised Christain so my journey started here. I did however, reach a point in my life where I questioned the validity of the Bible and agreed with, in some sense the "all paths lead to the truth" idea. The more I read the Bible the more I saw that there were few (if any) gray areas and I had to make a choice. Jesus fulfills the requirements of the Messiah from the Old Testament, but of course that means that you have to believe the O.T. Faith is an inner/heart thing, but faith is being strengthed by archeological (sp?) facts.

On a separate note - what are your feelings on issues such as evolution, etc?

I believe that God did create the world in 6 days, but I don't know how He classified "days" and that during that time, many things could have happened including some forms of evolution. I don't believe, however, that we evolved from apes. If we did, why are there still apes? I also don't believe in the "big bang theory". I mean, there was a spontaneous combustion and then there was "life"? And from this one cell creature we have flowers, birds, dogs, people? That takes a bigger leap of faith than Christianity to me!