crispybits wrote:Do you care whether or not what you believe is true? If you do care, how do you know that your current set of beliefs is true?
Do I care if I live or die? Yes I do care.
The only question here is, "Do I want to live or Die?"
In Death there is nothing so for those who face the death penalty of sin willingly, it does not matter. Because they will not be suffering an eternity in pain and suffering at the hands of a sadistic god. A merciful God who created humans mortal for the purpose of being merciful in the first place, will simply let them die out of existence if that is what they choose.
But if they choose to live then this same merciful God would be just by providing every avenue and possibility for their salvation. Salvation from what? From the fact that we will die unless reborn into a Spiritual Existence.
How do I know that death is final? because I know of no one in my life who can collaborate that there is a life after death. So how can I then preach that? But if what the Bible claims is consistent with what I see around me then I can reasonably conclude that death is final.
In death there is nothing but the end to suffering that sin brings with it. But in life there is the opportunity of continued growth and understanding. And perfection and love.
We take too much for granted in life and forget the basic questions, What does it all mean? Who am I? Why am I here? These are questions consistently asked by each and every human being upon reaching the age of understanding. But no one can truly answer them. But the Bible does.
To say that Humans authored the Bible is to say that man is capable of answering questions to which he has no access to their answers. And if this Bible has evidence to support it's own claims, then that is all the evidence that I need to know that the answers provided me in the Bible are true and are from God through a divine source of information that man simply has no access to any other way except from God himself.
And as it happens, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence in support of Bible Claims. Belief in anything should never be blind but demand proof. During this whole thread, proof has been offered and rejected by the wisdom of men. And this will only serve to bite those rejector's of the truth, right in their very asses on the day of the resurrection from the dead. But hey, that's their problem. I, for my part, tried.
Because if everything that the Bible has claimed is true then so must be the future prophecies and promises of God also be true. If no prophecy or promise of God has failed then that is all the evidence needed that there is a future Hope in Jesus. A hope where there will be no suffering, no pain and no tears except tears of Joy and of incredible love.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
-Revelations 21:4
Do I care to see that? Yes I do.
