From Deep in the Faith, Recognition the Deity is in Our Heads



The link author, a Seventh Day Adventist, understands why so many of us are skeptical of the Bible as a historical account. He admits religion is mostly made up in the mind but thinks that does not detract from its truthfulness and importance.

He recounts a lecture given many years ago by a man who was a native aboriginal in Australia. He was a boy when the very first white people ever found his tribe and visited. He told of his sister running to tell him a large stone was moving along the ground. Devilish looking people showed up in the village. The large stone was an automobile. The devilish humans were the first white people they had ever seen.

The link author, defending Christianity, says the moving stone was the truth as the little girl saw it. I suppose we could conclude also that when Paul of the Bible had a vision of visiting with Jesus long after Jesus was dead and learned from Jesus the basics of Christianity this gave Paul the credentials to the world's authority on what Jesus wanted the faith to be. In the early days of this blog it appeared on the web page of the Fargo (ND) Forum and 10 other papers the Forum owns. The traffic was huge as were the number of comments. I received a hand-written letter from a nice lady in a facility for the elderly in Moorhead MN. She said she would like to help me because I was "struggling" with my faith. In her mind, apparently, if I cannot believe Paul visited with the alive Jesus after Jesus was dead I am "struggling." Why is it no struggle for her to believe absurd things in the Bible? Our human heads are amazing organs. 

As repeated here so often, people who believe absurd things have a right to do so. So many of these absurd ideas are pushed into laws and that is the problem. The link author thinks ideas carried about in people's heads are legitimate because they are there. I don't agree every idea, even if in many heads, deserves to be respected. Some ideas are cruel and harm others in society.

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