/lit/ - Literature

>>19119009
>t.

>>18319715
>I realized that I never had faith
You see, this is the problem with views like >>18320011

Of course, how can anyone say that they have faith, if faith requires all this intensity that you speak of? No sinner has such faith. God himself said that with enough faith, it is possible to move mountains, but neither you, nor I, has ever moved a mountain.

Of course anon, this means that you are right; you hardly have any faith, and you are too stupid for this spiritual stuff. QED you are a sinner like the rest of us and blessed for to know it!

>>18191053
Not an atheist but what Dosto is saying is quite obviously false for reasons of theology. Christ came to preach repentance and forgiveness of sin, not to tell us what we should and should not do.

The theologically correct thing to say is "if there is no God, then nothing has been forgiven by Him, and we have only a wicked and self-serving humanity to rely on for mercy"

You can see here that if Dosto's God were dead, we ought to rejoice in the death of an unmerciful tyrant. But if we understand that God forgives all our sins, then His death is actually a regression into legalism. If God is dead, we cannot say forgive your brother even if he sins against you seventy-seven times. On what authority do we say such things without God?

>>17807651
btfo unironically
stay triggered idolater

>>17035960
>>17036089
As a Christian I can't let this answer stand when someone asked for help.

As for question 1. I don't believe that it is so. I think a lot of people have tried to apply philosophy to Christianity with so-so results. Christianity isn't philosophy, it appeals to a real experience and a real truth that one is gripped by. All the doctrines are formed around this.

2. People will try to say any number of things to distinguish their religion above others on this point. But the simple truth is that it all boils down to faith and the natural human state of ignorance; the more impressive a sect's philosophical gymnastics, the less true they are. The more you think you have all the answers, paradoxically the fewer you really do have.

The best answer really is to look and the life, words and works of Jesus. It is my opinion that mankind is distinguished by talking a big game and doing nothing about it. Jesus was the only one who walked the walk. If you understand how strange he really is, then you know that he is the son of God, and that's really all you need to know to be a Christian.

pic only semi-related.

>>16931415
Obsessed.

>>16925586
Rent free.