hey everyone,

just some opinions -

1) from cantstandzya - " C.S. Lewis was at a time a devout atheist and as he attended Oxford University he met up with J.R. Tolkien who was a devout Christian and they had many talks on this matter and matters such as these and had become very good friends. According to C.S. Lewis, Tolkien explained it as such:

Don't know if this helps you any but it seemed to be something that began a help in C.S. Lewis and as he described that at the age of 30 he became the most reluctant Chrisitan in all of England and later became one of the most vocal supporters in defending the faith. "

yeah, im happy for C.S Lewis that he found his faith. Anyone who doesn't really know abt how C.S Lewis work is he based his book, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in the idea of Christianity where Aslan, a lion, was a symbol for Christ who sacrificed his life and was resurrected for a final battle against evil.

still, that has nothing to do with the crucifixion. how many throughout history did men convert to believe in something else??? Millions. But not only christianity. Men has been converting to any faith he thinks that either suits him, is the true religion or for watever reasons.

2) "Perhaps those stories are God speaking to man through poets and perhaps the actual crucifiction of Christ is God speaking to man through love. "

Yeah perhaps God is speaking through poets about love. I don't know about your perception on God and religion but i do know one thing. If God does speak to poets or others to write something about other gods about this and that which introduced pagan ideas, then that God has agendas to create confusion and wants human to be divided in faith. I don't know, if I were to be God, i think i would want my creations to worship only me. For example, why would i want to create a discman that cannot play any disc???

3) previous post of mine

I was highlighting in my previous post that, since there were pagan stories about other deities having the same story as Christ's crucifixion and resurrection as well as God having to be sacrificed based on a story similar to the idea of the original sin and the atonement, i am proposing that the whole idea of christianity is just another story of how God has to come down to get sacrificed and resurrected to atone for a sin or a deed. In short, since there were earlier similar stories in mythologies, couldn't it also mean that christianity is also another story???

4) "Telling a christian that it requires faith is sorta like telling a carpenter he needs a hammer. "

i think u got me wrong there. i didn't say that christianity requires faith. of course any religion requires faith. wat i did say was that, to believe in the idea of the original sin as i did not so eloquently put in my previous post, is has to take tremendous faith to believe in. in short, i was saying that it has to take more then 100 % capacity of the faith to fathom, comprehend, digest and belief to be believing in it. why??? because for the life of me, i can't. no offense, but the whole idea which i described it, is too bizarre. it would really be great to make me understand the idea of the original sin because i have been trying to for years.

alright....really, dont take offense to my words coz i was just reasoning and not attacking. so much for my 2 cents. cheers.

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