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you believe everything that everyone else has written. You're not just taking God on faith, you're taking on faith that every piece of literature written about it is also accurate, even when you know that the people involved were not divinely inspired.


And you´re taking on faith that every study and every theory on the big bang and evolution that you´ve read a summary of is accurate.

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But basing it on a 2000 year old book of questionable authenticity seems silly from my point of view and doesn't seem to jibe with this personal relationship you supposedly have.


I´m just curious - would his beliefs have more validity if he had them 2000 years ago when the book wasn´t so old? Does this mean your beliefs won´t be valid 2000 years from now? That last part is probably true. The beliefs of science constantly change and evolve over time, and it´s almost guaranteed that your current scientific beliefs will be disproven by new and improved theories sometime in the near future, but the beliefs of christianity have remained the same for almost 2000 years.