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Originally posted by 4jacks
When your drop the Idea that YOU are smart enough to figure the world out, and seek the answer sincerely, than the Answer that christ is lord, will always follow a search bases on fact and logic.
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No one is smart enough to understand the world on their own - one must build on the discovery and understanding of others. That's the whole idea behind (a) philosophy and (b) science.
I doubt that when Bootstrap seeks out the answer, he will find that the answer for him is "christ is lord". I believe that that is the answer for you, 4jacks, but the fact remains that MOST people in the world who search find a different answer than you. Most people in the world are NOT Christian! Why? It's not because they're poor, lost, unfortunate souls who haven't been introduced to your brand of evangelism - it's because their culture and traditions (I think religion is cultural and traditional in nature) offer them a different book, a different creed, and a different "face" for god.
Are they wrong? I don't think so. Nor do I think you are wrong. There is a Truth - a solution to the nature of the world. Man tries to discover it though mathematics, though philosophy, through religions - when we do so (if we don't destroy ourselves and our world first) we will find that they're all different tools to understand the same thing.
A final rant (haha, who am I kidding?): One of my objections to organized religion is that it gives people an "easy answer". Follow this book and this person, and you're a good person and that's all you have to do in life. People who do that don't contribute to mankind's Understanding, although typically the top scholars and "wise men" of various religious traditions do become skilled and advancing knowledge of the world, but that's because they're great thinkers, not because they follow a book, or other men, word for word.
Greetings, to all my fellow men.