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Originally Posted by Kelhus99
I actually just listened to a recent Sam Harris podcast where he interviewed a scholar of Christianity named Bart Ehrman and this subject came up. I am paraphrasing, but my understanding of Ehrman's explanation is that Christian religious thought alluding to a physical resurrection and a spiritual heaven contradict each other without having to deal with Judaism at all.
https://samharris.org/podcast/
Just finished listening to that about 5 minutes ago. I've been a Christian for about 10 years now and was fairly zealous about it and believed that if God is who he says he is then I can stress test the bible and things regarding to the Christian faith and it should hold up... I've searched high and lo and read and studied the bible to a level that many do not. I've prayed fervently for years on end and tackled the hardest questions I could possibly come up with concerning the Christian faith.
After ten years or so years, I am teetering on becoming an atheist. I cannot live with this cognitive dissonance any longer. I cannot "faith it over" and suppress logic and reasoning for what seems like ignorant faith. No answers from church authority seem to be sufficient either and seem to always be met with resistance. "How dare you question God and our theology, you're causing division and that's demonic. You have no faith. You're not perfect, get the log out of your own eye." I want God to be real, I have no qualms with Jesus, I just don't see it anymore... I'm open to it still, but not at the expense of being told to suppress my "god given" intellect.
Dang....
Appreciate the thread Mason, I'll be picking up your SNG book fairly soon.
See you on the other end.