Quote Originally Posted by likemclever
I??m a Christian. I believe in God?and I believe in Jesus Christ. I also believe were not getting the whole story when it comes to Christianity but I believe its basic principals to be correct.

The hardest part of any religion or even non-religion is ??faith?.

Definitive proof of God and Jesus CAN NOT exist because if it did ??faith? would be unnecessary.

If you believe in God you half to have faith. If you believe in no God you half to have faith that it is true. Because even though as Christians can never prove ourselves true, no one can prove us to be definitively false.
I believe, however, that the whole concept of "faith" was developed to encourage a mindset of unquestioning, and avoidance of critical thinking, due to theistic religions innability to explain how this makes sense. I mean after all, if faith weren't invented, people would be saying "that's a pretty big and outrageous claim, can you back it up?". A big reason I lack faith in the bible is because it was written 600 years after the events of jesus, by a priest interpreting story's spread through word of mouth. and if anybody's played that game where you say a sentence and send it through a long line of people, it always comes out all garbled at the end.