Given the choice between eternity with God and eternity separated from him, I choose the former. It’s not a fear thing, it’s a love thing. Fear is compulsion, and you’re right in that false religions lean heavily on that aspect. But love is a choice.
Christian theology is a profound, challenging topic with the opportunity for lifelong learning and growth and meaning. You do indeed have a very simple understanding of it, and I lived much of my life in the very same mindset. I’d challenge you to dig a little deeper. You might be pleasantly surprised.
If somebody tells me a baseball is 6” across and filled with air, I wouldn’t consider them a representative of the sport. The Bible is the ultimate source of truth on that topic and many others.
That kind of bypasses his point. He's talking about having a relationship with the Supreme Being, not the intermediary (i.e., the pastor).
Any person claiming to represent any religion can say and do whatever they want to get what they want (as we've seen with a lot of the heads of structured religions engaging in all sorts of debauchery), but as GreatBee is pointing out, he's attempting to establish and maintain a relationship beyond the gatekeepers, the latter of whom are fallible and malleable to all the whims of materialism.
Given the choice between eternity with God and eternity separated from him, I choose the former. It’s not a fear thing, it’s a love thing. Fear is compulsion, and you’re right in that false religions lean heavily on that aspect. But love is a choice.
Christian theology is a profound, challenging topic with the opportunity for lifelong learning and growth and meaning. You do indeed have a very simple understanding of it, and I lived much of my life in the very same mindset. I’d challenge you to dig a little deeper. You might be pleasantly surprised.
If somebody tells me a baseball is 6” across and filled with air, I wouldn’t consider them a representative of the sport. The Bible is the ultimate source of truth on that topic and many others.
All of a sudden, a lot of the crap I've seen you post makes sense now that I know you're a reddit tier atheist.
That kind of bypasses his point. He's talking about having a relationship with the Supreme Being, not the intermediary (i.e., the pastor).
Any person claiming to represent any religion can say and do whatever they want to get what they want (as we've seen with a lot of the heads of structured religions engaging in all sorts of debauchery), but as GreatBee is pointing out, he's attempting to establish and maintain a relationship beyond the gatekeepers, the latter of whom are fallible and malleable to all the whims of materialism.