I don't look at what I believe as a religion. I usually use the word "religion" to describe a man-made belief system. My belief system is what I call my "world-view".

I do this because the Bible does not contain all I know to be true.

For example, the Bible does not talk about the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors or sound-processing technology or the "C" programming language, yet, I know a lot about these things.

But of all the information that I have accumulated and verified as true in my life, the Bible is clearly the most important information.

I am well aware that most people are quite quick to come to conclusions, but I am not this way. I have realized that of the 3 categories of knowledge in my mind (what I know to be true, what I know to be false, and what I don't know), the third category is by (very, very) far the largest.

Becoming aware of what there is to know in life is a humbling experience. I feel tiny and minute in the scope of the universe, yet I know God considers me valuable because He said so in the same Book that has astounding evidences of His authorship, plus He's participated in my life in profound ways. I don't say this lightly.

Do I believe my world view is the one true world view?

Of course. If I didn't, then I wouldn't have a world-view. Everything in my mind would be in the third category. I actually know people like this. They say that they know nothing.

But I realize that you're probably intending to ask a much more specific question, something like this:

Do I believe that the Bible is true?

Absolutely. There is ample evidence to show this, in my skeptical opinion. I would certainly not make such dogmatic statements and risk looking like a fool if I didn't have confidence in the claims of the Book.

Does this mean that other religions are not true?

This would be a nonsensical question because most religions contain 80% to 90% truth, so it's not possible to quantize this question into a "yes" or a "no".

But if you were to ask the question; Is Jesus of Nazareth who He claimed to be?

Then I would say, "Yes."

Does this imply that there are fundamental problems with other religions that deny that Christ is who He said He was (even though these other religions could be 90% true)?

Definitely.

Do I Believe that there are fundamental problems with the Bible?

No. I have read it about 10 times cover to cover, and have studied it for over 20 years and have not found any fundamental problems; A minor translation issue here or there, but no fundamental problems. I have not found another book like this.

So, the pivotal question for all humans to answer, is this:

Who is Christ?

There is no question as important and no question as revealing of who a person is.

You judge the Bible without knowing it but I serve as a witness to you that it is astounding and that it could not possibly have been written by mankind. It is full of evidence, including numeric and prophetic, that validates it's authenticity. No other book that I know of on the planet can make this claim.

Yes, I know that there is some prophecy in other places here and there, and I know that there is some gametria in other places here and there, but there is nothing I know of that is packed so completely and so self-defining as the Bible.

Truth is truth, whether we like it or not. I say, why don't we just learn to like it.


The Captian
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