Originally Posted by: zreynoldspWhat's even more amazing to me is that I could be a Fender man, while you like Gibson, and we could still have a laugh without ripping each other apart. Why should personal beliefs be any different? :confused:

They shouldn't, but they are and always have been.

Hammurabi - while you're asking for proof of God's existence, can I ask where your proof is that God does not exist?

You could, but the logical burden of proof is on christianity. Even if it were on me it's easy to make an argument from a lack of evidence. For example, if jesus existed and performed miracles then there would clearly be historical proof of it. However, there are no even halfway reliable sources supporting that any such man ever existed except one that very clearly contradicts the bible as to when he would have lived. Therefore the assertion that Jesus never existed is a reasonable claim. If jesus never lived then the bible is at severe fault and there is no basis for christianity except tradition, which isn't convincing.

One could also make the claim that christianity's sources are a joke. For example, look at early Judaism (christianity's daddy). Anyone who has ever studied Chaldean mythology can tell you the entire first part of Genesis (Eden, man from dust, the great flood, etc) was popular mythology as early as two thousand years before the torah was written. In other words, the very foundation of the modern belief in god was stolen from other religions. Satan wasn't even originally in judaism or christianity, he was the Persian god Shaitan (literally translates to 'adversary'), which was basically a knockoff of Egypt's god Set/h. The character Jesus is also nothing more than a knockoff of several similar dieties. Look up Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus/Bacchus, Krishna, Zoroaster/Zarathustra, and Mithra.