Most certainly not! Many times have I stood to defend that glorious fortes of Lambeustadt against the furious invaders from Minnesota and Chicagoland. Hail to Lombardi! haha!What?! You mean you won’t ally with the Bears of Chicago in their persistent battle against the Viking forces of Green Bay?
I certainly believe in their existence and revere them, and most certainly believe in Valhalla, but I dont believe I should ask for their help unless it is sorely needed.
Well at least you picked the best pagan gods of all!
In your belief system, is there anything that you have conformed your beliefs to because a deity has revealed this to be true, or do the deities you worship happen to have the same beliefs/morals that you do?
I apologise if you have already answered this, but what did you disagree about?
I don’t believe the christian view of god. That it is an omnipotent deity who created us in his image, gave us dominion over the earth, and that we are some how fallen.
There’s proof one is real. He was seen by hundreds after having risen again and the earliest followers went to their death upholding the truth!
Okay.
There is no absolute proof, but there is definately conclusive proof. What gives you reason for believeing paganism to be true yet christianity to be false? what conclusive proof have you found to lead you this way?
Honor is very subjective, one mans honor may be another mans shame.
None, and i’m not here to try and disprove it, but the god of the bible isn’t very consistent, claiming to be a god of love and peace yet at times commanding the destruction of entire peoples, like the sack of Jericho. I simply don’t believe that a Jewish prophet was the son of a single all powerful deity who despite his power had to sacrifice his son so we could all be saved from eternal damnation for our ancestors disobedience.
Okay.
There is no absolute proof, but there is definately conclusive proof. What gives you reason for believeing paganism to be true yet christianity to be false? what conclusive proof have you found to lead you this way?
Honor is very subjective, one mans honor may be another mans shame.
Courage in what? would your Gods be pleased if you showed courage in kamikaze for a random cause?
With all due respect, there have been martyrs in probably every religion. Dying for a belief means the martyr sincerely believed it, it doesn’t establish the truth of the belief. Look at all the martyrs in Islam.
Personally i believe that there was some trickery preformed in Jesus’s “resurection” preformed either before or after the crucifixion. And men have gone to their deaths for other faiths as well, men of other faiths have preformed miracles. While I respect a martyr of any faith (and no I don’t consider suicide bombers martyrs) I don’t believe martyrdom makes ones faith any more believable.
I don’t know if you’re a parent or not, but what you say could be applied to an analogy of a 5 year old crying at her pediatrician’s office, “You claim to be a parent of love yet you commanded this nurse to stick me with 5 needles!”
I would agree with everything said. Although I do think alot of Catholic/Orthodox doctrine is a bit older than you give it credit for. Still, the longer I learned about Christianity the less I believed it. Especially the doctrines of the church on things such as animals and sex which have alwase struck me as… not making a whole lot of logical or realistic sense.
2 Cor 5:10: And you will have the opportunity to ask Him how it was done in person one second after you take your last breath!
Im sorry but are you comparing the murder of the women and children of Jericho to a child getting a shot? because those people are dead, and the dead have a tough time learning lessons.
This is one of the reasons that I find Catholics, Orthodox, and Coptics to be by far the nicest and generally easiest to be around Christians. You are not like some of the Bible thumping evangelicals saying all other religions are the work of Satan to steal your children’s souls.
Yes. It’s an analogy, Skadi.
I read here all the time people who claim a knowledge of Scripture, theology and apologetics; usually because they’ve “been to X number of years of Catholic School”. Most prove by their comments they have a child like understanding appropriate to their schooling. If you are looking to grow deeper in the faith many of the answers in this thread will prove valuable.