Only the truths of a religion do not change. By definition they cannot. Science is provisional, changing all the time.
But science will be able to close some gaps. If you pick the wrong gap to put your God in, then science may close the gap and squeeze your God out. Gods like Thor or Zeus were in the gap called, “Why do thunder and lightning happen?” That gap closed, and now those gods have nowhere to go. If you put your God into a gap then you might find yourself worshiping a shrinking God. Do you really want that? Are you willing to trust the existence of God to your ideas about what science will, and will not, do in future? That seems to me to be a very shaky foundation on which to base your faith.
Correct.
But the belief in religions change all the time. No one believes in the religions of Germanic tribes, Ancient Romans or Greeks anymore. People lose faith in old religions and then believe in new ones. Considering humans are about 200000 years old while Christianity is only 2000 years old, I’m sure many religions came and went. One developed to the next while the previous vanished.
Christ founded the Catholic Church. It was a fulfillment of the Old Testament. There is continuity from Adam on down.
There may well be religions where every last detail is carved in stone, but mine isn’t one of them, and it doesn’t conflict with good science as far as I know. I wouldn’t call it trust in science though - in science especially the idea is to make up our own mind on the basis of evidence, not trust what authority figures and others tell us.
This is all based on your faith. I’m personally CONVINCED Adam is a fabrication and never existed.
There wasn’t really a “point and place of the BB”; what began with the BB, and continues to expand as a result, is “point and place” itself; in other words, space-time. I know it’s confusing, but think of someone blowing up a balloon. Where is the center of the balloon? It isn’t the point of origin, the person’s mouth, because that is at the edge. It isn’t at a particular place because the balloon keeps getting bigger. If every galaxy was represented by a dot on the surface of the balloon, from any single dot, every other dot would seem to be expanding away from it, but this would be true no matter which dot you are on.
I’m not talking about where the center of the universe is, I’m saying that if there was a BB then it was the center, surely. I forget what this point was about now.
What about Hinduism which is much older? It has survived so I guess Hinduism is the REAL truth.Personally convinced…
Catholicism would have never survived if fraudulent. The rapid rise of Christianity in the early days is testament to the force of the truth. The Jews wiped references to Jesus away they were so upset.
The point made originally was that Catholicism wouldn’t have last this long if it was false. And the rejoinder was to name a religion that has been around longer, that any serious Catholic would clearly regard as false. So the appeal to longevity as a measure of truth value is specious, at best.
The specific point made is that Catholicism has endured because of actual witness.
That’s one way to see it or you can see it that it endured because the Roman Empire decided to use if for political reasons and that’s what is was used for in Centuries to follow.
As has Islam, as any Muslim will tell you.
One has to sort through the claims.
Right - so we can safely dismiss this idea that Christianity and Catholicism are true because they’ve been around so long, and nothing false could possibly survive so long.
