What makes you think my consent is merely intellectual?
Because only Christianity offers every believer an experience with the divine at the moment we first believe.
I heard of a guy who was both blind and deaf since birth but was struck by lighting and could then see and hear. I don't know if the story was true or not but lets pretend it is. His faith in the existence of color and music was merely superficial before being struck by that bolt of lightening.
Not all Christians take that view though.
There are 2 billion of us, of course we are not all in perfect agreement on every issue. It only matters what Jesus and the apostles taught, not some monolithic block of Christians who must all believe the same thing. Jesus taught exclusivity, truth it's self is exclusive.
I never said I was born with Christian faith. Rather, merely into Christianity.
Then that fact is irrelevant. I was raised in a church and at one time I had sincere superficial faith. Then my mom (a true Christian) got cancer. The worse she God the less sincere was my faith. By the time she passed I both denied God's existence and hated him as well. Only years later and after much more experience did I finally decide to get to the bottom of faith. Upon starting I expected to be able to safely ignore any religion, upon finishing I knew God personally.
I disagree. I believe we all remain part of God, always.
So Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, etc.... are still in unity with God to some degree? That is one unjust God.
Well, the Bible isn't the only text to say that!
There are billions of Christians that will claim to have personally met God as the bible promises. No other faith even offers personal union with God to all believers and you will struggle to find a handful that claim to have from any other faith.
being the operative two words there!
In addition you can find plenty who demonstrate it as well. Look at the lives of Johnny Cash, George Foreman, or millions like them who went from Godless thugs to born again Teddy bears. Or compare Muhammad and his disciples to Jesus and his disciples. One group has a mountain of evidence the others virtually devoid of it.
Or maybe I was following a different map, to a rather bigger treasure!
By definition there is nothing better, bigger, or lovelier, than Yahweh. But just for the fun of it what map and what treasure did you follow and find?
Because I work in the fields where mankind's flight technology is at it's highest (my Dad was even an Apollo engineer), and there is zero evidence for alien's visiting the earth. Virtually nothing is certain but the above is about as close as we can get.
Why has your God not yet dealt with Satan then?
Why should he have? God is not subject to our preferences. The only thing that binds God is what he said he is or will do.
I have already told you, the purpose of reincarnation is to fight the Devil (that is also the purpose of life).
There is zero evidence for that, and unending evidence against it. You ever done any prabalistic calculus.
I think perhaps it was you who got the formatting wrong initially, but no worries!
I don't think so but it doesn't matter.
The bolded part above. It is part of my worldview, which is the one that makes the most sense to me!
I don't see anything bolded above.
Show me your evidence for the above (not that scriptural quotes mean so much to me, but given that evidence of this kind is important to you).
I do not have any evidence for the above but I do have two reasons to think it is true.
1. It comes from a book that where it can be tested it always passes. Concerning thousands of historical claims, for example.
2. Occam's razor - never multiply entities beyond necessity.
My evidence is subjective, but that works for me. That is typically in the nature of spiritual experiences (though I have had a couple such experiences corroborated by others independently).
That is like saying despite the objective evidence the sun is hot your subjective evidence that it is cold is good enough for you.
I fail to see what that has to do with your statement that 'As all children who have ever lived have cried in every language that ever existed, you have at least once considered something unfair (unjust)' 'requires a belief that objective moral values and duties exist.
I don't think your going to get this one, I suggest we just drop it.
That's why I don't drive!
When I typed what you responded I thought if you don't drive or are blind I would sure be wasting my time. However even if your one or the other you still should get the point. Humankind on average looks before they leap.
Sounds fine, send me the link when you can. Let's try and keep these posts shorter if possible.