You said nothing about a problem of theism.
Theism does not imply that God created man in its image.
Neither does it imply the reliability of any alleged scriptures.
Assuming that a God created man, then God created separation.
Man may have some control over the degree of separation.
It's a definition question.
Define Christian sufficiently, and the question is answered.
Don't define Christian sufficiently, and the question is unanswerable.
Wisdom and sanity are denotatively the same concept.
Wisdom is the high end of sanity.
Sanity is the low end of wisdom.
They mean knowing how to get what you want without doing things that will get you more what you don't want later.
Anything existing in a particular context is real in that context. If that context is imaginary, then anything existing in it is real in it.
All of my experiences are real to me regardless of others' belief.
None of my experiences can be shown to be objectively real as what I think they are...
A belief doesn't have to be a belief system. To believe a particular belief system is false doesn't require a counter-system, but it still requires a counter-belief.
Not having a belief is not the same as believing something is false.
Gospel of Peter is late - probably 100-150CE.
It wasn't even discovered until 1886.
There are other late gospels. If you want to also late date the main 4, it's a minority opinion, which I'm not interested in discussing.
Good observation! Thank you.
Unfortunately I see no way to answer your question.
Multiverse doesn't affect the answer.
I arbitrarily choose to bet on (not believe) monotheism - which when pushed to its logical conclusion becomes indistinguishable from panentheism.
My reason for rejecting...
We have 4 different accounts of the alleged resurrection. All differences can be attributed to bad memory except one: If a stone was rolled in front of the tomb, the disciples would have known of it. Why didn't they tell the women to either quit preparing embalming spices, or take some men...
Easy answer - never.
But few if any religionists assert values "unique to us". Nearly all religions have values shared by competing religionists, and some values shared by some non-religionists, e.g anti-abortion. And some of those values are unjust.
BONUS QUESTION: Easy no.
Yes. Science has experimental evidence.
Religion has books written by people who claim that previous books written by other people were inspired by God.
Yes. Scientific method is superior for determining not only scientific truth, but also truth about God. Perform any experiment (e.g...
I don't think #109 is the one I meant.
Anyway, in response to #115, I'm not asking why you call yourself a monotheist. I'm asking what I asked, and you are apparently declining to answer because the answer isn't important to you. If so, apparently the discussion is over.
Then I have wasted it preparing for something that doesn't exist. I accept that possibility. I found that the pleasures of this life usually costed more than they were worth. The older I get, the more I wish I had made this decision sooner.
Total agreement plus a few steps further. I have crossed off this planet as an insane asylum to be worked thru and graduated from. The only reason I hang around is to do enough righteous **** to prove worthy of better company than the human species.