There are a multitude of experiences that back up my belief... such that the question of the existance God is not a question anymore for me...
This is not about how sure you are that you are right or how you came to have your beliefs. There are people in other religions who are more sure than you are that they are right. I asked what you (and Christians) are doing better that is causing you to be right. There has to be something or it would be unfair for God to favour you. There has to be something otherwise it's equivalent to a guess.
I have no idea what is going on in any individual's head or heart, Christian or otherwise, except my own and thus I cannot tell you
So basically, you believe that God will favour Christians but you don't know why?
If it is a test of writing down the correct answer to math questions then the person who writes down more correct answers fared better, regardless of effort/intelligence/study/guessing...
Of course, that would simply be because of the rules. This is not what I was talking about, I was talking about if the test was to test your ability to get maths question correct.
The person guessing hardly truly believes his answers are correct before the results come back to him...
Wrong. You can guess and then truly believe that you are right. If God does not take into account how we came to be right or wrong, then our beleifs are just guesses, because there was nothing meaningful behind them. If God is going to favour people for having belief x over people who held belief y, there has to be something better, in Gods eyes, about having belief x. There has to be, otherwise favouring one over the other for no reason would be unfair. So why will God like people for believing Christianity over people who believe in Hinduism?
They have an equal opportunity, it is not weighted towards one person or the other, thus it is fair.
No it is not. Because the opportunity is equal and because the coin is not weighted does not make it fair. It is would only be fair if they both got head or both got tails. Now if two equal people flick that coin, and one gets head but ones gets tails, one gets rewarded and one gets punished, that would not be fair. It would not be fair because two equal people, who like you said, both deserve the same thing, would be getting to different outcomes, it would not be fair at all. Unfair = unjust.
It is fair because of the equality of opportunity to receive it...
See above reply. Your saying that God rewards/punishes based on nothing but luck, that would be unfair and therefore unjust. For it not to be just luck there has to be something that they are doing differently, that they are doing better.
In the same way my knowledge of history "just happens" to be true...(mostly )
No, religious beleifs are based on faith. Faith = hope and trust. No matter how much you hope and trust that you are right, it does not increase your chances of actually being right. If I have a belief that is based on faith, then whether or not it is true is left ONLY to chance. If Christianity is true, you got lucky. If Islam is true, the Muslims got lucky. Unless of course, you can tell me why, in Gods eyes, a belief in Christianity is better/more worthy of a gift than a belief in Islam. I think it's fine if you just say "I don't know", but do you see why "because Christianity is true" is not a valid reason for God to reward Christians?
I certainly wouldn't be pleased... I'd probably be scared as ****... but I'd realize that it was on me... my fault, my consequences...
No it was not your fault. Like I said there is something to blame - luck. Whether or not Christianity or Islam is true, is completely out of your control. Sure, it is in your control you believe one of them, but which one actually is true, is out of your control. For it to be your fault you would of had to done something wrong, or worse than the Muslims did. Just like for you to get a gift from God for believing in religion y, you have to have done something good that caused you to believe religion y, it cannot just be a guess. But if God does not take into account how we came to have our beliefs, if he just a had a big filter which only let through people who believed in religion y, then it is left to luck and it is unfair.
Not at all, I reject luck in it at all... Reality is out of my control, but my beliefs are not... when my beliefs do not reflect reality it is all on me...
Umm just because you are in control of your beliefs, does not mean that whether or not they are true is not left to chance, it is. You can say you reject it, but I dot know how. Whether or not a belief that is based on faith is true, is determined only by luck. If God is going to give out gifts to those who follow Christianity, and give out punishments to those who don't, there better be something that the Christians are doing better, otherwise God is unjust.
