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Ideas on wish fulfillment were among Freud’s more simple minded.
Allowing a cocain addicted adulterer to ever effect ones faith is a sad state for any human
No.
Utopia then is either an ideal place of perfection or an ideal place that can never possibly exist.
I appreciate your view that the resurrection of Jesus Christ changes everything. St. Paul correctly stated that if there is no resurrection and if we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable, the most miserable (I Cor. 15:19). BUT...now Christ IS risen! The world without Jesus Christ offers nothing but temporary pleasure. Our souls are meant for eternity.
Each individual needs to ask themselves whether the risk of it being true is worth taking...
The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is a fact of history.There is no wishful thinking about it.
If I were to wish for something, I would wish for something Easier and more Guaranteed. Christianity is neither.
Mere Christianity is a fantastic book.
Thank you. Comments: just because faith can provide comfort in this life or an answer to its mortality does not mean these bebefits are false or illudory, or even mere coping mechanisms. Rather, these results of religious faith may be additional Benefits or even side- effects, if you will, of an underlying true message. The analysis logic is flawed by failing to reach or even address this possibility.
My journey to Christ as my Savior.
I was raised by Christian parents but the Bible was never taught or even discussed.
I was raised to figure things out for myself with love and varying degrees of forgiveness.
It was later in life that a personal crisis, and serendipity, Charles Stanley’s sermon collided in my mind.
Suddenly everything made sense and at the same time nothing made sense.
I went to a great Bible Church every week and quickly discovered that my belief required me to “Spread the Word”.
WOW.
I need to do some homework.
I spent the next 4 or 5 years studying. Reading the Bible, reading Christian Apologist, reading and watching countless videos of their debates.
Prior to my “Crises” I had watched and actually bought this 6 VHS tape set of Joseph Campbell on Mythology. Extremely well done with a final conclusion that “I am my own God”. It’s pure Buddhism that never found any traction even before my Re-Birth but became critical in my Affirmation of Christ.
IMHO, it all comes down to Darwinian evolution or Creation.
When I read and listened to the Darwinist, their “Science” and “Reason” didn’t add up. The math alone didn’t add up, never-mind their conclusions about human nature and Free will.
Back to the Buddhist and “Spirituality”.
IMHO, Buddhism is based on the “uncertainty” found in “Theoretical Physics”. A belief in a possibility without certainty.
If Freud demands certainty then he need only look at himself.
I did.
The Darwinist attempt to destroy all meaning of mind. Including their own minds.
The Buddhist/Humanist take the other extreme. There is no right or wrong and in a world of uncertainty everything is possible.
I came to Christ, once again, through the process of elimination.
I wasn’t “Told” what to believe.
I didn’t “Need” anything.
God has Created Man with an extraordinary ability, the ability to consider all the evidence, to thoughtfully self reflect and come to Him by Faith.
“Some have taken it as far as to suggest that most of his theories were made up.”
Of course they are “made up”. All theories are made up by someone. Then you test them to see if they are right. That’s how science works.
Thinking Christianity is wishful thinking...is wishful thinking.
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As Jeremiah told us, “christianity” is the collection of “inherited lies wherein there is no profit.”
The big one is “Saved by Grace.”
The word says we are saved by our faith, and it is by the grace of Yehova that we are led to that faith.
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The wishful thinking could be the desire to see wrongdoers punished. The other side of a father figure. It's comforting to believe evil will always be punished and crime never pays.
Communism is wishful thinking.
The universe without an intelligent first cause is wishful thinking.
A democrat that doesnt want to use government to confiscate more of your stuff, is wishful thinking.
I did a two hour lecture in Raleigh, NC last Thursday evening for about 100 people. I purposely invited all the atheists, agnostics and skeptics. The emails I received afterward were very complimentary.
I have many emails from people stating that they were atheists until they attended my lecture. The pathway to knowing and experiencing God is both scientific and logical, without discounting Christianity.
This kind of BS makes The Infinity Wars movie look like a documentary.