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Hi Gyhldeptis,
I'm jumping in late and I haven't read this whole thread, so I hope you forgive me if I missed some stuff that was already covered.
I will read the whole thread after this reply. BTW, I checked out your photos on the Hobbies forum, and they are awesome - you have a talent for photography that I've often wished I had. That's one hobby I sure wish I had more time and money for.
I take it that the basic question you are asking is "how can we really know
for sure
?" Correct me if that's not the best summary.
I don't think we can really know for sure, in the way you're asking, that the Bible is accurate, that Jesus rose from the dead, etc. A huge (and important) element of Christianity is faith (that's why it's called "the Christian Faith", and not "the Christian Proof"). And yet this faith is not unfounded or baseless. There are more recorded witnesses of our key beliefs than there are that Shakespeare existed or that Colombus sailed to North America or that man landed on the moon.
I also personally consider the alternatives: it's theoretically possible that God created the world, but then let man to his own devices to figure out who God is and what he wants and what he does - that would be a cruel joke, and we would have no hope in sorting it out. It's also theoretically possible that God doesn't even exist, and that all religions including Christianity are just people who have fooled themselves - but if God didn't exist, it wouldn't make a spot of difference, since
everything
(life, morality, reasoning, emotion, relationships, etc.) would be a meaningless illusion, simply the product of complex groups of atoms acting according to their internal and external forces.
So for me, it's sort of a modified version of "Pascal's wager". I concede that while I take it on faith, it's theoretically possible that Christianity is wrong - but if it's false then it simply doesn't matter that I'm wrong.
"Faith" is the logically safest position, if you know what I mean.
Yes, if Christianity is true, the men who bear witness to it and defend it throughout the centuries are fallible. God doesn't do it all on his own, including ensuring his message is spread. I believe it is analogous to a man that has a car that need repair work - let's say the man is a certified mechanic and could do the work himself and fix the car perfectly, but for his own reasons has chosen to let his 7 year old son help him. The father shows his son how car works, how to use the tools, etc. The father guides and even helps the son fix the car (the son couldn't fix the car on his own, even with instruction only). Fixing the car takes longer and is not done as perfectly as it would have been if the man fixed it on his own, but the relationship built with the son in the process is far more important.
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