As for myself, I did study other religions. I was intensely spiritual for years before I became a Christian. At one point I very strongly considered becoming a Muslim. I spent years obsessively, passionately worshipping God before I became a Christian. I meditated for hours everyday. My mind was open to every conceivable possibility, and I thoroughly considered them all - I prided myself on it. And along the way God did answer some of my prayers. But my relationship with Him was very distant. I knew He existed and I searched for Him with all of my being. But I absolutely rejected Jesus Christ as the Son of God and I was disgusted by the biblical ethic. If you go back into my post history before I was a Christian you can find me arguing with Man of Steel about this subject. He was talking about his experiences with God and I was trying to reason with him just like you are now. Sadly my arguments were much better than the ones you are now using against him. I did not want to be Christian. I am one now only because God dragged me kicking and screaming. Even to this day I confess that my human heart lusts against God. But I cannot deny what I have seen with my own eyes, heard with my own ears, and tasted with my own lips. Asking Man of Steel and I to consider the idea that we are wrong about Jesus is like asking yourself if you could be wrong about the very fact of your own existence. It is undeniable.
Again, why did you reject the religions you "studied"? Saying you were "spiritual" is as vague as saying you believed in a "higher being", with the amount of woo-woo that exists in California and especially the recreational drugs you were taking from a young age, I shudder to think what qualified as "intensely spiritual" for you.
Back to my question though, which you didn't really answer to the point, why did you choose Christianity over other religions, like Islam which you say you studied, or Buddhism which is especially popular in California? On what criteria did you decide that Christianity is the one true faith, and why are all other religions false?
Sadly my arguments were much better than the ones you are now using against him.
Show me. As I remember you were not very intelligent, just a bit of a smart-arse.
One day you will know. It might be too late to save you, but you will know one day.
This is the tbombz I remember, the smug punk who was always telling people what they were doing wrong. Not only has that part of your personality remained
intact (God hasn't helped much here), there is now the added element of sanctimonious self-righteousness.
Rest assured, I do not need to be saved from anything. God does not exist, the world is rudderless but also full of meaning. A certain kind of freedom comes with this realisation and it is up to each person to use it as they can. You abused yours and so it had to be taken away from you in order to survive. For the rest of us who make the most out of our freedom, we are able to see and understand the world dispassionately. There are no illusions as to what is.
