RELIGION Re: Enhancing health with time on your side

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Wow, entering can of proverbial worms!

>I'm surprised to see you compare astrology with Christ.

>I think you're reading a bit too much into a very small comment. I

>said I think astrology and Christianity are both crap. That's

>somewhat different.

I realize you intended your comment as a small aside to a larger

point, but you must acknowledge " Christianity is crap " in any

context- them's fightin' words!

Truly,I felt the need to speak up to address that very mentality

being present on an intellectual forum such as this one-

specifically that Christianity requires faith free from reason and

anyone who subscribes to it must have checked their rational thought

at the door. At the very least I hope to encourage respect for a

Christian's belief in Christ as a deity, recognized as a reasonable

conclusion drawn from a large body of evidence, historical and

otherwise. Not to engage in apologetics 101, but just for example:

* First and foremost, logic dictates that everything created has a

cause. Going back to the big bang, we must assume an antecedent

cause for the universe, one that had to be supernatural- superceding

space and time- namely, God. If one accepts this premise, it would

also stand to reason that our God had a purpose for his creation and

a desire to reveal himself to his creation- namely and uniquely, via

the Bible. No other religious work satisfies this. Going further,

one may also accept that God chose to interact with the world

through Jesus as documented in the Gospels. Some have even said that

the Gospel story is so *unbelievable* that it could not have been

generated by man. And that if man wanted to establish a new

religion, he would have come up with something much more reasonable!

* Also, the reliable and consistent testimony of the disciples in

the New Testament as well as the disciples' martyrdom- it has never

been documented that anyone has ever knowingly died for a lie. Jesus

nor the disciples had anything to gain and everything to lose by

proclaiming the Gospel.

Now I'm not looking to argue these points (though others are welcome

to , but rather to share a small part of the belief system behind

the Christian faith to demonstrate that while you may not agree, you

needn't consider it " crap " and, of course, I am also called to share

my faith and the Gospel with others in hopes that they will welcome

God's Grace into their own lives.

>No, but I subscribe to the scientific method, I believe in the

>utility of Occam's Razor, and I require some kind of real evidence

>for claims. " Because I said so " , " Because someone else said so " ,

>and

> " Because God told me so " don't qualify in my book.

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Not everything in life can be proven or disproven using the

scientific method. I have found the body of evidence for

Christianity compelling, while acknowledging scientific evidence

cannot by definition explain the supernatural. Also consider, God

says he will reveal himself to those who earnestly seek him.

Finally, I feel I must tie this in some way to the purpose of this

group. I have found that in my journey to health by way of

nutrition, it has become more than just about how one should ideally

eat. I feel an element of God's truth about how he intended us to be

nourished is found in the work of WAP. It took a long time to weed

through all the junk and only after arriving at Price's traditional

wisdom, which immediately rang true to me, did I even fully realize

the other stuff was junk. There's a metaphor for my faith journey

here somehow but it's getting too late to discern!

Sincerely,