I’d like to address you claim that “If you are telling me that the collected writings and lifetimes of thought and debate and discussion on matters of theology, as well as the Bible itself, are all just a waste of time, while your opinion, concocted and explained in your little lifetime, is somehow of greater value, then I think that is an argument for my side.”
People have been, and continue to be wrong about things that have been believed for thousands of years. Consider that the germ theory of disease has only gained overwhelming scientific acceptance in roughly the last 150 years. Or, to put it in a moral context, slavery and racism have always been wrong even though this is a more modern way of thinking, and the civil rights act in the US has only made this legally so within the lifetime of many still alive today. There are also occasional new ideas that come along just by the brilliance of one individual which modify, destroy, or revolutionize old ideas like special relativity.
Just because a belief is popular or longstanding does not make it true.
Also, given your line of argument, can you really say that you have examined the truth claims of every other religion in an exhaustive way? Hinduism has been around much longer than Christianity with a correspondingly large amount of study having gone into it. Are you really qualified to reject this religion as false given your “little lifetime?”
@Tommy1733
I’d like to address you claim that “If you are telling me that the collected writings and lifetimes of thought and debate and discussion on matters of theology, as well as the Bible itself, are all just a waste of time, while your opinion, concocted and explained in your little lifetime, is somehow of greater value, then I think that is an argument for my side.”
People have been, and continue to be wrong about things that have been believed for thousands of years. Consider that the germ theory of disease has only gained overwhelming scientific acceptance in roughly the last 150 years. Or, to put it in a moral context, slavery and racism have always been wrong even though this is a more modern way of thinking, and the civil rights act in the US has only made this legally so within the lifetime of many still alive today. There are also occasional new ideas that come along just by the brilliance of one individual which modify, destroy, or revolutionize old ideas like special relativity.
Just because a belief is popular or longstanding does not make it true.
Also, given your line of argument, can you really say that you have examined the truth claims of every other religion in an exhaustive way? Hinduism has been around much longer than Christianity with a correspondingly large amount of study having gone into it. Are you really qualified to reject this religion as false given your “little lifetime?”