there was no change of standard. the idea is that faith can move mountains. if you believe that Christ has redeemed you through His death, then you have been redeemed.
its no paradox for God to simultaneously be infinitely judging and infinitely merciful, as God exists above duality.
But in the first place you have to be redeemed because god's originals went against his wishes and ate the fruit and attained higher consciousness. Now there is no way to not have some kind of higher consciousness so we are still going against god's wishes but because of the sacrifice there is a way out. I see no evidence that that relates to reality in any way; none of it.
I would say the opposite. You are locked into your belief because faith requires you to be unshakable. If I saw strong evidence that what you are saying is true I would be happy to change.
you will never see the evidence without first having the faith.
you are thinking of this as a value judgement instead of as natural laws. you will never be shown anything other than what your beliefs allow you to see.
I choose to have faith, because I have seen the effect it has firsthand. nobody can prove that to you. you must seek it for yourself, and without faith, you will never find it.
there was no change of standard. the idea is that faith can move mountains. if you believe that Christ has redeemed you through His death, then you have been redeemed.
its no paradox for God to simultaneously be infinitely judging and infinitely merciful, as God exists above duality.
But in the first place you have to be redeemed because god's originals went against his wishes and ate the fruit and attained higher consciousness. Now there is no way to not have some kind of higher consciousness so we are still going against god's wishes but because of the sacrifice there is a way out. I see no evidence that that relates to reality in any way; none of it.
you aren't listening to me, but that's because you have already made up your mind. not very 'agnostic' of you
I would say the opposite. You are locked into your belief because faith requires you to be unshakable. If I saw strong evidence that what you are saying is true I would be happy to change.
you will never see the evidence without first having the faith.
you are thinking of this as a value judgement instead of as natural laws. you will never be shown anything other than what your beliefs allow you to see.
I choose to have faith, because I have seen the effect it has firsthand. nobody can prove that to you. you must seek it for yourself, and without faith, you will never find it.
It seems we are going in circles at this point.