You question how do I know the bible is the truth makes no sense whatsoever. My point exactly.
Non sequitur. An egg is an egg because that's what we collectively define "egg" to mean. However, no book gets defined as "true" by fiat; that's not how it works. Things aren't true merely by virtue of the fact that someone carved or inscribed them on a bunch of scrolls, dried leaves, papyri, tablets of clay or stone, temple walls or any other media that were eventually collected together to form what we'd today call "sacred writings". You may
claim that it's true, but if you're going to make such a claim, then you need to be able to
consider your audience and be prepared to substantiate it. Otherwise, on what possible grounds would you expect anyone to treat such a claim with anything other than derision and contempt? On the face of it, your Bible is just as indistinguishable from bullshit as any other collection of works.
No i do not know what allah mean. I guess you are going to tell me.
Not unless you want me too, but you can look it up. Again, I note that you didn't answer:
on what do you base that assertion (that the Muslims' god is "dead in the ground")?One of the main tenets of Christianity is faith.
Why do you think that is?
We walk by faith and not by sight.
That much is clear to those of us who can see.
It is my faith in what I have read, and things that I have experienced in my life that align themselves to the principles in the bible on which I evaluate the truth value.
The problem with that is that the Bible is a large collection of works, full of an assortment of passages and whose meanings are sufficiently vague or nebulous that people can validate just about any of their own preconceptions and declare that they "align themselves to the principles in the bible" (sic). And declaring "faith in what {you} have read" would appear to be essentially an admission that you
do assume the Bible to be true from the outset - thus negating your ability to take a step back, think outside the box for a moment and consider:
is it really true? how would I tell if it weren't? It's this inability that makes you a slave - not to any deity or truth or grand ideal, but to a dogma.
In the Bible, there were many prophesies, mostly about the coming of Jesus and the prophesies were fulfilled. Thus giving credibility to the scriptures.
Actually that's far from clear (especially if you ask the Jews what they think about how the verses of
their sacred texts were twisted out of all recognition, and I'm still awaiting a
sensible explanation of why the city of Tyre still exists, in defiance of Biblical prophecy for millennia), but that's a topic for another thread, perhaps.
Then in my own life, I have had personal experiences with God that further give credence to that the word of God is true and that God is alive.
Personal experiences are two a penny, and have been (and still are) ascribed to all sorts of "divine" or "spiritual" entities: gods, spirits, ancestors and so on. None of these establish the truth of any specific belief-system. If they did, don't you think everyone who experienced such phenomena would come to the same set of conclusions?
