Is God the greatest story ever told?

I wish more people could get on to using the phrase 'in my opinion.' I don't even insist on including 'humble'
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@Mamapolo2016 My bad! In my humble opinion, God is just another opinion, and every one is entitled to their opinion, there is no one absolute truth....let alone 'greatest truth'.

@SW-User You are still young. Fact is, you might be wrong. So might I. I am persuaded because of things I know. Probably so are you. Both viable positions. But I don't think you're a deluded idiot who habitually buys snake oil. I've seen the world from both sides now (60s thing, can't help myself) and for me this side is better and truer. Not because I'm going up to the Spirit in the Sky, but because living has more clarity, more inspiration, more truth.

I have no issues with me going to my church and you not going to yours.

@SW-User There can be, and in my opinion are, different versions of the one absolute truth. Or not. I don't think only Baptists get promoted to Heaven. I don't think I'll actually get a mansion and a crown. I'll probably get a mop and a bucket. Love the song though, and that IS Baptist.

@Mamapolo2016 I agree that I might be more wrong than right, more often than not. But I still like to have the freedom of making my own choices, even wrong ones, learn, correct, and move ahead, rather than a 'Book' dictating me the choices I am 'supposed' to make, dictating a universal absolute idea of 'right', 'wrong' and 'truth', with no consideration whatsoever to the inclination of the person.

@Mamapolo2016 No one can truly say god does or does not exist but the truth is that the Christian Bible, as well as the other various religious texts really don't stack up to the realities of the modern world and the information that we now possess. If god exists I doubt its entire focus would be on our tiny world. The only reasonable explanation for the bible and others focusing purely on earth is the author was not omnipresent and omnipotent.

In your opinion. Which is a perfectly fine opinion and looks very handsome from some angles.

There is another plausible angle though, that the modern world, also manipulated and distorted by man, does not stack up against the Truth.

Just throwing that out there.@Zygote404

@Zygote404 And for your peace of mind, I hope you don't think scientific fact is eternal either. In our history, scientists, operating by the accepted scientific truth [b]at the time[/b] have variously proven the earth is flat, that certain races are inferior, that tomatoes are poisonous, that letting out a sick person's blood is healing.

Pluto used to be a planet, and I understand he may be regaining some stature.

The things we think we know today are just as fluid as the things we used to think we knew, and just as potentially incorrect as religious truths, and for the same reasons. Because love it or hate it, I am a creature of the world I live in and I do not have a thought or reaction that is not subjective. Because life is political and selfish and we seek power and funding, not truth, and that is arguably truer than it has ever been.

I am confident that whether I am here to see it or not there will come a day when science and faith embrace and say, 'What the heck were we arguing about?'