Understanding Christianity

[ICantSpellDawg]

And we do have Exodus 24:12


So I guess we have at least one instance where an almighty asserts to have written something (the ten commandments) with his own hand.

You make fine points, TuffStuff, and I disagree with none of that. Religions seem to require that I stop using these things I regard as assets in all other aspects (logic, free will, skepticism...) , because they are hinderances to getting closer to god.

I don't know why I am supposed to get closer than I am, while I'm living. Or why these seeming instincts I have - presumeably gifts from god - are supposed to get thrown away, or at least suspended?

Sometimes it seems that people fear being judged by Dworkian after death rather than God.
"You didn't use enough logic or reason in life" he would say.
"You really wasted your infinitesimal existence on faith"

Have faith and pursue goodness. Use whatever tools that the earth provides, but if those tools get in the way of truth, avoid them.

We do not want a thing because we reason; we find reasons for a thing because we want it. Mind invents logic for the whims of the will.

I think about that every time I put too much stock into what I understand about the world from a logical perspective. Then I think about what I was raised to believe. I'm much more worried about being judged by mom and God.