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THat still leaves approx. 2 billion followers, and Christianity is still the world's largest religion, contrary to popular opinion.
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Like I said,
beginning to decline.
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That is one of those big questions, isn't it? It, at least in my opinion, doesn't make him seem like a child but more like a "wiser than you can imagine old man".
He demands complete loyalty, yet he gives us free will, instead of just creating us without it. That way he knows we are truly loyal and devoted and loving, because we have the choice.
Since there is free will, many people have chosen to reject him, and to make themselves feel better, they make up evidence to support themselves. Think about the big bang theory. Are you really going to believe that a grain of sand (which no one can explain how it got there) exploded, and we are just some cosmic anomaly? Or how about another crazy religion, Scientology. We are the decsendents of aliens which dropped an egg into a volcano. Yeah, that's logical. People are just trying to find evidence that seems true, but really isn't. God didn't create false evidence, man did.
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Man didn't create false evidence, man found the evidence against God's existence. I'm not saying I support anything stupid like scientology, but the simple truth is our existence is a complete coincidence.
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You go ahead and believe that hell doesn't exist. when you are stuck in Hell for eternity, the land of never ending pain and death, don't come crying to me. If you want to risk something that serious, that's your choice. I personally will take my chances with christianity. (besides the fact that I know it to be true).
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What Matt said. Besides, you bring up the fact that a good number of Christians are simply rolling the dice, betting that God and hell do exist because they think if they don't they think they have a lot to lose.