Not to hammer the subject of religion too hard, but the other day someone handed me a bible tract. As I mentioned earlier, I think the fact that he's free to do that is something good about America (and other pluralistic countries).
But the phrase "chose to believe in Jesus" got me thinking. How exactly does one "chose" to believe in something--particularly a miracle?
It seems to me the biggest obstacle to anyone trying to find converts is that if you don't have it hammered into your mind from day one that a man was nailed to a cross, went to hell, came back to life three days later and this was all done as a sacrifice for the sins of every person that's ever lived or ever will live, it's a pretty hard sell.
Burning bushes, water into wine, spiders spinning webs to protect prophets, aliens trapped in volcanos... how do sane people come to take these things as a matter of faith?
Faith. I happen to believe in a God who, through his agents, will answer personal prayers. To some I know this is just as much of a stretch because there's no material proof of it. And that's where faith comes in. So I'm not denigrating faith--just marveling at how far to majority of humanity can stretch it.
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