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Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by rhn_mk1 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:45PM (#24226123)
Don't leave us hanging! Where can we learn the answer?
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by lisper on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:53PM (#24226225)
Any Christian apologetics web site. Or your local church.
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by rhn_mk1 on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:53AM (#24232684)
I was hoping for something more precise tbh. Christian apologetics web sites and local churches also offer answers to lots of questions I don't care about, so if you already sifted through them, I was hoping you could share that advantage with the broader public.
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by lisper on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:01AM (#24232729)
Try searching for "why Christianity".
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by rhn_mk1 on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:46AM (#24232938)
I broke my rule of ignoring people who bait and don't deliver and did a quick search. All 4 results from the 1st search page:

- https://www.livingwaters.com/why-christianity/ seems to short-circuit back into "god-given rule"

- https://carm.org/atheism/why-believe-christianity-over-all-o... assumes the Bible as a historical source of truth

- http://www.gospeloutreach.net/whychristianity.html - quotes beauty not present in atheism, otherwise Bible as a historical source

- https://creation.com/why-christianity says Christianity correctly diagnoses a humanity's fault (moral inconsistency), and then declares it superior because of which solution it chooses

They don't seem to answer "why is Christianity the source of meaning", but rather "why choose Christianity as religion", which is a different question, so I might have misrepresented them. Either way, none of them seem very logically conclusive to me.

Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by lisper on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:25AM (#24235660)
> They don't seem to answer "why is Christianity the source of meaning", but rather "why choose Christianity as religion"

That's right. The original question was:

> Why would some point of existence or meaning lead specifically to Christianity?

If you want to know "why is Christianity the source of meaning" that's an easier question to answer: it's because the omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent Creator of the Universe loves you, and will give you everlasting life in paradise conditioned only on your acceptance of His sacrifice on the cross. Or something like that.

Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by rhn_mk1 on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:06PM (#24237336)
I think that's not actually the point that was made by cma (and my paraphrased question was imprecise).

"Why would some point of existence or meaning lead specifically to Christianity?" presumes starting with no preferred solution: "existence has a meaning. Who discovered it?". It's much more interesting than "Christianity says existence has a meaning. What makes it right?"

Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by lisper on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:55PM (#24237781)
> existence has a meaning. Who discovered it?

If you're looking for the Christian answer to this, it is: no one discovered it. The meaning of life is not discoverable knowledge. It is instead revealed by God.