Confession of a former christian

What did you learn about the Historical Jesus that put the final nail in the coffin and ended the story?

If God proved himself in an empirical sense, then people wouldn't need to have faith in god, they would know that god exists.For some reason, God has it so that we have to have faith in him.I don't know why, but there's a thread on it: Why is Faith so Important to God?I haven't read it all yet...Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"

I didn't state any of the assumptions or premises that my conclusion was based on.....One assumption was that god does exist. Sure, any of those could work for some undefined god, but not for any god. For example, an omnipotent god would not work with number 2. I was just sayin'...Its an opinion.

I suppose, but your question still stands:

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Why would God want us to leave ourselves open to following false-Gods or maybe even just our imagination?

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Why does the Christian God rely on faith for us to believe in him rather than comming down and showing us that he exists?The thread I linked to had a lot of BS in it and I'm not so sure the question was addressed specifically. Maybe the thread could be revamped, or maybe a whole new thread is due.

Where does it say that the mountains were different?If you're interpreting the Bible to mean that then you are no longer reading it literally.You don't read the Bible as if its the literal word of God?Why should I accept your interpretation over another?ABE (added by edit):If you're going to interpret the mountain thing (and also say that child stoning is metaphorical), then why can't you just say that the whole flood story is a metaphor too?How do you decide what is metaphor and what is not?Edited by Catholic Scientist, : see ABE: