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Summary As you may now, Christianity can be summarized as the belief in Jesus Christ but in a 'worship' state. It has been proven that Jesus Christ once lived and spread his religion throughout the Mid West but was he really the son of God? Christian Science allows a new view of Christianity giving more of an explanation of these miracles and giving a better understanding of worshiping God instead of going through blind fate. God tells us that we must have faith for our minds can not use the full potential that it possesses. Studies show that we as the human race use an average of ten percent of our brains on a daily basis. If we used even fifty percent, would we possibly have the capacity to intake all the knowledge that God has not given us?

Personal View I believe in God but not because I was raised in a Christian childhood nor is it because I read passages in the Bible and agreed with them. Some people say they believe in God because they felt that he 'reached' them but the reason still is not this. A lot of the reason that I believe in God is because it is nice to tell myself that there is someone up there watching my steps and keeping me on track. It is nice to know that there is always someone to talk too and admit my wrong-doings too. If the world was perfect and without sin, there would be no reason for believing in God because we would live by ourselves but the main reason I believe in God is because of past instances where great miracles or coincidences have happened. How most of these miracles that can be and have been proven, but I do not believe in the Bible for the sin of man could have easily corrupted the Bible over the past thousand years.

Red Sea Explanation The split of the Red Sea when Jesus Christ put out his hand calling power from God to split the Red Sea in two and allowing safe passage across it has been thoroughly researched by scientists. The main hypothesis on it splitting is called, 'wind setdown'. Wind setdown is when the wind blows strong enough for period of time moving water and causing a decrease in the natural water level. At the time, the wind could have blown long enough to move the water out of the way allowing a path across. The real miracle would be the timing of it happening.

Jesus is said to have split the Red Sea too?? I thought it was just Moses.
OMG that is so weird!

Those aren't really "sources", those are just two quotes. (I'd dare not cite Uri Geller as a source, and if you knew who George Orwell was and read the quote, it doesn't have anything to do with the subject, it's just an interesting quote about myths). That page is actually titled "Neuroscience for Kids". I just posted it because it's a simple explanation.

Could you give me a link to such a study? A study that states that we use only 10% of our brain. Because even by my recent knowledge (I've heard it from the somewhat famous neurologist Steven Novella), this is not true.



I still don't see the point. If you're going to claim a miracle, why does it being less of a miracle make it more believable? God causing a wind to blow is no more believable, than god actually parting the Red Sea. Or are you saying god is a bit weaker than we previously thought?

P.S.: I totally missed the Jesus parting the Red Sea. Probably just a mistake.

I am seriously wondering why you keep saying Jesus parted the sea, when the only person I remember who took advantage of the sea parting was Moses.

As for miracles, I don't really believe having a Scientific explanation for them downplays them, because the miracle to me lies in the fact that things happened at the exact time they needed to happen... but to try to initially base a belief from the fact that things could possibly happen seems a bit like missing the point, because in that regard, things just as well could probably not have happened.

People will come to an understanding of Christ through revelation. The point of Jesus coming to Earth was to teach us something important, not to perform miracles. The miracles were for the people of his time to realize that he might actually have something important to say. It was then left to them to pass on his teachings.

If people are hung up on the miraculous parts of the Bible, it seems to me that they are missing the best parts. The teaching of Love, Understanding, Mercy, Grace, Fulfillment; that is what people should be paying attention to. That was what Jesus was trying to get Humanity to learn.

Sure it's cool to try and figure out how God did that. In doing so, many people start to take an attitude of magician vs. audience, with God taking the part of the magician, not the all-powerful Loving God that He is.

I think the real miracle that Christians should strive for in present day would be for all of us to actually focus on the messages that Jesus taught, and actually practice what he taught. That would be better proof of the validity of the Bible than any Scientific proof could ever be. Besides, the Bible isn't a Scientific text, it is a religious text that applies to the Spiritual realms, not the physical.

The Bible actually has as much proof as many other historical texts.

Actually, there is a short excerpt to the Christ in Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews". That being said, there is a high probability that some information was added centuries later by Christian monks translating the antiquities, but they have isolated the offending sentence and it is agreed among the scholarly community that he did reference Jesus. He also referenced John the Baptist, and Pontius Pilate.

By what I've heard of Josephus, the texts are controversial. Also, they are not exactly contemporary, so he could just be paraphrasing the story he heard about Jesus.

Also, we're a bit off-topic razz But I started it smile

Just to cover basis because in this entire conversation I'm hung up on that one point, we aren't speaking of the American Mid West are we?