{"id":2620,"date":"2016-10-12T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2016-10-12T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:05:16","slug":"is-it-crazy-to-be-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2016\/10\/12\/is-it-crazy-to-be-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Crazy to be a Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of people in this world who would have you believe that it’s crazy to be a Christian. With atheists, agnostics, and “nones” (those who don’t affiliate with any religion or belief system) on the rise<\/a> in America, open mockery of the Bible is something that is becoming more common by the day. Many of them identify themselves that way because they’ve bought into the belief that it is simply ridiculous to accept the Bible’s claims, arguing that some of the Bible’s accounts are far too absurd for them to accept the Bible’s bigger claims (such as those on morality or sin and justification).\u00a0To paraphrase, the argument that comes up so often looks something like this:
\n“We’re supposed to listen to your rules about sex or abortion or the afterlife when you believe in a talking snake, a talking donkey, the Red Sea parting to create a path of\u00a0dry ground, and people coming back from the dead? Haha, sure.”
\nThe implication, of course, is that Christians operate on blind faith and that we’ve accepted absurd beliefs in order to maintain our trust in biblical inerrancy. Admittedly, no one in today’s world has ever seen a talking snake, or a talking donkey, or any of the other miraculous occurrences the Bible describes.\u00a0But what isn’t being considered is the truth claims that are implicit in the popular beliefs held by most today. Are Christians the only ones accepting difficult to explain beliefs?\u00a0Of course not.
\nConsider the implications that underly the very foundations of the beliefs held by many of those who mock Christianity.<\/p>\n