I am constantly amazed at believers. They are impossible to argue/reason with as their basis for their positions is not founded on logic but on desire and emotion.
For instance, I was having lunch with a colleague and the subject of Human Cloning came up. We spoke specifically of the South Korean scientists who have now cloned human embryos for the purpose of stem cell extraction. He said he was dead set against this. Of course I asked him: ?Why??
His response: ?Because it is abortion?.
I asked him: ?J*** you are religious and I know you believe that those who are saved go to heaven. But what happens to babies who are aborted ? since they have not had a chance to accept Jesus and become saved??
?Why they go to heaven of course?, he responded.
?Well then if that is true then by aborting them we are ensuring that they never have a chance to reject God and thus end up in hell?, I countered. ?Why is that an issue? If I could be guaranteed of going to heaven I would take the guarantee?.
By this time his demeanor had changed considerably and muttered something like: ?we can?t play God?, which I considered an admission of defeat in the short debate. We changed the subject and enjoyed the rest of our meal.
This is just one case in point, though. I am constantly amazed at what people base their lives on and the systems they use to control their lives (even being willing to die for these illogical systems). Others tell me that we cannot use human logic to understand or explain these issues since they have to do with God. I reject that argument because I am a human. If God created me as a human then my human instincts and human intellects are the tools he has bestowed me with. I have never seen any claims of God asking us to be anything other than human ? have you?