[DeepIron]

In response to your post above, we all know just how infallible science is now, don't we? Man looks at God, defines his relationship and expects God to capitulate and accept. Fair enough. But when God approaches Man, the opposite doesn't hold true. God is held at arms length and exposed to Man's logic and reasoning. That is how I read the forward on Science and Creationism. A process through which self-justification and "reasoning" is applied to explain away something outside of modern sciences ability to quantify and qualify.

Now one might indeed accuse me of being biased or close minded. However, I contend that the opposite is just as true for those whom only the disciplines of science, and nothing less, will suffice. They say, "If I can't see it, touch it, smell it, taste it, or hear it, it doesn't exist."

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The unfortunate aspect of admitting "belief" is that one is immediatly branded as "religious" and communications with that person are filtered through a "religion colored glass." This sad because it automatically presupposes that the "religious" persons mind is closed to thinking "out of the box" and is shut to anything that doesn't fit with their dogma.

You are illogical here. Religion is believing, science is, trial and error, observation and conclsuion. Religion is belief indeed. you have made a choice, you say you belief in an intelligent creator. But you do not want to be hold responsible for the choice you made..?. By your choice, you already have filtered out what is possible in explanation and what not: you must not know anymore, and must not explain accoprding to standards of reason or science or logic - for you have choosen to believe. Believing and reason do not go well together. In fact, they are mutually exclusive.

No, faith is believing. Why do people continually equate religion with faith? I don't "belong" to a religion. I'm not Mormon, Presbyterian, Methodist, or otherwise. I believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the teaching of God through the Bible.

And yes, I'm certainly responsible for the choice I'VE made just as you or anyone else for that matter are responsible for your own choices. And no, just because I've made a committment to follow the teaching of Jesus Christ, doesn't mean I can't entertain or be intelligibly conversant in other ways.

Works for you? I fear you need to wait until you are dead to see if it works for you, or not.

Not really. By choosing to believe my life is fuller and contains fewer worries and more happiness than ever before. Of course, this is relative to me and cannot be empirically or otherwise proven. But in my frame of reference this joy exists regardless.

That way, you can almost skip your life, which may explain christians' obessive orientation towards death.

That's stereotyping. Many of the other believers I know, consider "death" as just another aspect of life, a continuation. "To conquer death, all you have to do is die" to quote Tim Rice, paraphrasing Scripture.

Question then is, in your thinking: why have I been created, then? Just in order to die when asking too many question about poison arrows?

No, quite the opposite. I have a very meaningful and full life. I find confort in the knowledge that God has a plan for me, and it's spelled out very plainly. See John 3:16 for reference.

That must be any god's queer sense of humour - which after all eventually may prove the existence of god in fact, finally (at least when you have made a decision to believe.)

I think God has an even queerer sense of humor as found in atheists and agnostics who contend that their own little universe of "self" is impregnable, completely self-centered, self-supported and logical.

@letum, which of the explainations that you've given for the demise of the hanged man do you believe?