OK, fellows, here's my take once again. I am not avoiding anyone, just have to work for a living. Part of that sin payment for Adam and Eve blowing it in the garden.
Some religions and even worse, some people that are supposed to be Christians do indeed not like anyone that does not believe the way they do. I do not hate or overly dislike them and try to love them, even though it's tough. I could never love or even like some people unless Christ in me helps me to. The difference, once again, in real Christianity and other religions is relationship. Just as one that has not met someone (or at least talked to them such as on the internet, writing, etc.) can know them, an unbeliever cannot know Christ. The Bible plainly states that to the world, Christianity is foolishness. If I were a pagan looking at us I would say the same thing.
How foolish would it look for the US armed forces to take only a handful of troops out of the ranks, go to the enemy's stronghold, march around it each day and on the seventh shout with a loud voice after the trumpets blasted and expect the wall to come down and us win the battle? Exactly what God told Joshua to do at Jericho and it worked.
Christianity is all about faith. Works without faith is dead. I know it sounds strange to unbelievers, but "I know in whom I have believed and am pursuaded". Again, it's hard to believe in something you have not experienced for yourself. It may be a poor analogy, but I personally don't put much stock in speaker break-in. I have had a few sets of speakers and have not experienced break-in improving the sound. Others have and for them you could never convince otherwise. I have experienced a true, living God and nobody will ever convince me He does not exist. I talk to him and he speaks to me.
There are more witnesses to the fact that Jesus lived, died and was raised to life than there are that many other people in history even lived.
