Pete sez: Your simple faith sounds complicated to me joe. You seem to see God in the abstract rather than a personal being, yet you say you believe in the resurrection. How does that work out?

Oh, I see God as a personal being, Pete, but I have no quarrel with those who see God as abstraction. But above all things, I believe that God is Good. I believe Jesus is the incarnation of God, God become human in a form we can understand. As I've said before, the Bible does not give the specifics of how the birth of Jesus/Incarnation/Virgin Birth came about, or how the Resurrection happened. I just believe they happened, and that we'll know the specifics when the time comes for us to know. But don't you also believe that God is Good? Isn't that the primary belief of all believers?

Steve Shaw, I'm sorry my faith is not as complicated as you wanted it to be, but that's what I believe - simply that God is Good. I believe in Good, and I believe in God as the personification of Good. Some people don't buy the personification, but it works for me. And no, I don't believe in all that bad stuff you list, and I don't support or defend it. Why should I? Why should anybody?

-Joe-