Checking my comments I see that people are not happy that I asked kaliko to answer my questions. (they love you kaliko ;) Basically, I will repost what I told Dancing Butterfly. "No, the onus does not fall on kaliko. My belief system and how I justify it undoubtedly falls on me. Yet, I feel that she is well versed in the bible and she has been interested in trying to shore up my faith for years. I value her opinion as I know it comes from a place of care and intelligence. So I hope she would respond, as caring and intelligent responses are few and far between" I also responded to summerplace's charge that I was doing it to prove some sort of superiority. " don't think I have any sort of superiority. I am a human, life everyone else. I'm just as susceptible to errors in belief just as everybody else. My motives are not to demonstrate some sort of "ha ha, in your face" thing. I don't think knowing what I know is all that impressive. What I hope for is for someone to show me otherwise as I'd like to believe. Believing is very rewarding and I'd like to feel that way again. Yet, there are some inconsistencies in the bible and with belief in general that I need to be addressed. "

There is a third commenter from someone unauthenticated. She said "When you are spending your eternity in a sea of fire and torment you will then believe only, it will be to late for your soul you fool" Well that just proves God, don't it? What if instead I'm just stuck in some sort of limbo because someone didn't bury me without any coins, what will that prove? Every religion can pull the old "when you die, you will see we were right" trick. Yet, the decision to follow must be based on what is evident here, for all we know for sure is that we are alive now. i further doubt that God would burn me for questioning or not following one particular way, despite what John 14:6 and John 3:36 and 1 John 5:11 say. I don't believe God would wipe out others for some never even had a chance to be exposed or had very little exposure while others had lots of exposure and many chances. God would have to accept true believers from other religions. Anyhow, I hope I didn't offend anyone. My intentions is to uncover what is real and what is not. I so want to believe. I just need to be taken there....