As with everything I post, I reserve the right to be wrong, but I don't think so. Like you, I think that my beliefs are true. However, I try to keep an open-mind and consistently evaluate the things I believe. I would have never become a Christian if it was based on the way people treated me, or some very odd practices I encountered along the way.
Through the years believers and non-believers have helped me rethink important issues related to God and Christianity. I do that by listening, reading, and comparing the works of experts in the fields of theology, philosophy, history, and science. I'm fortunate to have friends who are well accomplished in these areas. If you ask me something I don't know, then I'll ask them. In that way I treat mind and body issues similarly. I ask doctors about medical things, historians about history, and theologians and philosophers about metaphysics.
If you’re not engaging the experts in this way, then you're likely repeating folklore. You're in a "blind leap of faith" place that may not care much for meaning and purpose--and we’re probably not going to go far in our discussions. However, I will never pressure you. I was a radio DJ for years, and can talk for hours about benign matters.
With that said, I don’t just believe in a “higher being” like a force, energy, alien, or demi-god that somehow cooperates and adjudicates karma in the universe. And, just so happens to align with my desires. I don't find that belief to be even close to the best explanation of reality; origins, fine-tuning, objective morality, historical resurrection of Jesus, and personal experience.
Without special revelation I'm not sure how we get objective truth, duties, and obligations. It's only your opinion. God has revealed that murder, lying, adultery, idols, coveting, etc are objectively wrong, not based on interpretation, opinion, or human flourishing, but on His perfect nature. If you address my questions and problems, I'd appreciate it if you would provide me good arguments, resources for my own education. I'll try do the same, even if it's pointing you to the resources. Please don't point to what your grandma said, or how you were treated, or other bad behavior as the arbiter of whether a worldview is true or not. People behave badly no matter how you want to account for it.
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