Caleb the Cruel wrote:Very good question Neutrino.
I'll assume you already believe that there must be a Creator so I'll bypass most of that.
The Bible is unique for the fact that there are no two verses that contradict one another in the same Testament. Also, Jesus is the ONLY prophet who ever stated that He was the Son of God. The reasons to believe in God are un-countable. Another reason that I like is when a man dies and rises from the dead all on his own, I would probably believe what he has to say.
Lutherans(especially my synod, the LCMS) are different from other Christian groups because...
1. We are not against alcohol...After all Jesus HIMSELF drank wine.
2. We do believe in ONE baptism which generally occurs during infancy, even though adults are baptized frequently too... That is because of more Scriputural reasons.
3. We stick strictly to the Scriptures and take them as 100% truth and the Word of God. We add nothing to it and take nothing away. We don't take tiny bits of Scripture to make it say something completely to the contrary.
Yeah, totally, Neutrino believes there's a creator,

, I'd like to see that one day.
Anyway.
Bold - But then in both Testaments, lots of verses contridict each other, right? And I'm sure in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, sometimes they tell different stories for the one thing, and so that also classes as contridictions. So how can you just say, "It doesn't contridict, because it's the 'Word of God', and so it can't contridict"?
Underline - WHOA! He said he's the 'Son of God'!! WOWWWW. Guess what, I'm a Son of God too! Yup, my mother was raped by an Angel that had the 'seed' of God and then Plop, 9 months later I was born and with 3 'Wise' men gave me gifts. WOW, my biological mother and my caregiving father just got me born in a Shack of animals. Wooo.
More seriousness; The bible says that we're all "Children of God", so what makes him so different? Just saying he's the Son of God doesn't prove anything. And miracles? Oh please. Water into Wine? Rocks into Bread? Being tempted by Lucifer (Or Satan, as you stubly call him), 3 times in 40 days?
Caleb, please tell me that it's not possible for any Human cannot survive 40 days in the desert with no water or food. Jesus was a human. How do you know that he went to the Desert anyway? He could of just gone somewhere else and when he came back, just said he spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert being tempted by the devil.
Italics - I'm sure you Lutherans aren't the only ones to do that. I'm sure there's many other Demonations of Christianity to do that.