That these people are bothering to establish a church and meet regularly is evidence that they believe something about their beliefs is very important. That they’d lie about heaven and hell is evidence that they think their actual beliefs are very important indeed. Thus figuring out that they’d lied about heaven and hell would be some evidence that you can’t trust anything they’re saying, but also evidence that you should be very careful not to dismiss the entirety of their beliefs.
I’m saying that the arguments given in the OP are not nearly enough to justifiably break from Christianity if one previously believed in it.
If some of the evidence for the original belief was statements by people presumed to be honest....
That these people are bothering to establish a church and meet regularly is evidence that they believe something about their beliefs is very important. That they’d lie about heaven and hell is evidence that they think their actual beliefs are very important indeed. Thus figuring out that they’d lied about heaven and hell would be some evidence that you can’t trust anything they’re saying, but also evidence that you should be very careful not to dismiss the entirety of their beliefs.
I’m saying that the arguments given in the OP are not nearly enough to justifiably break from Christianity if one previously believed in it.
Of course not. I understood that as calling attention to the possibility, getting over the stopsigns and looking around.