"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[Peh]

clevited said:

Valid points, but are people really trying to put God further and further away in order to validate a religion, or are we just coming to understand what God would be scientifically in order to make sense of religion. I think both occur.

I recommend you read that web page if you haven't already. There are some Bible text in there that could be interpreted as God being a multidimensional being. I am just presenting an often overlooked scientific idea that somehow atheists (whom often use the scientific method as reason to not believe God could exist) disregard.

 

Oh and thanks for the warm welcome, I enjoy this topic. I have one foot in religion and one foot in scientific, I like to try and see the world from all sides.

 

Ninja edit: I will try and answers your questions more formally later, using my phone for this is becoming a pain. 

You didn't addressed the "god of the gaps" argumentation, because you do the same fallacy again. You can't just place God in all the gaps where science still has no answer at how things work. Not just that, but you also have to explain which of the 50,000 known gods it is and why. And that's an understatement of how high the number of gods could be. 

The other thing I am bothered with is "interpretation". Thanks to that one we have several hundreds of branches for Christianity alone. God really did pulled a well understanding and not misinterpreting piece of work out there. Not that it informs us about some almighty powerful being creating this universe (in the wrong order), but what truly is missing is the little details that's been left out like bacteria and viruses. Or even on what the world is build on like quarks, forces and energy. I mean, it's not a science book, but at least, for an almighty being, it could add something that certainly wasn't already known during that time.

You are welcome. I am an ex-Christian. I became an atheist by trying to understand what God is. In order to do so, I had to reset all what I was told and begin from scratch.

The question I am still bugged with is... does God know what it is? Why it is? Why it exists? You must try to imagine that you are the first being ever made. The first things that come into your mind should be your own identity. And eventually and understanding of how to use your power. Not just that, the most terrifying thing is loneliness. There is no one besides you who can answer those questions. And hey... maybe God created this world just for that. And not just that, he did so, so he could live in it by forgetting his knowledge of being God. It's probably the only way to forget the pain of not knowing. Maybe he wants to see other beings like humans on how they approach this question.  In all that is, this could be just a simulation.