IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
richardhutnik said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
I think you need to understand that you are making this way more complex than it really is. If God created time (and is not affected by it), then he must be able to predict the future. Do you really think that God has no idea of what you will be doing tomorrow, or what will be your next meal?
For the millionth time: God cannot be omniscient while still not be able to see the future. Here is the definition of omniscient:
"Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight" also: "Possessed of universal or complete knowledge"
The knowledge is not complete, in God's case.
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Considering you completely deleted my post, I would have to then treat your post as its own entity, without context.
As for predicting anything, the word predicting seems off when everything is known. it is just knowing. Beyond this, whatever else you are talking about isn't really anything. You have missed a few points here, how knowing everything connects to anything at all, points which usuall get brought up when discussing things in this area. I believe you also have seemed to confuse having concern for with knowing. One can know every detail, but not find aspects of those details important. Also, one find things of far greater importance in the big picture.
If you want to discuss, then be open to details. If you just want to yammer on and on, and supposedly justify your own points in your own mind, that is must simplier. Just say you believe what you believe and be done with it, and don't feel the compulsion to change the mind of others you know nothing about. The short is, have more security in what you feel, without needing to validate it by getting confirmation on what others think.
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Bolded: I don't know why you put so much weight into making that point. We both know what I meant, and by flawlessly being able to predict the future you obviously also know what will happen and when.
I mean, as humans we can predict lots of things that will happen in the future extremely accurately, but sometime we forget certain details which renders our calculation inaccurate. God, on the other hand, would not make those errors. Present is entirely shaped by the past (which cannot change), thus the future is shaped by present (which then cannot change).
Underlined: That's what I have been doing the entire time, which is supposed to make others question their faith. It is up to others to convince me that I'm wrong if they wish to do so, or they could just ignore posting in this thread.
Italics: I have full security in what I feel. Jesus wanted to spread his view of how He think that others should live (so do God...), so why shouldn't I be allowed to do so?
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One think that is an issue here, is that you presume that people actually care what you think or don't think, and presume that other care to bother to persuade you are wrong. Or the care to bother to have their faith questioned. Why is someone going to care one bit what you think. You, as is I guess typical of people who post on the Internet, are totally devoid of knowing what motivates people.
As for why the idea of Jesus and the religion of Christianity being spread, well, at its core is love actually, in the commands, the idea is one of salvation for people. It offers, by numerous means, commands, and so on, the ability to change lives. And if you care about people, and have the means to help, you can then do help. It is done through people, because people are to be elevated to partners with God and see this. It also offers people the option to say no, and this manifest things. What I see with you? You offer people nothing. You take away. You end up wanting to undermine and destroy what they have that holds them up, and offer them nothing in their place. You don't. If I am going to compare you, or any other stand alone atheist out there, who is on a crusade to deconvert people, to that of genuine people who practice loving faith, to be able to live with, I will go with those of the faith, because I don't see anything you offer of value to humanity. What you do end up, as a byproduct you don't see, is going to produce a society that ends up demanding more and more government services, to address needs that the churches you had churches torn down, have provided. And with this, will come people who are paid to do jobs, rather than people driven by love to make a difference in the lives of others. Of course, you don't see this. Why would you, a puny mortal be able to see the consequences of your actions. You just resent that religion has a moral imperative to reach out, and wish what you believe would, so you do it alone. You are one person on a quest to tip windmills alone.
You know what you remind me of? You remind me of someone I know of, who became an ex-friend, who yells at the world to vote third party, and goes out to beers to discuss with his associates in a "meeting of the minds". He then tells me, after I said it is a bit pointless, and I have a lot of issues I need to go through to "quit your whining". Take that attitude, turn it into a "meeting of the minds" on the Internet, and away we go. In your case, you end you getting frustrated and wonder why you bother, because the world doesn't go along. What you end up missing is a key piece of practical reality. You also miss that someone like myself finds your arguments lacking and understand the basics of how the God of Christianity works, and end up merely refining what I believe by your points. And in this, this discussion is of benefit to me, before it refines what I believe, and is of value. But, from your end, it will be an abysmal failure.