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Jay520 said:
DaRev said:

 (1) (1) We are being punished right now, but through repentance and acceptance of God’s son Jesus you can be forgiven of your sins, even before you die. Death signals the end of humans having the ability to REPENT for their sins. God is not incapable of anything, however, he being a just God has set his rules in place and will follow them, because if he doesn’t he will be breaking his own rules. If you read ROMANS 6 in the bible you will see where it says that we should suffer NOW a SPIRITUAL death, before our physical death, so that we can be forgiven for our sins. Again it is your perception of that blinds you. God uses death as something good (yeah I know it sounds strange) since it takes us out of this world of stress, misery, sin and ultimately death – which is a good thin

2)    (2) God didn’t design humans to fail or sin. The point is that with choice comes the ability for humans to sin, but that doesn’t mean that God designed or wants us to sin. Moreover, God knowing our propensity to sin, had a PLAN OF SALVATION through his son Jesus. So God loved us and provided for even before Adam and Eve sined.

3)    (3) See (1) above. Yes, one must come to the acceptance of God before you die to escape his judgment, but God offers you that opportunity now. That is not a limitation on God because he doesn’t forgive you after you die, but that he is a just God that will follow his own rules.

As for God’s parenting vs that of Humans the bible at Isaiah 55:8-9 says:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 

1.) You are doing nothing to prove that the punishment is fair. Yes, we can repent, and yes, we can be forgiven (only at a certain time though). But that still doesn't negate the fact that the punishment is unfair to begin with. The punishment should have never existed. God designed humans to sin. He shouldn't punish humans for doing something that He designed them to do.

2.) You said earlier that no matter what a human does, they will sin. That means sinning is a part of their inherent nature; it's not something that they choose.  Otherwise, a human would have the ability to choose not to sin (but as you said, humans cannot do so, because they're human). If something is inherent, then it must have been designed by the creator.

3.) God is incapable of forgiving a person who doesn't accept him, period. That shows limitations. It doesn't matter if he created some 'rule' that he must follow, it's still a limitation.

1) Therein lies your problem - you're PERCEPTION is all one sided and biased.

2) Humans also have the innate ability to love and do good, just as they have the innate abolity not to love and to do bad.

3) God is incapable of nothing - but he wouldn't force you to love him. If God goes around greaking his own rules then that certainly is not a good thing. Plus, we chose not to love him, death is only the end of any ability to make that choice. For example, do you love God, Yes or No?



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AstroGamer said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
Interesting theory, but i'm atheist so i don't believe in god, which means I owe him nothing! I have what I have because of my family or my actions, a so called god didn't gave me any fortune or misfortune, it's up to me.

Any problems in this world are created by the selfish act of other people, not a god's incompetence


Yours is an interesting theory as well. For if you believe that all you or anyone has is a result of some human action - then where did you and all other humans themselves come from being able to create those actions to obtain stuff? Also, what about things like air and the sun which humans certainly did not create, where did they come from, logically?

You are right, we didn't create the sun or air or water, but neither did a god, we don't know where they came from, but we are lucky to have them. But I say we get stuff because of our own actions because we control what we do but also our lives are this way because of what people did in the past, people are willing to do things to get wealthier and advance the human race, which is nothing to do with a god. For example, medicine is much better than it ever was before, because people made it better and so more people live. 

But i see you like Nintendo, so i'll try to link to that. Say, if Miyamoto or anyone else didn't choose to expand Nintendo into gaming in the 1980's, great games like Mario or Zelda wouldn't of existed. That's my point

So, you just OK in knowing that things like the sun, air, NATURE exists and really don't care where they came from? Or are you to afraid that if you really thought about it, logically, you're might find that your way viewing the world and where it came from would fall apart?

Your correct that our lives are very depended on what we did in the past - for example, Jesus lived in the past and thus we has Christianity and all of its teachings that we are now debating and affecting our lives even today

As for Mr. Miyamoto, if you trace his ancestory back to his first orginal father and mother - where do you think they came from? Meanng who were the first Father and Mother on Earth?, logically speaking of course

I just don't think nature exists because of some god that probably don't exist anyway. It's impossible to know how life started on Earth and not other planets around it, so i just ignore that, nature was around before people or any religion.

Also, is there any proof that a Jesus existed in bethlehem 2000 years ago?

As for the last part, I don't think we could track back to the first humans, but whoever they were they just evolved from another animal species. I just believe in Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory, where things evolve to fit their environment best over time


On your second "paragraph" yes there is. First of all, even if jesus didn't exist, then the intricate teachings from the bible have to come from somewhere. That creator of those rather radical ideas of the time was "Jesus". Second of all, The sheer number of texts (both true and fake) mention Jesus's name. To universally come up with the same name at roughly same period of time would be highly improbable in 1st and 2nd century AD, so someone named Jesus was teaching these things around that time. Third of all, there are numerous pieces of historical evidence that even several textbooks accept that Jesus of Nazareth was alive and teaching this stuff around 0 AD. His miracles are still up to debate as it is hard to prove something like produce enough bread to feed 5000 from only a few loaves.

I view the genesis story as a neccesary evil. If we wanted complete "free will", then we needed to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil (aka morality). Otherwise, we would be just like dogs, loyal to their master but not making rational choices. He then, punished us to get us to understand that bad things will be punished so that we don't go around commiting evil deeds repeatedly( like serial killers and such).    

Fair enough, but i just don't believe in it. I would have to see such things myself to believe it, it's just hard to tell if jesus and those events happened, or was there just loads of people called jesus around at that time?



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mysticwolf said:
If you believe in God and trust in Him, and accept Jesus as your savior, then you need not be concerned about if your life is miserable. God has a plan for me, and he has a plan for you. I was miserable, and then a few months ago, I felt Him pulling me towards Him, and I didn't resist. I've had a very happy life ever since. I'm sure it won't always be this wonderful, but Jesus is always with us and during the hardest parts of our lives, that is when he is with us the most.


I agree.



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ninetailschris said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

A widely established part in practicing the Abrahamic religions revolves appreciation of not only what you have, but also what you have been given. You are often, if not always, told something along the lines of, "God gave you life and free will. And so you have every reason to be thankful."

On the surface this sounds perfectly reasonable: If it wasn't for God you would not be alive, you would not be able to enjoy life and if he had acted differently you may not even have had a free will at this point. For this reason you should never disrepect God in any sort of way. You owe him everything you have.

Personally, I wouldn't say that we owe him everything though. Even if some believers may say otherwise. I say that he merely gave us the tools: The Earth, life and a free will. Then we and everyone else on this planet used these tools to create our current situation. We owe him the tools, not our own creations such as our children, all the things that we buy and the result (happiness, sadness, etc) of every other action that we make. He made it possible, we made it happen. Thus, while God did create life, you should still go thank your parents for creating you, while solely thanking God for making it possible.

So, at this point we owe God the sheer possibility of making everything that we have possible, and it makes absolute sense to be thankful for that possibility.

...if you have anything to be thankful about, that is. I mean, millions of people have been born only to live through a miserable life. They may have died alone, lived on the streets, were forced to become prostitutes, commited suicide because of all of their misery and so on. Millions (if not billions) of people lived/lives through complete shit despite using their "blessed" free will only for good throughout their lives. They were never rewarded during their lifetimes, or at least not in a notable manner, and always thought deep inside that a quick route away from life would be better than living through the same shit for another 40 years.

And what is God's response to this? APPRECIATE LIFE! Life is a gift! Commiting suicide is a sin! You owe me everything you have! Don't disrespect me by taking your own life, accept the fact that you can't do anything about your situation and start appreciating life! USE MY GIFT! You don't want to go to hell, do you?

Now, at this point I can see one scenario in which case people still would side with God, namely the scenario where God put actual effort into making your life possible. If God actually went through blood, sweat and tears to make your life possible, then maybe it would make sense to show some respect in return. But the truth is that he didn't. God is almighty, remember? We are not the result of a thinking person working hard to achieve something, we are the result of an almighty being committing a random act which required no efforts whatsoever. Sure, the Bible says that he "rested" on the seventh day, but given how that would prove that he is not "fully" almighty I guess even strong believers would agree that that is complete bullshit, while all non-believers (well, and some believers) simply add this to the pile of contradictions found in the Holy Bible.

Thus, the only reason left for these people to love and worship God should be their desire to enter heaven, not out of appreciation for what they have. They have every right to complain about their situation, but should refrain from doing so in an act of selfishness.....

 

In conclusion: A person who lives through nothing but shit despite great efforts owes God nothing but shit. And God should not expect these people to appreciate the lives that they have been given. They could and should complain about God being unfair, but probably won't since they fear going to hell.

 

I'm not saying that miserable people finding comfort through God is a bad thing. All I'm saying is that God is unjust. What do you say?

"We owe him the tools, not our own creations such as our children, all the things that we buy and the result (happiness, sadness, etc) of every other action that we make. He made it possible, we made it happen. Thus, while God did create life, you should still go thank your parents for creating you, while solely thanking God for making it possible."

Reading this seems like a downplay of everything in which holds no ground.  You try using semti cs to create this point. If God created  your great great great great (you get the point) parnets then you owe him for your existence. Plus we also must ask why can't he just take it all back any second as he OWNS everything you make. Then yes you still owe him. You don't own anything and don't deserve anything so you owe him now if you just say well I don't have thank him then it's really you just arguing in a circle.  You can't make anything happen without him first approving it which he does.... so there is no argument here beside arguing I don't feel like a owe God. 

"...if you have anything to be thankful about, that is. I mean, millions of people have been born only to live through a miserable life. They may have died alone, lived on the streets, were forced to become prostitutes, commited suicide because of all of their misery and so on. Millions (if not billions) of people lived/lives through complete shit despite using their "blessed" free will only for good throughout their lives. They were never rewarded during their lifetimes, or at least not in a notable manner, and always thought deep inside that a quick route away from life would be better than living through the same shit for another 40 years."

And millions have had  turn there life around and lived happy life. And we must not forget that one person dies it isn't over and stops. When that person dies on the corner by himself rejected by society he ISN'T rejected by Jesus based on society.  Because of Jesus atonement and what God has deemed from it.... it doesn't end with the earth. Therefor, if you lived a horrible life on earth you can still go with Jesus on judgement day and will be washed of the evils of this world and go on to live forever purity. It is describe in the bible to be with God is to live imagnie the greatesst feeling and than imagine it being better. So, if we were to go on EVEN futher if you go to have you have eternality of to thank God for. So, again even if I got stabbed to death by some killer or family members were to die I know it's not over and ONLY the beginning.

"They were never rewarded during their lifetimes"

Why does it have to be in earth time when it is know that heaven is the ulimate reward (eternality of greatness). You act like heaven doesn't exist in christianity and that life stops here on earth when even Paul who was being beaten badly  and knew he would be put to death knew it would not end here. Please don't ignore heaven into math because your giving half an argument more like a straw man.

"And what is God's response to this? APPRECIATE LIFE! Life is a gift! Commiting suicide is a sin! You owe me everything you have! Don't disrespect me by taking your own life, accept the fact that you can't do anything about your situation and start appreciating life! USE MY GIFT! You don't want to go to hell, do you?"

Wow someone arguing for suicide LOL that is a good one.  Anyway back to the subject of suicide the point is to never give up on life and that there is ALWAYS a chance to change things or progress in someway if that means dieing to protect what you believe or something related. If you are not getting food or beaten then try to something to change it. It's never over until you die. But on the note of biblical does it say anything about suicide being morally wrong  nothing is noted on suicide being wrong but in 

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)." Copy and pasted

But this passage is descibing that you should not treat your body wrong by harming yourself or someone else. And this is all assumed for the person to be a christian and not someone would doesn't know God or the bible. So, how does this relate to a person who doesn't know God/Bible would be based on Romans where God judges you based on your knowledge of the specific laws and  as it based on common laws that God expects from all. 

"

Philippians 1:20-26:

Paul is contemplating whether it is better to live or die.  He is hard pressed to decide between the two, "having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you...yet what I shall choose I cannot tell." One commentator writes of this passage that Paul "does not know whether he prefers life with labor or death with gain...in a life-and-death situation, he scarcely knows which alternative is to be preferred." He chooses life." http://www.religioustolerance.org/sui_cscr.htm

^ Copy and pasted.

Suicide is touched here.  

"Numbers 11:12-15 Moses was in despair because of the complaints of the Israelites whom he was leading. The burden of leadership was too heavy for him to bear. He asked God "If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now...""

Moses asking for God to kill him but was rejected because he had to do his job.

 

Copy and pasted.

"Jonah 4:1-11 God had threatened the destruction of the Nineveh, a city of 120,000 people. But the king and people of the city listened to Jonah, repented of their sins, and fasted. God changed his mind and did not destroy the city. Jonah was so angry at God's display of mercy that he asked God to kill him, "for it is better for me to die than to live!" He repeated the same request to God on the next day."

 

This was rejected too. But I think the point is that suicide was usually stated to God and was rejected but wasn't taken as a great moral sin but as decisions these people made must of which were rejected because of them having a job to do still. So, to say if you kill yourself  and you will go to hell will have to depend on the context of which you killed yourself on and how God reacts to it. So, basically like everything in life it's not balck and white as you put it because your looking for the easy answer for simple mindedness.

"Now, at this point I can see one scenario in which case people still would side with God, namely the scenario where God put actual effort into making your life possible. If God actually went through blood, sweat and tears to make your life possible, then maybe it would make sense to show some respect in return. But the truth is that he didn't. God is almighty, remember? We are not the result of a thinking person working hard to achieve something, we are the result of an almighty being committing a random act which required no efforts whatsoever. Sure, the Bible says that he "rested" on the seventh day, but given how that would prove that he is not "fully" almighty I guess even strong believers would agree that that is complete bullshit, while all non-believers (well, and some believers) simply add this to the pile of contradictions found in the Holy Bible."

How was it random? Do you know what random is? When you get up at night and create breakfest is that random? Where do you get your defintions from?

You don't go through a organized progress and say it's "random". Man this is going to be the new Abarham didn't know God would do something LOL(EVEN QUOTED HERBEWS TWICE WERE HE SAID HE DID XD ). I would quote where he says "this was good" showing conscience decision and the process he made to create life but at this point if you don't understand basic words why bother.

On the point of "which required no efforts whatsoever" so if I were rich... and gave 100,000 dollars to charity then I we should not praise me because alll had to do was give some paper to the organization.  Let's make this even better what if I never had to work in life from a trustfund from my parnets and gave fraction 5 percent to a charity should we not thank me at all? Man that guy had to do nothing but give some paper to person and kids were able to eat and have a better living. Haha  no effort I'm a better person because did more physical work then him and I worked harder! No, come back to reality the amount of work a person puts into someone based on resources doesn't change the fact of a good deed it just makes you look very angry at life based on your limited resources. What did you want God to become a human and start fixing things up himself with limited ability do not realize how stupid that sounds? Your saying because God had the ablitity to create something with no effort that takes away the good being done. Let me give you one more example, so if I were to build a home for  homeless people and have crapload of money which iI didn't work for does that mean the homeless shouldn't feel thankful? Oh... wait good job exposing your great logic you just proved how bitter your life really is. Your not at this point trying to see if God is bad or good your just trying to fed your own ego based on your bias on christianity. This is why I warned you not to make topics like this because there poor and ego boosting. Watch you dodge this one  because you always do then create the same subject somewhere else.

"Thus, the only reason left for these people to love and worship God should be their desire to enter heaven, not out of appreciation for what they have. They have every right to complain about their situation, but should refrain from doing so in an act of selfishness....."

Yup people.... don't be happy you can loving family and that you all unique personallites. Don't be happy you have dreams. You would rather be dog chasing your own tail then trying to actual affect the world around you. Make sure to tell rich people who fund goodprograms to screw it and that they don't put as much enough as you in life! Live a hateful life don't thank anyone for that matter because really this thread really is about not being thank you for anything but yourself. I mean please tell why I couldn't use this poor arguemts against anyone? If someone libves your life don't thank them ! You should thank there parnets for borning them as they gave them the tools to do it! Oh wait... but who borned those parnets... Yea, I mean people are killing themselves is way better then finding a way out of hell hole because we know don't know anybody out that has miserable life and turns it around. I mean I personally worked with mentally challenged kids when I was in school and was the only male to do so because it wasn't "cool" and when the kids thank me for being there for them they really shouldn't have because society gave me the tools to help them!  I mean all had to do was talked to the kids and play with them it didn't take any resources from me! Man it's a good thing I know IIIIITHE1IIIII is giving his time and effort to charities  like I am like cleaning out rivers and helping children because he a he really cares about this people! Thank God we have people like him that complain about people being miserable and does everything he can to help them! He truely cares about people he is talking about  because he takes his resources that he has to help him. Man I bet he gave more to charities then he did to video games this year alone! 

In conclusion.

Using your arguments I can say nobody is owes anything no one is needed to be thanked. Heck, using your standards I can't find one person to thank in my whole life can't even thank my parnets without being hypocrite and really thanking my grandparnets  for borning them. Your standard if isn't Godly posssible what do you think of a human ever reaching it. Heck, I don't even think you come even close to be thank for anything based on your own standard for God. It's basically argument made to be winned by arguing with personal bias with no actual substance . It was basically if your God and you anything for me it will not matter ANYWAY way because it would take no effort from him. You destroy any argument against it because it was so dumb you would have to first believe that was even a honest point or even coherent to begin with.  This truely has to be the worst thread you ever made. It seriously makes me wonder even remotely if you realize that you have  a strong bias against God in which you create special pleading arguments.

Quote of the week. [I will put in my sig at some point because how much of a facepalm I had)

"Sure, the Bible says that he "rested" on the seventh day, but given how that would prove that he is not "fully" almighty"

 

rest·edrest·ingrests
v.intr.
1. To cease motion, work, or activity.
Just stop. Just stop. 
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it [holy],because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
He was finished and didn't do anything else that day being it was the Holy Day in which your suppose to do relax( do nothing important but give thanks to God). Come on ... basic reading ability(context clues) and defintions would tell you that. But just in case.
 Sunday in jewish  tradition is the day you relax and don't do work. This is the day you give thanks to God's creation. This is the day you don't work. 
So, let's think real hard when it says  he rested... did he  A) Felt tired   B) Used all of his ability  3) Just stopped because he was done and was proclaimed the day of rest for everyone.
No, it wasn't A it's was C better luck next time. Read up on [Sabbath] you may learn something.
Btw I used that verse because that's one you probably remember you probably don't know the verse before. lol
2 [By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing]; [so on] the seventh day he rested from all his work.
^ LOL
^ Don't believe me? Read it yourself. Becareful not make obvious screw ups like this one.
Well, I'm off I doubt you will respond to anything that makes you look like you have no crediability like always. I had fun with this one because of how obviously flawed. Still loling at how you said that Abarham not fully trusting  God was a contradiction and when I asked how you had nothing. xD
Go read on bible before making topics and look up background information to make sure topics like these don't happen. Plus use some common sense.

 

 



Brilliant response.



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the2real4mafol said:
AstroGamer said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
Interesting theory, but i'm atheist so i don't believe in god, which means I owe him nothing! I have what I have because of my family or my actions, a so called god didn't gave me any fortune or misfortune, it's up to me.

Any problems in this world are created by the selfish act of other people, not a god's incompetence


Yours is an interesting theory as well. For if you believe that all you or anyone has is a result of some human action - then where did you and all other humans themselves come from being able to create those actions to obtain stuff? Also, what about things like air and the sun which humans certainly did not create, where did they come from, logically?

You are right, we didn't create the sun or air or water, but neither did a god, we don't know where they came from, but we are lucky to have them. But I say we get stuff because of our own actions because we control what we do but also our lives are this way because of what people did in the past, people are willing to do things to get wealthier and advance the human race, which is nothing to do with a god. For example, medicine is much better than it ever was before, because people made it better and so more people live. 

But i see you like Nintendo, so i'll try to link to that. Say, if Miyamoto or anyone else didn't choose to expand Nintendo into gaming in the 1980's, great games like Mario or Zelda wouldn't of existed. That's my point

So, you just OK in knowing that things like the sun, air, NATURE exists and really don't care where they came from? Or are you to afraid that if you really thought about it, logically, you're might find that your way viewing the world and where it came from would fall apart?

Your correct that our lives are very depended on what we did in the past - for example, Jesus lived in the past and thus we has Christianity and all of its teachings that we are now debating and affecting our lives even today

As for Mr. Miyamoto, if you trace his ancestory back to his first orginal father and mother - where do you think they came from? Meanng who were the first Father and Mother on Earth?, logically speaking of course

I just don't think nature exists because of some god that probably don't exist anyway. It's impossible to know how life started on Earth and not other planets around it, so i just ignore that, nature was around before people or any religion.

Also, is there any proof that a Jesus existed in bethlehem 2000 years ago?

As for the last part, I don't think we could track back to the first humans, but whoever they were they just evolved from another animal species. I just believe in Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory, where things evolve to fit their environment best over time


On your second "paragraph" yes there is. First of all, even if jesus didn't exist, then the intricate teachings from the bible have to come from somewhere. That creator of those rather radical ideas of the time was "Jesus". Second of all, The sheer number of texts (both true and fake) mention Jesus's name. To universally come up with the same name at roughly same period of time would be highly improbable in 1st and 2nd century AD, so someone named Jesus was teaching these things around that time. Third of all, there are numerous pieces of historical evidence that even several textbooks accept that Jesus of Nazareth was alive and teaching this stuff around 0 AD. His miracles are still up to debate as it is hard to prove something like produce enough bread to feed 5000 from only a few loaves.

I view the genesis story as a neccesary evil. If we wanted complete "free will", then we needed to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil (aka morality). Otherwise, we would be just like dogs, loyal to their master but not making rational choices. He then, punished us to get us to understand that bad things will be punished so that we don't go around commiting evil deeds repeatedly( like serial killers and such).    

Fair enough, but i just don't believe in it. I would have to see such things myself to believe it, it's just hard to tell if jesus and those events happened, or was there just loads of people called jesus around at that time?

You have a right/choice not to believe. But what if you're wrong and what if you right? Do you care?



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babuks said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:

Perhaps, but the same could be said for God. Both the BBT and the creationist theory propose that something happened for no reason (well, actually proponents of the BBT don't believe something happened for no reason; they're still investigating the origins of the universe). What makes the BBT more valid is the fact that it doesn't assume the existence of extra beings which we have no evidence of.

If you think there's evidence of a creator, then fine. But how do you know there is only one creator? And how do you know that creator is conscious, all-knowing, all-powerful, and most importantly, all-loving? I mean...how can you add all these traits to it? Saying there was a creator is alerady a stretch, but to add such random traits like being all-loving is ridiculous. It's not necessary to support your audience and just makes it seem even more unbelievable.

Just because we don't know something, doesn't mean we HAVE to jump to a conclusion and blame God. 


Well, you do need some FAITH to answer those questions. Problem is that many people don't have faith. Do you belive there are black holes out in space? Or do you believe in anything you have never or would never see?


You do not need faith to believe in the Big Bang Theory, at least not much of it. The universe is shown now to be expanding. Logic suggest that if you go back in time, the universe would shrink. And if you go back far enough, then you will reach a singular point. 

On the other hand, where is the evidenece for the Christian God. Some people believe there must have been a creator, that's fine. But where is the evidence for only one God? Where is the evidence that He's all powerful? Where is the evidence that He knows everthing? Where is the evidence that He even loves at all, let alone is all-loving. Also, there are dozens upon dozens of interpretations of what the creator(s) supposedly is. Needless to say, the faith required to believe in God is exponentionally greater than the faith required to believe in things live black holes.

When scientists from different times and different parts of the world all agree that there all black holes, and they agree on what black holes actually are, then it's safe to believe they are true. However, no one can point to evidence that there is a creator that's singular, omnibeloved, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, conscious, and eternal, then you could compare the Christian God to Black Holes. AND once everyone can agree on the structure and function of God, then you could compare the Christian God to Black Holes.

Like I said, I can understand the belief in a creator. But to add all those traits is unjustified.


You do realise that many Scientists have come to the conclusion that there MUST be a creator - right?

And how do rationalise or understand the belief that there is a creator, but don't understand that he has the ability to love his creation?


Funny thing is even a pin has to be made by someone. It does not come to existence of its own. But this whole world, the herbs, animals, planets, water etc all came into existence without any creator. It's a crazy thinking and sometimes I can't believe a person, reading science etc, can't understand this simple matter.

 

Stop judging religion by Bible alone. Bible has many scientific flaws because some of its parts are fabricated (this is proved by 52 christian scholers of highest eminent). Read Quran, the last revelation sent by God and you will see it is compatible with science or the science is compatible with it. It is not fabricated as it is available in its original language sent 1400 years before and millions of Muslims memorize it by heart from first to last. 

 

Suppose, there is no God, then we all lead our lives and then die, nothing to worry about. But if there is, then after death we cannot return to change our fate. It is this world where we have to act. And afterlife, that is the day of judgment.

What?! – now here is where things get interesting. What in the bible is inaccurate or flawed, name just one thing, and it’s equivalent or right or true response from the Quran.





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DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
AstroGamer said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
Interesting theory, but i'm atheist so i don't believe in god, which means I owe him nothing! I have what I have because of my family or my actions, a so called god didn't gave me any fortune or misfortune, it's up to me.

Any problems in this world are created by the selfish act of other people, not a god's incompetence


Yours is an interesting theory as well. For if you believe that all you or anyone has is a result of some human action - then where did you and all other humans themselves come from being able to create those actions to obtain stuff? Also, what about things like air and the sun which humans certainly did not create, where did they come from, logically?

You are right, we didn't create the sun or air or water, but neither did a god, we don't know where they came from, but we are lucky to have them. But I say we get stuff because of our own actions because we control what we do but also our lives are this way because of what people did in the past, people are willing to do things to get wealthier and advance the human race, which is nothing to do with a god. For example, medicine is much better than it ever was before, because people made it better and so more people live. 

But i see you like Nintendo, so i'll try to link to that. Say, if Miyamoto or anyone else didn't choose to expand Nintendo into gaming in the 1980's, great games like Mario or Zelda wouldn't of existed. That's my point

So, you just OK in knowing that things like the sun, air, NATURE exists and really don't care where they came from? Or are you to afraid that if you really thought about it, logically, you're might find that your way viewing the world and where it came from would fall apart?

Your correct that our lives are very depended on what we did in the past - for example, Jesus lived in the past and thus we has Christianity and all of its teachings that we are now debating and affecting our lives even today

As for Mr. Miyamoto, if you trace his ancestory back to his first orginal father and mother - where do you think they came from? Meanng who were the first Father and Mother on Earth?, logically speaking of course

I just don't think nature exists because of some god that probably don't exist anyway. It's impossible to know how life started on Earth and not other planets around it, so i just ignore that, nature was around before people or any religion.

Also, is there any proof that a Jesus existed in bethlehem 2000 years ago?

As for the last part, I don't think we could track back to the first humans, but whoever they were they just evolved from another animal species. I just believe in Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory, where things evolve to fit their environment best over time


On your second "paragraph" yes there is. First of all, even if jesus didn't exist, then the intricate teachings from the bible have to come from somewhere. That creator of those rather radical ideas of the time was "Jesus". Second of all, The sheer number of texts (both true and fake) mention Jesus's name. To universally come up with the same name at roughly same period of time would be highly improbable in 1st and 2nd century AD, so someone named Jesus was teaching these things around that time. Third of all, there are numerous pieces of historical evidence that even several textbooks accept that Jesus of Nazareth was alive and teaching this stuff around 0 AD. His miracles are still up to debate as it is hard to prove something like produce enough bread to feed 5000 from only a few loaves.

I view the genesis story as a neccesary evil. If we wanted complete "free will", then we needed to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil (aka morality). Otherwise, we would be just like dogs, loyal to their master but not making rational choices. He then, punished us to get us to understand that bad things will be punished so that we don't go around commiting evil deeds repeatedly( like serial killers and such).    

Fair enough, but i just don't believe in it. I would have to see such things myself to believe it, it's just hard to tell if jesus and those events happened, or was there just loads of people called jesus around at that time?

You have a right/choice not to believe. But what if you're wrong and what if you right? Do you care?

I wouldn't care if people actually found Jesus or the Christian God, but it might actually convince me to be a Christian if they did find him. Hopefully, then it will stop the annoying eveangelicals and Jevoha's witness' knocking on doors, i fucking hate those people! But as of now, I'm a happy non religious person. 



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the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
AstroGamer said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
DaRev said:
the2real4mafol said:
Interesting theory, but i'm atheist so i don't believe in god, which means I owe him nothing! I have what I have because of my family or my actions, a so called god didn't gave me any fortune or misfortune, it's up to me.

Any problems in this world are created by the selfish act of other people, not a god's incompetence


Yours is an interesting theory as well. For if you believe that all you or anyone has is a result of some human action - then where did you and all other humans themselves come from being able to create those actions to obtain stuff? Also, what about things like air and the sun which humans certainly did not create, where did they come from, logically?

You are right, we didn't create the sun or air or water, but neither did a god, we don't know where they came from, but we are lucky to have them. But I say we get stuff because of our own actions because we control what we do but also our lives are this way because of what people did in the past, people are willing to do things to get wealthier and advance the human race, which is nothing to do with a god. For example, medicine is much better than it ever was before, because people made it better and so more people live. 

But i see you like Nintendo, so i'll try to link to that. Say, if Miyamoto or anyone else didn't choose to expand Nintendo into gaming in the 1980's, great games like Mario or Zelda wouldn't of existed. That's my point

So, you just OK in knowing that things like the sun, air, NATURE exists and really don't care where they came from? Or are you to afraid that if you really thought about it, logically, you're might find that your way viewing the world and where it came from would fall apart?

Your correct that our lives are very depended on what we did in the past - for example, Jesus lived in the past and thus we has Christianity and all of its teachings that we are now debating and affecting our lives even today

As for Mr. Miyamoto, if you trace his ancestory back to his first orginal father and mother - where do you think they came from? Meanng who were the first Father and Mother on Earth?, logically speaking of course

I just don't think nature exists because of some god that probably don't exist anyway. It's impossible to know how life started on Earth and not other planets around it, so i just ignore that, nature was around before people or any religion.

Also, is there any proof that a Jesus existed in bethlehem 2000 years ago?

As for the last part, I don't think we could track back to the first humans, but whoever they were they just evolved from another animal species. I just believe in Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory, where things evolve to fit their environment best over time


On your second "paragraph" yes there is. First of all, even if jesus didn't exist, then the intricate teachings from the bible have to come from somewhere. That creator of those rather radical ideas of the time was "Jesus". Second of all, The sheer number of texts (both true and fake) mention Jesus's name. To universally come up with the same name at roughly same period of time would be highly improbable in 1st and 2nd century AD, so someone named Jesus was teaching these things around that time. Third of all, there are numerous pieces of historical evidence that even several textbooks accept that Jesus of Nazareth was alive and teaching this stuff around 0 AD. His miracles are still up to debate as it is hard to prove something like produce enough bread to feed 5000 from only a few loaves.

I view the genesis story as a neccesary evil. If we wanted complete "free will", then we needed to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil (aka morality). Otherwise, we would be just like dogs, loyal to their master but not making rational choices. He then, punished us to get us to understand that bad things will be punished so that we don't go around commiting evil deeds repeatedly( like serial killers and such).    

Fair enough, but i just don't believe in it. I would have to see such things myself to believe it, it's just hard to tell if jesus and those events happened, or was there just loads of people called jesus around at that time?

You have a right/choice not to believe. But what if you're wrong and what if you right? Do you care?

I wouldn't care if people actually found Jesus or the Christian God, but it might actually convince me to be a Christian if they did find him. Hopefully, then it will stop the annoying eveangelicals and Jevoha's witness' knocking on doors, i fucking hate those people! But as of now, I'm a happy non religious person. 

That's fine.

But, because they never found him means he didn’t exist? Do you have to be able to locate ever dead person that ever lived, to confirm whether or not they did lived?

Anyways, the reason you can’t find Jesus is because he is risen and not dead – Christianity 101.

You realise that Christians are among the happiest people in the world right?





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DaRev said:
babuks said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:

Perhaps, but the same could be said for God. Both the BBT and the creationist theory propose that something happened for no reason (well, actually proponents of the BBT don't believe something happened for no reason; they're still investigating the origins of the universe). What makes the BBT more valid is the fact that it doesn't assume the existence of extra beings which we have no evidence of.

If you think there's evidence of a creator, then fine. But how do you know there is only one creator? And how do you know that creator is conscious, all-knowing, all-powerful, and most importantly, all-loving? I mean...how can you add all these traits to it? Saying there was a creator is alerady a stretch, but to add such random traits like being all-loving is ridiculous. It's not necessary to support your audience and just makes it seem even more unbelievable.

Just because we don't know something, doesn't mean we HAVE to jump to a conclusion and blame God. 


Well, you do need some FAITH to answer those questions. Problem is that many people don't have faith. Do you belive there are black holes out in space? Or do you believe in anything you have never or would never see?


You do not need faith to believe in the Big Bang Theory, at least not much of it. The universe is shown now to be expanding. Logic suggest that if you go back in time, the universe would shrink. And if you go back far enough, then you will reach a singular point. 

On the other hand, where is the evidenece for the Christian God. Some people believe there must have been a creator, that's fine. But where is the evidence for only one God? Where is the evidence that He's all powerful? Where is the evidence that He knows everthing? Where is the evidence that He even loves at all, let alone is all-loving. Also, there are dozens upon dozens of interpretations of what the creator(s) supposedly is. Needless to say, the faith required to believe in God is exponentionally greater than the faith required to believe in things live black holes.

When scientists from different times and different parts of the world all agree that there all black holes, and they agree on what black holes actually are, then it's safe to believe they are true. However, no one can point to evidence that there is a creator that's singular, omnibeloved, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, conscious, and eternal, then you could compare the Christian God to Black Holes. AND once everyone can agree on the structure and function of God, then you could compare the Christian God to Black Holes.

Like I said, I can understand the belief in a creator. But to add all those traits is unjustified.


You do realise that many Scientists have come to the conclusion that there MUST be a creator - right?

And how do rationalise or understand the belief that there is a creator, but don't understand that he has the ability to love his creation?


Funny thing is even a pin has to be made by someone. It does not come to existence of its own. But this whole world, the herbs, animals, planets, water etc all came into existence without any creator. It's a crazy thinking and sometimes I can't believe a person, reading science etc, can't understand this simple matter.

 

Stop judging religion by Bible alone. Bible has many scientific flaws because some of its parts are fabricated (this is proved by 52 christian scholers of highest eminent). Read Quran, the last revelation sent by God and you will see it is compatible with science or the science is compatible with it. It is not fabricated as it is available in its original language sent 1400 years before and millions of Muslims memorize it by heart from first to last. 

 

Suppose, there is no God, then we all lead our lives and then die, nothing to worry about. But if there is, then after death we cannot return to change our fate. It is this world where we have to act. And afterlife, that is the day of judgment.

What?! – now here is where things get interesting. What in the bible is inaccurate or flawed, name just one thing, and it’s equivalent or right or true response from the Quran.




I will just refer you to this debate:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk61hslLHlw

 

Have a nice time and watch.



To name a few flaws in the Bible:

1. Will the world perish?
- Heavens and the Earth will perish (Book of Psums Ch. 102 V. 25-26).
- The world will abide forever (Book of Psums Ch. 78 V. 69).

2. Heavens (Skies) got pillers (Book of Jobs Ch. 26 V.11).
Quran says in Ch. 31 V. 10 that Heavens don't have pillers.

3. Earth got pillers (Book of Jobs Ch. 9 V. 6), (Book of Psums Ch. 75 V. 3).

4. How to identify a true christian believer?
- There will be signs in the true believer, among the signs - 'in my names they shall caste out devils, they shall speak foreign tongues, they shall take up serpents and if they drink deadly poison, they shall not be harmed, and when they put their hand over the sick, they shall be cured'. (Gospel of Mark Ch. 16 V. 17-18).

There are others as well. You may watch the video for those.