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Why should I believe in God?
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<blockquote data-quote="Digit" data-source="post: 55253217" data-attributes="member: 180587"><p>At the end of the day I think you will find that want or not want, play very little part in our beliefs. They will shield you from the truth for only so long, and I'm not even talking about religion at this point, or God. As to what your parents made you do, well, that is how things work. When you are young, and a child under the guardianship of your parents, they have legal rights and parental rights which they can and do enforce. Sometimes parents make good decisions, other times not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This comes down to textual criticism and the Bible has a fairly extensive foundation of support for it's manuscripts. Historical accuracy is a science unto itself and it's very interesting, at least I thought so, reading about it. There are a lot of good sites with information on it, but if you are interested I would certainly suggest Reasonable Faith, which is Dr William Lane Craig's site and it has a host of information on it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well no one / nothing created God, if we believe what is written in the Bible. The word for God, translates to 'uncreated one' or something similar. This is further supported by the mention of God and time in the Bible. Only things within the realm of time can be created, because creation takes place -at- a point in time, God is not within time as we are, and as such, He is uncreated and eternal.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No. The universe is temporal, we can trace it's lifespan back to a point in time. Whilst we cannot do that scientifically with God, we know what we are told of His character and being, which is that He is timeless, and as such we cannot trace His existence to a period of time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well typically fundamental Biblical literalists do. ie Those who read Genesis as a eye-witness historical narrative of the literal creation days.</p><p></p><p>This is a misconception. You cannot just read Genesis and then impose your own understanding of the passages on it. It comes back to what I was saying earlier about textual criticism and in the case of Genesis, linguistics - which is the study of language. You can tell a lot from the use of subjects and verbs within a text, and how they are used throughout the text in similar areas, was the writer being allegorical or metaphorical or literal or historical etc. It's a fairly extensive subject, and I don't blame someone for not really having the heart or time to investigate it as I find it pretty boring, at the least the process, I tend to skip to the results or like many, I find someone who I feel confident in taking their word for it, and go with whatever they say - where they have studied Biblical Greek and Hebrew for 20 years or so and are experts in their field.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well some come for entertainment. I actually stopped coming here because it got flooded with trolls a while back when the rules were slightly slacker, but now it's been cleaned up a lot more and we generally get genuine seekers or non-theists genuinely interested in learning something or finding out about a competing view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Digit, post: 55253217, member: 180587"] At the end of the day I think you will find that want or not want, play very little part in our beliefs. They will shield you from the truth for only so long, and I'm not even talking about religion at this point, or God. As to what your parents made you do, well, that is how things work. When you are young, and a child under the guardianship of your parents, they have legal rights and parental rights which they can and do enforce. Sometimes parents make good decisions, other times not. This comes down to textual criticism and the Bible has a fairly extensive foundation of support for it's manuscripts. Historical accuracy is a science unto itself and it's very interesting, at least I thought so, reading about it. There are a lot of good sites with information on it, but if you are interested I would certainly suggest Reasonable Faith, which is Dr William Lane Craig's site and it has a host of information on it. Well no one / nothing created God, if we believe what is written in the Bible. The word for God, translates to 'uncreated one' or something similar. This is further supported by the mention of God and time in the Bible. Only things within the realm of time can be created, because creation takes place -at- a point in time, God is not within time as we are, and as such, He is uncreated and eternal. No. The universe is temporal, we can trace it's lifespan back to a point in time. Whilst we cannot do that scientifically with God, we know what we are told of His character and being, which is that He is timeless, and as such we cannot trace His existence to a period of time. Well typically fundamental Biblical literalists do. ie Those who read Genesis as a eye-witness historical narrative of the literal creation days. This is a misconception. You cannot just read Genesis and then impose your own understanding of the passages on it. It comes back to what I was saying earlier about textual criticism and in the case of Genesis, linguistics - which is the study of language. You can tell a lot from the use of subjects and verbs within a text, and how they are used throughout the text in similar areas, was the writer being allegorical or metaphorical or literal or historical etc. It's a fairly extensive subject, and I don't blame someone for not really having the heart or time to investigate it as I find it pretty boring, at the least the process, I tend to skip to the results or like many, I find someone who I feel confident in taking their word for it, and go with whatever they say - where they have studied Biblical Greek and Hebrew for 20 years or so and are experts in their field. Well some come for entertainment. I actually stopped coming here because it got flooded with trolls a while back when the rules were slightly slacker, but now it's been cleaned up a lot more and we generally get genuine seekers or non-theists genuinely interested in learning something or finding out about a competing view. [/QUOTE]
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