Gee, what a topic, shows up one morning, almost pulls the traffic from the entire CF site, gets shut down for repairs, and now it’s off again!
Anyway onto dissecting the op, but in a quick fashion since it‘s late.
Ive finally decided to open my mind and realise that there cannot be a God, in the religious sense of the word.
You said “atheist” in the topic title, does this opening statement give a hint that you believe in some sort of god force that exists but is not entirely conscious of it’s surroundings in and of itself? That’s not really atheism, a-theism means no god. But you say “religious” sense, sounds more like new age thought you are injecting here. How much do you really know of this new belief system you are professing here, because an atheist would not confess a god or God in any sense of the word. Sounds like you are mixed up.
The problem really is though, you may be mixed up with what you want to believe, but what you say you did believe, seems to be all mixed up there too. There is no reason for anyone to be mixed up, the bible says ‘study to show yourself approved‘, and when people don’t, well they get mixed up, sometimes contributing to or from a false conversion.
Because any bible student would profess, that there is a ton of evidence for the existence of God, so much in fact, that it takes MUCH more faith to believe otherwise. I just don’t have that sort of faith, to have the absolute truth in my face and think it not to be true and exchange it for something else that has no proof. It simply is statistically impossible that there is no God, the evidence is just too overwhelming that not only there being a God, but that God is the God of the bible, the one that inspired the writing of the bible and moved the hands of those that put the words down.
It all makes sense now, and such a burden of wether or not there is or not is removed as it no longer clouds my thinking.
Emotional response. As a guy I have trouble with understanding this. I rely on my analytical mind to take in the evidence and come to a logical and scientific conclusion from what is presented. After all, God created the sciences, and His hand writing is in every pure science ever revealed to man. I’m no teenage girl to toss reason out and rely on an emotional response to drive my decision making.
The universe is a very beautiful place that doesnt need to be explained. It just is.period.
More emotional responses. I really doubt that you are an atheist at this point, this just makes no logical sense, sorry. If you follow astronomy at all, the discovered complexity of the universe is just overwhelming. When technology was so incapable of revelation many years ago, theories were often all they had, but now those theories are so out of place compared to the vast complexity of the discovered universe, that it takes
real faith not to recognize that it had to be created. And of course creation needs a creator. It would be like dropping a piece of led out of a plane and upon striking the ground it is damaged in such a way that it becomes a fine tuned Swiss watch, that’s how impossible it would be if the universe just happened for no reason.
I wish the rest of mankind would wake up to the fact that religions are run by an elitist few to control the many. Also all of the newage jazz is just another moneyspinner; for example, whenever i go to a website with a paypal donation sign, when the website is supposed to be about someone or some organisation that is already rolling in money, i smell a rat, unfortunately they still make money out of the gullible and uneducated.
Atheism
is a religion!
Here, I’ll fix your statement.
I wish the rest of mankind would wake up to the fact that atheism is run by an elitist few to control the many. Also all of the failed theories are just another moneyspinner they are still pushing; for example, whenever i go to a evolutionist website with a paypal donation sign, when the website is supposed to be about someone or some organisation that is already rolling in money, i smell a rat, unfortunately they still make money out of the gullible and uneducated.
So, in closing, i'd like to say; Stuff the hearafter, and concentrate on life NOW, because a life lived in anticipation of the hearafter isnt a life at all, in fact, its a form of death worship.
Do not worry about tomorrow, today has enough worries of itself. Know where that is in the bible? Like I said, you seem to have not done your studies, have become mixed-up. There may be a chance you never really knew the gospel, never really listened but to just a part and walked on by to scratch you ears with other things said, and that this is just another fad movement for you as many other do in the same regard. Maybe if you really studied Christianity and looked at all the proof, asked the Holy Spirit of God to reveal Jesus to you, you may just find what is true today, that Jesus is Lord and true conversion is required.
I’ll take Godly wisdom over the peace of this world, any day of the week. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.