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I have been shown the truth by God, so I need not wait for proof. But you, you see with your eyes and hear with your ears, but will not know the truth until the end.Yes you have been taken for a ride.
You have imagination.I have been shown the truth by God, so I need not wait for proof. But you, you see with your eyes and hear with your ears, but will not know the truth until the end.
Now you are getting it. "magic" "supernatural" "Creator" "God"..... they all make this possible. Without something "magic" you have no life. This is why evolutionists will not go near the "origin" of life with a ten foot pole.Creationists will believe whatever they want to believe regardless, when someone believes in magic there is nothing more to say.
God wrote it down so I would know.
I have been shown the truth by God, so I need not wait for proof. But you, you see with your eyes and hear with your ears, but will not know the truth until the end.
Okay, so I don't get it. Why do I (or Anyone for that matter) have to give up my critical faculties in order to come to know God... or Allah, or Vishnu, or Zeuss, Odin, the FSM, etc. ? Why is it that the only way to come to "truth" is by discarding evidenced reality? If God were true, surely he'd be in keeping with his Creation, and not be in contradiction with it, right?
Because apparently, God wants mindless followers -- not mindless by design (He could've done that himself), but mindless by choice.
Okay, so I don't get it. Why do I (or Anyone for that matter) have to give up my critical faculties in order to come to know God... or Allah, or Vishnu, or Zeuss, Odin, the FSM, etc. ? Why is it that the only way to come to "truth" is by discarding evidenced reality? If God were true, surely he'd be in keeping with his Creation, and not be in contradiction with it, right?
What about questioning dogma?You don't need to "give up" your "critical faculties" to come to God.
That is a false presumption often made of Christians. God wants us to use the minds He gave us. He doesn't desire mindless followers who never think, never question and never seek discernment.
I think the OP is referring to faith in the religious sense, which means believing irrespective of how well grounded the belief is, and maintaining belief even if the preponderance of evidence stands opposed to that belief. It's not merely about whether the religionist is able to produce a reason for their belief, but whether those reasons adequately justify the belief. We know that the religious are able to give many reasons for their supernatural claims. The question is whether those reasons are strong enough to warrant the confidence they have in those claims.
What about questioning dogma?
Can you question dogma though?By all means, question it, seek wisdom and discernment in all things.
How shall we answer it except by examining it as honestly as we can?Sure, but how is that a question you can answer for someone else?
What a wonderful imagination you have, sadly death puts pay to all of our imaginations, our minds and all that's in them dies when our brains die, believe me no one wishes we were all going to another place when we die more than me but it's just not going to happen, even if we wish and wish and wish it's still not going to happen, but if it helps you to cope with this life then go for it and wish away to your hearts content.
Religions have a negative effect on our lives because all they do is drag us down, they give us false hopes that death is not the end when everything else tells us it is, why waste time trying to change the inevitable? live the one life you have and enjoy it because we "Know" we have this one but we only wish we had another one.
Because you have not correctly assessed your "reality."Okay, so I don't get it. Why do I (or Anyone for that matter) have to give up my critical faculties in order to come to know God... or Allah, or Vishnu, or Zeuss, Odin, the FSM, etc. ? Why is it that the only way to come to "truth" is by discarding evidenced reality? If God were true, surely he'd be in keeping with his Creation, and not be in contradiction with it, right?
It was men who said they had been moved by God to write it down so it's men you believe not God?I have "magic". I have God. God wrote it down so I would know.
Can you question dogma though?
How shall we answer it except by examining it as honestly as we can?
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