• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Theological thesis:God does not exist

joshua 1 9

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
May 11, 2015
17,420
3,593
Northern Ohio
✟314,607.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Not going to read all of that.
That is ok, I enjoyed writing it and the effort helped me to better understand God. If you do not want to know God then that is up to you. Your choice. You see my effort to help you to understand benefits me. Of course I am sad for you when you reject the best of what God has for you. But it is your choice and your consequences. At some point we just knock the dust from our shoes and continue on to help those who are more open to receive what God has for them.
 
Upvote 0

bhsmte

Newbie
Apr 26, 2013
52,761
11,792
✟254,941.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Others
That is ok, I enjoyed writing it and the effort helped me to better understand God. If you do not want to know God then that is up to you. Your choice. You see my effort to help you to understand benefits me. Of course I am sad for you when you reject the best of what God has for you. But it is your choice and your consequences. At some point we just knock the dust from our shoes and continue on to help those who are more open to receive what God has for them.

Is that your final answer?
 
Upvote 0

joshua 1 9

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
May 11, 2015
17,420
3,593
Northern Ohio
✟314,607.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Is that your final answer?
You do not even want to go as far with it as I went. So there is no reason to write a book on the subject if you are not even interested in reading one paragraph on the mind that we are to have as a born again Christian. There will be a test and if you do not want to apply yourself to know what the correct answer is, then that is your choice to make. If you do not have the Mind of Christ then how do you expect that God will be happy when your works are judged?

Rev12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
 
Upvote 0

bhsmte

Newbie
Apr 26, 2013
52,761
11,792
✟254,941.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Others
You do not even want to go as far with it as I went. So there is no reason to write a book on the subject if you are not even interested in reading one paragraph on the mind that we are to have as a born again Christian. There will be a test and if you do not want to apply yourself to know what the correct answer is, then that is your choice to make. If you do not have the Mind of Christ then how do you expect that God will be happy when your works are judged?

Rev12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

I understand, yes and no questions are really, really hard.

And, manufactured threats may work well for you, but they fall woefully short, on my end.
 
Upvote 0

joshua 1 9

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
May 11, 2015
17,420
3,593
Northern Ohio
✟314,607.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
And, manufactured threats may work well for you, but they fall woefully short, on my end.
I do not think it is a threat to say people are going to be held accountable. We tend to sow what we reap, on the streets they say what goes around comes around. The Buddhists talk about Karma. Even in school you are tested to see if you have done the work you are required to do. So your going to have a long way to go to convince me that you can do what you want and get away with it. My son had that attitude when he was 12 but the older he got the more he realized that we are responsible for the decisions we make in life. Also he realized that the things he thought he was getting away with were catching up with him over time. He never took that into consideration that there seems to be a delay and we do not always get instant results.

Some people think that ignorance is a bliss, but the real point is we well be held responsible for what we know. The "slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." 12:47

You seem to think the Bible is threatening but if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about. It is those who walk in darkness that need to worry because the light will expose their deeds for what they are.
 
Upvote 0

bhsmte

Newbie
Apr 26, 2013
52,761
11,792
✟254,941.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Others
I do not think it is a threat to say people are going to be held accountable. We tend to sow what we reap, on the streets they say what goes around comes around. The Buddhists talk about Karma. Even in school you are tested to see if you have done the work you are required to do. So your going to have a long way to go to convince me that you can do what you want and get away with it. My son had that attitude when he was 12 but the older he got the more he realized that we are responsible for the decisions we make in life. Also he realized that the things he thought he was getting away with were catching up with him over time. He never took that into consideration that there seems to be a delay and we do not always get instant results.

Some people think that ignorance is a bliss, but the real point is we well be held responsible for what we know. The "slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." 12:47

You seem to think the Bible is threatening but if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about. It is those who walk in darkness that need to worry because the light will expose their deeds for what they are.

And some people have difficulty with addressing simple questions and giving simple concise answers.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0

Davian

fallible
May 30, 2011
14,100
1,181
West Coast of Canada
✟46,103.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Ignostic
Marital Status
Married
Inadmissible to everyone generally do you not know that carbon dating is the least accurate dating method due to the fact that elements easily affect carbon

Concerning biblical basics, God walked with man in the garden, the flood happened after the garden
Carbon dating is not as accurate as other methods, so we can throw out virtually all of mainstream science to believe in a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0

joshua 1 9

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
May 11, 2015
17,420
3,593
Northern Ohio
✟314,607.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
And some people have difficulty with addressing simple questions and giving simple concise answers.
Some people serve God and making Him happy is their main priority. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added onto you.
 
Upvote 0

Joshua Caleb

Active Member
Aug 30, 2015
28
0
33
✟22,638.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Carbon dating is not as accurate as other methods, so we can throw out virtually all of mainstream science to believe in a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every object measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
Maybe its not about throwing out science, its about leaving out inconvenient science, is it not Newtons third law that states that for every action there is a reaction, in that case which action provoked the big bang, God is spirit, therefore without physics but He created the heavens and the earth, physics.
 
Upvote 0

Davian

fallible
May 30, 2011
14,100
1,181
West Coast of Canada
✟46,103.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Ignostic
Marital Status
Married
Maybe its not about throwing out science, its about leaving out inconvenient science, is it not Newtons third law that states that for every action there is a reaction, in that case which action provoked the big bang, God is spirit, therefore without physics but He created the heavens and the earth, physics.
Throwing out science inconvenient for your beliefs? You make your theology intellectually bankrupt.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bhsmte
Upvote 0

Joshua Caleb

Active Member
Aug 30, 2015
28
0
33
✟22,638.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Throwing out science inconvenient for your beliefs? You make your theology intellectually bankrupt.
No you just providing empty baseless notion you cant prove while avoiding the argument at hand, by submitting empty retoric in return
 
Upvote 0

Davian

fallible
May 30, 2011
14,100
1,181
West Coast of Canada
✟46,103.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Ignostic
Marital Status
Married
No you just providing empty baseless notion
Where did I do that?
you cant prove
I never claimed to be able to prove anything.
while avoiding the argument at hand,
Which argument? The one regarding your claim of carbon dating not being as accurate as other methods, so we can throw out virtually all of mainstream science to believe in a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
by submitting empty retoric in return
The question is, do you have anything other than empty rhetoric?
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0