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Kindly note, this is a Christian subforum - Atheist ideology doesn't really have a place here.
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Kindly note, this is a Christian subforum - Atheist ideology doesn't really have a place here.Theology says God is the creator, which may or may not be true. We have convictions about God; we don't have certainty. Regardless of whether theology or atheism is true, the natural order - including rabbits - is the domain of science. You continue to mix apples and oranges.
Are we required to pretend it doesn't exist? The fact is, any rational Jew, Christian, Muslim or Hindu has to acknowledge at least the possibility that atheism, or a theism far from Judaism, Christianity, Islam or Hinduism, could be true. In any event, your effort to make rabbits part of theology is just simply wrong. Your original post literally makes no sense.Kindly note, this is a Christian subforum - Atheist ideology doesn't really have a place here.
God creating the universe is a foundational aspect of theology.Are we required to pretend it doesn't exist? The fact is, any rational Jew, Christian, Muslim or Hindu has to acknowledge at least the possibility that atheism, or a theism far from Judaism, Christianity, Islam or Hinduism, could be true. In any event, your effort to make rabbits part of theology is just simply wrong. Your original post literally makes no sense.
Getting touchy, now. I've been a staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ and am a graduate of a Southern Baptist seminary, so let's not go into "holier than thou" mode. Sure, creation is a fundamental aspect of Christian theology and many others. The fact is, rational believers accept the possibility that theology could be wrong. I simply pointed out that rabbits are in the domain of science regardless of whether theology or atheism is correct and that speaking of rabbits in the manner you did in your original post simply makes no sense. "A heretical paradox" - what??? What is that even supposed to mean?God creating the universe is a foundational aspect of theology.
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So you were a church kid who worked his way up the food chain, your statements that God may not exist (and should we just pretend he does?) generally is an Atheist statement.Getting touchy, now. I've been a staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ and am a graduate of a Southern Baptist seminary, so let's not go into "holier than thou" mode. Sure, creation is a fundamental aspect of Christian theology and many others. The fact is, rational believers accept the possibility that theology could be wrong. I simply pointed out that rabbits are in the domain of science regardless of whether theology or atheism is correct and that speaking of rabbits in the manner you did in your original post simply makes no sense. "A heretical paradox" - what??? What is that even supposed to mean?
No, virtually every major Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant theologian acknowledges that honest doubt or questioning is an element of the deepest faith. If you doubt this, simply Google "doubt as an element of faith." If you prefer to think otherwise, be my guest.So you were a church kid who worked his way up the food chain, your statements that God may not exist (and should we just pretend he does?) generally is an Atheist statement.
Doubt as an element of faith doesn't necessarily require us to acknowledge there is a genuine metaphysical possibility He doesn't exist. Aseity dictates that God must exist, because there must be some prime simple that qualifies as God. Whether that is a personal being, and Jesus may be open to suspicion, but correct reasoning should lead to recognizing the metaphysical impossibilitiy of something that's existence compels its own existence existing. Just because it is hypothetically possible for God to not exist doesn't mean that it is metaphysically possible, nor are we under any obligation to entertain the hypothetical.No, virtually every major Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant theologian acknowledges that honest doubt or questioning is an element of the deepest faith. If you doubt this, simply Google "doubt as an element of faith." If you prefer to think otherwise, be my guest.
No, we don't pretend God exists. We reach a conviction that he does and we live as though he does - while accepting the possibility that we could be wrong. Pretend certainty - because that's all it can be - is the dangerous form of pretending.
You are entitled to any opinion you may opine.Wow are you ever confused.
That is where we part ways.Theology is indeed the study of God. You or I may believe in God, but God is a metaphysical unknown -i.e., God may or may not exist.
Then you had better call them something besides "proofs".Theological "proofs" are not proofs at all but rather attempts to show that belief in God is rational and plausible. Other theological studies assume the existence of God and attempt to put meat on the bones of the God concept.
The natural order was made by and managed by God.Rabbits are part of the natural order. The natural order is the domain of science. Theology does not study the natural order or attempt to prove anything about it.
By separating creation from the Creator, you are turning apples into oranges.You are simply mixing apples and oranges, seemingly on the basis of a misunderstanding of what theology means and does. The existence of rabbits is no more a theological issue than it is a philosophical issue; it's a scientific issue, period.
This implies that believers in Christ who believe in God without reservations are irrational. This can be read as flaming your fellow Christians.The fact is, rational believers accept the possibility that theology could be wrong.
People who are born again by the Holy Spirit experience God, it's not just an intellectual assent.No, virtually every major Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant theologian acknowledges that honest doubt or questioning is an element of the deepest faith. If you doubt this, simply Google "doubt as an element of faith." If you prefer to think otherwise, be my guest.
No, we don't pretend God exists. We reach a conviction that he does and we live as though he does - while accepting the possibility that we could be wrong. Pretend certainty - because that's all it can be - is the dangerous form of pretending.
You know, sometimes there really is a bunny.Sometimes there really is a bunny.
However, since bunnies cannot be proven theologically, but they exist .. this creates a heretical paradox.
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