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Again, I think you are trying to cookie cutter, the reasons people either form belief, or non-belief.
People believe for different reasons and people get to a point, where they no longer believe, for different reasons.
Perhaps not, but it's definitely a foundation that many never shake.
When we're young we're hardwired to listen and mimic our parents. It's a matter of survival not unique to our species. Being told something is true repeatedly and having that opinion reinforced by the adults around you is something that sinks in and sticks.
To be more correct, I'd say that the Rock is as much a part of Life as are you and I. It's the animating life force manifest in the natural world that infuses all creation with moisture and vitality that I worship. Hildegard called it Greening Power. From that perspective, which I fully endorse, the very nature of the Universe is Creativity. In that power of Creativity, the Universe does need to Create. It can not help itSelf from doing so. Atoms combine to from molecules, and so forth.
Thats not what believers are doing. It just happens to be that believers have come to the conclusion that God is the best explanation for the cause of what we see and experience called life. Atheists have not come to this conclusion but believers coming to this conclusion is not irrational and is at least possible.
So tell me: what is the difference between the following -
1. These basalt pillars are so complex and structured: they must be the remnants of a bridge built by giants.
2. These snow flakes are so intricate and artistic: they must have been crafted by snow fairies.
3. Life is so complex: it needs a Divine designer!
The problem you have and other nonbelievers is you have been told that God of the bible = fairies but its not true. In fact in your very own mind you know they do no equal each other so why try?
A Christian family gives a head start and a predisposition for the truth, but the last mile is always the work of God directly in the believer.
So tell me: what is the difference between the following -
1. These basalt pillars are so complex and structured: they must be the remnants of a bridge built by giants.
2. These snow flakes are so intricate and artistic: they must have been crafted by snow fairies.
3. Life is so complex: it needs a Divine designer!
At if we wrote a book that relied on hearsay as evidence?What giants?
What fairies
God demonstrated who he was in Christ. He said He created life in His scriptures. The other explanations do not work.
It doesn't give a predisposition to truth, it gives a predisposition to belief and belief without question where the burden of proof isn't necessary.
There are a billion Muslims equally convinced as you are that they're right and you are wrong.
People see what they want to see and in systems where objective truth is absent and faith is the last bastion between submission and disbelief, it's all that matters to most. It's no surprise the average person in America or the West grows up Christian and the average person in the Middle East grows up Muslim. In addition to that, it's no surprise when a Sunni or Shia Muslim family raise children to believe their sect is true, as is the case with most denominational Christians.
That isn't what she's saying. She's saying each are equally credulous and incredulous at the same time.
Any claim can be made on the basis of faith, so long as that's all it's considered. To claim it's truth is to claim it's incontrovertible and objectively true to the point it's obvious and apparent to anyone who views the evidence; this is not the case with any religion.
We can never truly know. Christianity doesn't have anything Islam or Hinduism etc doesn't, they ultimately rely or faith. If that's the system you choose to have faith in then that's fine, but it's still just faith, it isn't knowing and never can be.
In all honesty, God as depicted in the Bible that is judgemental, separate and apart from this Creation? I think Faries have more of a chance of reality than that God.I don't think a fairy is equal to the God of the bible in any way and if it was then atheists would go on tours titled Fairys are dead. Even sam harris said all Gods are dead but one of the abrahamic faith. So even your leaders don't believe fairy= God because they don't go around giving talks on fairies.
And *another* supposedly holy book clearly states that the cosmos was created from a milky ocean stirred by the Hindu gods. Krishna's speech to Arjuna clearly establishes him as the supreme being.What giants?
What fairies
God demonstrated who he was in Christ. He said He created life in His scriptures. The other explanations do not work.
And another that this world was created on the back of a Turtle.And *another* supposedly holy book clearly states that the cosmos was created from a milky ocean stirred by the Hindu gods. Krishna's speech to Arjuna clearly establishes him as the supreme being.
Another tells us that God is from Planet Kolob, and black skin the result of a Divine curse.
Yet another tells us Hailie Selassie is the messiah, hiding until the final battle that will squash "Babylon", that is: the western world.
There is nothing that sets Christianity apart from any other religion or ancient myth, whether people still believe in it or not.
And another that this world was created on the back of a Turtle.
There are something like 330 million recorded gods.
Which gives us around 7 billion images of God.Not more, no wonder some people feel left out.
We are around 7 billion.
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