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What does it mean for God to "exist"?

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Asvin

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Time is more than just a concept. we can measure things with time. We can say that time is required for any thing to exist.



Ok, how bout the comfy chair?

So time is an object? You can use time to measure things just like you would use a ruler to measure the length of something? REALLY? WOW!

"We can say that time is required for any thing to exist."

I can say that I can fly. No point in making absurd, irrational claims, is there?

Chairs scare me
 
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http://www.christianforums.com/t7440288/
 
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So you define exist as "it depends on what the meaning of the word is"?
I define "exists" by the context of the sentence it is used in.
You can answer the dang question in an unambiguous rational manner.
God is as real as a sunshiny day.
 
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Something you think about or you feel about may not be the product of you. You feel a light is "bright". That is your reaction, not your product. You love this girl, but not that girl. It is not your product, but is your reaction. Something (real) stimulated you, and you have a feeling about it.
 
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Something you think about or you feel about may not be the product of you. You feel a light is "bright". That is your reaction, not your product.
I think Asvin would make a good politician, eh?
 
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Anything I think about IS the product of my brain. They are known as concepts. I agree that other things can have an impact on me, but what does that have anything to do with the existence of god or your irrational claim that love exists?
 
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God is as real as a sunshiny day.

On a sunshiny day we can empirically measure photons and particles being hurled at the Earth by the Sun. We can also measure the nature of the Sun itself using empirical methods. So where is the empirical measurements for God?
 
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No.

I define "exists" by the context of the sentence it is used in.

From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
 
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What does "to have real being" mean in part a of your first definition?
It means to walk the earth as God incarnate, die on a cross and resurrect the third day.
 
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