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Why nonexistence of God is an impossibility

Archaeopteryx

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Are you suggesting that we need not invoke the action of supernatural agents in order to explain natural phenomena that we do not fully understand yet?
 
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So you do accept circular reasoning as valid. Do you realize that anything can be proven with circular reasoning?
 
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Are you suggesting that we need not invoke the action of supernatural agents in order to explain natural phenomena that we do not fully understand yet?

No, we do not NEED TO.
Any problem with that?
 
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Are you suggesting that we need not invoke the action of supernatural agents in order to explain natural phenomena that we do not fully understand yet?
The way I see it is that the natural is something like a set of postulates, which cover all experience (sense data and natural interpretations of it) and possibilities of rationality (math, logic etc).

So we have a set A of all postulates, and B of natural ones. A can be discarded, because B is always suffiicient to form theoretical explanations of type B (members of set B).



But can B as a whole ever explain itself? Rather than parts of B explaining other parts of B in a a piecemeal (cf piecemeal realism) fashion?


And are parts of B (logic's relation to reality for instance) really explained by naturalism or are they just regarded as "given".


As you can guess, I am not married.
 
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it was already explained to you how the other lords(christs) do not seek the profit of all humans for abundant and everlasting life in God the Father, but only the Lord Jesus Christ works for true overall(all-embracing) salvation

You need to prove that this is true, you can't just state it to be true.

And even if you did prove it to be true, that doesn't prove that Christianity is true.
 
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You need to prove that this is true, you can't just state it to be true.

And even if you did prove it to be true, that doesn't prove that Christianity is true.

man, if the faith was just some proof, then it would not have been a faith, for to believe in God means to trust in Him because of the lack of (enough): knowledge, wisdom, dignity, power, might, ability, etc., that is why the Lord Jesus Christ said: "blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."(John 20:29), because if the full guarantee could be completely seen, then there would even have been no hope, or as it is written: "hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."(Romans 8:24-25)

Blessings
 
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Ok so again I ask, if all religions require faith without evidence, why have faith in Christianity instead of another religion?
 
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Best you educate yourself on other religions, before you claim Christianity is the most logical and reasonable.

And I'm sure you have studied the other 4,200 religions in the world yourself....

Perhaps you should educate yourself on other religions before you claim the concept of God to be illogical and unreasonable.
 
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Perhaps you should educate yourself on other religions before you claim the concept of God to be illogical and unreasonable.

The concept of a deity is not an inherently religious concept. Deists hold that there is a creator god, but are not religious at all.
 
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And I'm sure you have studied the other 4,200 religions in the world yourself....

Perhaps you should educate yourself on other religions before you claim the concept of God to be illogical and unreasonable.

You are correct, I am not an expert on the claims of all religions by any means. I can form an opinion on Christianity, based on my knowledge and in depth study of the bible by reading the works of scholars and historians.

I can state with a high degree of confidence, that I believe the Christian God does not exist and is why I am an atheist towards the Christian God. I used to be a Christian, but after accumulating knowledge, I simply could not reconcile the Christian story as legit any longer. In regards to a non-personal universal type of God, I would consider myself more agnostic.
 
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"No religion is as grand as christianity!"
"How many other religions do you know?"
"Zero!"

Me: Expert on one, good on two more, general on the other two.
You: ? (may be less then one in general understanding?). Tell me which one you are good at, and I will challenge you on that.
 
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