Blind faith
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Because a whole host of small molecules and atoms collided together and created a large bang which, in turn produced a huge rock in the middle of a massive universe, the only one known to have any life on it regardless of our 'amazing' scientific ability.sniffy said:
I read it in a book somewhere, it must be true.
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I wonder in 2000 years if someone picks up the Harry Potter books and claims that it is real history because its in a book?
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Homeslice said:
Plenty of pieces of information and evidence to suggest this happened are present here and now. I can't see anything for team GOD... oh a few people who have claimed to have been visited by angels and rather a lot people who claim to talk to god every night ...that and an ancient book. Oh wait, I might be convinced!
The biggest mistake we make is assuming we know almost everything (when we probably know nothing) and that those before yesterday were somehow inferior and stupid. Guy 6000 BC, "Hey we invented the wheel". Fast forward 8000 years "werent these guys stupid for not realising something round would move easier".
Anyway back on topic
Blind faith comes from within, learning, life experiences, and the people we love and admire.
Anyway back on topic
Blind faith comes from within, learning, life experiences, and the people we love and admire.I look at it this way.
Back in the day people believed in witches, the earth was round, God, etc.
If you read old documents there will be different amounts of 'evidence' for these things - drawings of the earth, experiences of witchcraft, examples of witchcraft, etc, etc.
Since that time we've proven beyond doubt that the earth is round and well, there's no witchcraft and the historical examples of it occuring can be explained.
Herein lies a problem. Those situations can be disproven quite clearly. God, simply cannot be disproven. It's impossible. So why do so many believe in God when many other historical ideas have been disproven? There is a similar amount of evidence and some are even more likely to have occured when compared with God.
Back in the day people believed in witches, the earth was round, God, etc.
If you read old documents there will be different amounts of 'evidence' for these things - drawings of the earth, experiences of witchcraft, examples of witchcraft, etc, etc.
Since that time we've proven beyond doubt that the earth is round and well, there's no witchcraft and the historical examples of it occuring can be explained.
Herein lies a problem. Those situations can be disproven quite clearly. God, simply cannot be disproven. It's impossible. So why do so many believe in God when many other historical ideas have been disproven? There is a similar amount of evidence and some are even more likely to have occured when compared with God.
err how about agree and disagree with you at the same time.Homeslice said:
Some, such as young earth creationist believe that the day mentioned is the same as the modern day, others believe it refers to longer epochs more in keeping with modern scientific thought. Others believe genesis is allegorical, so the question is redundent.
Homeslice said:
It's disputed yes. Irriating though isn't it? Like when god says in genesis he'll grow tired of man so he makes it so man can't live longer than 120 years. I'm quite certain there's people in India exceeding 120 years of age. Would prove if god's word is true.
If some godly being helped create the universe... so what? Why on earth would it naturally follow from that fact that there's a christian-type god? So many religious people are full of pointless illogicality. Why would a God who went to all the trouble of creating all the laws of physics, that would lead to the formation of planetoids, and possibly life on one of those planets, be so impatient that he'd have to speed things up and create false dinosaur bones? Madness.
Why would this glorious, phenomenally awesome God be subject the whistle-blowing of the religious? Is an omnipotent being some kind of performing monkey? God won't answer the prayers of hundreds of millions of people calling for an end to WWII by giving Hitler a cranial aneurism but he'll perform an equally impossible feat and give Jonny Cripplsticks motor neurone growth, in a church, full of believers? Or cure some guy of AIDS (in a church!) in south africa?
Why?
No, it's mindless. What does it matter that people have believed for 2000 years? The egyptians believed in their Gods for 3000 years. Odd that no one follows Ra anymore.
Why would this glorious, phenomenally awesome God be subject the whistle-blowing of the religious? Is an omnipotent being some kind of performing monkey? God won't answer the prayers of hundreds of millions of people calling for an end to WWII by giving Hitler a cranial aneurism but he'll perform an equally impossible feat and give Jonny Cripplsticks motor neurone growth, in a church, full of believers? Or cure some guy of AIDS (in a church!) in south africa?
Why?
No, it's mindless. What does it matter that people have believed for 2000 years? The egyptians believed in their Gods for 3000 years. Odd that no one follows Ra anymore.
Skull said:
No God isnt some performing monkey, as you put it. Yes her performs some miracles, others dotnhappen and we dont know why. But what we do know is that due to the fall of man (adam and eve) there is now sin in the world.
People arnt always cured in churches, as you seem to be impyling. The building is nothing but a building, its not as if the bricks and mortar have any power.