god

What would have to be different for you to stop believing in God? This question is directed at theists, who do believe in God. I'm looking for first-person answers. Hardly any theists here, I know. Let's also include one-time theists here, people who at one time did believe in God. If...

Rather than derail the other thread, I thought that this topic deserved its own thread. Normally the existence of all of the evil in this world is taken as evidence that there is no god or that if God exists then he must be a pretty unsavoury character. But assuming that God made the world the...

Every time I sit on the dunny to unburden myself, I contemplate the issue of God and gods… and by the time I am finished cleaning away the remnants, I am yet again irrefragably convinced that the whole delusion is a failure of human reasoning and a testament to our inability to fathom the extent...

Does the Bible make God out to be stupid and insecure? Is it just me? But it seems to me that the Christian story if God makes him/her/it to be stupid and insecure. IMV, if there is a god that created the universe, this being would be smart and secure in his/her self. After all, this...

Did God ever say that Jesus is his Son? Hello all. The other day, I promised to give ‘The Big Dog’ $20.00 if he can find me even one passage in the Bible where God says that Jesus is his son. He responded with a quote from Matthew 3:17 which states: As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up...

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Anybody know anything about this guy, or his works? http://www.amazon.com/Trevelyan/e/B006X2QT54/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1 I've encountered him in other discussion fora, and he's handy with the references to contemporary physics journals -- mixed in with references to journals on ancient...

More than once in new-atheist writing, I have seen the idea of God compared with Santa Claus, as a way of ridiculing the arguments in favor of His (God's) existence. But something always seemed off to me about this comparison. I got to wondering why Santa is so easily considered a juvenile...

I have been reading up on the theory that the universe is infinite, and how in an infinite universe, just about everything that can exist does exist. It made me wonder if the prospect of an infinite universe has any bearing on the probability that there exists something that would meet our...

Einstein, Freud, Rumi, your spiritual teachers...did not understand the Ego. “The Ego is the missing consciousness” Adrian Ferent A lot of Great Thinkers have tried to define the Ego, but without success. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iamsdFzWog&feature=plcp...

Hi, this is my first thread on this forum hopefully it won't be the last :D. Some religious people are contented with "god did it" as an explanation for just about anything that science hasn't explained yet or that they think that science hasn't explained (the apparent design of living things)...

The subject of this thread occurred to me after perusing AvalonXQ's thread on omniscience and free will, i.e. the question of whether or not God's omniscience makes free will impossible. My feeling is that it would. However, I didn't bother posting on the thread, because others had pretty well...

If you are an atheist who is not sure whether or not there is a DEITY then you think it is possible for some form of God to exist even though you reject all the constructs currently available to humanity. If you also reject that final GAP for some sort of god.....what reasoning made you do so...

I've alluded to this in some other threads but I think it deserves one all to itself: Does the god in the bible have the authority to govern? At what point does he secure a mandate from anyway giving him the authority to set down rules and laws? Is there any reason anyone should feel...

I know we always say here "you can't prove a negative" and "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," but I'm following a thought process that I need help with, to go further, or to kill off. I recently suggested that the recent fight between Christian sects in Jerusalem was evidence of...

Below is an article that I recently wrote. It concerns the Omega Point cosmology by physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler, which is a proof of God's existence based upon the most reserved view of the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity...

If I were to accept that everything in The Bible is true why should I not hate the abusive, tyrannical, sociopathic, narcissistic psychopath the God portrayed within clearly is? Why should I not do everything in my power to help anyone or anything that would oppose that brutal, monstrous, blood...

Is it possible for people to agree there is one God? Can people give up partisanship enough to agree that God is far away somewhere, in a place we can not go, and that God does no come here and that we can not know His name? Would the world be a better place if we could?

So, one of my Facebook friends (actually an old friend of the family) posted this: It's been good. I posted my reason for lack of belief, and did not get lambasted for it. Here's a recent thing he said: I want to send him a private link to one of the sites showing the contradictions in the...

Have any of you Euro-types seen the series mentioned in this article? What do you think? Far more importantly, what is DOC gonna do when he finds out god was home doing the horizontal mambo while all the disciples were sweating it out in the mission fields? :)

Theists say people have existed for around 6000 years. For over 4000 of those years they would have had to have been aware of their God without the “benefit” of what is written in The Bible. So here's my challenge to Theists . . . Present your belief that a God exists without referring to...

I'm back, for a short time anyway, and surprise, surprise, I'm talking about Norman Geisler and Frank Turek's book "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist". That is the book I mention in my New Testament Evidence thread in the History forum and in the Materialism thread now in the Religion...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43462500/ns/travel-news/ There was no bomb. Why was God wrong?

"The Word"/Reason/Wisdom, not "Jesus" in the usual sense, is The Way to Salvation/God the real lovers of God do not belong to any particular religion, for all the religions have the same fundamental teachings on the nature of God & how one becomes like God in respect to wisdom, love, joy, etc...

According to the io9.com website, a fellow named Kurt Gödel came up with what he believed to be the proof of the existence of God on paper. His argument went something like this: God is the greatest being in the Universe. If God *didn't* exist, another would HAVE to exist; and, since it wasn't...

Spontaneous Abortion Why is killing babies so important to God?

Hello, While looking with EQUANIMITY, I felt that religious faith can be in the following type of entities or concepts? 1. Entity/concept interpreting prime/basic levels. 2. Entity/concept interpreting gross/current level. 3. Entities/concepts from Prime to Current level--i mean also...

I recently had a visit from two ladies. It turned out that they were from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sadly, as I had just returned from a trip to the USA, and a long drive from Heathrow to get home, I really wasn’t in the mood for disputing religious beliefs. Normally, I might have enjoyed the...

A hypothetical question for the believers here, one which I heard on an awesome podcast called A Christian and An Atheist... Suppose that God (and by "God" I mean the monotheistic Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) exists, but He doesn't grant immortality to His followers. God...

Talking about the origin of the universe: I don't know how to argue the following point: I am agnostic as to the origin of the universe. A theist I know argues that logically the universe must be created (not eternal), by an uncaused cause, a creator.... citing 'cause and effect' as the reason...