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lol says:

jvboy_17,
so, just to clear this up, you're saying that god existed a long time ago in rural Germany, but is presently dead. However, parents still lie to their children about him and his magical abilities and his ability to punish/reward behavior from the grave.
Sound about right?

jvboy_17 says:

jim_evolution,

The reality of Santa can be traced down historically --

People like you get misconceptions. Sometimes in life, it is not just a question of yes or no. Maybe it is time for you to get off your couch and do some research, because you've been a bad boy and Santa won't like it.

Read more about St. Nicholas of Myra --

In the end you will find out that you are disgracing a man who once lived righteously and lovingly. What this makes you? Sometimes it is our culture and customs that blinds us...but this should not limit us, because people have smarts, and please channel it wisely.

Now since Santa is real -- then you are right about God :P And you are the very first atheist on this forum to profess this reality (applause applause).

jim_evolution_1983 says:

GOD OR GODS ARE ABOUT AS REAL AS SANTA CLAUSE.

Rephen says:

I've been reading the previous posts and this theism/religion thing keeps coming up all the time, so here is a quote from
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blrel_theism_what.htm

"That theism only means "belief in a god" and nothing more can be difficult to understand at times because we don't normally encounter theism in such isolation. Instead, when we see theism, it is embedded in a web of other beliefs - often religious in nature - which color not only the theism itself but also our perception of that theism."

So you will notice that at no time have I ever mentioned religion. I have been very careful to make reference only to god(s) here.

Polytheism = many gods
Monotheism = one god

Jvboy_17, you are a monotheist. I am an atheist. I have a perfectly valid right to subtract one from one and get zero. Unless of course there are two gods that actually exist and now I am proclaiming myself a monotheist like yourself.

:-)

Rephen says:

Hi jvboy_17,

"a-theism" means without theism. Theism is belief in a god, or gods. I assume that you believe in only one god (you have never spoken about believing in more than one god), so therefore 1 god subtract 1 god equals zero gods.

You are an a-theist in regards to all of those other gods that you dismiss - ie. Zeus and Thor, Ganesh and Saraswati, Centeotl and Tlazolteotl, etc. etc. - so the statement that we are both atheists is true.

BTW, this is a quote I lifted from Stephen F. Roberts. It is quite well known actually and please very carefully try to understand why you, jvboy_17, dismiss all other gods ecxept for for your own god. It is quite a profound statement that Mr. Roberts has made.

I am also the same person responsible for the quotes from Mr. Dawkins. I just used a spoonerism for "Your name:".

Regards,
Rephen (and Dichard)

Rephen F. Stoberts says:

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Stephen F. Roberts

Zeus says:

oh yeah and btw who is the 1 most intellectual on this side?

Zeus says:

@ jvboy_17
If hell is the absence of god then how can hell exist? Isnt god in everything? didnt god make everything? without god there would be no hell, so you cant go around saying that hell is the absence of god. You see, god keeps the show going yes? besides, I grabbed that quote from the quran. Next you'll be telling me that the koran is the work of the devil and thats why americans fight the muslims with jesus as their figurehead. The poor bloody semites have had enough of jesus - the romans came marauding across the sand dunes in 600ad and thats why muhammad got all pissed and went back to the roots. read the quran dude and youll see that they are just like you and believe in abraham and moses and lot and david and all the rest of the fiction. you need to stop being so emotional in your beliefs and look at the logic and the contradictions so clearly evident. i have no emotional attachment to this guff its just facts to me (well, lack of facts). your emotion desires cloud your view of reality jvboy

Dichard Rawkins says:

"How would we be better off without religion?

We'd all be freed to concentrate on the only life we are ever going to have. We'd be free to exult in the privilege -- the remarkable good fortune -- that each one of us enjoys through having been being born. An astronomically overwhelming majority of the people who could be born never will be. You are one of the tiny minority whose number came up. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. The world would be a better place if we all had this positive attitude to life. It would also be a better place if morality was all about doing good to others and refraining from hurting them, rather than religion's morbid obsession with private sin and the evils of sexual enjoyment."

Richards Dawkins

Dichard Rawkins says:

"So why do we insist on believing in God?

From a biological point of view, there are lots of different theories about why we have this extraordinary predisposition to believe in supernatural things. One suggestion is that the child mind is, for very good Darwinian reasons, susceptible to infection the same way a computer is. In order to be useful, a computer has to be programmable, to obey whatever it's told to do. That automatically makes it vulnerable to computer viruses, which are programs that say, "Spread me, copy me, pass me on." Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
Similarly, the child brain is preprogrammed by natural selection to obey and believe what parents and other adults tell it. In general, it's a good thing that child brains should be susceptible to being taught what to do and what to believe by adults. But this necessarily carries the down side that bad ideas, useless ideas, waste of time ideas like rain dances and other religious customs, will also be passed down the generations. The child brain is very susceptible to this kind of infection. And it also spreads sideways by cross infection when a charismatic preacher goes around infecting new minds that were previously uninfected."

Richard Dawkins

says:

yawn

Zeus says:

"They do blaspheme who say God is Christ, the Son of Mary." Dont know about u but looks like the christians on the right ar egoing to hell too.

Zephys says:

So what is it that Christians understand that Atheists do not? What's different between the Christian that reads and belives the bible and the Atheist that reads it and does not?

Chase says:

When a christian prays the are promised an answer. An answer of 'Yes', 'No', or 'Maybe'. If that's the case, I could pray to anything I want. Say I pray to a carton of milk. I ask the milk for $1000. If a check shows up in the mail a few days later with a thousand dollars for some odd reason, then I'll scream hallelujah my prayers have been answered!! Milk Carton is the creator of the universe!! If something shows up in the mail saying I could win $1000 if I just do some tests or something, then I might go, depending on if it's worth the money, in which my milk carton answered maybe. And if nothing happens, then my precious milk carton answered no :(.

Do you see?

Matt says:

Personally, I don't think god exists, but in my eyes everyone's view should be accounted for unless it's been scientifically proven false.

irregularworld says:

So, what you're saying Hoogle is that human misery is actually perfection, we're just too stupid to see it? That's a pretty contorted justification. If God is all powerful, why couldn't he give free will without dooming us to nasty infectious diseases, rot, poverty, natural disasters. Sorry, but your God disappears from the scene rather too easily to be believed in.

papawu says:

Well, I don't know if I would go as far as to say there is no God. Let me put it to you this way. I don't believe in God but I fear him.

mrwriter says:

If there's a god then why did he make me atheist?

Grim says:

Christians are retarded...of course there is no god.
http://www.squidoo.com/christiansareretarded

jay says:

there is no god, and if there is one i hate him for letting this world suffer. i hope he burns in hell forever because he is the real evil one

something-original says:

So i see where my side of this is coming from, but i also see where jv is coming from. first of all i have to agree with irregularworld from way back when, i think if God is real, he doesn't need you to speak for him, i can assure you that we'll get ours when the end comes. as for my own side, why is it such an issue to try to convince people like jv that there isn't a god? it's not like it's going to do any good, and even if it did why do we want to tear the rug out from under him? people don't say they believe in god just to spite us, i'm pretty sure that in most cases they really do, and to them it's a comforting thing, believing that you're going to a better place when you die. it seems like the only reason we'd want to press our beliefs on them would be because we want to make ourselves feel better about the decision that we made. If that's the case though, are we any better than they are? we might as well be wearing bicycle helmets and nametags going door to door. so i guess the question i'm posing is, if we're sure we're right and there's no changing our minds, and they're sure they're right and there's no way we can change them either, why are we fighting about this? can't we all just let everyone else die in peace?

Someone420 says:

Okay so i just dont get it...if God is so amazing then why is thar so much bad in the world if he is the center of all things then why did your God let 6 kids die in the 80s?? o u dont remember a man kidnapped 6 kids all at diffrent times some boys some girls, he took them to his basment and made the young kids suck on him while he beat them over the head with a hammer till thay were dead...hummm god is the center of all things right...what about the hammer?? why did God let that happen...

Santa (= just as real as God) says:

God was made up by mankind, just like a whole bunch of other stories. Making up stories is okay in my book. It's just a shame that some people can't tell fiction from reality and are even willing to kill for some theory that has been created many many years ago.

Steve says:

There is no God, no Jesus, no heaven, no hell etc. It is all based on myths,evolution,science, biology, astronomy,and the list goes on to prove that there is and never was any god or gods. Mankind made up a God or Gods, so that he felt that he wasn't alone in this great big scary universe, and he needed God as a rock to stand on!

AlishaV says:

I think it's silly that people actually believe in mythical beings and fairy tales in this day and age.

The old excuse that the world is too complex to be able to happen on it's own, actually proves there's no such thing as a god. If "God" created the world and everything in it, then he's got to be really complex himself. Then by your own reasoning (because religious people are so reasonable and logical ;-) God couldn't have happened and therefore he couldn't have created the world.

ZeNeece says:

nope, there are no gods.

andybate1980 says:

it is rediculous that we must prove the non-existance of something there is no evidence to support.

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hariri says:

whethere god exist or no it will not change anything. actually i don't believe in god. i am my own god. by the way i think god is another meaning of fear .

REEFER says:

it's a shame this is still debated.
I've read most of the bible. It's a riveting good read, but nonfiction is more my thing.

Graham says:

JVboy,
it is obvious to me that you like so many other religious freaks, are living out your delusions.
I do not have to believe in God to be a good man love my wife and family or even my neighbour,unlike you I do not need a fictional book to live by.
I can think for myself and anyone can see that the world, the galexies and the universe are indeed beautifull and full of mystery and we may never know all the awnsers, but science is gradually changing that.
So stop deluding yourself and wake up to the real world,so called christians are notorious hypocrites and cannot be trusted at any cost, they twist and manipulate their beliefs and try to force them on others.
Embrace the truth, there is no god.

Graham says:

Enough of this, God is non existent. Sadly ignorant people can't accept the fact that he was a notion to explain things 2 millennium ago that people didn't understand. The sooner these people embrace science, logic and reason the better frankly.

Graham Barrett says:

So called Christians use this God thing, as a crutch because they are so weak in their own minds they cannot handle the real truth.
That is.... that we are all here due to evolution, NOT creation.
I am in control of my destiny, I make my own decisions and my life like billions of others is a result of that.
So WAKE UP you religious freak, get a grip and start thinking for yourself.

irregularworld says:

jvboy, why do you think that your SAYING God is real has any relevance on whether it's true that God is real? I can SAY that the tooth fairy is real too. Why, if you really are confident in your belief, do you feel the need to say God is real? Do you think God needs you to say that God is real?

thedrinksareonme says:

I think I've been drinking too much!
I've gone and confused nontheism with irreligion.
Doesn't matter - This whole dialogue's gone and got rather boring anyway and I just can't be bothered.

thedrinksareonme says:

I think I've hit a raw nerve in JvBoy_17!

An "a-theist" is a person without a "theism" - that is, a person without a religion.

You, my dear JvBoy_17, must embrace being an ATHEIST while you are inside this discussion forum. You have stated repeatedly that one must not introduce religion while in this forum - we are discussing god only, you say. So we are all ATHEISTS while we are here.

Oh, go away JvBoy_17. You are boring.

thedrinksareonme says:

Hi everybody!

First up I want to have a little rant, so from now on when I say "you" I mean all the god-believers out there. This message is for you guys:

The joy, the power, the love, all those things that believing in god brings into your life is something special for you. It is pointless for me to try and convert you away from believing in god, as quite simply the only thing I have on offer to fill up the god-sized hole that will be left behind is: Belief in Yourself. I'm not sure though that you guys have the self-capacity for something as liberating as that.

Belief in god *is* irrational; it *is* from the "heart" not the head; it *doesn't* make sense to me; but it sure helps you to function and get along in society without being a burden on the rest of us.

The only great shame in all this is that every time you god-believers get together you strongly feel the need to impose your way of life on me and all the rest of us other non-believers. Are you jealous of our lives? (You should be.) Or is that you feel god hasn't got it in him to convert us himself? Do you think god really needs *your* help? Gosh! God is doing everything else for you, so I'm sure he could do this one little thing too, if god wanted to. It seems to me that god obviously doesn't want to do it, so maybe god doesn't want you guys to be doing it either! But then there'd be no new converts would there? It's not as though children have ever suddenly discovered god on their own, is it? It is always an [already converted] adult who pimps them for god.

What's more, all of you god-believers from the three sects that have the same god (judaism, christianity, and islam), you guys just can't get along with each other! Why do I have to be dragged into your latest silly little war? Go on, just leave me out of it - it's got nothing to do with me! Crikeys! I don't even believe in any of that rubbish so how can my apathy towards the lot of you be of any consequence?!!! Please, feel free to beat the bejeezus out of each other while it feels good, but if you try and drag me into it then you'll know about it.

Done!

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The following are my replies to some of JvBoy_17's statements:

1) "The hope or faith for something bigger in the universe can also be applied on recognizing a God. A God is something bigger, even bigger than intelligent aliens."

There is nothing bigger than the Universe itself, except maybe the human capacity for story telling - now that's big!

2) "Most people therefore incline themselves on who tells the story better ... you cannot tell which one is false and which one is not, unless the creator of the story admitted that it was untrue."

All too true, agreed. Odd though how the Jewish people of Israel have freely and openly published academic works that prove most of the Old Testament to be a fabrication (that is, it is false and is only a story). So if they are happy with this "discovery", and can evolve into the new reality while still holding the Old Testament dear to their hearts, then why is it that the rest of those who aren't Jewish are so adamant that the Old Testament (and by implication the New Testament and the Qur'an) is true and inerrant? I mention this only because it is not possible for Western and Middle-Eastern people to separate any of their own concepts of god from what they have found in the Old and New Testaments and/or the Qur'an. These three texts have so thoroughly ingrained all concepts of god that is ridiculous to pretend that they have no influence at all in the god-believer's thoughts of god. I would be flabbergasted if god (or gods) were even remotely interpreted the same by a primitive Man who had no contact with the modern world.

3) "Strong conviction is good but too much of a conviction is only for self-convincing."

Agreed, although remember that you, JvBoy_17, have a strong conviction in god so be very careful of self-convincing yourself!

4) "Put God and a believer in the same perspective ... This scenario is not about realities but about belief."

Agreed. It is all about belief.

My belief is that god is a Man-made construct - "a framework of philosophy that people can follow". It is this god framework that gets god-believers happily through life. My point is that I get through life very happily without needing a god framework. I am not "missing something" in my life because I don't believe in god! I am not "only half alive" because I don't believe in god! I am not "going to rot in hell" because I don't believe in god! *My* framework is the Atheist way of life and it brings great joy, morality, peace, and appreciation for all livings to me. This is in stark contrast to the god framework which tries to bring these things to the god-believers, but which then generally fails miserably in the peace, morality, and appreciation for life departments (and regularly the joy department too).

No, really. If god-believers are so happy with their lot then why are they constantly at verbal and physical war with all other god-believers who don't share the same viewpoints of god as them? Why are they always telling us non-believers how much better life would be if we believed in god like they do? Why is that 9 times out of 10 the massacre of innocents is perpetrated by a staunch god-believer? Why is that the god-believers still have catastrophes happen to them? Why do they still get slaughtered, gunned-down, tortured, humiliated, persecuted and all other manner of nastiness? And most often it is inflicted on them by another god-believer! Yet the god-believers still believe that god loves them and protects them and their children, and that god is all merciful! Crikeys, you'd have to barmy to believe in any of that!

But that I suppose, is the point. It's all about belief. Belief is not rational - it is barmy! Belief doesn't need a physical reality. Belief doesn't need a tangible existence. How can I talk you out of your (to me, that is) fantasy beliefs? I would need to replace your god fantasy with something else equally or more fantastic and believable to you. God-believers are hooked heavily on the god drug and it is a most powerful drug for sure. All my life I have had god-believers trying to push their god drug on me, and out in the open streets of all places too! But you know what people? Just Say No!

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I believe in many things. You believe in many things. We all believe in many things. Very little of our deepest held beliefs are rational and that's alright, as long as it makes us feel useful, but never dangerous. It reminds me of Thomas the Tank Engine (tm) - he's a very useful engine, and he firmly believes that. (And he's never dangerous either!)

Peep Peep! toots Thomas.
Boop Boop! replies Gordon.

thedrinksareonme says:

Hi JvBoy_17,

An interesting site:

http://www.philosophyofreligion.info

thedrinksareonme says:

Thanks for giving me the link to http:// www.squidoo.com/Godvsscience, JvBoy_17. At first I thought it was a real debate, but then half-way through it turned out to be the usual Baptist ranting against science. Never mind. However, I do have 6 issues to pick with the "argument" though:

1) "... science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one."

Once again implying that just because science hasn't found the answers to everything already that it is incapable of finding the answers to anything, including the reality of a god or not. Two hundred years ago nobody knew anything about electricity and magnetism at all, but now people sit down at their computers (which work only because of electricity and magnetism) and write stuff like this!

For another example: "Scientists don't know what consciousness is. Neither do the god-believers. Scientists don't know what happened 100 billion years ago. Nor do the god-believers. Scientists don't know why we are here. Neither do the god-believers. On every question that science cannot answer the god-believers have even less of a clue."

And it looks like god is going to keep on being silent with the answers just like he always has been.

2) "Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"

We didn't evolve from monkeys - we evolved from apes. The author of this psuedo-debate can't even get their basic science right. Monkeys and apes are *very* different animals.

3) "Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor ..."

Not true. "Speciation ... It has been observed multiple times under both controlled laboratory conditions and in nature." This also explains the fossil record: "Speciation events are important in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which accounts for the pattern in the fossil record of short "bursts" of evolution interspersed with relatively long periods of stasis, where species remain relatively unchanged." The quotes above how come from (with references): http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Evolution

4) "Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?"

I suggest that if we cut open the professors head (or in fact, anybody's head) we will definitely find a brain in there. A brain you can see, touch, taste (yech!) and smell. There's no need for "faith" that the professor has a brain - it's empirical nature is plain for all to see, when and if we cut his head open. No need for any fancy philosophical arguments here. (A long time ago the brain was considered only an organ for cooling the blood!)

5) "Evil is simply the absence of God."

I'm sure that those words will comfort the god-believing parents of any child that was attending Columbine High School and who died in the massacre that occurred there. Why did god decide to be absent on the day, if god is supposedly the purveyor of all non-evilness?

6) "Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart."

Now the author of this psuedo-debate implies that us un-believers are evil because we "do not have God's love present in our hearts." Really, it gets dull accusing us non-believers (the sensible ones in society) that we're all evil sods. But oddly enough, it's usually the dyed-in-the-wool god-believers who are the worst perpetrators of these evil deeds. DOH!

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In reply to some of JvBoy_17's statements:

1) "You cannot tell me that the dictionary is wrong -- otherwise it will make the whole dictionary wrong..."

As the bible (the Old Testament that is, which is the word of god) purports to be the true word of god then all parts of it must be true, for otherwise those parts that aren't true must be lies - and god doesn't allow lies (or, does he? Hmmmm...) The Old Testament really does have some terrific whoppers in it though, so as a homework assignment I suggest you go and find them!

Besides, we all know that nobody proclaims a dictionary to be the true word of god - it is allowed to contain mistakes, human mistakes - because it was made by Man. So, are you implying that the bible was made by Man and that is why it has mistakes in it? Where is god in all this bible making business then?

2) "I made this simple to comply with your Occam's razor."

Thank you, read on... And, in an earlier post:

"If you believe in Occam's theory ..."

I don't have the same point of view as Occam! I would have quoted *him* and *his point of view* if that was what I was getting at! I'm just using the point-of-view that is in popular use today. So why are you making things unnecessarily complicated?!!!

3) "You then therefore recognize that not all things are available or can be perceive by your senses ..."

Yes. These things are known as abstract entities. I declare that god is nothing more than an abstract entity - a construct of the human mind.

4) "There is nothing wrong on being sure. It would be better to believe in god so when you die you have no worries."

(I turned down the volume on your quote. It was too loud. I hope you don't mind.)

You are assuming that god will still accept someone who only believes "just in case" god exists - someone who is hedging their bets. From what I have read and been told, god doesn't tolerate that kind of behaviour. Look up Pascal's Wager - it goes into this more succinctly than I can. (And no, I don't have Pascal's point-of-view either!) These gentlemen of ye olde times had to play by the rules of the prevailing government of the day - the Catholic Church - otherwise they had the nasty tendency to end up with a noose around their necks. They simply couldn't come out and blaspheme against the Church - they had to do it subtly in a "point, counter-point" (god, no-god) format. But they were really atheists in their heart of hearts!

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JvBoy_17 has stated (and so have many others, I might add): "Let me also stress out the word FAITH."

This word, faith, comes up a lot in god discussion circles. Of course we all have "faith". Remember that faith is just another word for a "confidence or trust" in something, or a "belief in anything". (I have faith in many things. I have *lots of faith* in my homebrew electronic projects. I still can't believe they just keep on working. It's not like I'm a professional who builds these things for a living, but my "homebrew" projects work for longer than the store-bought jobbies. How cool is that?!)

What then is the particular significance of bandying the word faith about, as though it had real substance, when talking of god? Having "faith" that there is actually a god is just a *belief* that there is actually a god. I can believe that the sky is actually green but that doesn't really make the sky green does it? Similarly, *believing* in god doesn't actually make god real either, does it?

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So, if god is real and exists then why is it that the only "proof" that the god-believers can ever offer are words? Mighty words of philosophical thoughts, speeches and writings? I never see anything tangible coming from them. "Ah," I am told, "But that's because god is in the heart - in the mind. God is in you." Yes, definitely. An abstract thought in my mind.

Well, we all know that thoughts and abstractions can never be made real, they can never be made into physical things.

Here is something I found in the ABS Forum, http:// www.absforums.com/ lofiversion/ index.php?t7729.html

I will quote Cataclysmic Beefstick:

"The idea of a god to whom people could pray or act in a certain way and expect a particular outcome was conceived by a people who lived in the desert and had difficulty surviving (aka JEWS). This was not the first idea of a spirit or god, just the first time it had been conceived that one could expect a certain result by acting a certain way. This was not the last interpretation of what god was, either. The idea of god merely presents a framework of philosophy that a civilization follows. It doesn't matter whether god exists or not, except for the philosophy which its followers follow that commands the way in which they interact with the world. Of course god doesn't exist; one need not prove that given the numerous unconnected (all synthesized) religions of the world. The idea of god is merely a source of comfort in an otherwise unforgiving world, demonstrating vanity on the part of believers and offering no real (though perhaps perceived) yield in supernatural intervention or design. Therefore, I accept the above proof because it comes to the same conclusion I have through extensive research. There is no god, and there never was. Time to move on."

Agreed, and better yet, it's time for a beer!
Cor' blimey. After all these words a man could die of thirst around here!

thedrinksareonme says:

I'm sorry if you think I've upset you, JvBoy_17. Where did I imply that you were simple? Was it the bit about Jesus? Don't worry, I'm not biased against Jesus. I'm also biased against Muhammad whom I consider to be nothing more than a reactionary warrior who fired up the people in opposition to the plans of conquest that the Catholic Church had in mind for the Middle-East.

It was fortunate that Judaism evolved into Islam (by Muhammad's brain) - it allowed the Far-Eastern religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.) to continue flourishing, otherwise the whole lot of them would be gone now, crushed into oblivion by "the love of Jesus" and the tyranny of Catholicism. It was imperative that Islam demote Jesus back down to a prophet (or even less) because after all, the pesky fellow *was* (and still is) the figurehead of the Catholic Church - the enemy! Now of course, Islam continues the good fight against the modern-day tyranny of those nations of the world who have Jesus as their figurehead. Once again these "Nations of Jesus" have their eyes set on the conquest of the Middle-East for the only resource worth having there: Oil. It's no different to what the Catholic Church was doing 1400 years ago, but back then they just wanted to rule the entire planet (a lot like what Hitler wanted to do only 70 years ago). Doesn't anybody see that is why "terrorism" is happening? Are you all blind to this latest religious war? Just so you know, I am not American and neither am I Semite. Just exactly which side is terrorizing the other side? I personally want the West (and by implication Jesus) to win, but only because I think that Islam is even more dumb-nuts than Christianity is...

So, this "god" is once again going great guns, inciting more war and more death. But in reality-land it's only people fighting each other - always has been, always will be. Now do you wonder why I reject this "god"? And has anybody noticed that the three "great" (pitiful, really) Semite religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all have the *same* god? Doh!

Once more, this time with feeling: DOH!

Hmmm. Now onto the other topics...

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About the aliens - there's probably a heap of them sitting around on THEIR planets wondering where WE are! Why haven't WE gone to THEM? Hot dang! Space is just too big for radio signals to travel very far without one big momma of a transmitter. So why don't WE build some huge bad-boy transmitter and start blasting out "Hi There!" into space ourselves? I've often wondered why not. And if, as the scientists seem to think, the universe is still very young then it is likely we humans are amongst the first intelligent creatures to even think about other intelligent species somewhere else in the universe. It is likely that we (and the aliens included too) are all still too primitive yet. One day we may meet.

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In answer to your question, "Nevertheless, the creation is sufficient as is - do you need six hands, three noses and six eyes?" The answer is, "Yes, if that is where evolution goes, and the creature that I am survives and reproduces." Evolution doesn't have an end goal in mind. Evolution just does whatever. Stop thinking of evolution as a "designed" thing, a machine, with a fixed purpose. It isn't. It doesn't. Evolution is the craziest concept to get into your head: Evolution is simply the universe doing it's thing. That is what the universe does - it doesn't *do* anything else. It evolves. Stop complaining and just Deal With It.

Similarly, the Universe just is. It didn't get "designed" by god. It didn't get "manufactured" by god because god was lonely and needed something to while away the hours of eternity. Why is that so hard to accept? Why is there this incessant need to go further and invent a leader/boss/parent in the sky? Can't you do things on your own, control your own life? The universe will provide for you, if you provide for the universe. It's a bit like in the Postman Pat story where the Reverend Timms says to Pat, after Pat has received a brand-new postal trolley, "See Pat, the Lord does provide." And Pat answers the Reverend, "Oh no, it's from the Royal Mail in Lancaster." Quite obvious really, unless you happen to think that god is the Royal Mail...

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What about this? "If you and I die today and there is no God, you have won; I only lost a few years believing in something that is not true, laugh at me then..." That way of thinking - that is, hedging your bets - *will* land you in hell if god is real (but god isn't real, so it doesn't matter). You either believe without question nor doubt ("blind faith"), or else you reject the whole thing unreservedly. You can't have it both ways - a little bit of belief, "just in case". Ha! If god exists I will be regarded for my strength of conviction: After all, it's not like god has bothered to actually make his/her/its presence known to me. Why would I listen to what others tell me when I can't see it, taste it, touch it, hear it, smell it, feel it, blah blah blah. Gosh, it can't be that hard, can it, for an infinite super-being that created the universe and everything in it to appear, unequivocally, to me? JUST SO I WOULD KNOW WITHOUT NEEDING TO BELIEVE IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S DELUSION. How do *you* know that what you have been told is real? How do *you* know that the other person hasn't been told a crock of lies? If I hold my breath long enough I pass out. If *you* tell yourself long enough that god is real then god becomes real. But all I see is some moron passed out on the floor...

I reject god and I reject all things religious. It is only frightened, cowardly, animals that huddle in the pews of their church, scared witless by the apocalyptic rantings of their priest (pastor/imam/whatever), cowed by the threats of endless punishment in death that will be theirs if they don't do what they are told (a punishment oh so much worse than this miserable life they already have on Earth), it is these people who allow this nonsense of god to persist. That trash should have been taken out long ago.

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In regards to the hyperlinks I gave you - I am well aware that both sides of the issue were presented. The webpages suitably underpin the whole back-and-forth pointless of our argument. You believe. I don't. Neither side will convince the other, and any argument that is advanced has already been countered, countless time through the countless centuries. So, if you want me to believe then all you have to do is:

SHOW ME THIS GOD YOU'RE ALWAYS BLABBERING ON ABOUT

I think it's going to be a long wait, so might as well Drink More Beer.

thedrinksareonme says:

Hi JvBoy_17

I think you have an enlightened outlook and I'm pleased to see that you are steering clear of absurdities such as "jesus" although technically, christians consider jesus, god and the holy spirit to be the same "entity", so talking about jesus is also talking about god too. This forum is asking about god, so we will stick to that.

I want expand on some issues you have raised: missing links; and the origin of all things. Firstly, missing links in the fossil record:

Have you ever tried to fossilize something? It's hard to do! When an animal dies it falls to the ground, the scavengers pick off the flesh, and finally the action of the wind and rain grinds the white skeletal bones into dust, well before even a 'thou of dirt can begin to cover anything up. We are talking maybe 10 years for the bones to be completely gone. But it takes a million years to put down one inch of dirt. The "fossil" of the animal cannot form because there is nothing remaining! What is needed is a major catastrophe, such as a flood or a volcano eruption, that covers the (still living) animals immediately in so much dirt/ash/rock that they are buried, deep. Then a fossil can form - maybe. Because now you have to worry about plate tectonics that can drive the ground itself (with its fossils) down into the mantle of the Earth to be crushed up, heated, and thrown back out onto the surface through a volcanic eruption (and usually this is under the ocean, creating tsunamis, etc.) Bones made of calcium cannot survive this extreme punishment. Also, how often do you think a catastrophic event takes place? Once a lifetime? Once a thousand years, Once a million years? How often is often enough so that *all* of the links in the tree of life can be fossilized? Major catastrophes occur about once every 100 million years - and evolution can derive a lot of different creatures in 100 million years. And nearly all of them are never recorded as fossils because their bones simply blow away in the wind. What about humans then? The only fossils of humans are those buried under ash in volcanic eruptions. Will historians 1 million years from now conclude that humans never lived in the middle of New York simply because there are no human fossils to be found there buried there? (That's because New York is as far away from a volcano or tsunami as any place can get, and it's burial grounds are outside the city itself.) There are billions of "missing links", not just for humans but also for every creature that is currently alive on Earth. There are no "missing links", only "missing fossils".

Now for our other topic:

You have asked me in one of your posts, when talking about the origin of all things: Have I seen all this with my own eyes? Well I ask you now, did you see this god of yours create the universe and everything in it with *your* own eyes? You also ask the question "How can a DNA so intelligent came about with chaotic origin?" The answer is that DNA is not intelligent. DNA is nothing but a form of storage chanced upon by a primitive form of RNA - and it is RNA that does the "replicating" that I refer to. (RNA is not intelligent either! It's just a small bunch of atoms that builds things!) The primitive form of RNA didn't need DNA, but that didn't stop that primitive RNA getting busy and [randomly] building all of the first structures needed for advancement to what we have today. At some point in time a combination of RNA and DNA was struck up, and this combination was so successful that nothing else has out evolved it - but right now in some creature, somewhere hidden from our eyes, the DNA basis of life may be becoming extinct. Well, no matter. This universe, however it does it, is *very good* at building things using its atoms. With plenty of energy available in the first few billion years (the early days!) of the universe's beginning, and with enough planets around enough stars in enough galaxies, in a big enough universe, and with enough time, Earth was the lucky one. The random chance of atoms sticking together to become primitive RNA - and the rest of the story is, well, us. And it is highly likely that something very similar has happened on at least one of the other countless planets somewhere else out there in this universe. Still this is all fine and dandy and it is only the mechanics of the process. It is the actual creation of the universe itself that is the topic of concern here.

You have stated that, "I've asked you to define nothingness; now tell me how the an entity came about from it. The universe alone can't be the beginning. For it cannot create matter nor energy." I say that god cannot be the beginning either, for god cannot have come about from nothing either. Nothing comes from nothing. Zero is zero. I quote you, "Nothingness is equals to zero -- valueless, immaterial, insignificant and useless." So god must have come from somewhere/something, and that this somewhere/something cannot have come from nothing/nowhere! But you say god is there, so "there" must be somewhere (which is not nowhere), and so therefore that "somewhere" was also created (by the God of god?), but where is that "God" residing? We are now entering an infinite regress without any possibility of escape. "Some where" cannot be "no where".

So the "buck has to stop" somewhere (pun intended) and I this is what I propose: "The universe was its own beginning." Now, this concept is no more difficult, and certainly no more ludicrous, than saying "god is god's own beginning." Why is it more impossible to believe that the universe created itself than that god created itself? (If god didn't create god, then how did god get there? Saying, and I quote you, "God did not create a God for He is God" just doesn't cut the mustard, really.) People say they don't see the universe creating things - but they do see them! Everyday you see them: new born babies with their mothers; seedlings shooting up from the ground; snowflakes. Take a look, the universe is busy creating and building new things around you all the time! Would you say that a new born person is not unique, that this new person is just a re-incarnation of someone who has already lived? Ah, but now we get into the realm of "souls" - that infinite stockpile of infinite personalities of people in some big warehouse that god has up there in heaven.

Imagine this: "Ho ho, new body just born!" says god. "Looks like somebody (another pun! groan...) needs a soul! Now let me see. Hmmm, which soul for this new body then? Aha, what about this one!" Lucky you! And when your body dies your soul is reclaimed by god, but now god gives you a nice apartment and a free meal ticket for the rest of your eternity in heaven. Why bother with the "human lifetime" bit in the middle at all? Why not simply do it all in heaven? Lifetimes on Earth are too short, too harsh, too busy to learn anything other than "Gosh, it's nice to be in heaven for eternity rather than down there on yucky 'ol Earth. Thanks, god! If it wasn't for that little lesson you gave me I wouldn't appreciate things as much as I do now!" And to cap it all off, some poor buggers really get the rough end of the stick and end up in a worse hell for eternity, for reasons known only unto god...

You have said, and I quote, "I didn't stop on looking, I found the answer -- that God created it." This is precisely what I was talking about when I said, to quote myself, '... all you are actually doing is saying "god made it, end of story."' Hmmm!!! I will quote you again, "Since you don't know the answer, and Science can't answer either then where would you lead?" Are you stating, JvBoy_17, that science can never find an answer? How do you know this? Have you some word from god that tells you science will never find the answers? As science learns more about the universe we find that god is needed less and less - the god of the gaps. The ultimate conclusion is that one day the universe will know, via having created us (and/or intelligent alien races), the answer to its own origin. But, I can quite definitely assure you that god *will not* even remotely be anywhere in that answer. One problem I see is that god goes against "Occam's razor". I have lifted the following passage from Wikipedia (http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Ockham_razor). Occam's razor:

'This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.'

In summary, why introduce unnecessary entities (ie. god) when no additional explanation is afforded by doing so? We are seeking the answer to the creation of the universe, and the simplest answer that satisfies all measurable data is: The universe created itself. If you measure the universe presuming that god exists, and then measure the universe again while presuming that god does not exist, do the answers differ? You get the same answers, of course. So did the inclusion of god make any difference? No. Here is something else I have lifted (http:// skepdic.com/occam.html) that shows the universe to be a messy place and, as even a casual reading of human anatomy will reveal, we have extremely messy, inefficient internal "components":

"... if a Perfect God had created the Universe, both the Universe and its components would be much simpler."

And, as you said yourself, "Creation in seven days implies a perfectionist God. That all must be perfect and need to be created in sequence."

Well, I would also think that our "components" would be much better designed, like a high performance automobile built by engineers, if built by god: unlike the soapbox racer built by school children that we indeed are. Sure the soapbox racer works, but not as good as an Indy Car!

Vroom vroom!

thedrinksareonme says:

Dear JvBoy_17,

"Wake up! Your having so much beer. The same beer that will kill you one day."

Actually, I'm just having a little fun with you. I enjoy a beer sometimes, especially when it's warm and I've been working hard in my garden for the day! Bless the beer!

"Are you really against God or against the people?"

Good point. Upon inner reflection, I believe that god is man-made. So I must be against the people. Still, there is always the chance that there's something bigger going on in this universe than the terribly small god that the mind of Middle Eastern man has conjured up.

"If there is no actuality of a Creator then how come your nose is not in your butt..."

My nose is the product of billions of years of evolution, not 6 days of magic incantations (and one day of beer drinking in the garden - of Eden - no doubt!) My nose isn't in my butt because then I wouldn't be able to smell the predators for the smell of my shite. Having a nose in the butt is what is known as an "evolutionary dead-end." Creatures that have somehow come about with noses in their butts will get eaten and will fail to breed so that their wierd evolutionary trait will cease to exist. Evolution will then go on to create the platypus!

"God can Exist even without the Brain or Mind"

But how would anything / anybody know that god exists? There wouldn't be any minds to think the thought "god." If god had failed to create minds that could think exactly these thoughts then would that mean god has failed to exist? But, existence is not proved through thoughts alone. I strongly think there is other life in this universe besides what is on Earth (ie. "aliens") but their existence is not proven. Maybe the aliens created Earth and all of us that live on it, just like in Douglas Adams' story, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."

"... if aliens are real do they have a God. My answer is yes ..."

You are not a Christian then. The christian creed states that jesus was god's only son, sent only once, to perform a singular redemption of sin for the only creation that god has ever created. (It's all there in the various semitic bibles.) But aliens would need a jesus of their own, if of course they have sin - maybe they don't have sin and they are perfect. But only god is perfect! That too is in the various semitic bibles.) So the aliens must be sinners and the various semitic bibles are therefore simply wrong. The words are wrong. The message is wrong. So we must conclude that aliens don't exist, otherwise the bible is wrong. And the bible is never wrong, is it?

Regarding the passage starting with: "The law of thermodynamics ..."

You are talking about entropy - and yes, entropy is rising, fast. The universe is running out of useful energy and converting it to useless, dead heat. The universe likes to build things - that is what its atoms do well. In this way your "undirected energy" did catalyze the first *basic* replicator molecule. That was the hard part, and the only truly random part of the whole shebang. After that one single replicator was randomly assembled, guess what it did next? It replicated, and replicated, and replicated again. Billions and billions of replications, each with mutations and "stress fractures" resulting from the environment it existed in: over the course of a billion years. Any idea how long that is? It is around 33 million generations of humans (at 30 years per generation), or 10 million lifetimes (at 100 years per lifespan). Eventually something "clicked" and the first single-cellular organism got started. Then god rested and he was pleased. About 3.5 billion years (35 million lifetimes) after this first organism came the primates, then us. So, just because evolution has slowed down a lot now (as nearly all ecological niches have been filled), this doesn't mean evolution never happened and won't continue to happen.

"Tell me where Carbon Hydrogen and Oygen came from?"

I don't know, do I? And neither do you. But instead of asking yourself, "I will go and find out", all you are actually doing is saying "god made it, end of story" and then sitting on your hands, do nothing, going nowhere.

"If the Big bang is true ..."

I don't know if it is true or not, either. It is only a theory - a working idea that has lead to useful predictions and the making of money by the selling of things that have been created directly out of the knowledge that was gained by firmly thinking that a Big Bang actually happened - whew!

"Science [can] coexist with a God if we adapt the theory of a Prime Mover."

Science has the legitimate task of asking, "Where did the Primer Mover come from?" But the answer to that one is easy: "God made the Prime Mover." (God's god made god, that is. Hehe!) (BTW, I'm not fussed about you not citing references and sources; I'm not citing sources either and most of this stuff we're talking about is popular science knowledge anyway.)

"The reason why you cannot see the actuality of a God because you limit yourself to the world."

I don't mind limiting myself to the world. It is fulfilling enough for me. I don't need the god/jesus/muhammad belief processes to enjoy my life. I think these things were great for primative man who huddle around the fire while the lightning struck and the ground swelled - how fearsome and awesome would it have been! Gods and men - the product of a fertile imagination and a gross lack of understanding about the world. We are in a more enlightened age now, with greater things to come. I think our thoughts of what is god should be as equally enlightened. Dispense with that tired old semitic clap-trap! Invent a new paradigm: a new god. A god of reason and science. A god for the long, long future ahead of us (for the universe still has a lot of energy for a very long time) - that is, if we humans don't exterminate ourselves first...

Aric says:

I am the only one that controls my life

thedrinksareonme says:

It is because there is no absolute proof of god that these arguments and debates we are having still rage on, thousands of years after humans became capable of creating and telling stories. This god you speak of could solve the whole conundrum by simply appearing and removing all doubt what-so-ever. Why would a deity with supposedly infinite powers need to play such a "silly buggers game", enjoying the confusion that results? Maybe god is a child, because that's the way school children behave in their playground games.

If there is no absolute proof of god then how can anyone speak in absolute terms about the existence of god? Absolute certainly requires absolute proof. That is why science fails to meet your expectations JvBoy_17, because science is not absolute. It consists purely of speculative reasoning - that is, theories. And these theories give us our Developed Nation luxuries, such as computers and the Internet. These theories work and people have better lives because of them. Did you know that in times gone past science was considered the work of the devil? Are you now enjoying the seductions of the devil, JvBoy_17? And when did the "knowledge" that science was a gift from god take over from the "absolute certainty" that it was pure evil served up by the devil to corrupt men's souls?

"A sucker is born every minute" - a saying that is all too apt for those who profess belief in any god. Do you think the businessmen who run the world's gods and religions actually believe the rubbish they dish out? Dream on! If they did they wouldn't dare ask you to cough up anymore cash than was absolutely necessary to cover the production expenses. (Tell me again, just exactly how wealthy is Benny Hinn?) I would also recommend that you look up the definition of what a THEOCRACY is, JvBoy_17. Then you will know where I'm coming from.

All power to beer!

thedrinksareonme says:

Fair cop there 'guv! Okay JvBoy_17, to the point then - god doesn't exist. And here is the evidence to prove that god doesn't exist:

1. People over the ages have invented some really far-out fairy tales stories. The truth and validity of these stories are therefore highly suspect

2. Take away people and how would the "story" of god get out there? If there are no people to "know about god existing" and to "receive the story" then what is the point of god existing? Nobody would know!

3. The whole "story of god" is completely oriented around people. There is not a single mention of anything that is directly unrelated to people. Would this imply that plants will have a "plant bible" and a "plant saviour" of their own that we people can't perceive, and that the animals have their own "animal bible" and "animal saviour" too? Do animals and plants go to heaven? And what about the insects?

Ergo: Without people god doesn't exist, but people can exist without god because we are quite plainly here!

Beer-goggles for all I say!

P.S. JvBoy_17, you should be very careful when "stating" scientific facts. You have never quoted a single reference to support any of your arguments, which simply means that everything you have ever said is of your own personal opinion - and interestingly enough you tend to present your opinions in the form of theories! Do you have any references to support these "theories" of yours?

thedrinksareonme says:

A fictitious character invented by the human mind that created the world and everything in it? That's plausible, I don't think.

The historical facts don't support the "Old Testament" bible, which immediately nullifies both the "New Testament" and the "Qu-ran". If the source work is false then how can the derivative works be true?

People of the ilk of Hoogle and JvBoy17 are aware of the gaping inconsistences and errors of fact, but they so desperately want it to be true, and their desire for belief is so strong, that no amount of argument will persuade them otherwise.

Bottoms Up!

susannaduffy says:

I have a problem with the concept of the Sky-God

bg says:

ur a fuking wierdos u need help ur goin to go to hell god is EVERYTHING just wait till jugment day!

Jeana-marie says:

you cant prove that there is one

bfwe1atnet says:

Why Atheism?Simple common sense!
1st criteria is the story,since every one,every thing,every religion,Etc.Etc. and so on has their or its story that is their personal proof of what they have a belief in.And as far as things things can usually be traced by scientific evidence as to it's authenticity & thus story.2nd is Logic which to me is most important in my opinion.That is does what a persons place or thing make any logical sense which can be put to the test by scientific means & other ways of proving logic such as a mathematical proof.Of course with people Logic sometimes doesn't work due to the nature of the beast.But I digress logic is otherwise a reasonable test to get at a truth as is evident in daily life.You gotta use logic every day to get around to things such as balancing bank accounts as well as finding Your way to a destination etc..3rd criteria and most Rigid I use is as mentioned above does it pass the smell test!Or in other words does what a person place or thing's story pass the test of a rigid scientific scrutiny.If anyone person's story cannot be backed up by some kind of logical scientific inquiry thus removing all doubt as to it's or their's authenticity then I tend to be skeptical of them or it.All this culminating in my saying every now and then about religion's etc. in that they were "all created" during man's early period of life on this planet & for the most part don't pass the smell test because they cannot pass a rigid logical nor scientific means of testing their truths as such & therefore I tend to be skeptical of their authenticity as well as their entire motivations as to why they were created to begin with.I can say that Religion as well as other things were created during man's early years but some of those things (such as laws of physics IE: E=MC2) have indeed passed the smell test but others have not & have yet to be given total scientific scrutiny.Therefore Atheism is proof because it cannot be scientifically disproven.And Religion (any kind) cannot be scientifically proven but can be disproven.

slvrbk says:

Oh sorry. I forgot that i needed to work hard to get god to love me. I need to read Job some more to learn my place. Now which god am I working for? The New Testament one that is a lovey-dovey, or the Old testament one that gave the Israelites rules such as "Have sex with a menstruating woman and you will be stoned to death." Oh, by the way, nice "cherry-picking" of bible passages to fit your needs in our modern world. The passages in the bible that Falwell and his ilk use(used) to condemn homosexuality also order yout to stone the the person to death or some vicious form of death. Maybe that is why I suffer these iniquities...I need to throw more rocks at fags to get on his good side. Of course it all depends on how you interpret your absolute book. Who gets assigned to do that, and which denomination should I follow? I need to get this right so my son will stop suffering. Should I call the Pope?
I agree with jvboy_17: crazyduck needs to get his ass back to school!

crazyduck says:

jvboy_17
Your god is a f*ck*ng prick and nothing with that amount of prickness is worth believing in.
The absurdity of your prick god is only exceeded by your absurdity to believe in such a prick.
You should really look at your stupid rantings. You sound like a fool - an insensitive fool - a fool who has no independent thought and repeats only what he is told.

slvrbk says:

Stand over your infant daughter's grave, or hold the swollen-jointed hand of your first grade son knowing he is in pain from the arthritis your genes probably gave him, and you will realize only one of 2 options exist: 1. No God, 2. God exists but he is is a game-playing SOB and/or not involved in your self-important life at all. Praise Jesus for allowing us all to grow to love love love and worship him thru the blood and pain of innocents. The only reason I want to even believe there is a god is so I can hate him...what do you call that?

crazyduck says:

Hoogle
I feel sorry for you - lost at 6. A precious human life wasted on such nonsense is a human rights violation. I think you should sue - probably the Catholic Church 'cos they gots lots of money.

Jvboy_17
So what dude? You know theists die too and they become one with the soil and then get turned into bibles for other theists to read - but its not actually like that many religious people even *read* their bibles in the first place (and then when they do they get all confused with the twisting weaving incomprehensibility of it all and just simply believe whatever their preacher says - like you, I bet).

Your beliefs are you, so atheists can only attack the person - we can't attack a non-existent entity (aka your god). Sheesh.

And why are you religious lame-o's now defining your belief as non-religious? Look up the dictionary why don't you!

I really suggest you guys critically read through www.jesusneverexisted.com - it's full of *facts* not beliefs.

crazyduck says:

'Nary a truer word has been spoken, godispretend.net

"God belief is lame-o."

Hear, hear!

godispretend.net says:

God belief is lame-o.

crazyduck says:

You'd better ease up on the booze there, jvboy_17...

To answer your question: "I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please."

Well, would the Earth having "ends" indicate that the morons that wrote the bible might think it is flat? Try reading: Deuteronomy 33:17, I Kings 2:10, Job 28:24 and 37:3. I got bored with searching for more references to the "ends of the earth". The rest of the bible is the same nonsense garbage as that coming forth from you, jvboy_17.

AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN JVBOY_17 FOR HIM TO EXIST.

(That's very funny.) Have a nice day, ya hear!

Camble says:

Concept of God is a psychotherapy for spiritual upliftment. Religion was just a code of conduct and had a marriage of convenience with the concept of God. See a full 'scientific' explanantion of what is the concept of God, how it evolved, how did religions originate and had this marriage of convenience with the therapy of God at http://pukamble.tripod.com/gandrframe.htm

jvboy_17 says:

Apparently One Of Our Dear Atheist Friend Doesn't Know How To Have A Debate.
1/ "You Must Only Attack The Topic And Not The 2nd Person".
2/ "You Must Always Provide Proof And Evidences In Any Statement That You Declare".
Please Have Sense On Your Postings.

...I Apologize Myself Since I Am Also Out Of Topic Now.

I DARE YOU TO SHAKE MY FAITH!!!

"Men Created The Space Shuttle. They Reached The Heavens, But Didn't Find God?.
?Men Built Submarines And Went In Depths Of The Seas. God Is Not There?.
?Men Invented Telescopes And Saw The Distant Stars. Still No God To See.?.

?But Men Saw The MAJESTY, GREATNESS, COMPLEXITY and MASSIVENESS of the UNIVERSE? and they were AMAZED...MESMERIZED...

?And Then They Built Machines, Created Tools, Formulated Theories To Explain Things?. They Were Successful On Some, But Failed On The Most?.

?They Don't Have Answers, Because They Don't Have The Proper Machines, The Correct Tools And The Right Theories?.

Francis Collins, An Atheist Who Is Now A Believer States:
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?In my view,? explains Collins, ?there is no conflict in being a rigorous scientist and a person who believes in a God who takes a personal interest in each one of us. Science's domain is to explore nature. God's domain is in the spiritual world, a realm not possible to explore with the tools and language of science. It must be examined with the heart, the mind, and the soul -- and the mind must find a way to embrace both realms.
?I will argue that these perspectives not only can coexist within one person, but can do so in a fashion that enriches and enlightens the human experience. Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world, and its tools when properly utilized can generate profound insights into material existence. But science is powerless to answer questions such as ?Why did the universe come into being?' ?What is the meaning of human existence?' ?What happens after we die?' One of the strongest motivations of humankind is to seek answers to profound questions, and we need to bring all the power of both the scientific and spiritual perspectives to bear on understanding what is both seen and unseen. The goal of this book is to explore a pathway toward a sober and intellectually honest integration of these views.?
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In Addition To This. The Big Bang Theory Cannot Factor Out Our Current Universe, Which Is Characterized By Complexity, Harmony and Order. The Big Bang is so Devastating And So Chaotic...If The Big Bang Is True, I Bet Your Nose Is In Your Forehead.

The ?Cosmological Argument? was been a great resource to prove God's excistence.

The Argument Dictates:
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1.Every finite and contingent being has a cause.
2.Nothing finite and contingent can cause itself.
3.A causal chain cannot be of infinite length.
4.Therefore, a First Cause (or something that is not an effect) must exist.
Who Is This Cause? GOD!
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A scientist recently disputed Einstein's theory of gravity.
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?Gravity only appears to be an attractive force,? said gravity researcher Frank Thompson. ?In reality, it's a force that repels in the opposite direction. (Isaac) Newton and (Albert) Einstein are going to look pretty stupid after my paper is published.?

?Since gravity repels it only stands to reason that the Universe is expanding,? he said while writing equations on a chalkboard in his office. ?But this is confusing to Einstein's General Relativity zealots, because they still believe that gravity is an attractive force based on everyday observation. But a negative repulsive force can easily be mistaken for gravitational attraction. If you step out of an airplane in flight, for example, you may wonder why your body will splatter on the ground over a large area if gravity is not a force of attraction. The Earth's gravity is indeed trying to repel you, but it's just repelling you in the opposite direction from what you would expect. It's trying to push you through the Earth and out the other side into space.?

?Dark matter and dark energy are every bit as real as the tooth fairy,? Thompson explained. ?You only need them if you don't accept that gravity is a negative repulsive force. Stars stay organized in galaxies and clusters of galaxies not with the help of dark matter, but by repelling each other in a binding fashion. And who needs dark energy to explain the expansion of the Universe when gravitational repulsion is clearly responsible??

?My theory of repulsive gravity also explains the behavior of Einstein's hair,? he said.
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On this scenario should we still recognize ?Annus Mirabilis??
And what is this black matter? What made this? -- Or should the question be ?Who made it??

A recent Discovery Channel Documentary ?Rameses: Wrath Of God Or Man? imposes a very interesting hypothesis of what may have caused the 10 plagues. They have associated a volcanic activity may have triggered the said event. The frogs, hail, darkness..etc..all originated on this specific natural cause, which if you look closely to the odds, why would this occur on the same moment Moses is about to led the Israelites out of Egypt; somebody might have intervened.

I dare you to venture out and try reading some religious books. I have read science books, studies different religions, even atheism. ?A Christian would not understand Islam unless he tries to become a Muslim?. So as an unbeliever and a believer. After you learn, be creative with your thoughts ? science and religion often tend to coexist....

The bible story may not necessarily imply the creation story as it was written. But it rather recognized a Creator that must exist.

The evolution theory could be true ? but Someone may have intervened, for us to attain perfect evolution.

...Benjamin Franklin is dead, he discovered electricity, he did not create it. He is dead now.
...Phillip K. Dick is a good writer. But he is also mentally retard. He is also dead now.
...Dan Baker tackled religion, not God...religion can be foul, but God cannot be foul. How long would he live?
...Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a good philosopher, but he has serious mental illness. He is also dead now.

GOD would still tend to exist without Benjamin Franklin, Phillip K. Dick, Dan Baker, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche...AND NAME OTHER PEOPLE...People die, God doesn't...And why would I follow the teachings of mentally disturbed people (I can exempt Dan Baker on this)? GOD doesn't need your brain for Him to exist.

?Human discovers...but God created?.

The greatest question of everyone...If there is God...Why people suffer? Why are there disasters? How come some people are born ugly and with disorders?
People suffer because of ?free will? - if God would intervene all the time, it would be a very scary event when the skies strike those who committed sin. And we probably all be dead now.
People suffer because they want to, because people are bad.
People suffer because they don't want to help themselves. God will lift your spirit, God will use other people to assist you...But God is not a genie. Prayer is not asking for help, prayer is not a magical lamp, it is not entirely a problem solver. It is simply talking to God. Most atheist see prayer on a different manner.
There are disasters because nature has to balance itself. If there are no volcanic eruptions, Earth will explode.
There are disasters because men caused them.
People who are born with disorders are not really ugly. True beauty lies within.

Good day everyone. I need to talk to my God before I sleep. May blessings be upon you...

jvboy_17 says:

If I die today I'll be a fertilizer like poopies(sweet!). Science declares - the law of conservation of mass - "matter/energy cannot be created nor destroyed but can be transformed". Everyone here on the left would be happy plant foods! yey!... It's not fair though, co'z I think that those those who are on the right are transformed into greater forms.

crazyduck says:

animerobot,

You seem to be a nice kid, unfortunately your Mommy and Daddy are wrong and so are all the things they've been telling you (and that includes all the things the other "grown ups" in your church have been telling you). Have you ever cried yourself to sleep sometimes at night what with all this sin that you have in you? Poor child, you need to tell your parents to stop screwing with your head.

---

P.S. On the last post I wrote, it's a pity we can't edit our posts. I want to be on the "right" side because us atheists are right, not left. Subconciously I want to be on the right side of things. Trouble is those dang religious nuts get to be on the right side...

crazyduck says:

Don't apologize FoodLuva. We here on the right agree with you and encourage you to continue the 'fight' against superstituous ignorance.

However, those on the left need some 'shaking up' to get them to seriously do things like a bit of Googling, and - and this is the important bit - to simply think about what they are reading without taking it as a personal insult all the time. Scientists aren't being insulting if the actual evidence points to a zero statistical likelyhood for the existence of God. (And I'm not talking just about the physical sciences here - Historians also fail to find evidence of the things written about in the "Holy Bible".)

*Everybody* should have a good in-depth read of Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion". The book doesn't try to insult anybody the way so called "compassionate Christians" insult those who disagree with *them*. It's a book full of facts backed-up by evidence and some basically obvious statements about people in general, without needing any recourse to religion to explain any of it.

And after reading jvboy_17's rant again, I see that he has failed completely in even trying to understand the things he is refuting. I'll guarantee he has just repeated what he was told at "bible study" class, which is really just propaganda (which is what Hitler used to raise the people of Germany into WW2). Thank the lord for bums like jvboy_17...

MisssThis says:

No! He does not!! I'm sorry, but I FINALLY get to say what I want about this. People say that everything came from him, where did he come from? They say he was always there... what? No, but why do we want to find out so bad? We will lose all of our knowledge when we die anyway. Did "god" kill the dinosaurs? why would he? We all came from gorillas. It's not as crazy as it sounds, google it!! I reallize about 80 percent of us believe, but thats because our parents force it. We need to stand up for what WE, not everyone else believes in. Nonbelievers can be just as good people. I do not wish to insult anyone, just to make a point.

~RK~

crazyduck says:

Torian Kel you're on the wrong side freako boy. all religion is a disease and it must be stamped out. there's no "end it all here" about it. religion is a madness of the mind, and it's not cool even if a billion people share the same delusion. just more stupid you for being sucked in by what somebody else tells you to do

there's no point arguing with the insane religious... they do have a mental problem after all. maybe medication is what they need to fix their brains?

Torian Kel says:

Look around you, what do you see? can all of these came from nothing? a question both a believer and a unbeliever cannot even if they think they are the most "intelligent" people in the world . Yes, wars have been fought in name of zealousness,thousands so called heretics died during the inquisition, and even more during the crusades, and the list go on. And we blame this all to God. Because it is human nature to blame others for their failures and that is a fact. It is easier for us to blame others rather than be responsible enough to face our faults. Another thing, I think it doesn't really matter if your a atheist or a theist as long as we all work for the betterment of mankind. Let us not waste time arguing about something that we know deep inside is true, atheist or not.Let us all end it all here.

crazyduck says:

Poor Michael. In colorblind people the cones in the retina can always detect the colors, but in your case your visual cortex can't do the needed processing. That is, you fail to see colors on a higher level.

Just like the rest of your brain, really. You fail to see that "god" is nothing more than a man-made fairytale.

Ralf says:

evidence = 0
likelihood = 0
god = 0

Eve says:

If God can see into the Future then he must have known that if He were to create an Angel called Lucifer now known as Satan the devil, that this "Angel" would turn against him and get everyone on Earth to start disbelieving in God and turn againist him to.. then why did he create him in the first place?. Unless God did it because he loves making all beings - even the imperfect evil ones, which would mean God is evil himself. Either that or God made a mistake in making such an imperfect being. God imperfect? In that case we don't need him!. I think God is just our imagination, we created HIm to help explain things -how things came to exist and to feel good and to control people. i don't know who or what created the universe but i'm not gonna go around saying that it was God or Allah or Aliens that did it/created it. If we believe in what a book says about who created the universe..then we might as well believe in what's written in other books might be real to..hmm maybe it was superman that created the universe...LOL.

Hamdi says:

There is no God. Plain and simple. Why would there be bad things in the world? How can he create Lucifer and still be pure and just? Poverty,sickness,war. He can stop it can't he? If so, why isn't he? There is no need for pain and suffering in this world. It makes nothing brings nothing and helps nothing.

Ronin says:

Some of my favorite quotes.

"I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief." -- Dan Barker

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Phillip K. Dick

People solve problems, Prayers don't.

Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable
is always a perilous business.

Theists think all gods but theirs are false.
Atheists simply don't make an exception for the last one.

On the sixth day God created man
On the seventh day, man returned the favor.

Two hands working do more than a thousand clasped in prayer

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God:
this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

If the Bible proves that God exists then comic books prove the existence of Superman.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? -- Dan Barker

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." -- Nietzsche

Well that should start the ball rolling. :-)

Mark Henry says:

GoD = Nothing but Human,

i am a God, people who are reading this message is also a god, god can be created out of anyone. There's more than 1000 religions in this world and each and every god is completely different and even the rituals that are performed for these gods are different, if there's a real god, then why is this huge difference in between all these religions, there's now way anyone can prove that all these religions are true and their gods are also true, if someone can prove this, then he's my god.

Nanda says:

if god exists,
why would people die young...?
why would people do all crime against humanity, Take George Bush for example, and still be alive and happy....?
God Is a Fraud....!

crazyduck says:

Remixer96

Its not about mass delusion. Its about 100,000 years ago and a stupendously brain broken overawed tiny human man standing on a plain in Africa in a brave new world that his tiny little brain has just evolved smart enough to notice.

This little man stands above everything else on the planet because he knows he is the first and only one who thinks big thoughts like this. His trained dog standing beside him drools and wont discuss philosophy with him so what other creature in this brave new world can or will?

None can. So our man in his awe still cant believe how lucky he is to be the only smartest thing in his known world and immediately concludes in God. That makes perfect sense to his overwhelmed psyche and it still makes big sense to billions of people today - but that doesnt make God true.

And as man learns about the world he lives in he sees more and more nature and less and less supernature (supernatural). All the people in this modern world who go to modern church laugh at the foolish antique people 500 years ago who believed the earth was flat but you know the church leaders killed those who didnt believe it because God said the world is flat in the bible and the bible is truth from God and so it cannot be wrong. But everyday millions of people fly in airplanes around a spherical - not flat - world. Is the words of God wrong?

It is all the small inconsistent things like this that shows God is nothing more than a little mans overawed brain trying to make sense of the world.

JudasX says:

Remixer.

Your point is intelligible and well presented, but alas off the mark.

You are basing your proof of higher powers on sedimentary values. Eastern and Western religious philosophies are completely different and both have changed in the interpretation of God as science itself evolves into a dominant philosophy itself.

The catholic church has declined in global membership. Does this mean that there is less evidence for God?

The amount of Pastafarian supporters has increased. Does that offer emperical evidence that proves the existence of a noodely savior?

No sir. Religion is just a programmed delusion that will see an increasing decline in future generations because of a lack of empirical evidence.

Remixer96 says:

Not sure of my personal opinion on this, but I had this thought:

If a supernatural being exists, there will likely be groups of people who gather to explore and understand it. Many people will then alter their lives in manners they perceive to please it, given it's apparent dominance over them in terms of power. They'd then likely attempt to spread their views, regulate their experiences with this higher power, and so on.

In other words, the cues I would look for in determining the existence of a higher power exist already. Though correlation is not causation, if a globe full of people act and are affected as if a higher power exists, wouldn't that be the Occam's favored explanation over the similar, simultaneous delusions of billions of people?

Also, I think in this case, disproving specific interpretations of higher powers is credible, but not to the degree that one can extrapolate to conclude that no higher power exists. Also many world religions can easily fit this bill, but some (especially Eastern) religions obviously have to be stretched to fit the terminology above. However, the guts of the question remains. If no higher power exists, isn't it extraordinarily uncanny that religious practice is so common?

irregularworld says:

I feel the need to note that the "God exists" column is filled with threats of torture and darkness. Those expressions seem to refer more to the wishes of the believers than to any actual evidence for the existence of this "God" character. It's a rather nasty tone for people to take, and a troubling indicator of the role of religion in their lives.

YOUareTIGERBAIT says:

I agree, if a god does exist, may he strike me dead.

Still here! Nope, no god!

for humorous reading, check out "stuff god hates"

JudasX says:

PS Hoogle -

Keep checking back and let God judge the atheists. If he exists, I'm sure he'll reward your attempts at shedding light in the "darkening gloom." Just relax and maintain an open dialogue about faith. That's what truly spiritual people should do.

JudasX says:

Hoogle -

"To see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin

I'm sure Ben Franklin would find your misquotation distasteful. Is there anything from Albert Einstein you would like to borrow and add a little Christ too?

While I disagree with every word you say, I must admit that your passion for God and strength under fire is impressive.

...but of course, General Custer was confident too.

One question though...

If God is the governor of this universe and the source of everything within it, than how is it possible for Satan to corrupt and influence us? Isn't the source of this corruption God himself? What is the difference between your God and your Satan? They sound like one and the same to me sir.

crazyduck says:

I don't see God solving the crises either Hoogle. If Man created his problems, then either man will fix them or Man will perish.

Once upon a time lightning in the skies was a sign of anger from God. Now it's electricity and this is what powers the very computer you are using to type your words on. Electricity is considered one of the 4 "elements" - electromagnetism, the weak force, the strong force and gravity. As Man figures things out in the natural world around him, God's presence becomes less and less. Sure, you say God created these things and Man is only discovering them but people were killed, while others did the killing, in their arguments of proof that only God had the power to make lightning. Now we do this "miracle" in physics labs everyday around the world.

Your God is truly the God of gaps, and when Man has learnt enough he will still not know all there is to know, but by then your God will be merely a memory.

By the way Hoogle. Are you a Jew? Why is it that you love that Jew named Jesus. I bet you look nothing like a Semitic person (a "dirty Arab" to everybody else) and yet you blow a load in your pants everytime you mention your homo-erotic lover, Jesus.

What fools you are. How can that Semitic God love YOU, that unclean filthy white Eurasian trash. You are nothing like God's true choosen people. Oh Hoogle, you ARE going to hell, like it or not.

crazyduck says:

Hey corruptedworldsaveyr, the quote was:

"YOU ARE ALONE. YOU ARE ALONE IN ALL THIS UNIVERSE. THERE IS NOBODY RIDING WITH YOU - THERE'S ONLY JUST YOU."

Why don't you go nick off, you illiterate idiot. Go and kill yourself and then come back here and tell us if there really is a God.

You are a waste of carbon.

LeslieBrenner says:

If God is all-knowing, all-kind and all-powerful, what went wrong?

irregularworld says:

Do you ever think to yourself, "What if the Bible is just another work of fiction?"

irregularworld says:

We're in for a RUDE awakening? So, you're saying God exists, and he's rude? You know what I think, "American"? I think that you wish that there was a God, and that he could be rude to the people you don't like. By the way, you're not the only American here. I'm American too, just as much as you are.

Mobiiart says:

Long ago, man created "God" to explain things that he couldn't understand. Then "God" became a tool, used to hold power over others by scaring the hell out of them with promises of eternal damnation if they didn't do what they were told. I make my own destiny, and accept the consequences of my actions. I don't blame my woes on some mythical deity to avoid responsibility.
*The security word I must type now is "Monk pants". Coincidence?

Pinoy Atheist says:

Feel him...I can feel that there's a 3 headed, green creature at your back now @ janeck. Does that mean this 3-headed green creature soes exist and can be found in your back? I think this argument ("to feel is to believe it exist") is very lame.

Scientists are being paid not to convince you @ janeck. That will be amounting to a waste of university funds. Oh and how about you @ janeck...have you also proved that your god created the universe? Have you proved that those other gods have nothing to do with all of these stuffs? I bet you also haven't given any evidence on that issue. That's why believing in a god requires faith. It is about believing what "is isn't so". Got the picture?

TalkingBull says:

The problem with creationists and theists in general is that they are incredibly ignorant when it comes to science. Scientists have been able to theorize the origin of life with positive results. The science is fairly new (Within the past 35 or so years) but it has been shown that nucleotides can form from inorganic elements. Most theists will tell you that scientists believe that life just popped into existence. This is of course, untrue. That is only one example of ignorance. Others include the belief that Charles Darwin theorized on the origin of life. To the best of my knowledge, he did not. He spent 20 years working on the Theory of Natural Selection. But I digress, it is always going to be impossible to prove a negative. That being the case, we (Atheists) can not prove scientifically that there is no god. Also, it is impossible for theists to prove scientifically that there is a god. The argument is moot. What we can do (rational people) is to show scientifically how life came into existence and how it evolved. We can show how the stars and planets formed. We can quite easily prove that a human can not survive in the belly of a whale (Any theists want to volunteer for that???). I live happily knowing that I am not irrational and compelled to believe whatever I was spoon-fed since birth. I think what we need to do is not battle these people who don't know anything, we need to battle ignorance. Keep up on your local school boards to ensure they are teaching science. Make sure that Intelligent Design isn't brought into your child's classroom. Keep an eye on the politicians and stay vigilant! Science is the tool we can use to educate people.

JudasX says:

Dear ChurchDuck,
Save your pitty sir. Leave judgment in the hand of your God. We all know it's the only thing he is good at anyway. We blink because of the oculomotor and trochlear cranial nerves that control movements of the eyes. Blinking itself is a motor reflex buried in the brain. Humans breathe, again because it is an innate reflex, for the specific purpose of living. We need oxygen in our blood to function at a cellular level.
In all honesty, I doubt you have found God. Considering God is supposed to be an all-powerful creator of the cosmos and dictator of the world, I doubt he took 5 minutes off to talk with a nut who has personal insecurities that cannot be satisfied within the empirical realm.
I look forward to hearing from you again sir...except next time bring some actual evidence with you. Your sentimental respiration claim just doesn't cut it for me.

Dear SilvertM,
Of course you can't prove God scientifically. Don't worry about it though...I would expect a renaissance man such as yourself to have the ability to transcend the universe and science (which is the ultimate source of empirical knowledge) in order to answer this question. Helpful Hint: before you use scripture to prove God, check out the Wikipedia article on circular reasoning. It may be useful...

Dear Anon,
Read The God Delusion. If your not up to handling chapter books yet, then feel free to open your eyes any time. God is not visible in the eyes of a starving child or a victim of murder, rape or theft. Search Google for pictures of refugees in Somalia and maybe you will see the real capabilities of your all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God.

Dear TotalMuscle,
You could have summarized your bloated passage with two words: Intelligent Design. Sorry Copernicus, but your not breaking new ground here on Squidoo. There have been many confused faithful who support this theory...and I'm sure your not the last.
1. Disorder is not the natural state of the universe. I don't need to say much further because the universe is composed of brilliant systems (like photosynthesis and the human circulatory system) as well as natural dichotomies such as day and night, hot and cold, life and death. I would venture to say your need for religious security is the only disorder in this argument.
2. "How can something exist before it creates itself??" ...he asked with a gleam in his eye. I don't know. I would say that is impossible, but why don't you ask your God? Apparently he has done the very thing you are rallying the troops against.
3. I'm not going to read a bias book from a journalist. I can predict the experience. His writing is probably filled with emotional arguments and religious bias claiming that science has obviously overlooked the documented miracles God has produced. I have better material to read.
4. If God is an uncaused cause...that is if he is the creator of the universe without having been created himself, then why can we not say the same for the universe. Our universe is trillions upon trillions of light years and is expanding. We, as humans, cannot transcend our universe to know about what may have caused it. It is just as fair to say the universe has always existed...similar to the magnificent properties you ascribe to God.

I'm still waiting for the pro-God debaters to rock my world and present me with some actual evidence. If I have to hear one more sappy story about God touching them with his heart and spirit, I may just throw up all over the keyboard and believe that there is no such thing as intelligent life on earth.

-JudasX

"To see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"

be-technical says:

If humans were designed, then they have some serious design flaws. Just one example - the fact that the trachea (your breathing tube) is in front of the epiglottis (your food tube). Countless lives have been lost due to this "design", which actually comes from the fact that we evolved from fish where the position of these two pipes wasn't so important, as they were above and below one another. If a designer had created a product which such an obvious flaw, they would have found themselves looking for another job.

JudasX says:

Hoogle-
You sir, are a scripture junkie. Your hooked on gospel because it is the only way that religious belief can make some sort of sense. The bible is certainly more supportive of God compared to the suffering of innocence, famine in Sudan and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, but we'll overlook these examples of "God's mercy" for right now.

Right now, we should take a look at the bible. I'm not even going to dissect scripture, simply because I'm sure your familiar with the numerous discrepancies between the Old and New testaments. I'm even going to ignore the fact that the Bible completely contradicts fossil evidence about dinosaurs that is empirically verifiable via carbon dating and other methods. Finally, I'm even going to ignore the fact that the Roman Catholic Church has admitted the bible is not truth. Specifically, I want to talk about how the bible was written. Work with me as we trace back through the histories of translation, that in themselves, result in a piece of fiction.

1. Oral Tradition - all historical cultures, and even some native cultures today, only communicate via story-telling. There are no written words, but ancient folklore that serve to develop a moral conscious and continue culture.
2. It wasn't English - ancient text was written in a combination of Greek and Hebrew. This was then translated into a multitude of languages.
3. Duplicate Meanings - most Hebrew terms have multiple meanings. Take the word "owph" for example. Although ?bird? is usually a good translation of owph, it can encompass anything that ?has a wing,? meaning a pterodactyl, airplane, dragonfly, dragon, angel or many other things of the sociocultural context.
4. Scriptio Continua - This is latin for continuous script. Script was written without spaces in between words. SothebibletextwouldlooksomethinglikethisandafterareallylongtimethewordsstarttomoldtogetherItisstilllegible,howeveritisnoteasytoreadright?
5. Lack of Capital Letters and Punctuation - Ancients script was also written without capital letters or punctuation.
6. Right to Left - Script was also originally written left to right. This might be a challenge for some to read.

and most importantly

7. Script was written without vowels. Thtmnstwsjstcnsnntswhchsprttytghtrd. (That means it was just consonants, which is pretty tough to read)

I'm sorry Hoogle, I just don't trust text that has so many holes in it. There are holes in the story, holes in translation, and certainly holes in the application of faith. My only suggestion for you sir, is don't believe everything you read. That kind of gospel can make an individual extremely shortsighted.

Again Hoogle, while your knowledge of your FAITH is appreciated, I would really love some genuine empirical evidence. So far, I'm just not stimulated to believe the circular reasoning you present. You cannot use the Bible to prove Biblical teachings....it just doesn't cut it.

JudasX

Rod says:

That's the crazy thing about all this religion/non-religion stuff isn't it: the fact that some people feel really good about themselves and the world by fully believing in God/Christ/Muhammed/what-have-you, while others feel really good about themselves and the world by fully not believing in these things.

I don't want to argue anymore. I have made my choice, just as I have always made my own choices (please don't argue my point, I'm saying goodbye here), just as I will continue to make my own choices in the future. I got dragged into this whole silly mess exactly one year ago and I have had enough. My life was pleasant before then and I want that pleasant life back - so to do this I have to stop "picking fights" with people and just let it all go.

Thanks Hoogle.
Thanks Judas X.
Thanks IrregularWorld.

Goodbye and all the best for you all,
Rod

Chris says:

The concept of God is a human idea.

Rod says:

No Spirituality, that's just your brain making up fantasies.

You have to prove that God exists. Once again, all you religious nuts can say is something like, "... this what I feel ..."

As irregularworld has requested of you, show me this "god" of yours, tanglibly. Why can't I see this "god" with MY eyes? Why is it that this impotent god (I was about to say omnipotent god) can't even fulfill the simplest request? Anything for an omnipotent superpower is always easy and simple.

I don't believe the gods exist. But I do believe you religious nuts are fools. I believe you are all brainwashed idiots. I believe you all believe in fairy tales made up by some smart cookies who go around wearing girls dresses all day. And I also believe you also think that some hoary old Jewish god is your god too. How stupid can YOU be?

Have a nice day, dumb arses.

Rod says:

GeminiSky, heistrue, Hoogle, and all the others on the right:

None of you seem able to face the world and handle it all by yourselves. You need your "Daddy's hand" to hold. I have read your words and all I can perceive is the big-parent-in-the-sky that you cling so tightly to. Grow up and become adults for goodness sakes.

The burden of proof lies with theists (that is, all of you on the right-side of the screen) because they have no choice but to positively claim that God exists. (Otherwise they wouldn't have a belief in God, would they?) I myself am a "negative" a-theist, in that I simply do not believe in a God (or any gods, for that matter). I don't attempt any *positive statement* of the non-existence of God: I simply say "I don't believe it." I have nothing to prove, so I await the theist to show me their rock-solid proof of God.

So go on then, do it already. I challenge you to prove totally and utterly beyond all doubt that God (or gods), exist. Not any mumbo-jumbo words, I want real evidence: now.

JudasX says:

Dear heistrue:
I think you are possibly the most shallow lummox I have ever encountered. Let's dissect your brilliant counterproposal to verified scientific evidence:
1. "can you see wind? no, therefore by what you are thinking, wind doesn't exist." I don't know where to begin. First of all, therefor is spelled without an e. Poor writing aside, your argument is even poorer. The fact that God is not visible is only 1/100th of the argument. When it comes to wind, it is true that we cannot see it. With that said, we can measure it, create it, observe it with other senses, and above all, determine it's cause. Wind is simply a byproduct of pressure differentiation and movement in the atmosphere.
2. "go out into the untouched wilderness, which is hard to find these days, and just sit there" Obviously, the "untouched wilderness" would cease to be untouched, thus ending its reign of splendor. I'm assuming you have done this because you are trying to explain the effects of this metaphysical experience. Frankly, I would prefer you stay put and read a book for once and discover the splendor of your own cranial faculties (i.e. the brain)

Dear GeminiSky:
If you cannot try and debate, than what is the purpose of entering? Obviously, when those of great religiosity are confronted reason, they retreat time and time again to their subjective corners of spiritual insight. Here I am to pick apart your claims with the fact of reason.
1. "People of Faith don't need proof for Christ lives within them and they can feel him...It is one of the best experiences I have ever had" I had a few great experiences like this, except usually they involve being over-served at the local bar. Your feelings mean absolutely nothing to me in the realm of factual evidence.
2. "He's probably up there laughing. " I wish you didn't believe that God was truth. If he is sitting up in the almighty skies, laughing at his poorly made artifacts (humans especially) in which he bestowed sins, suffering and disbelief, than that is not a kingdom or God I aspire to belong to. If he has the ability to reveal truth, he would have done so by now. Obviously, all the power in the world is purely for his egocentric enjoyment, as it is for so many leaders.

Hoogle:
Just in case you choose to come back, I'll keep checking back for you on the off chance that you decide to present some empirical evidence. Oh, and Jesus did not take titles, rather he just preached truth. Jesus was not God, he just preached heavenly ideals. If you don't agree, than read Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan, a Roman Catholic Priest of the Dominican Order. It's a great book that focuses on Jesus, rather than Catholic dogma. The blind man parable is only mildly influential, because there is duality to the term "see". In the bible, many believe it references his ability to see the world clearly with a presence of God, not necessarily the repair of his optic tracts and visual cortex. You should consider the metaphorical value of the Bible, and not take such a biased text so literally.

Yet again, the burden of proof falls in the hands of the enlightened. Not the burden of "who can tell the best enlightenment story while mentioning the love of Christ as many times possible"...but actual empirical evidence leading to the existence of God beyond the self.

JudasX

JudasX says:

HOOGLE *thanks for the shout-out Rod, it's nice to be on your side ;-)*
You use the terms Christ and God interchangeably, as most Christians do, but if you were even somewhat familiar with important scripture and the behavior of Jesus Christ you would know that he denounced the term "Son of God" and demanded the term "Son of Man".

You said "God created the heavens, the earth, and
The real Jesus Christ (who was not a well-nourished white man as Christianity and dogma would have you believe) was actually surprisingly humanistic. He never claimed the will of God, or supernatural powers, rather his "miracles" were simply insights into human generosity. Take the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. Jesus just encouraged those to share, so instead of feeding few, many rejoiced in receiving food.

The Kingdom of God that Jesus Christ believed (not heaven like the Church would have you believe) is actually the ultimate goal in which Jesus believed. He aimed to challenge the status quo and injustice, and simply bring peace and equality to the tyrannical political system in Israel. Jesus is not God, nor is he the Son of God (virgin birth is bullshit), rather he is the Son of Man and a noble historical figure.

You speak of how Christians always fall short of truly accepting The Lord in their hearts and minds, and of course this is what religion wants you to think. You NEED to get on your knees and plead to some impossibility for forgiveness because you are weak. You are not enlightened, rather you are trapped within your own insecurities grasping for "God" to save you because you cannot save yourself.

You say that, "God created the heavens, and the earth, for the spirit in man." Yet you fail to give scientific evidence of value. Scientific evidence embraces the causal principle while simultaneously retaining predictive value, and NOTHING God has ever done is a certified or even quasi-predictable.

You say that "He governs perfectly." I hope that one day you can finally open your eyes and understand that there is no perfect system. There are only byproducts of humanity, one of which is the ignorance of religion, that continually poison man by infesting our minds with violence and discrimination. You declare war in the name of God while I declare that war is God's name. If this is world is his perfect effect, I would rather be imperfect sir.

On judgement day, if by some chance some mystical and tyrannical being demands I rest upon my knees, I will not do so. I will challenge His utopian ideals that you spew in favor of my own moral and ethical decisions that do not involve oppression, rape and injustice.

Go ahead and cite your Biblical verses (which are mostly from the New Testament of course) and continue to walk with that crutch in your life so one day you MIGHT be able to cash in your account at the big bank in the skies. Continue to live in fear and deny your own abilities, because atheists need someone to argue with anyway.

PS: Please forgive me for using my "mind" to debate the existence of God, but seeing as how it is a God-given faculty, I'm sure He won't mind.

Would you like to address any specific arguments this time around?...or is your rebuttal going to consist of subjective and ethical arguments in which you try and claim moral superiority? I'm sure it will be the latter, after all, those are the only arguments God supports with your "mind".
Remember, the burden of proof is in your hands sir.

JudasX

Rod says:

The universe was born to create life. We all know instinctively that old life must die to allow new life to be born. Every universe will therefore become old and eventually die so that a new universe can be born into life.

Our universe was born, and our universe will die. Inside our universe life is arising and dying all of the time - not just human life, but all life: stars, planets and all those little creepy crawly things too.

There are only two constants: universes will be born; and universes will die. And the whole glorious purpose of it all is: life.

It isn't necessary, or even good thinking, to postulate a god to do the act of creating the universe - for a god that can never die, can never have lived.

Imagine, if you will, what it must be like to exist eternally, never being able to die. I would wager that such a being desires death more than anybody could ever know. And quite possibly our having been created has it real purpose in thinking of a way to kill god. To give god death. How smart would a person need to be? Well, you have eternity (in heaven) to think up a solution, except that I reckon god has already spent eternity thinking of a way, and hasn't succeeded so far - but maybe I will be the one to kill god. Maybe I will be the clever one with the good idea: I have an eternity in which to think of something...

So praise god all you like, because you too will want death after an eternity of singing and praying to god all day, every day up in heaven. Meanwhile I will be busy trying to give god the one thing that nobody else has thought of - his death...

Rod says:

Hi Hoogle, hi JudasX

My "pixies in the garden", Hoogle, was meant to illustrate the howdy of a trip you religious dudes and dudettes are on. Your poetic waxing is a verbal drug that ultimately floods your brain with dopamine, giving you a massive high - the reward centers in your brain are in neuronal ecstacy...

JudasX, you are right on the money. I agree with *all* of your statements, however in (1) I think you missed a word out and the sentence is difficult to decipher.

And regarding all of gods' love here on Earth, what about that 9 yr old girl recently in the UK? Maybe god loves a pedophile because god, sure as eggs, allowed THAT to happen...

Hoogle, you can say that "christianity is a mess", but you don't really believe it. If you believed what you said then you would reject christianity as unadultered rubbish. However, because you continue to defend your believe in the nonsense you necessarily force yourself to ignore the contradictions in, and most certainly the translation errors of, the Latin and then later the English, versions of the semitic bibles. Quite simply put, because these works have been so badly mangled and manipulated down the centuries it is utter foolishness to claim that they are "the pure and unchanging word of god" - they are anything but.

The Catholic Church is making changes that, in hundreds if not a thousand years from now will be accepted as "the pure and unchanging word of god". Nobody will remember, or care to remember (and certainly any documents proving otherwise will no longer exist or be accessible), that once there were only "ten commandments", because quite obviously god decreed 17 commandments as anybody with a bible can surely read... If this sounds like a fiction to you, which is precisely what god always has been, then you are discounting what people will accept and believe just to avoid embracing the void of death.

Because believe it or not folks, this is what religion is all about - giving to the question of, "what is death" the answer, "there is no death - you will live forever with god, but you *really, really have to believe in god*, otherwise you still live forever but in torment instead".

I however, prefer the answer, "Death is nothing. Death is a void. Nothing happens there. Life is gone." And because of this, nothing, I repeat nothing, is worth dying for because once you are dead there is no reward. You will have died for nothing. So we should instead all do something good in life before dying...

Cheers
Rod

P.S. Substitute the word "nobody" for "god" (and jesus too, if you are so inclined) and then have a go at reading the semitic bibles. You will be so surprised at how the whole thing now makes so much sense!

ben says:

that's right

benjamin says:

there is no god

JudasX says:

This is actually a very simple argument, and any observers will note athiests are usually the more lucid and intelligent hemisphere of the debate.

1. If God created the universe, than the universe must be an artifact (i.e. something that was created) There is no scientific or naturalistic evidence for claim (besides faith which should really count for nothing).

2. To say that God created the universe would be to say that He is the only known uncaused cause. By that, I mean that religious faithful always claim that God has no cause, so why can an atheist not suggest that the original cosmic soup resulting in the big bang was an uncaused cause as well. Apparently God defies the scientific causal principle, and is the only known thing to have done so.

3. God is all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful and yet he permits the suffering of innocence. God knowingly, willingly, and purposely allows the suffering of innocent children on a daily and global basis. This includes, and is not limited to, Darfur, South African apartheid, the Holocaust, poverty, AIDS, the Invisible Children, and so many more. He loves these children, yet witnesses their destruction even though he is powerful enough to intervene.

4. There is no way for humans to transcend language to ascertain the omnipotence of a theistic God. All terms and explanations for God are derived from the human language and is taken as Gospel. How is it possible to transcend this human artifact (i.e. language) to ascertain that there is really a God? We cannot, it is not possible.

5. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Ignorant and close-minded fools are pacified by the "need for salvation" because men are "inherently evil". I choose to disregard these foolhardy comments and embrace the beauty of being human. Humans are naturally weak and suck at the tit of those powerful tyrants who have always oppressed them, from biblical times to the present scenario. Religion is nothing but a controlling technique that limits true empirical evidence by manipulative and harmful means. This is why religiosity yields war, and those who are stupid enough to follow are slaughtered by the thousands in the name of some higher power (God, Allah or many of the other synonyms)

6. The church is a joke. Pope Pius XII in the 50s accepted the theory of evolution as truth, only on the condition that at some point God infused the human soul (this is an insult to science and an attempt to pick and choose theory). Also, on monday March 10, the Vatican declared seven new social sins for the 21st century including laughable material like "conducting genetic experiments". Finally, do not forget the hypocrisy of the church. Sexual molestation of alter boys and profiting through church donations are happening all around us. I bring these numerous points up to highlight the absurdity of the Catholic Church (the prominent American church).

Ultimately, however, remember that it is the "Jesus Freaks" who ultimately bare the burden of proof. They are the group staking a specific claim, thus empirical evidence must support their claim. Because there is a complete lack of evidence, beyond subjective "faith experiences" (I had one when I was over indulgent at a bar one night), thus God is a nonexistent entity who is an intrinsic comfort to those who need some comfort they just cannot provide for themselves.

On a final note, if I am incorrect and this is, after all, God's world which is a deciding factor for His eternal life, I would rather have no part of it. If the best God can create is a dysfunctional melting pot of sin, suffering and violence, than I am more than content to disown myself as a child of God. So please, quarrel on about the existence of God (even though He could make all believe in Him at the drop of a hat) and rely on your faith as a justification for moral inactivity while I go change the world by challenging the gospel you roll over and accept.

PS: I like some of the pro-God arguments. The Future and Barbann have sent my pulse racing, thats for sure! The only one know might even be considered a credible source of theistic intellect is Hoogle, and yet he has some pretty questionable arguments about veils and judgment. I hope this debate is actually challenged instead of a presenting a bunch of bullshit ethos arguments trying to represent objective moral values.

draik says:

If you believe there is one, there is one.
If you believe there is none, there is none.

Rod says:

Hi Barbann

Yes, that is known as Pascal's Wager.
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

Read on to the [constructive] 'criticisms' section. Are you sure you want to gamble?

YouCanCallMeDan says:

Certainly not the one described in Christianity anyway...

Rod says:

Hoogle, your Jewish friends are waiting for *their* messiah, not the messiah that was invented some 2000 years ago by somebody else. You see, the Jews didn't invent Jesus and so of course they disclaim him. Christianity is nothing but a potpourri of gods, fables, legends and outright scare-mongering, all later brewed up by the Catholic Church into one enormous Sin Factory.

On a different note Hoogle, you sound like an utter moron when you put pen to your daydreaming. Just listen to this fairytale: "...but love to fellowship with my brothers and sisters in the Lord anytime...it allows the divine life to flow among us and what could be better than that..." Can I have a go too? "I feel all so wonderful when the garden pixies come and sprinkle me with sugar drops." So, who can spot the difference between the two?

Rod says:

Hoogle, copy the following link into your browser:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/9/King David and Jerusalem- Myth and Reality

mfa.gov.il is the "Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs".

After reading *all* of the article, then you can come back here and explain to me and everybody else, exactly why it is that even the Jews who made your bible (and Jesus was a Jew, no?) are disclaiming the exaggerations in the bible. How much else of the bible is actually an exaggeration? What about all those parts that have the word "Jesus" in them? They're the worst exaggerations of all!

*LOL*
:-)

Rod says:

Here is a thought:

The god believers say, "God appeared from nowhere and then created the universe." Why not simply state, "The universe appeared from nowhere." It's easier that way and our dear departed Occam, with razor in hand, would be most proud.

Removing the creation of the universe up by one (to a god) just sweeps the creation event under the carpet, so to speak. The god believers I have spoken with agree that invoking a god to create the universe is logical - after all, the universe couldn't have just created itself, could it? But the argument needs to be extended to the god - because after all, the god could not have created itself, could it? We are now well and truly on the slippery slope to infinity. Who, or what, created the creator of god? Then who, or what, created that creator? Ad infinitum...

But of course, the god believers just say that god created itself and stop there. But why create complexity where none is required? Let's simplify the matter and say that the universe created itself. Then there is no need for a god.

"And that just about wraps it up for God"
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

malaria max says:

I worship cheese. yum.

Roy F says:

How did GOD create the universe. First if there was nothing before God created it, then he had to be in the universe that he created. wait! There was nowhere for him to be because there was nothing before him. So He was outside of the universe Wait! there was no outside no space before God created it. This does not fit that a God created the universe and what was created first. God created his self first outside the universe but everything that exist is inside the universe. This does not fit either.
Is God the big bang, and how many big bangs were there anyway.

If most people realy knew who God was they would still be lost sheep looking for a believe to follow. A Humanist.

A believe is an opinion of faith. Its because he said so, who said, the man that just took your money, (this is most illogical Cpt Kirk)

Corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

And it ridicules when you ask we can see God. We never said we can see god. We can NOT see God. If he's holy
Rude saying "Where is this God? Show me."
Stop asking rhetorical questions which people will lose in answering, irregular word

Corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

tsk
the Intelligent Design Theory

Rod says:

Yes! I got sidetracked onto monotheism. The whole point of this forum is to debate "Is there a God?" Not which God. And certainly not the validity or otherwise of monotheism.

Okay - in for a penny, in for a pound...

There are no god or gods. Nada. Not a sausage, dudes and dudettes. The universe *was* formed from nothing. And then everything else was created out of the stuff of the, now existent, universe.

How did the universe become formed from nothing? Well, some like to invoke that Jewish monotheist deity, "Yahweh" ("God"). But as corruptedworldsavery makes the point, a lot of others in the past (and also presently, in some small corner of the Amazon jungle) have validly invoked their gods too. No one god (or pantheon of gods) has a monopoly over the act of creation. (Though monopoly suggests monotheism, doesn't it?)

I think it was pure random chance that started the universe. There could so easily be a void instead. But at some random moment of eternity, the universe got started. How long ago did the universe get started? Ah, but there we go again, getting off-track and onto other wonderful, wonderful philosophical discussions.

And to clear up some matters, yes I did get a littled heated regards that abomination called Christianity. I apologize to all the readers for this. It, and all the other monotheistic centered religions are too extreme, in everything they do and every way they behave. I am so glad to see the back of Christianity and have nothing to do with that craziness anymore...

corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

bla

Rod says:

Thank you, Hoogle. Having our little to-and-fro here has been pleasant, not least because you know how to spell and your grammar has been mostly excellent. More Christians should be taught to spell in addition to being brainwashed.

You are spot on - I can never receive the "Word of the Lord" because I have this stick-in-the-mud tendency to persist in using my mind, and I doubt that I will ever change my behaviour. Of one thing however I can be sure, I will never entertain Christianity again. Nor any other religion, nor indeed any spiritual feel-good nonsense either. I feel myself as of "reality hardness" rather than "airy-fairy Godly softness". I can't explain it better, sorry. (And please, don't try to tell me what reality is - yours will be God-based, of course. So let us just say that our two realities will always be relative to our own perspectives.)

You ask if I do not find certain passages in the Bible "profound" and "impressive". You know the answer already, Hoogle - no, of course I don't. I actually find them nothing more than verbal tripe: Grandiose sounding words designed solely to impress religious dreamers. And, I observe, those words have achieved their express purpose extremely well.

For me, on the otherhand, it is the subjects of physics, biology, chemistry, archaeology, computing and all of the other sciences (so many disciplines, so little time to list them all!) - these are the things that I see as totally "profound" and "impressive": I like to do all of my dreaming within these worlds.

Just to finish off now, because I doubt I have the patience, or the desire, to keep up any "ranting" (gotta love that!) on this or any other lens: Your Lord (the full-on master/slave mentality, you'll notice, is alive and well in the Christian), is the one who draws (or does not draw as He pleases), each man to Himself - "So you can't even take credit for the decision to receive Him." Obviously Hoogle, your God does not require me. So why then did your God even bother His omnipotent butt to magically create me and all the other atheists out there? Not just now in this present time mind you, but thoughout all of time? Oh, oh, I know the answer to this one (holding hand up): It's to test the faith of the true believers and make them love God even more, isn't Miss? Sure, whatever.

Goodbye, Hoogle. Just remember on your deathbed to say your final goodbyes - and do it properly.
Thanks, irregularworld. It's been great. Keep up the good work.

Rod says:

Hi Hoogle.

All the time you are making assumptions and assuming that what you think (and believe) applies to you, must also apply to everybody else. You believe (and belief is the cornerstone of this whole nonsense) that Christianity applies to you and so therefore, it applies to me and everybody else. What about the Muslims? I don't think they'd agree with you, nor would they even agree with me when it comes to that!

So, if your beliefs do not agree with the beliefs of others then how can you be sure that your particular beliefs are, in fact, the right beliefs? Endless debate and mutual self-annihilation of humans, by humans, over Gods has the stench of stupidity all over it. Only a non-existent God fails to prevent the whole mess from getting started in the first place. How about:

"In the beginning, as now, there is God. And He does not tolerate anybody doubting His existence, and miraculously smites all those who dare a thought otherwise."

The argument against that logic goes something like this: "We can never know the mind of God, so bugger us why God allows this sh*t to happen..."

Bring on your lens, Hoogle. I'm looking forward to it.

Rod says:

It's just a whole load of baloogie and I simply don't feel this god stuff. I come fully from this perspective. I tried going to church not so long ago (less than a year now), but I couldn't get it. I tried. I thought there might be something to all of it. But there isn't anything in it, for me. I thought that maybe the "power" of God would come into me, sort of like God saying "Welcome, my child." But I got nothing. I wasn't going to pretend to either myself or the other nice people in the church that I had "received" God. So I left. You might ask, what was I expecting? Well, I expected something, anything, rather than nothing. After all, God is infinite in everything, is He not? So why not a little something? Anything would have done! Asking some of those in the church I attended, they said to me that I just had to believe on pure faith alone. God does not show signs (these people are not Catholics, by the way) nor give warm fuzzy feelings and He definitely doesn't speak voices inside your head (that way lies madness, they told me). So essentially, I would have to utterly and undoubtingly believe with every fibre of my being that God really existed (and Jesus too) and that I would be going to Heaven when I die. And yet at the same time I was being told by these same people that God works miracles all around us, for us, and to us everyday! The blatant contradiction baffled me. I questioned this but was only referred to some passages in the New Testament, which is itself a mess of contradictions. I think the real reason I never "got it" was that I *do* use my mind to think with, rather than thinking with my emotions. ("Thinking and believing with your heart.")

Hoogle, no "evil one" has "possessed me from the day of my birth" and will then "take me with him to the lake of fire if I don't ... receive the Lord." What an atrocious statement to make about me. You say you aren't being personal but goodness me man, how much more personal can you get? Without any proof from God (to me that is, not you) to back up your statement, how can you possibly know what will happen to this thing called me after I die? Your statement of "fact" comes direct from the pages of some books that were written, and rewritten, by who knows how many hands over the course of thousands of years (see www.jesusneverexisted.com for more information). The words have been altered at each and every epoch to suit the prevailing rules of governance (the early Catholic church molded the fledgling Christianity into a superpower and the world has never been worse off ever since). Think about homosexuality. Personally, I think it is foul. But I think this for myself, not because of some Bible - A BIBLE THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY STATE ANYTHING ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY AT ALL - nowhere within its 1200 (give or take) pages does it mention it even once, or even implicitly mentioning it. And the city of Sodom wasn't a den of soddomy - it was a city full of wicked men and God just wanted to destroy it because it was full of wicked men. That's all. Whoever said it was about sex? How did that implication get in there?!!! And abortion is another one, too. The christian and hebrew bibles have nothing to say on this matter, most simply because it wasn't a spiritual matter, and more important it was the concern of women only - the subspecies of humanity, necessary only to grow baby men. How sad that modern day religios cannot see the barbarism of the old world still so proudly on display in their bibles today. An eye for an eye, Jesus saying it is right for the children to be slain by the bear (so full of compassion and love), and on, and on, and on...

I also left the church the day my 4.5 y/o boy sat down next to me and cried. Hard. I asked him what was wrong and he said "I don't want you and Mommy to leave me. I don't want you to die." My child was only 4 and a half. He should not need to have knowledge of death at that age. His little Sunday School group (taught by the women only) was, without my knowledge, pounding into their highly malleable brains that death was coming NOW for everybody, and Mommies and Daddies too - which is devastating for a dependent child of such a young age - and only by believing in Jesus will it be alright. That made me angry, upset, disgusted and I reject such cultist, independence destroying, brain-numbing, putrid garbage.

Go away you religious morons. Wake up to your delusions. Get your filthy hands off my child.

Oh, and that rubbish about divorce. 45% of Americans are satanists, 45% are bible believers, and the other 10% are atheists. Yet Hoogle, you attribute 100% of the problem to 10% of the population. Wake up to yourself - and that's my turn for you personally attacking me, and all the other GOOD ATHEIST people out there who are just like me, and who can do without your foul rubbish.

I don't have hate in my life. But I don't have to passively accept garbage from filth-mongers, unlike the Jesus garbage eaters who MUST ALWAYS PRACTICE PASSIVITY against their better natures, otherwise it's off to Hell with them! Morons.

Rod says:

Sorry humanist, you spoke too soon! I wasn't trying to knock the socks off our Christian friends, though one can always dream I suppose. But thanks for the support! (Isn't dreaming what the Christians are doing? Every Sunday they get on the mass - no pun intended - high and pray like demons - pun definitely intended that time - and daydreaming the whole week away until the next Sunday, when they get another "fix".)

I've just had a sudden thought after working out what jimb might be trying to say (in atrociously bad grammar I might add). It would seem the real problem with the Religious is that they feel deep inside their cores that a GOD really does exist. It must be one huge mother of a pyschological thing for them. What it will take to break them from the cult (as all religions really are) would probably break them totally, reducing them to quivering idiots. It would require a good psychologist to keep their sanity intact, maybe. I remember reading somewhere, someone saying like: "Even if we could cure them (the religious) of their mistaken beliefs, do we actually have the right to do so?" I take this to mean, maybe it's better to let these people have their funny beliefs just as long as they don't hurt anybody. Well...

Unfortunately, the world is being ripped apart by the Religious. On the one-hand we have Christians saying, "We are righteous. Kill the Muslims." And then on the other-hand we have Muslims saying, "We are righteous. Kill the Christians." Both sides are a bunch of stupid dicks, really. When did you ever hear of an atheist planning a Holy Crusade / Holy Jihad against anyone? (Notice how both religions have exactly the same concepts? Love and Peace, my arse. Yes... Love and peace to your neighbour (as the Hebrews like to say), but it's sanctioned by God to murder non-tribe members when you feel the need.) Well, let me state that you have never seen an atheist starting a war, that's what. And no, the Nazis were not atheists. They were actually Christians who went to war against the Hebrews. The Nazis used the New Testament to justify exterminating the Jews. Can you imagine if they had won Europe and then started to move into the Middle East? Man, that'd be doomsday for the planet because by then the Nazis would have developed The Bomb themselves and, like the USA *actually did*, they would have dropped it over and over again, all without a tikkitty-boo or even a thank-you. And the good 'ol US of A would have definitely been on that drop list.

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Dogbark, you have attempted a good argument but there are four things going on here:

1. It *does* take millions of years for things to happen. Our life spans and our recorded history is like but the life of a mayfly compared to the age of the earth - really, really short. Our lives are 100 years at most. Ten lifetimes is 1000 years. Ten thousand lifetimes is one million years. Ten million lifetimes is one billion years. Multiply this by 4 and you have FORTY MILLION LIFE-TIMES for things to happen. But then, that's not even the lifespan of a mayfly compared to the amount of time that lies ahead into the future, is it? So try to imagine what still has time to evolve. And maybe not even on this particular planet. We humans are not, and never have been, the last word...

2. Mutation isn't a big hammer. It's a teeny-tiny little hammer about as big as an atom, gentle chipping away at DNA all day, every day, every nanosecond of billions of years, sculpting untold wonders like you and me and the rest of the creatures in this universe (because life is ubiquitous).

3. The natural world is *very* wasteful. Think of how many checks and balances are in the average persons immune system to keep the immune system at bay from the body. Read a basic book on pharmacology and discover just how wasteful various aspects of the world can really be. Also, read onto (4) below.

4. The world *is* regular because it is the way the universe is. We are here because this universe has all the right properties to allow us to exist. And yes it can all operate by random chance too, and still produce order because the atoms in this universe like to stick together into structures, giving up energy in the process (and actually increasing disorder, that is, increasing entropy and being very wasteful), so that it in the end it is all a negative sum game where the universe dies in the process of giving life. The universe is not a "perpetuum mobile" - life (energy) and movement forever at zero cost and with zero waste.

irregularworld says:

I can't see God. If you can really see God, jmb, then tell me - what does he look like? What color is God's hair? Does he have a moustache?

Where is this God? Show me.

humanist says:

Hmmm? What's that fdavis? Are you implying that *you* are Jesus? Because it's only your ugly mug I see next to your words, Charlie. Or do you mean the *painting* at the top-left, the painting *made by a man*, most likely painted 1500 years after the Jesus story got going?

Hey, it's a story dude, not real. It's all a fiction. And it fills (within certain people) that void where there are no answers to questions such as, "Why are we here? Where did we come from?" And the one I like best, because we are the only species on the planet capable of contemplating our own death, is "What happens to *ME* after I die?" That's why religion has had such a stronghold on people since the dawn of humanity.

It's okay guys, being dead doesn't hurt - there's no thought, sensations, feelings, desires, or awareness. Ever been under anaesthetic for surgery and remember the "fade out" and the "waking up" but nothing in between? Well, that's what being dead will be like. Never be scared of the future - be a man about it. Stand tall and live your life now because you won't be able to when you're dead.

Hey Rod, it looks like you have finally quietened those Christians. Good for you. Well done mate!

Rod says:

I would like to start by talking about the end of life.
Then I will end by talking about (re)starting life.

To paraphrase a quote that Christians often use as their first line of attack: "Rejecting the

message [of Christ], as the Bible says, is to reject God."

Well, that's alright by me. I don't believe in either of the three. My life has been very happy

and morally sound without religion or indeed any theology at all. And so, when my death comes

the only sadness will be to never see my loved ones again, nor them to see I again.

It is the greater pity that the Christians, Muslims, and what-have-you of this world, in their

blindness of faith, just die without properly saying goodbye. They callously mouth, "See you

soon!" upon their deathbeds. Do these people not love their loved ones? Without doubt they do

not tolerate people walking away from them in the middle of a conservation, so why is it when

they are dying they will do this very same thing themselves? In the middle of the conversation

of life, they arrogantly walk away, throwing it back in our face - "I'll see you soon!" I have

no understanding of such callous disregard and yes, disrespect for life. (Maybe I have to be

religious to "get it"?) You will *never* see your loved ones again after death, so say goodbye,

and really mean it when you do.

To free yourself of the shackles of religion you must discover what it is in your life that is

frightening you, the thing that scares you and keeps you awake at night - the thing which you

feel has its answer in your adopted religion. Then reject the religion and take charge by

embracing this simple fact: You are alone. I'll say it again for clarity:

YOU ARE ALONE. YOU ARE ALONE IN ALL THIS UNIVERSE. THERE IS NOBODY RIDING WITH YOU - THERE'S

ONLY JUST YOU.

And it's okay. Take a moment to feel shocked, powerless, manic and lost. Now take a deep

breath, or two. Feels better already, doesn't it. Almost liberating, one might say. Exactly as

every youngster (and maybe the not so young on occassion) feels when they solo for the first

time.

I want you to take this moment to realize that you are actually and fully capable of living,

and keeping yourself alive, all by yourself. And in case you didn't notice, you have been doing

this ever since Mom and Dad stopped changing your diaper. There hasn't actually been anybody

holding your hand; you thought somebody was, but now that you really look there doesn't seem to

be anyone there. How odd! There are no scary monsters under the bed, and walking alone in the

dark is a time for solitude and quiet contemplation - as well as avoiding the potholes along

the path!

I suggest going to church this Sunday (if you're a Christian, or if you are a Muslim then

immediately at the next prayer time), and just appreciate being alive. Try to get inside the

minds of those other carbon-based lifeforms seated (or kneeling) next to you by talking *with*

them. Don't pray. Don't say "thanks". Don't sing to Jesus. Simply say out-loud, "I am selfish

for wanting only Jesus and Heaven. I should live while I am alive, not wait until I am dead.

Life is the true miracle around here."

I respect life. I'm a dirty, rotten, no-good, "going-to-hell" athiest who loves life, people,

the environment and many other wonderous things in this universe. There is so much to see, so

much to do, and with only my fragile bag of water that won't last more than 100 years at best,

to carry me around to see all of these sights. I can tolerate you religious lot, simply because

I see clearly without the blinding glasses of religion. I see what religion does to you all -

it turns you against each other (anyone counted just how many warring factions of Christianity

there are these days?), turned against life, and turned against the love of life - and that

would seem to me the very least thing that any creator of the universe (and all the life within

it) would want, or even encourage.

When you "heard the word", how did you actually hear it? Was it from inside, irresistable and

fundamental, or did you hear it from the lips of a man (or woman)? Be true to yourself with

your answer. You know the word was heard slowly, accumulating over uncounted and unremembered

days, weeks, months and years, striking a chord deep in your psyche and keeping at bay that

scary monster under the bed. For many people, being raised from childhood in the church they

have heard nothing else. How sad.

We were once children, but are no longer. Those who preach to you know this simple fact. And

yet you look up to them as the leaders, those who are in charge, as though they were parents.

Do they think of you as their children? Of course they do - and they suffer you, terribly. And

yet it is not possible to see this simple truth while being blinded by faith; it is

unacceptable for the child to lead the parent and so the truth must stay hidden. Who is the

"boss" at your church? Who calls the shots around there? Is it God, or is it the man behind the

pulpitt? Who do you turn to when a question needs answering? Nine times out of ten it will be

the man behind the pulpitt. The other one tenth will see you talking to yourself in the context

of praying and lo, you will find the answer from within and yet attribute it to "God". Please

examine yourself carefully before vocally denying any of this.

Start anew. Start afresh. Abandon the religion and free your mind. If you're a Christian you've

been promised that the Rapture will be in your life time. You know you believe it. So did all

those who lived and died before you. Well, let me just say that Jesus has been on the way for

2000 years and he's still not here. I wonder where He is? Maybe the God bus got a flat and the

angels are pointing fingers at the one who forgot to check the spare?

Or just maybe, God and the gang is not coming, folks. They never have been coming, and more

importantly they simply never were.

26 Feb 2008

Valka says:

Humanity obviously tends to believe in higher power(s).
That way they can shift blame onto someone else, or explain things they don't understand. The world would be a much better place if people were just kind to everyone etc of their own free will, because they want to, rather than out of fear they'll be set on fire by a higher power.
Why does there have to be something better out there?
Oh oh but if there isn't, we might ACTUALLY have to take responsibility for our own actions instead of blaming or praising a higher being.

dnev says:

It's just too easy to put off living when you think some super powerful being has got shit covered for you. The fact is, you need to get your shit together yourself. People who say, - We have faith in God to help us through "insert problems here", are retarted. You need to own your life, simple as that.

Jim says:

People in every culture have believed that their poo smells better than everyone else's poo. Gee, kab, that MUST make it true!

irregularworld says:

But Kab, people in every culture have also said that there are no such things as God. Babies in every culture have also said "Gagagagaga". What does that prove?

irregularworld says:

Alban, just because life is meaningless for YOU unless there is a God doesn't mean that a godless life is meaningless for the rest of us. I suggest that there is plenty of meaning in a life without religion. You just need to be able to think for yourself to find it. And by the way, reality is that I am alive. I have a driver's license and everything.

Bruce_Beerdrinker says:

christians always bring the arguement of where did this come from and how did that come about if there is no god. yet no one ever brings about the simple question of where god came from then. (i meant my reply for this side and accidently forgot to switch buttons, sorry.)

irregularworld says:

Well, Nirvinyls, no, I don't think I "came from a monkey", any more than I think that my brother is my father, but evidence in both cases suggests a common ancestor.

So, Nirvinyls fails to show us any actual proof that God exists. All he can do is ask a bunch of questions showing that he doesn't understand a lot of things about the world. I don't understand a lot of things about the world either, but that doesn't mean that I make up an answer in order to feel better.

jimcook says:

Yeah! I mean, the thing is that when I turn around, He is still behind me even, which means that He is always behind me! I never can see Him, but it all makes sense so it must be true.

irregularworld says:

Look, God is right there, standing behind you!

Ha. Made you look.

What?!? God exists, dude.

catholic411 says:

Yes, there is a god. I know people can't see Him, but that's why He's real. He'll show Himself on the Last Day, and that is the day you'll all be sorry for sayingthere isn't a God.

viv says:

josephprince.org

To irregularworld:
Wow. I was 18 when I came to this DEBATE and im 19 now and this thing is still on. Sigh.
I hated God last time and was in disbelief but this one year I have grown wiser, and discovered something. That God loves me more than I think He does.
About diseases He heals.

reply to:
If God is all powerful, why couldn't he give free will without dooming us to nasty infectious diseases, rot, poverty, natural disasters. Sorry, but your God disappears from the scene rather too easily to be believed in.

and
mrwriter
If there's a god then why did he make me atheist?

God has made good and evil dwell alongside so that we may discover, and show that the good will always win.
God let us have a brain with such much thinking capacity so we may explore, dig deep if we want to, and go one circle to find out about the truth of God because sometimes we have the freewill and we sometimes succumb and choose to be stubborn.

But nothing beats a pure simple faith in God, with all our efforts thrown in to dispute. Because life is not very long, best not to waste any efforts and find out soon. And those who believe and has got out of this will help along too.

God bless.
http://josephprince.org/resources/confesstheword/healthhealing.htm

jvboy_17 says:

It is painful to know that some people are weak to understand very simple analogy.

jvboy_17 says:

lol,

You've got confused there. We are talking about Santa and not God.

This is to refute 'jim_evolution's' statement. Please read the rest of the postings to avoid this kind of incident, otherwise you won't sound right at all and it is bad for you :( sigh...

God bless!!!

jvboy_17 says:

jim_evolution,

The reality of Santa can be traced down historically --

People like you get misconceptions. Sometimes in life, it is not just a question of yes or no. Maybe it is time for you to get off your couch and do some research, because you've been a bad boy and Santa won't like it.

Read more about St. Nicholas of Myra --

In the end you will find out that you are disgracing a man who once lived righteously and lovingly. What this makes you? Sometimes it is our culture and customs that blinds us...but this should not limit us, because people have smarts, and please channel it wisely.

Now since Santa is real -- then you are right about God :P And you are the very first atheist on this forum to profess this reality (applause applause).

jvboy_17 says:

Thank you for doing your homework -- I recommend the article to everyone. Maybe this will eliminate all the confusion and fusses. It is absurd that people discard the fact of a God because of religion and culture.

But yet, the idea of subtraction that you are insisting is still irrelevant. Why do I have to impose to you again that God cannot be recognized with simple math. Also, the article failed tor recognize that theist only recognize one reality. If we disregard the diversity of culture and religion, all that is left is the belief in a Higher Being. I'll give you a good advise,,, Drink a warm glass of milk, sleep and rest, take a warm shower next morning, and then contemplate -- and soon you will realize that you should consider "subtracting religion" instead.

God bless everyone! God bless!

jvboy_17 says:

There is no addition or subtraction that should take place in this scenario. If we look into the history up to the present, believing in God is categorized as either "Mono" Theism and "Poly" Theism. Mono means 1 and Poly means
many. Neverthless, these are all concepts of religion and religion and God is not the same. God as an external being, His existence is not subjected on the Poly and Mony idea, and this extends to you arithmetic operation.

Do not try to use math to understand God, because you will not find anything. This is the reason why some people get stuck, because humans wanted to contain everything inside a box...but have you ever thought of considering what is on the outside? Further on this, please undestand that your brain can process more that 1 minus 1 and the world you are in right now is not fabricated out of just 1 and 0 or on and off...on such case, what more of a God.

jvboy_17 says:

Hi Rephen,
When you said "I just believe in one fewer god than you do." it contradicts of you being an Athiest. Are we talking ireligion rather that atheism?

jvboy_17 says:

...I hate it when the forum turns quotation marks to question marks...

jvboy_17 says:

Zeus ?
God and hell coexist -- when I said ?Absence of God', I am merely describing how hell will be like. Hell is defined as a place of pain and suffering, but people take for granted that the most painful part is the fact that ?God will not come to save you'. God can literally be in hell, maybe to pay a visit and feel sorry for those who did not take an effort to believe.
I want to stay away discussing religion; Koran is for the Muslims and not mine. ?You have to be a Muslim to understand Islam'; therefore I forbid myself declaring any notion against their religion.
And since this thread is proving God exist; it is inappropriate for us to discuss religion. Nevertheless, God as an external being can be present even people didn't even think of religion? I myself can even state that it is a fact that religion can be jacked up sometimes, but as I've said before, even if the pope raped and killed all the girls in the world, it is not God's action but the pope's. It saddens me that people disregard the whole fact of a God because of religion?
One last before I jump to a different topic. Let me clear to everyone that religion is still a good measure of morality, specifically Christianity. This religion teaches love? and isn't it a wonderful thing to teach everyone of this love? I also have said before that we must not blame Christianity for any Christians who don't live their life as the Christian creed describes. Ghandi once said that he liked the idea of Christianity and he liked Christ, but not the Christians? yet on his statement we must not generalize. Some Christians truly fall back; let this be a challenge for them to reason out with themselves and God and seek renewing on their Christian walk. Nevertheless, those who judge Christianity in a whole are absurd, unreasonable, illogical and fake ? these people think that they are blameless and perfect and know everything by fact.
I asked someone in this thread before how de defines fact? Which is really true of not? Where do we put our faith on? Darwin said that people came from monkeys, is this fact because Darwin said it? Science, Math, Physics and the like are all great tools to understand and see how majestic and profound the whole Universe is? yet we cannot assure that it can all provide facts? Math just failed us and started economical tragedies around the world, Science based everything on trial and error?how can we be sure that what we think is a fact right now is really a fact, Physics miscalculated the distance of the moon and such(research on how Newton regarding this).
I am saying again that ?people should not only rely entirely on logic'. Do you use logic to love your family? Nope. I am here to tell everyone again, that the brain is not just logical; a portion of it dictates emotions, creativity, sense of beauty and such. There is no one in this world who can specifically say that he or she based everything of facts. The world is not 0 or 1, on or off and yes or no? everyone's brain is too complex and we must not limit ourselves to this kind of thinking.
Let me be clear to you Zeus that my view is not clouded. We can keep this discussion going because I have so much to tell. I suggest that you go back to my old postings here so we can avoid repetitions.

Thank you my friend! TGIF!

Oh yeah? uhmmm? the intellectual one was ?thedrinksisonme' or something like that.

jvboy_17 says:

This one is for Zeus --

I am not sure if you grasp the full concept of blasphemy and hell. I rather talk to people with real smarts here, not to those who just pick random words that sounds good and used them for something that doesn't make any sense.

I've been in this debate for a long while and unfortunately only 1 on the Atheist side who is intellectual enough.

Anyhow, FYI:

Blasphemy is any language disrespecting something that is sacred.

Hell is an absence of God.

If you ask me -- I don't see anything sacred with Atheism, and so as the statement that Mr. Zeus here stipulated... All I can perceive is the total absence of God, or maybe I should use the word "Hell", just for you.

Smile smile!

jvboy_17 says:

On the same concept as of our friend Dichard Rawkins -- if we also apply the biological point of view, could it also an infection why an Athiest doesn't believe in God, and similarly, their children and their children's children are programmed to obey what they are told to do... or learned from the key people of the Atheism world -- of Darwin, of Marxist... I am usure; but nevertheless, I rather not just abide to the concept of a dead men who stipulated ideas out of their head and formulated theories out of their good imagination.

Now which is truly a disease? Christianity or Atheism? Apparently on my own terms there is no such thing as infection -- if you don't want to believe, then it is in your own terms, it is not forced because, everyone has the choice not to. If you dont like the Christian concept, please stay off and mind your own business.

On the same manner, this discussion is about God and not about religion. If you are like our friend Dichard Rawkins here, who spoke of religion, please set off and start a new thread. Thank you.

Yet, let me be clear here the idea of religion is controlled not by God but by men; the biases about it is rather absurd, specially that religion could be a good measure of morality -- isn't it good to know of what is evil and what is good? or what is real happiness and what is not? Otherwise, we would look into the world on a different manner...if there is no threshold or measure of evilness, all of us will fall into chaos (or in my languange, sin).

ATP says:

God does exist. What's your problem. As for that crap people talk about praying, it's all bull. God answers prayers determined on a couple factors (and this is just what I know of)
1. If you need what you're praying for
2. If God thinks you need what you're praying for
3. If you beleive that if God thinks you need it, he'll give it to you.
Chase...and everybody that went on the Right! God Doesn't Exist list...explain evolution...explain how DNA was made in the beginning of time. Yeah...I'm not gonna believe that junk "Well, the chemicals came together, and DNA was formed" yeah right! You wish...

kick808 says:

God never said you coudln't see outside this earth from the earth.But going outside the earth is another thing.God never said you couldn't study the sequences of the earth did he?We have to study the holy bible so he wouldn't ban us from knowing about the world.LOL.As far as going into space.We have rules and when you learn enough about the world to be able to go in space is pretty cool but at the same time you know where your home is.We're still in a natural state meaning it could actually be our fault if the world ended.seeing things other than the earth is not impossible but living out there without the rules and samples from the earth is.Know you're place.when astronauts leave they take a very small percentage of the earth with them.which is everything they have.

kick808 says:

until they die.LOL

kick808 says:

But then again that would mean god was formed from nothing right?Wrong.We don't know the history of god.We may not even learn his past in the kingdom of heaven.But something has always existed which means something was complex enough to start the universe and that has to be someone or something that has intelligence infinity times beyond our own.Believe it or not something or someone has always existed meaning that being does not have an age due to the fact of always existing is timeless.Its mind boggling but very ultra super fantastically cool.Man you have to think beyond the human brain to actually time something that has always existed which is impossible humans need to stay in there place which is here on gods green earth.You atheists prepare to meet your maker.if the atheists cant understand the complexity of this world then they will never ever eveeeeeeeeer understand GOD!

kick808 says:

the world is tooooo complex for there not to be a god.we have the sun to give us night and day and also climate.We have plantation to help us feed and help us breathe.we have water to keep us cleaned,refreshed and thirst free.you see looking at the world through an atheists point of view is just looking at the world as to being formed and probabilities and they always seem to wanna prove something but they never lived for the millions or billions of years this earth lived in.So they cant look at what happened they can only look at whats happening. if life was formed on earth(not created) why would a male and female life form be formed at the same exact time instead of just 1 gender?Why couldnt life just die out as soon as it got here?Why has the earth maintained life for all these years and we cant find a single planet in our solar that is ultimately similar to our planet?If the earth spunt off its axis we would most likely be catapulted into the sun.There's a massive black hole in the center of our galaxy that could easily eat the whole galaxy.why hasnt it done that?there is gravity on this planet to keep our feet planted on this soil instead just of falling into the large vacuum and being froze to death.we have weather that replenishes and gives us new water and superbly survivable temperatures.Life is not a probability nor is it mysterious.Something greater created you due to the simple fact of things don't just appear out of nowhere.its just a horrible joy to laugh at an atheist because he or she believed they were formed from nothing.its a damn shame.

jvboy_17 says:

So what is it that Christians understand that Atheists do not?:
Christians understand that there is a God, Atheist rejects this fact.

Apparently accepting the reality of a God is a "choice". If an atheist can define to himself that a chaotic big bang is the origin of a harmonious universe, then so it shall be...nevertheless, seek your wisdom and analyze.

I disliked atheism, but I never hated atheists . This is my choice, then so it shall be.

What's different between the Christian that reads and believes the bible and the Atheist that reads it and does not?:
This is the same concept of a Christian who studied Philosophy and learned Marxism or who went to school to learn of Darwin and his theory... but on the end did not believe such concepts because he thinks it is false.

This all falls down to "faith". A believer put his faith in the Bible or any creed, which is the same faith that an atheist may put on Darwin or Marx.

It is a rather a question of where you want your faith to reside.

GOD BLESS EVERYONE...GOD BLESS!

Andrew says:

I'd prefer to die believing in God and find out that there's no God than dying not believing in God and find out that there's God.

jvboy_17 says:

It is saddening on how an atheist declare a statement without even understanding the full concept of what he or she is saying.

The misconception of prayer is not only true to the unbelievers and it is rather disturbing.

Prayer is "simply talking to God" -- it is not a 'Genie in a Bottle' nor a 'Sugar Daddy' that will give all that pleases you.

The analogy of a 'carton' and a 'God' is very improper. Considering that God is 'infinity' times bigger than a carton.

If a compare an Atheist to a rubber band... is that proper? I myself will say it is not.

Yes I see...

Ready to a real fight...bring it on!

lightkids says:

I can't believe your debating this! It's obvious that God lives, look at the evidence.

lightkids says:

There is a God! There is no way that this universe could exist without a higher power that created it. I'm not asking you to believe in fairies, but think about it things could not just appear! God has a purpose. The reason he doesn't make us rot is because he wants us to learn and to grow. He sent us here to become better people. That's why he doesn't make us rot and die. He loves us that's why. he sent his son to die for us and that's enough for me.

fred says:

If I am wrong, I have nothing to lose by following him. owever, if you are wrong, and you are. You have everything to lose

MusicDudeE says:

for example: DNA.
All instruction, all teaching, all training comes with intent. Someone who writes an instruction manual does so with purpose. Did you know that in every cell of our bodies there exists a very detailed instruction code, much like a miniature computer program? As you may know, a computer program is made up of ones and zeros, like this: 110010101011000. The way they are arranged tell the computer program what to do. The DNA code in each of our cells is very similar. It's made up of four chemicals that scientists abbreviate as A, T, G, and C. These are arranged in the human cell like this: CGTGTGACTCGCTCCTGAT and so on. There are three billions of these letters in every human cell!!

Well, just like you can program your phone to beep for specific reasons, DNA instructs the cell. DNA is a three-billion-lettered program telling the cell to act in a certain way. It is a full instruction manual.

Why is this so amazing? One has to ask....how did this information program wind up in each human cell? These are not just chemicals. These are chemicals that instruct, that code in a very detailed way exactly how the person's body should develop.

Natural, biological causes are completely lacking as an explanation when programmed information is involved. You cannot find instruction, precise information like this, without someone intentionally constructing it.

MusicDudeE says:

There is a God. When people say, "You can't prove it scientifically" I say back to them, yes I can, but you may not like the answer. So the problem here isn't whether or not we can proove that God exists scientifically (which we can) but whether or not you will be receptive to believe even after seeing it for yourself. I think the problem of "NOT" believing goes deeper than actual proof. The proof is there. You just have to decide to believe or not believe. It's just that easy.

George L says:

Are you serious. God made all of us here today. I can't even believe that people would actually say they don't believe in God. without Godd we wouldn't be here! wow, i am still sshocked that there is even a debate about this. I BELIEVE IN GOD!!!

jvboy_17 says:

There is no stability in this world -- and God will not only manifest in something that is beautiful.

Evil is suffering is permissible, it gives balance to the already rotten world. Balance in terms of knowing humanity as humanity, that all crave for riches, for eternal life, for perfect health...

...if God gave you all this right now, then there is no reason to aspire heaven...

Apparently, not all comes for free, if anybody wanted a "real perfect life", earn it -- it only requires you one thing, and that is "to believe".

"A person who eat a bite of bread a day often recognizes God better. There are those who fill themselves up with the bread of man until they get fat and ugly... maybe it is the time to diet".

"If a tornado strikes by surpise -- how antagonizing it is that both believers and unbelievers will get sucked in and die...but for believers, it doesn't end there -- it is rather a beginning..."

Hoogle says:

wow, the left side is actually posting some humanly nice commentary and good questions. Well, I don't have all the answers, but you know, when one asks why a God would make some of us atheists, I would say several things: one is that God gives us a free will. If He didn't, we would just be robots, right? I mean, of course, being God, He can do what He wants, and what He does is perfect, although we don't understand that while roaming the earth with such chaos and confusion all around us, degradation, distractions, etc. We are made in His image, this is shown to us in Genesis in the first two chapters. However, to finish the task of being in His image, we have to activate our deadened human spirit by confessing with our mouth and believing in our heart that Jesus is Lord! He is also God, but by calling on His name, "Oh Lord Jesus!" we can receive His life and nature, but not the Godhead. How wonderful and simple this is. But, if one doesn't take that step, then the alternative is quite ugly. But I'll leave that part alone as the left always claims that all we do as believers is shout condemnation at atheists and nonbelievers.
Well, let me sum this up in one sentence, which spells out God's plan for you (and His plan for you is not your plan, but His, by the way)...here goes: "God wants to work Himself into you"...that's it. Pretty simple sounding, but pretty profound in reality. God wants to get His life and nature into you so that you can be in His likeness and image, expressing Him rather than your fallen self. What could be better than expressing God? What? nothing, that's right. Well anyway, hope this helps...Jesus is Lord!

finsinmd says:

God did not MAKE you an atheist. You have chosen to be an atheist. And by making the assumption that God made you anything...are you not acknowledging the existence of that God?

Lee says:

God did not make you an atheist. You were born with a conscience and cognitive ability. You, in your infinite wisdom, have chosen to be an atheist. God simply allows you to be an atheist...as is your choice.

Hoogle says:

Whether you believe or not doesn't change the FACT that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is your God and mine today. His point in saying this was to show them that God is a living God, the Creator of everyone and everything. The atheists think from their fallen minds, full of knowledge which is a "gift" from Satan. Sorry, but if you are not on one side of the fence, you are automatically on the other side. In this case, there is no middle ground. The Bible states it clearly. It is shown also in Luke 16 with the chasm in Hades. There is no bridge...I repeat, there is no bridge...meaning that you are either a believer in the Lord Jesus, who is God, or you are not. There is no fence to sit on top of.
Well, I could go on and on, but I won't. I have a sense that most of the ones on the left are "fixed" in their heads and have not a heart or conscience that has not been seared. Even God lets these ones go on their evil ways. By giving us a free will, He doesn't demand anything of us. If we have a heart to consider Him and who He is, then He may by His mercy draw you to Himself. It is absolutely by His mercy and not by your works or your thinking.
That is just the way it is...
Truth is truth whether you believe it or not. He is not depending on your fallen assessment to determine whether or not He is God.

jvboy_17 says:

God's wrath is indeed something to be scary about. But there is another kind of fear. It is the fear of losing him and not having him in my life. More of a Father and son relationship.

Troy says:

When you die you will kneel before the King in all his Glory and Every tongue shall confess Jesus is the Son of God. And God ha all power in his hands. Thankyou Lord Fr all You have done and continue to do in my life. I am a living true example that God exists and he is in me.

jvboy_17 says:

Good day MrWriter --

1.) Knowing God is not force fed, it is rather a choice.
2.) Freedom is very significant to everyone, we are not zombies to be controlled. You are created (or evolved with divine intervention) to be both intellectual and wise.

Apalmer001 says:

The reason non-Christian's do not see God is simple. They are always counting the bad in the world and overlook all the good and all the miracles around us. Often the good goes unseen, but the bad is very profound and overwhelming and instead of the devil (aka evil) getting blamed, God takes the blame.

We get free will in this world to do what we want with our lives and that includes taking the bad with the good. I wish there wasn't any bad in this world and watching the news brings me to tears. But it is not God's fault. If I pull my car in front of another person and get hit, is that God's fault? No, it is free will. I did it.

God is amazing, he has done some pretty awesome things in my life. Nothing spectacular that makes it draw media attention, but enough for me to smile and thank Him. How many times do you think God averts bad things from happening? Plenty, but since the bad didn't happen it goes unnoticed. Let's say, "God made you forget to get gas and you run out a half a mile shy of the gas station. Your angry and wondering why that happened. But a few minutes later, gas jug in hand, walking to the gas station, you see an accident. Everyone died. Hmmm? Do you think God saved you? No, you think, why did God let that happen. So for Him it is a no win situation for non-believers. We all come with an expiration date, we can only hope and pray we go peacefully from this life.

Happily retarded for God!

jvboy_17 says:

the main idea (I also posted on Grim's link)...

"You don't have to be a Christian to be a retard"

Let me be broader on this...

There are two kinds of people:
One who is an arrogant and one who is not...
One who is stubborn and one who is not...
One who is an idiot and one who is not...
One who is self righteous and one who is not...

Therefore there are two kinds of Christians:
One who is an arrogant and one who is not...
One who is stubborn and one who is not...
One who is an idiot and one who is not...
One who is self righteous and one who is not...

Going further, there is also two kinds of Atheists:
One who is an arrogant and one who is not...
One who is stubborn and one who is not...
One who is an idiot and one who is not...
One who is self righteous and one who is not...

Some atheist are really bias and they always pick Christianity as their first target.

The target here is 'Personality' and not religion. 'Attitude' and not belief.

It is a fact that some Christians live their lives far away from the teachings. Christianity teaches love -- and there is nothing wrong with that. And some of our Atheist friends failed to recognize this.

As for the Christians -- this is rather an eye opener and live life by the teachings.

"Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ."

-- Ghandi

I hope I cleared things out for you -- I am not convincing you to join our religion or whatsover. In fact, I don't really care where you are heading.

I am a man who seeks and learn. I was an atheist before, but I see things differently now.

My apologies for being mean...but I don't want anybody messing up with my God.

jvboy_17 says:

Grim --

Even if Christians are retarded -- or name any religion. It will not shake the reality of God. Apparently God and religion is not the same.

I guess GRIM IS JUST AN IDIOT for not knowing this. Stay away from this debate forum if you don't have something reasonable to post.

I will gladly battle with you.

jvboy_17 says:

My apologies but I said three categories and forgot to post the last.

The last category is "Self Inflicted Suffering" an example of which is someone who has Diabetes but don't eat healthy. Therefore, there is no one to blame but the person himself/herself.

jvboy_17 says:

Jay --

Our biases narrow our minds -- blaming God for pain, suffering and sorrow in this world is the most absurd thing.

The roots of all the bad things that's going on this world is not God. There are three categories to look at:
1. Suffering caused by man's iniquities
2. Natural phenomenon

I will give you some examples:

If the pope killed another person, it is not God to blame but the one who killed, which on my example is the pope.

God don't mind control murderers, killers, rapist and such to commit those immoral acts against their fellowmen.

Also God cannot intervene directly. I have said before that there is no weighing of sin. Stealing candy is a sin, and so as killing somebody. If God intervened, death my being vaporized is not a good sighting.

God intervening will take away your freedom. Nobody in this world take correct and perfect choices always. You will be lying if you tell me that you are clean, without sin and pure...Only a God can be perfect. Therefore, if God can intervene, how would you act? perfectly?

The natural phenomenon such as earth quakes, volcanic eruption, tornadoes and such are permitted. There are two reasons behind this: 1.) Nature need to balance out. If a volcano won't erupt, the Earth will explode and 2.) The world we know is unstable in all ways, without exemptions, believer or not will experience this natural phenomenon.

Other important things to consider:
1.) God permits death and suffering
2.) God saves those who are worthy of saving
3.) God can destroy what is ought to be destroyed for he is God
4.) An evil God (for example he is evil) will not shaken his reality. A God is still a God no matter what.
5.) The world is unstable...the economy, religion, politics, nature...all in it is unstable...

Jay, open your eyes and don't blame God. He is not the real evil one...if you can justify this to me. Post something, an example. I am eager to battle you. Bring it on!

Some people want to save the unbelievers, in my case I don't really care about them. If they don't want to believe, then let them be...sigh...if you guys burn in hell, its your choice...and I don't care...

Katherine says:

God lives! He is forever! No matter when we are, God says, "I am." He loves people and invites each person to know him. Abraham listened, Isaiah listened, lots of people don't. I know God, and I know he loves you. God lives!

Hoogle says:

I haven't been at this site for some time, but wanted to just say a couple of things. First of all, God is One, yet 3. He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. However, in the book of Matthew we are instructed to baptize in the name (singular in the original language) of the Father, Son, and Spirit, meaning that They are all One.

And the name of the One is Jesus, who was Jesus as a Man, but now is the Lord Jesus. It is interesting that the Bible says that only if the Spirit allows you, can you call on the name of the Lord. Why? Because when you call on the name of the Lord, you get saved!

I'm just going to skip to the high gospel here, so bear with me for another minute. Fair enough? There are two gospels, the "low" gospel, and the high gospel...here is the high one. God wants to work Himself into His people. This gives meaning to our lives if we allow this to happen. How does He work Himself into His people? He has accomplished this by becoming the life-giving Spirit. This is revealed to us in 1 Corinthians 15:45. The Last Adam, Christ, became a life-giving Spirit. The "life" in the Greek here is the "divine" life. God's life! Peter tells us in 2Peter 1:4 to be partakers of the divine nature. So when you put these two verses together along with John 10:10b, "I have come to give life (zoe, the divine life) and to give it abundantly" then we see this matter of God, who is the Lord Jesus, wanting to work Himself into His people.

We have a human spirit. You have one, I have one. Mine is full of the divine life and nature of God. Your spirit is either void of God or is being filled with God depending on whether you have genuinely prayed to receive the Lord into your spiritual heart or not. If you believe, then you get regenerated in your spirit and you begin to gain the Lord day by day.

I'll stop here...Praise the Lord...Lord Jesus I love You!
Have mercy on the ones on the left. They need You...

jvboy_17 says:

A boy punched another kid who called his a father with a bad name
Later on the kid was reprimanded by his father and was told not to do it again
?but the boy punched again
?and so his father asked him why do it the second time
?and the boy said ?- "it's because I can't take it when they are talking bad about you, because I love you so much, and I will do it again and again and again"

If anybody here talk bad about my God, I'm gonna punch! And I would make sure that it will hurt bad.

jipock says:

I just saw that someone called us idiots for believing in God. Don't you think we can say the same about you for not believing? You call us weak when in fact we are very strong. You are right we do live by a code that God has given us, and that is the 10 commandments. What do you live by? Are you choosing to not believe in God to make yourself feel better about your sins? I guess what I am trying to say is everyone has there beliefs whether you think they are wrong or not doesn't give you the right to judge them. By the way that pretty much came from the bible!

jipock says:

Of course, there is a God! Yes there is bad stuff that happens everyday, but on the other hand there are also miracles. I watched my Grandmother pass away with cancer. At the very end she said goodbye, but when she said it the feeling that all of us had was amazing. I can tell you that she definitely went to a better place. The feeling was a kind of happiness, and almost like someone was telling us she will be ok. I know that the others in the room felt the same thing, because we started looking at each other. No one cried during that time, because the "feeling" relieved us of pain for those moments. Before she died things happened to me. One example, I picked up a book by my favorite author without reading what it was about. When I started to read it I realized it was about cancer patients and what happens at the end. That book helped me understand that this was God's will. I will never not believe in God. One more thing, how do you think we got here? Science says from Apes, but how did they get here? How did the universe come about? Who or How do you think everything around us was created? If it all came from one little piece of matter then who or how was it created? I know that no one in this universe can answer that unless you believe in God.

Margo_Arrowsmith says:

There is something, God is as good a word as any.

jvboy_17 says:

Someone420 --

Killing, kidnapping, torture, rape and such is not God's will. Therefore we must not blame God but man. If the Pope killed a man, then it is not God who killed but the Pope.

Another factor that we have to look in here is sin. There is no weighing of sin, such that if you stole a candy from a store it is a sin, and so as if you cut somebody's head off.

Therefore when we sin, it won't be a really good sighting that the heavens will roar and strike someone who sinned with thunderbolt. Otherwise all of us are torched BBQ.

I sinned, so as you and everyone. So divine intervention, aka punishment here on earth is not possible. God is the only one who knows the proper judgment and everyone have at least 70 - 100 years the most to think about this.

Lastly, I know this may sound unfair, but God is forgiving. Everyone will surely hates the killer, but if it is you who killed somebody how would you assess the situation?

W8102BRaptured says:

I just have to laugh when I read all these comments about the bible being fiction when actually it is filled with historical facts! I mean you tell me why Jesus is the basis for our current year... 2009 AD. It's because He is the center of all things, make no mistake about that! Through Him all things were created with the Father. And yes, God is complex, we could never fully understand how wonderful He really is! And He is still wonderful to you, even though you don't believe. As long as there is breath in your lungs, there is still hope for you.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

PetSnakes says:

It's a bold statement to say there is no God. It's an absolute that requires definitive proof. Lack of belief in anyone, particularly God, does not show that person not to exist. It just shows you choose not to acknowledge them.

jessicahoward says:

well i will say god does exist....just look in yourself....god is inside you...have you helped someone?try to so....you will feel it..

Nathaniel says:

There is a God, only 1 God His name is Jesus Christ which lived 2000 years ago and died for every persons sins. He loves each and every one of us equally. Beleive it or not He created you,the Earth, and the Universe. He is all powerful and all knowing and He cares enough to have a personal relationship with a lame being such a us humans, But were to self center and naive to realize it. Put yourself aside and let Jesus into your heart, confess your sins and let Him be the Lord of your life. Jesus loves you!!!!!!

jvboy_17 says:

Santa --

An answer to your simple comment:

A God doesn't need a man or the whole mankind to make Him up. And believing in God doesn't have to be in your book for it to be certain. Apparently your book is your book alone, and nobody really cares about it.

You said something about reality and fiction. How do define reality? Should it really be tangible? The reality of a God cannot be perceive by the 5 senses, but is gained, learned and experienced through enlightenment.

Enlightenment in terms of realizing the biggest and the smallest in this universe as something that is too intricate in design, which rather implies a Creator, or in my language a God.

Apparently Science or Math cannot be used to dispute a God. I will not trust the Math that causing all the rufus to the Global Economy and the Science who is also bounded by Theories. In fact both Science and Math either compute and believe in intangibles.

Tell me one thing that is not made by man that dispute a God. All I know that everything that goes against the reality of a God is all made by the people and their books...and their stories...On this scenario, you won't be able to justify that you are certain, because you are not.

Is the big bang theory not a story?
Is the evolution theory not a story?
Is the gravitation law not a story? (which is now being disputed by Science itself as wrong, because Newton was wrong with his formula on getting the actual location of the moon)
There are lots of stories here -- and they are also created so many years ago, aren't they?

Killing, yes I've read killing in your posting. I don't know how many times do I have to repeat myself. I encourage all atheist to read the postings first before spitting words out -- as far as I don't want to make you guys look stupid, I cannot help out if you're causing this to yourselves.

Anyhow, religion is not God and God is not religion. If people are killing for religion's sake, for belief's sake, it is not God's but the people. If the pope killed one atheist, it is not God who killed but the Pope. Please put that in mind.

My religion bounded me not to kill, and actually teach love. Apparently, some believers tend to incline themselves back to their atheist nature (like gays pretending to be straight) and started sinning and killing.

I'm ready for a big fight -- too bad you used Santa. Did you ever know that Santa was actually real, and he was born appox. 280 A.D. He is a nice man who gave his wealth to the needy. You're probably sleep too long in your couch. And you have disgraced a good man; and that would count you out as somebody who is ill-natured.

Sigh... I thank my God for this so many insights. You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town! Choo Choo...

ChrisSommovigo says:

There may be a God - some evidence suggests at least that Intelligent Design is a reasonable explanation for Life (at the least) and The Universe (at the most vast). Given the inherent difficulty of the math involved in decyphering the statistical probability for there being no God ... I'll take the remedial math course and stick with ID for now.

jvboy_17 says:

Steve --
Man cannot made up a God because God is an external being. Even without man's factor of thinking a God can still exist. All I am saying is that a God doesn't need a man to made Him up.

You spoke about Myths, Evolution, Science, Biology and Astronomy..Let me be in-depth in this.

Myths are myths, so they are untrue.

Evolution lacks evidence so it is not real.

Science is man made and is prone to mistakes.

Biology was able to understand how intricate man's composition are. But did they ever tackle creation as general.

Astronomy failed to prove how everything started. The origin is still unknown -- the theory of big bag is so messed up it cannot go anywhere.

Lastly, God is not based on emotion -- he is more than that, so the universe being scary for man is too narrow, too stupid to disprove a God.

Steve -- if you wanted to go deeper on this, lets go and have a brain fight! I can show you so many ways to see a God. Are you ready, or you are like the creator of this forum/debate who rather stay in his garage and wait for something to happen...gosh I hate some atheist...

denise says:

Eternal souls hang in the balance to the answer to "what if".. What if atheists are actually wrong? The last breath is taken, it is too late to go back.. Do you take the gamble? What if?

jvboy_17 says:

You will not perceive anything is 'simplistic means' - both Science and Theology subjected the universe and everything in it as something that is complex.

Just look at yourself, is you composition simplistic? Apparently it is not... Water is 1 Hydrogen atom and 2 Oxygen atoms - and please tell me that you are more than water.

Your brain is complex, your heart is complex, your pet cat is complex.......... if you are not seeing things this way, they something is wrong.

I am implying here that you must think broader - do not enclose yourself because you are not limited. It is not just about reasoning - and you cannot reason out if you're not enlightened; and you can only get enlightened if you seek. In seeking you gain wisdom.
Let me end this by saying that God is more complex that the universe - you are right about that.

jvboy_17 says:

I feel that I have a need to re-iterate this post for certain individuals --
1. How can we factor out something that is in harmony and order from a destructive force such as a big bang?
2. The intelligent nature of the DNA, systems of the human body, atomic/cellular composition, and such cannot be recognized by evolution alone. The evolution theory cannot be proven and still remains a theory (a hypothesis, or tentative insight on a given subject). And since no existing fossils for the missing links is present, then you ought not to accept the reality of the evolution theory yet.
3. Scientific discoveries opposes Science itself. Law of Physics such as the Law of Thermodynamics refuted Evolution Theory, which is the same Science that miscalculated Pluto as a planet.
4. Do you count yourself as a factor of trial and error as dictated by Science?
5.The causal chain that leads to a Final Cause, such that: if an apple came from an apple tree, an apple tree came from a seed, the seed was planted on a healthy soil, the soil was healthy because of different chemicals in it, the chemicals came from elements, elements came from earth, earth formed from pieces of rocks, pieces of rocks came from the big bang, big bang came from compacted hydrogen atoms, then hydrogen atoms came from what?
6. Have ever question your natural purpose? Why are you here; to die after 70 years and so?
7. God is an external being and exist with an absolute nature. A God is above matter and energy.
8. We are energy beings, when you die how you would transform. This is in relation with the Law of Conservation of Energy.
9. If the pope committed murder, it is not God who committed murder, it is the pope. God is not religion and religion is not God.
10. Human make mistakes on this scenario, is science alone a perfect tool to justify existence.
11. God is not the root of evil. It is either man or any nature of iniquity.
12. God has the authority to destroy a certain entity for He is God.
13. The church is a group of people, individuals who are likewise submits to crime, injustice and evil deeds; but you will not see God there. It is the people who employed action, not God.
14. Human is not entirely logical, we can recognize love and appreciate beauty.
15. Evil was permitted to spice earthly life and establish control in the world. Control in a sense of having people understand that failure leads to damnation and salvation is selective and only given to those who are rightful. Man failed because of evil, because they let evil subdue them -- they we are given the capacity to resist, but they rather subsist.
16. The bible exhibit a very crucial denominator, which is to stress out that Someone created everything; could not be in the same manner described in the text, but as representations.
Creation in seven days implies a perfectionist God. That all must be perfect and need to be created in sequence. This is also a good representation of orderly God, characterized by hierarchical creation.
17. Church and religion are affected by world barriers and are not always perfect.
18. Men is so unclean to serve as a complete vessel of God's spirit. There was an insufficient expression of reality because of men's frailty -- in such, God must not be blamed but humanity's lean understanding.
19. Atheism failed to comprehend because they only chew the book and start spitting out false opinions. If the bible says kill, it doesn't imply that somebody has to kill himself or someone.
20. A Christian will not understand Islam unless he becomes a Muslim. On the same way, an Atheist will not understand Christianity unless he becomes a Christian.
21. One mistake does cannot justify the whole as a mistake. But one reality can justify itself. More reality can compensate from one mistake.
22. It is shameful how the church fails to abide their God; and it is more shameful how unbelievers made use of these things to conclude God is not real; and it is despicable for a believer to lose their faith in these intrigues -- a shallow belief cannot factor out a God.
23. A cannibal will not know that eating his neighbor is wrong until somebody tell him it is wrong.
24. How sad can you be when somebody just stabbed you with a knife in you back for there is no conviction on doing so?
25. All fall to evil, if God is to punish all evil, then all of us are already dead.
26. Prayer is not asking for something, it is simply talking to God.

JESUSLOVER says:

If God wanted to show himself to you...he would!!
But first you have to seek him out, if you want to prove that
there is no god...then explain how the Earth was created...or people!!
Are you gonna use the dumb explanation of evolution...or how about
the meteor one??? If there is no God (which there is) then we would all be screwed!!!! What do you believe happens when you die??? Just the afterlife?? does that make sense? NO!!! There is heaven, and there is hell, If you accept Jesus as your savior and confess your sins and repent...then you can go to heaven, but if you keep walking around claiming that God doesn't exist...then I hope you like fire..and eternal burning, cuz thats what is in ur future...and u are gonna have to sit in fron of Gpd on judgement day and tell him that you don't believe in him...that he doesn't exist, and thats why you never talked to him, or pray, or read the bible!!!!

JESUSLOVER says:

Really, he does. Its obvious by the things he does to show himself!
If you say he doesn't exist because he doesn't show up on this,
that does not even make sense....just cuz God doesn't talk on this then he is not real?? Really, grow up!!!

jvboy_17 says:

At last someone got it right! -- There are no gods but there is a God.

jvboy_17 says:

The reason why some people don't find evidence is because they are not seeking. They're like dum dum wearing "I'm an atheist" shirt -- well you know what, I don't care if you're an atheist anyway.

Apparently, even I wear all the "Jesus Love Me" shirt and cover my car with fish symbol, it will not prove or disprove a God.

Andybate1980 -- your showcase is just a child's play - I can purchase one of your shirt, but it will not disprove my God. You should rather went to e-bay if you are here to make business. I'm rather disappointed seeing one moron lurking in this debate forum. We use or brains here, not our money.

Now if you're into a real battle then lets do it!

Thank you!

jvboy_17 says:

The existence of a God is a very crucial denominator. If you asked me, I would rather be sure than sorry.

In simplest terms, I am saying that if God doesn't exist, it will not change anything...but if God exist, then what would an unbeliever reap?

"Fear of God" does not imply death, suffering or punishment. I see it as the fear of losing Him as my God - more like a relationship. A believer should fear his absence, not his judgement. Another thing to consider is God's nature to be above emotion, that nor fear, nor joy, nor sorrow will define Him. Most theist define this ideology as "foxhole atheism" - read more about it.

A person cannot be a God or even a god. A god or a God is being defined as somebody that is supernatural -- if you can lose your job, your wealth or worst you life then you cannot call yourself a god.

"There is no stability in the world, and in Science and in Philosophies... People are rather restless and keep on changing things to prove things -- heed the reality that a religious person only believe in one utmost truth, that God exist and we will cling to that statement until the end."

God bless everyone...God bless..!

jvboy_17 says:

It is really an amazing feat for a non-believer to be able to read the whole bible. But reading alone is inadequate to disprove something. I can say that I read all the Science books, but saying so will not disprove Science as is. The best way to know and understand things is to reason with yourself. In reading, be both smart and wise. Chew, swallow and digest the book...and then seek.

"A Christian will not fully understand Islam unless he become a Muslim".

Woffie says:

I don't have to prove God exists, it is up to you to prove He doesn't. If there is no God then explain to me how we have the existance of matter? Matter cannot be created according to the first law of thermodynamics. Explain to me how we exist apart from a creator! You can't!

jvboy_17 says:

Graham, I think you are the one in delusion here.

First of all, you are the one that clearly stated that we need to be scientific and logical. You have clearly said this: "The sooner these people embrace science, logic and reason the better frankly."

Do you use logic and science to love your wife, child and neighbor? I don't think so. There is no 1 + 1 in loving. This is what I am trying to put in your brain. That we are not entirely created to be logical and scientific.

Science is not changing things - it is discovering things. Did science creating something from nothing? Nope it did not.

You don't have to be a Christian to be a hypocrite.
There can also be a hypocrite doctor, a hypocrite teacher, a hypocrite judge and most important of all, a hypocrite Graham.

And you being bias to Christianity doesn't imply anything to the the reality of God. All I know is you are attacking a religion and not a God. God and religion are two different animals, please remember that.

I am not forcing my religion to somebody, I am not sure why most atheist think that we do enforce. As far as I know, I don't really care if you die today or whatsoever. You must understand the difference between defending and enforcing -- I am 100% defending.

Please don't be a 'graham cracker', start thinking. I rather not just embrace anything that comes from the mouth of somebody who doesn't know what he is saying.

All men of faith are once an atheist. I was before - and guess what? There are no butterflies there.

jvboy_17 says:

I have already stated before in this thread that logical mind, reasoning and science are all important, but having only these would be insufficient.

Science dictates tangibles; all that are not perceivable by the senses are false.

Logic will define anything as true or false.

Reason applies rationality. A rational notion should always make sense.

Now, let me track back to your previous post and look deeper into your "evolution theory":

Are you able to use your senses and have seen, smelled, tasted and felt evolution?

Applying logic here; it is true that missing links are still missing. Then on this case, the evolution theory is false. There is only zero and one in logic.

Now after all this facts, tell me if the evolution theory would still make sense. Apparently, it doesn't.

I am telling you that not all things are measurable my Science, or machines and inventions or man's thoughts.

You do not need logic to love your wife or children.
You do not use Science to know that is it not right to kill.
Reasoning can be applied by both theologians and non-theologians.

Just a reiteration:
"Men reached the heavens, they didn't find God there; men went to the deep of the seas and ocean...still no God to find; but they all seen the majesty, greatness, complexity, and magnificence and beauty of the universe."

Who is the real ignorant? A man who is intellectual but lack wisdom, or a man who is full of wisdom but lacks intellect. If I am to be asked with this question, I would say neither -- for you need both wisdom and intellect.

In knowing God you should lean more on your wisdom. Then apply you intellect and use Science to prove Him more.

jvboy_17 says:

Sir Graham Barrett:
No matter how I look into the evolution theory you cannot see real truth out of it. Real truth is absolute, it means it cannot be shaken nor disputed.
Further on this thread I have already defined the flaw of the evolution theory; this is described by the non-existent fossils and it's nature as a byproduct of man's thinking -- man who is prone to error and embraces other people's abstractions. Darwin is smart, but he is not God, not a god, or of god. Darwin is a man, who once made a thought, and people fell from that thought and assume that the thought he thought is reality.
When you said that you control your own destiny, I think I should not believe you, for you are basing your way of life to Darwin ? a man of good imagination ? and mind you that I rather follow a God than follow a man.
Man said before that Pluto is a planet ? and then a few year later they said it is not.
Sometimes, the only thing that people need to do is go outside of their boxes.
Lastly ? evolution cannot create matter (from your: that we are all here due to evolution, NOT creation.)

paperfacets says:

God does not exist as long as populations fight in the Name Of God. I think there is a need for God because peoples long ago thought up the notion. So if he exists in your mind? Good!
Just don't fight about it.

jvboy_17 says:

The reality I am defining is not about my conception alone -As far as the arguments that I opened up ?before' applies, I can declare a notion; this is not just a question of relevance, this is rationalization.

Since the notion tracks back to the arguments, there must be justification. If I am able to justify a God, then I can declare a God. If a tooth fairy can be justified, then you can declare a tooth fairy. Furthermore, on this, any argument(s) that are to be presented or has been presented ought to be supported by proofs or adequate philosophies.

A story needs a storyteller ? therefore I should tell the story of a God that is real. On this scenario, anybody has two options. It is either you accept the concept, or you reject the concept. There is nothing wrong on telling a story and there is nothing wrong on listening, also it is not wrong not to listen. This is the reason why I said that living a God is a digression that can only be made by "you" alone.

My creed tells me that God intended to be presented to everybody. This is our calling. I believe you have the same mission, and you complying with it actively?but in your case, you are the opposite of what we are professing. I am talking about God and you are refuting God; therefore, we have similarities in our goals.

jvboy_17 says:

I agree and always stressed out that religion and God are not the same. But if the con resorted to attack my creed I should react with the same manner of defending by belief.

Forcing and defending are different -- I've always said that I'm not here to sway, I'm here to speak that what I am believing in, aka God, is true.

And to avoid any biases, every athiest should avoid attacking religion, and the denominations of faith should live righteously on what their creed dictates them.

There are so many ideologies that we can grasp -- nevertheless learning a creed, adapting a religion and living a God is a disgression that can only be made by "you" alone.

Sigh...

I want to end this by saying that GOD IS REAL.

mulberry says:

Wow, you like it hot! I personally I lean towards believing in God, although I don't much believe in organized religion. I'm ok with atheists, I'm ok with Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindu's whatever. I just think people need to let it go and stop trying to force their religion on others. Even if there is a God, I don't really think he wants us fighting over it. IF HE's in control, HE will take care of it all. So for believers, back up, live the life you profess to believe in, and leave others alone. Debating it is ok, but remember that's all it is. Just my personal view.

jvboy_17 says:

My previous posts still applies. Go on with your loop holes thedrinksareonme, besides all the excerpts came from you.

Nobody cares on what you are believing in (from your: My belief is that god is a Man-made construct - "a framework of philosophy that people can follow".), apparently you are not a big somebody; are you god? you're a man aren't you, or perhaps an alien...Man made mistakes aren't they. What if what you're saying is a mistake after all...and most probable it is!

And how come you won't get that Islam is a religion, Christianity is a religion -- IT IS NOT GOD. Even if all religious people kill each other it doesn't matter...IT IS NOT GOD.

From you again: I am not "missing something" in my life because I don't believe in god! I am not "only half alive" because I don't believe in god! I am not "going to rot in hell" because I don't believe in god!

Same thing applies to a believer. We will not be missing something, we will not rot in hell...but we believe in God, granting that God is not real. But if God is real? You are too one sided as you always are, look into the excerpts.

And from your: All my life I have had god-believers trying to push their god drug on me .

I don't really care about you. If you die today, it will not affect me or make me sad. What gives you the idea that we are putting a drug on you -- conclusion without evidence = fraud

Your: There is nothing bigger than the Universe itself, except maybe the human capacity for story telling - now that's big!

This is erroneous and insufficient, and man made.

Your: Why are they always telling us non-believers how much better life would be if we believed in god like they do? Why is that 9 times out of 10 the massacre of innocents is perpetrated by a staunch god-believer? Why is that the god-believers still have catastrophes happen to them? Why do they still get slaughtered, gunned-down, tortured, humiliated, persecuted and all other manner of nastiness? And most often it is inflicted on them by another god-believer!

This is erroneous and insufficient, and man made.

If there is a hurricane that hit a certain city should it only be the non-believers to suffer? Even if you are a believer there is not excuse.

As everybody knows, people are born not believing in God. Therefore, they are born atheists, which means "no God." Knowing that, common sense suggests that all criminals were originally atheists. That includes the most heinous criminals, such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Tupac Shakur. Criminals who commit religious crimes against Christianity and other proper religions tend to empathize with other anti-Christian atheists (pardon the redundancy). As for criminals who commit crimes against atheists in the name of Christianity, like homophobes, they are simply trying to repress their atheistic/homosexual tendancies, but rather than act Christian about it, they take it to an atheistic extreme.

All criminals have been atheists at one time in their lives? I don't know about you, but if there was ever a reason to outlaw atheism and other non-Christian religions, this is it.

Did Jesus imposed death? He even died -- Love originated from Christianity.

From your: *My* framework is the Atheist way of life and it brings great joy, morality, peace, and appreciation for all livings to me.

Nobody cares about your framework and I will not see butterfly if I become an atheist again; because I was an atheist before. it was not a good life. Also, do not impose your way of life, I already know about it.

Did you ever get convicted of doing something wrong? Like lying to everyone?

jvboy_17 says:

I had a reflection with your inputs; it exhibits the following aspects:

1.) It is not radical and is both empirical and non-empirical:
A person cannot say that he only believe in what he touches, see, smell and feel if he also deem and consider the idea of intangibilities.

The idea of faith is indeed recognized based on the expression or action made ? it could be confidence or trust in something that you are expecting; but, considering the discussion, we are defining faith as a belief in something that is not corporeal.

The analogies should be proportional to avoid misleading idea (e.g. faith in God vs. faith in Big Bang; and not faith in God vs. faith that you will win a basketball match). Anyhow, the point here is that faith is undeniably given in many atheism concepts that were presented.

Excerpts:
This word, faith, comes up a lot in god discussion circles. Of course we all have "faith". Remember that faith is just another word for a "confidence or trust" in something, or a "belief in anything".

2.) It is erroneous and insufficient:
Everything that is manmade contains mistakes. This thought factor out uncertainty not only in theology but also in science, and on everything, atheism believes in. Any concept that refutes a God is all manmade.

The idea of evolution is incomplete and the missing links are based on assumptions (since we only have links and no fossils). You will not appreciate the picture in a puzzle if the puzzle is incomplete.

Excerpts:
Besides, we all know that nobody proclaims a dictionary to be the true word of god - it is allowed to contain mistakes, human mistakes - because it was made by Man.

Have you ever tried to fossilize something? It's hard to do!
There are no "missing links", only "missing fossils".

3.) It is open for better and additional prospective characterized by uncertainty in both science and theology:
There are two leads ? with God or without God. This is stressing out that God is a LEAD and not a possibility. The lead of meeting an intelligent alien life form is the same lead of recognizing an intelligent God.

If certain atheism concepts implies falsity then it will shaken the philosophy of any non-believer; an advantage to any theologians. Admitting that the Big Bang could be false defines ambiguity and haziness.

The hope or faith for something bigger in the universe can also be applied on recognizing a God. A God is something bigger, even bigger than intelligent aliens.

Most people therefore incline themselves on who tells the story better, an account that could be fashioned in spuriousness. This concept applies not only in atheism but also in theology. But the wait ? you cannot tell which one is false and which one is not, unless the creator of the story admitted that it was untrue.

Therefore, you cannot justify that the story about God is not true because you are not the one that told the story from the beginning.

Excerpts:
I don't know, do I? And neither do you. But instead of asking yourself, "I will go and find out", all you are actually doing is saying "god made it, end of story" and then sitting on your hands, do nothing, going nowhere.

I don't know if it is true or not, either. It is only a theory - a working idea that has lead to useful predictions and the making of money by the selling of things that have been created directly out of the knowledge that was gained by firmly thinking that a Big Bang actually happened - whew!

The ultimate conclusion is that one day the universe will know, via having created us (and/or intelligent alien races), the answer to its own origin.

Still, there is always the chance that there's something bigger going on in this universe?

?that these arguments and debates we are having still rage on, thousands of years after humans became capable of creating and telling stories.

4.) It is not specific and unending:
Human theories are subjected to loop holes and are indefinite; this scenario factor out skepticism. Something that must not be one sided, that of disbelief in both theology and atheism is recognized. Thus far concluding is not an option, but providing leads are accepted. Yet skepticism should not be generalized since skepticism is per individual's perspective.

There is no measurement for abstraction. If people cannot justify a non-existent God, then the reality is still present.

Excerpts:
Yes. These things are known as abstract entities. Neither side will convince the other, and any argument that is advanced has already been countered, countless time through the countless centuries.

5.) Apparent realities in your own border:
Strong conviction is good but too much of a conviction is only for self-convincing. The domain of reality does not only apply on tangibles but also in the intangibles, we both agree with this. Therefore, if you have too strong conviction about intelligent beings aka aliens, that the universe created itself and such then I cannot intervene. Put God and a believer in the same perspective. And how would you weigh an argument to convince somebody? No there is no way to measure this ? it is all-dependent to the person himself. This scenario is not about realities but about belief.

Excerpts:
I don't mind limiting myself to the world. It is fulfilling enough for me.

I reject god and I reject all things religious.
JvBoy17 are aware of the gaping inconsistences and errors of fact, but they so desperately want it to be true, and their desire for belief is so strong, that no amount of argument will persuade them otherwise.

6.) Recognizing the subject:
The subject here is God. A God has no boundaries. Infinity cannot be absorbed by a human brain.

You go to a seashore and start digging on a sand ? have it as deep and as wide as you want. Now grab a pail and fill it with water from the sea. Go back to your hole and fill it up with water.

Your brain is the hole that you hollowed out, water is the ideologies, the pail is the people who presented these ideologies, God is the ocean.

In the end you will be unable to fill the hole ? for the water will subside?

I have said before that thinking is a capacity ? even if men fail to think, there is still a God. You don't have to think about God non-existing because it is not your though or the thought of anybody that will define a God.

jvboy_17 says:

thedrinksareonme:
Just a follow up - read this interesting short story...
http://www.squidoo.com/Godvsscience

As far as you have a similar perspective with the professor on the story, you will fail to see God. -- An excerpt to the article:

"You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Science can't even explain a thought."

Grab your dictionary and see the definition of a 'God'. You cannot tell me that the dictionary is wrong -- otherwise it will make the whole dictionary wrong...

Let me also stress out the word FAITH. You have the same thing, you cannot deny this. God is intagible, so as your THEORIES. You then therefore recognize that not all things are available or can be perceive by your senses -- intagible refers to things that you cannot touch, see, smell and feel. I made this simple to comply with your Occam's razor.

And again -- THERE IS NOTHING WRONG ON BEING SURE. IT WOULD BE BETTER TO BELIEVE IN GOD SO WHEN YOU DIE YOU HAVE NO WORRIES.

jvboy_17 says:

Gee... did you really read Occam's razor thoroughly. That is where I got the 'simplistic' idea that made me upset and not because of Jesus. You don't even know what you are writing about, very bad. As I have said on my previous post, my God is complex and so as the universe...and when talking about this bigger stuff, you can't be simple. Even Occam's theory is not simplistic!

And there you go back again attacking the people and the church. Are you running out of ideas? I'm getting tired of this, but let me reiterate again that God, religion and church is not the same.

The same excuse that has been being used for so long -- no radio signal because the space is too big -- hey use your occam's theory here and listen to yourself. All your ideas conflict each other. And I'm really excited to meet your aliens, maybe they know God more that you do...

I am showing you a God that created -- the originator, you are the one that rather believe that it is the universe that created itself. Do you have proof when you spoke about this? You are being objective and spit out theories that are incomplete. THEREFORE YOU HAVEN'T CLEARLY PROVEN THAT THERE IS NO GOD EITHER, AND THE IDEA OF A CREATOR IS STILL STRONG

You've said this:
Why would I listen to what others tell me when I can't see it, taste it, touch it, hear it, smell it, feel it, blah blah blah.
Did you smell and touched Mr. alien? Then why do you believe in them strongly?
Were you there when, as you have said, the universe created itself? Then why do you believe in it strongly?
Were you there when the evolution happened? Then why do you believe in it strongly?
WHO IS DELUSIONED NOW? If you told us that this is real, then it sound real -- the same thing, passed out on the floor by some morons.

You have also said this:
Evolution is simply the universe doing it's thing. That is what
the universe does - it doesn't *do* anything else. It evolves.
Stop complaining and just Deal With It.
Occam's razor here again -- and I can't just not deal with it.
Your explanation is very incomplete. What an absurd word to use
DEAL WITH IT...

More from you:
Why is there this incessant need to go further and invent a leader/boss/parent in the sky? Can't you do things on your own, control your own life? The universe will provide for you, if you provide for the universe.
Ocamm's razor please -- And you can't even clearly proven where the universe originated...and now you are speaking of providence.

I cannot show God to someone who is as blind as you are. As you put your faith to Occam, to Darwin, to Science -- it ppears that they are your God... It is the same thing when we put our faith to our God.

A Christian cannot understand Islam unless he become a Muslim. Same goes with atheism.

And I never spoke of punishment in death. It is a warning -- plus there is NOTHING IS WRONG IF YOU WANTED TO BE SURE. I have two paths, you only have one...

Anyway, I'll have beer for tonight -- cheers!

jvboy_17 says:

Now that you have clearly specified that fossils are missing, then how can you prove that the links being presented by the evolution theory is true? Should I use faith? Should I use my imagination? I don't see the point of you going to in-depth on something that is incomplete.

Furthermore...
If your evolution theory is true, where is Mr. Alien that may have evolved from millions and millions planets that is out there? The SETI program has been running for years and not even a single radio signal came back to us. Is Mr. Alien shy? A wide reader like you should know the ideology that rejects the evolution theory. Google it!

You have given me the wikipedia link -- I like that too because in the end they often show the opposition in a given theory or topic. Did you skip that part? People do love refuting each other's ideas -- that is what we call a loop hole.

If you believe in Occam's theory are you saying that atheism is also simple or should be simpler? We are both thinking big here and I am upset for you telling me that I am simple. You cannot disprove a God if you are not complex in your thoughts. On the same scenario, you cannot represent a majectic universe with it.

And how come the components DID NOT EVOLVE in higher performance, like a high performance automobile built by engineers: unlike the soapbox racer built by school children that we indeed are. Sure the soapbox racer works, but not as good as an Indy Car!

Nevertheless, the creation is sufficient as is - do you need six hands, three noses and six eyes? then you go vroom vroom after?!

You are welcome to use faith, we share the same thing. I have a faith in my God. You have a faith in your Science. Aren't we the same now? Believing in something that we haven't seen? You have your creed, I am amazed. You can start your own religion now if you wanted to. Apparently I have one already. Yes, Jesus is a God -- I accepted Him because He is the nicest God out there.

If you are convince in yourself that universe created itself, without sufficient proof; on the same manner I am convince with myself that God created it, you can also say without sufficient proof. But listen to this -- I have said this so many times on this thread -- If you and I die today and there is no God, you have won; I only lost a few years believing in something that is not true, laugh at me then after... but If we both die today and God is true you are going down my friend...and you will be with Occam, but life there won't be that simple as you both think. Then tell Darwin that he made a mistake.

jvboy_17 says:

The very beginning of the universe and the actuality of the origin and an Originator can be represented in the simplest arithmetic. Nothingness is equals to zero -- valueless, immaterial, insignificant and useless. Thus far, zero cannot be reduced or divided, for splitting and taking off something that is already void is absurd (0 div 0 = 0, 0 less 0 = 0); likewise, it cannot be multiplied for you will only multiply something of no value and importance (0 x 0 = 0). The laws and theories presented by Science imply subtractions, divisions and multiplications of matter and energy; an incomplete or illogical scenario to present existence and beginning.

The idea of adding to zero can only be represented by an Originator. A Higher being capable of adding up something significant to something that is empty (0 + 10 = 1); and once you have a value you can therefore multiply (10 x 10 = 100).

People ? I am professing the idea of a Creator that must exist. Nevertheless, I have nothing against Science for it is also important.

jvboy_17 says:

The very beginning of the universe and the actuality of the origin and an Originator can be represented in the simplest arithmetic. Nothingness is equals to zero -- valueless, immaterial, insignificant and useless. Thus far, zero cannot be reduced or divided, for splitting and taking off something that is already void is absurd (0 div 0 = 0, 0 less 0 = 0); likewise, it cannot be multiplied for you will only multiply something of no value and importance (0 x 0 = 0). The laws and theories presented by Science imply subtractions, divisions and multiplications of matter and energy; an incomplete or illogical scenario to present existence and beginning.

The idea of adding to zero can only be represented by an Originator. A Higher being capable of adding up something significant to something that is empty (0 + 10 = 1); and once you have a value you can therefore multiply (10 x 10 = 100).

People ? I am professing the idea of a Creator that must exist. Nevertheless, I have nothing against Science for it is also important.

jvboy_17 says:

thedrinksareonme :

You are really interesting to talk with. It would be awesome if we drink beer together if we get a chance. I don't drink much though, so you will be on the advantage... :P

there is always the chance that there's something bigger going on in this universe. -- I totally agree with you. On my case, I recognized a higher Entity or in my language a God.

Upon inner reflection, I believe that god is man-made.

-- God is not man made. If God failed to create minds it doesn't mean that God will not exist. Thinking is a capacity, on this scenario, men will only loose their capacity to recognize God. If for instance men failed to evolve noses, fragrance is still there, however men will fail to smell.

You are not a Christian then. The christian creed states that jesus was god's only son, sent only once, to perform a singular redemption of sin for the only creation that god has ever created

-- My religion will be a different topic; apparently we are debating the reality of God. I have to stay off a bit on my creed and defend my belief. God is universal to all religion and I must defend His actuality as a general subject. Let us apply the same case with Jesus.

But aliens would need a jesus of their own, if of course they have sin - maybe they don't have sin and they are perfect. But only god is perfect! That too is in the various semitic bibles.) So the aliens must be sinners and the various semitic bibles are therefore simply wrong. The words are wrong. The message is wrong. So we must conclude that aliens don't exist, otherwise the bible is wrong.

-- Who knows that after Jesus rose up to heaven He went to a different planet to save them. They may have their own salvation story that will bring about their own scriptures. Since the bible is alsohistorical it will only apply here on Earth. Maybe in the future when we land on Pluto we might find a Plutoninan bible.

My nose is the product of billions of years of evolution, not 6 days of magic incantations (and one day of beer drinking in the garden - of Eden - no doubt!)
-- I have spoken before that the Bible and any books of antiquity is not exempted to wordly barriers; these barriers are culture, language, history. This is where faith takes place. Since the bible is also spiritual, it would be insufficient if we only use earthly principles to recognize the meaning of the text.

This is where a creative and enlightened mind come into place; as the story of creation must not be perceived contextually.The bible exhibit a very crucial denomitanor, which is to stress out that Someone created everything; could not be in the same manner described in the text, but as representations. Creation
in seven days implies a perfectionist God. That all must be perfect and need to be created in sequence. This is also a good representation of orderly God, characterized by hierarchical creation. Another thing is the time-line of God is different to the time-line of men. 6 days could be longer/shorter in his
time span.

The universe is running out of useful energy and converting it to useless, dead heat. The universe likes to build things - that is what its atoms do well. In this way your "undirected energy" did catalyze the first *basic* replicator molecule. That was the hard part, and the only truly random part of the whole shebang. After that one single replicator was randomly assembled, guess what it did next? It replicated, and replicated, and replicated again.
-- It is questionable on how the universe acted by itself. And tracing the very origin of everything is impossible even with men's best tool and theories. Molecules and atoms reacts emitting heat and whatsoever then rocks started to move closer to each other...blah blah blah...then there are eplosions...blah blah blah...then there is a monkey...blah blah blah...then mr. monkey loose most of his hair and became man. Now go back to start -- do you know the origin of the molecules and atoms that started all this? I've asked you to define nothingness; now tell me how the an entity came about from it. The universe alone can't be the beginning. For it cannot create matter nor energy.

After that one single replicator was randomly assembled, guess what it did next? It replicated, and replicated, and replicated again. Billions and billions of replications, each with mutations and "stress fractures" resulting from the environment it existed in: over the course of a billion years. Any idea how long that is? It is around 33 million generations of humans (at 30 years per generation), or 10 million lifetimes (at 100 years per lifespan). Eventually something "clicked" and the first single-cellular organism got started.
-- Did you see all this with your eyes? Show us fossils of the missing links. How can a DNA so intelligent came about with chaotic origin?

"Tell me where Carbon Hydrogen and Oygen came from?"
I don't know, do I? And neither do you. But instead of asking yourself, "I will go and find out", all you are actually doing is saying "god made it, end of story" and then sitting on your hands, do nothing, going nowhere.
-- I didn't stop on looking, I found the answer -- that God created it. That is my very point why I always ask you for the origin of things. Since you don't know the answer, and Science can't answer either then where would you lead?; that there must be a originator. Everything has a beginning. You are the one sitting on your hands, but in your case, you're gazing up in the sky and still looking for an answer in endless loop holes. Because you don't want to get out of your box.

"God made the Prime Mover." (God's god made god, that is. Hehe!)
-- God did not create a God for He is God.

jvboy_17 says:

There is no problem with an individual to control his own life -- this is the verity of "freedom" given to all. Nevertheless, this concept does not imply anything against the reality of a God.

jvboy_17 says:

-- But the wait...I think my analogy needs a little refinement.
Since thedrinksareonme cannot live without beer then...
Beer can exist even without thedrinksareonme,
But thedrinksareonme cannot exist without beer,
On the same scenario...
God can exist without men,
But men cannot exist without God.
There is only one exception here. Men can either accept the reality of a God or not, it is in his own disgression. Nevertheless, a God will still exist

even a man said -- no there is no God.

If I've mixed salt and sugar together and dissolve it in water. It is absolute that I have a mixture of salt and sugar. If I gave this mixture to you and

told you that the water has salt and sugar in it, it won't be absolute to you. A Christian will not understand Islam unless he became a Muslim. Similarly,

an Athiest will not understnad Christianity unless he became a Christian. Going indept here, all men of faith started as atheist, even I was an atheist

before...For the reason that I have tasted the water and I learned that it is both salty and sweet, I understand the actuality of a God.

Beer is made from Water, Matlose, Humulon, Alcohol, Vitamin B1 and Carbonic Acid. Thanks for the brewer for having this made for you. But go deeper.
Water was made from Hydrogen and Oxygen. Tell me where Hydrogen and Oxygen came from?
Maltose is from Glucose a type of Carbohydrate, Carbohydrates are Sugars, sugar is from Carbon Hydrogen and Oygen. Tell me where Carbon Hydrogen and Oygen

came from?
I don't have to break down the rest of the compounds and mixtures for it will lead to the same scenario. Nevertheless, it is absolute that Beer is ca

homogenous mixture of Water, Matlose, Humulon, Alcohol, Vitamin B1 and Carbonic Acid...but I would know unless I learn about it.

Define nothingness -- it is absence of everything, not even darkness should exist. Tell me the origin of darkness. PHysics dictates that for every action

there is an equal and opposite reaction. Understand this, what or Who made the action that started everything.

Define Harmony -- it is all things having order. On how the gravity works and put planets in perfect cycle, on how the human body works, on how the atoms

authors matter...

Science went a long long way -- the Age of Discovery and Invention prospered so much and we are reaping the benefits. Have you evey wondered why there is no

Human Age of Creation or Age of Making Matter and Energy The law of conservation of Mass states that Matter cannot be created...If the Big bang is true, it

cannot create matter...it may have just started things up. If you are a wide reader, Scientist proposed about the Dark Matter may have started

everything...then what happen to the law of conservation of mass and energy? And what is the origin of the Dark Matter?...a White Matter from a Yellow Matter

that is from a Green Matter...?

Of how your brain made you so imaginative. You questioned that if animals and plants have a God. Yes they do have a God, apparently they don't have the

capacity to recognize one. They're brain limits them to go futher...but you know what, you have that capacity to know. Do not lower yourself down and be

like a plant or an animal. Humor me more and tell me that if aliens are real do they have a God. My answer is yes and there maybe two kinds of them. An

alien who recognize a God an an Atheis alien; granting they they are intellectual like us (gee...kind of nerdish).

There are two general principles on how an Atheist conclude the absence of a God. First, they said that there is no God because religion and church is so

messed up. Secondly, they said God is only a factor on man's imagination. I have refuted this already -- that of God, religion and chuch is not the same and

that God can exist even without men and their imagination.

An idea of a Creator that must exist is the greatest absolute proof that there is a God. A higher being that is the Uncaused Cause and the First Cause who

rejected the law of conservation of mass and energy. He authored Oxygen, Hydrogen, carbon and atoms that made up your beer from nothingness. Since a God is

defined as absolute then the "time factor" that suggestively refutes the causal theory should not be recognized.

Science coexist with a God if we adapt the theory of a Prime Mover. Since Physics stipulated than in order for an object to go from point x to point y a

force must be applied. On this scenario, if scientologist and athiest insist with the Big Bang then we adaptively say that a First Mover must have started

it. Likewise, if evolution is to be recognized, then we might as well perceive a Mover or a God interventing so that humanity would achieve a perfect evolution.

jvboy_17 says:

Oops...I almost forgot... When you said that people before created stories and fairy tales? Were you there when they've said that? Did you talk to them? How would you know if you don't even coexist in the same era?

I like analogies:
Beer can exist even without "thedrinksareonme"
"thedrinksareonme" can exist even without Beer
Similary with...
People can exist without God
And God can exist without People

Now I can really say that you are having so much beer. Have you ever tried to talk to plants and ants and ask them about God? How would you know for sure that they don't have plant bibles and ant bibles if you haven't spoke with them...you're a weird one...hehehe...goofy guy! nice joke!

jvboy_17 says:

thedrinksareonme:
I am not speaking of Science as evil -- true it aided humanity greatly and it must always exist. Nevertheless, did science ever created something from nothing? We have discovered that human needs oxygen to survive, but did science created oxygen? It did not. Have you ever considered that God and science actually coexist? To put this on simpler terms, A God created and science discovers.

Now I am sure that you are really not reading all the postings. Do I have to remind you that religion and God is not the same? Is Benny Hinn a God? He is not. He is a man just like you are. It is also evident that early scientist were often considered heretics by the church. And some of them suffered a fatal death. But is this God acting or men acting. Think about this.

The reason why you cannot see the actuality of a God because you limit yourself to the world. Blaming religion and the church. Are you really against God or against the people? Even if all the priests raped all the women, you cannot justify that God does not exist out of this.

Wake up! Your having so much beer. The same beer that will kill you one day. I pity your death, be a fertilizer just like the other atheists...keep the soil healthy so we can make more Bibles and Qu-ran out of the healthy trees that will grow.

And I am happy that you are able to refute some of my arguments. Good job! These arguments does not remove doubts but it proves the existence of a God. If there is no actuality of a Creator then how come your nose is not in your butt...intelligent isn't it?

Just analyze this simple statements...
Mind or Brain Exist
God can Exist
God can Exist even without the Brain or Mind
Therefore God is God even without the factor of thinking...

As you have requested (reiteration again from my previous postings):
"The law of thermodynamics" - raw energy cannot generate the complex systems in living things, or the information required to build them. Undirected energy just speeds up destruction.
Seeing this scenario, how can the theory of evolution be possible?

"The law of conservation of energy" - Energy cannot be destroyed nor created but transformed.
On this case, how would your energy transform after your death?

Gee...I am too tired of repeating my posting just for you.

And lastly, this is not a debate about THEOCRACY, so your question doesn't matter. This is a debate about the EXISTENCE of GOD.

jvboy_17 says:

thedrinksareonme:
I am not speaking of Science as evil -- true it aided humanity greatly and it must always exist. Nevertheless, did science ever created something from nothing? We have discovered that human needs oxygen to survive, but did science created oxygen? It did not. Have you ever considered that God and science actually coexist? To put this on simpler terms, A God created and science discovers.

Now I am sure that you are really not reading all the postings. Do I have to remind you that religion and God is not the same? Is Benny Hinn a God? He is not. He is a man just like you are. It is also evident that early scientist were often considered heretics by the church. And some of them suffered a fatal death. But is this God acting or men acting. Think about this.

The reason why you cannot see the actuality of a God because you limit yourself to the world. Blaming religion and the church. Are you really against God or against the people? Even if all the priests raped all the women, you cannot justify that God does not exist out of this.

Wake up! Your having so much beer. The same beer that will kill you one day. I pity your death, be a fertilizer just like the other atheists...keep the soil healthy so we can make more Bibles and Qu-ran out of the healthy trees that will grow.

And I am happy that you are able to refute some of my arguments. Good job! These arguments does not remove doubts but it proves the existence of a God. If there is no actuality of a Creator then how come your nose is not in your butt...intelligent isn't it?

Just analyze this simple statements...
Mind or Brain Exist
God can Exist
God can Exist even without the Brain or Mind
Therefore God is God even without the factor of thinking...

As you have requested (reiteration again from my previous postings):
"The law of thermodynamics" - raw energy cannot generate the complex systems in living things, or the information required to build them. Undirected energy just speeds up destruction.
Seeing this scenario, how can the theory of evolution be possible?

"The law of conservation of energy" - Energy cannot be destroyed nor created but transformed.
On this case, how would your energy transform after your death?

Gee...I am too tired of repeating my posting just for you.

And lastly, this is not a debate about THEOCRACY, so your question doesn't matter. This is a debate about the EXISTENCE of GOD.

jvboy_17 says:

"Murmurs spread like fire and engulf the unwise, ashes fall and blind those who do not seek". -jvboy_17

jvboy_17 says:

Reiteration of various arguments I have presented:
1. How can we factor out something that is in harmony and order from a destructive force such as a big bang?
2. The intelligent nature of the DNA, systems of the human body, atomic/cellular composition, and such cannot be recognized by evolution alone. The evolution theory cannot be proven and still remains a theory (a hypothesis, or tentative insight on a given subject). And since no existing fossils for the missing links is present, then you ought not to accept the reality of the evolution theory yet.
3. Scientific discoveries opposes Science itself. Law of Physics such as the Law of Thermodynamics refuted Evolution Theory, which is the same Science that miscalculated Pluto as a planet.
4. Do you count yourself as a factor of trial and error as dictated by Science?
5.The causal chain that leads to a Final Cause, such that: if an apple came from an apple tree, an apple tree came from a seed, the seed was planted on a healthy soil, the soil was healthy because of different chemicals in it, the chemicals came from elements, elements came from earth, earth formed from pieces of rocks, pieces of rocks came from the big bang, big bang came from compacted hydrogen atoms, then hydrogen atoms came from what?
6. Have ever question your natural purpose? Why are you here; to die after 70 years and so?
7. God is an external being and exist with an absolute nature. A God is above matter and energy.
8. We are energy beings, when you die how you would transform. This is in relation with the Law of Conservation of Energy.
9. If the pope committed murder, it is not God who committed murder, it is the pope. God is not religion and religion is not God.
10. Human make mistakes ? on this scenario, is science alone a perfect tool to justify existence.
11. God is not the root of evil. It is either man or any nature of iniquity.
12. God has the authority to destroy a certain entity for He is God.
13. The church is a group of people, individuals who are likewise submits to crime, injustice and evil deeds; but you will not see God there. It is the people who employed action, not God.
14. Human is not entirely logical ? we can recognize love and appreciate beauty.
15. Evil was permitted to spice earthly life and establish control in the world. Control in a sense of having people understand that failure leads to damnation and salvation is selective and only given to those who are rightful. Man failed because of evil, because they let evil subdue them -- they we are given the capacity to resist, but they rather subsist.
16. The bible exhibit a very crucial denominator, which is to stress out that Someone created everything; could not be in the same manner described in the text, but as representations.
Creation in seven days implies a perfectionist God. That all must be perfect and need to be created in sequence. This is also a good representation of orderly God, characterized by hierarchical creation.
17. Church and religion are affected by world barriers and are not always perfect.
18. Men is so unclean to serve as a complete vessel of God's spirit. There was an insufficient expression of reality because of men's frailty -- in such, God must not be blamed but humanity's lean understanding.
19. Atheism failed to comprehend because they only chew the book and start spitting out false opinions. If the bible says kill, it doesn't imply that somebody has to kill himself or someone.
20. A Christian will not understand Islam unless he becomes a Muslim. On the same way, an Atheist will not understand Christianity unless he becomes a Christian.
21. One mistake does cannot justify the whole as a mistake. But one reality can justify itself. More reality can compensate from one mistake.
22. It is shameful how the church fails to abide their God; and it is more shameful how unbelievers made use of these things to conclude God is not real; and it is despicable for a believer to lose their faith in these intrigues -- a shallow belief cannot factor out a God.
23. A cannibal will not know that eating his neighbor is wrong until somebody tell him it is wrong.
24. How sad can you be when somebody just stabbed you with a knife in you back for there is no conviction on doing so?
25. All fall to evil ? if God is to punish all evil, then all of us are already dead.
26. Prayer is not asking for something, it is simply talking to God.

jvboy_17 says:

Apparently thedrinksareonme, your argument has long been refuted and let me reiterate things specifically for you. In the future, please see all the threads before you post something, it makes you appear (I'm sorry) dumb. I have pointed out so many arguments before and you haven't refuted even one.

God is not a factor of anybody's mind. For a God is external being and will continue to exist even without you and your brain.

The scripture argument alone is insufficient to refute the existence of a God. If Bible and or "Qu-ran" is false in certain categories, it does not totally abandon the actuality of a God.

We need to put the worldy barriers into consideration. These barriers are culture, language, history and the like that deliberately affected all books of antiquity. Since the bible is both historical and spiritual, it would be insufficient if we only use earthly principles to recognize the meaning of the text.

And stop attacking religion, this is a debate to disprove God. If you wanted to talk about religion, find a religion debate.

Do you think I can persuade you as well? Or your desire to disbelief is too strong that no amount of argument will not get you at all.

Bottoms Up!

jvboy_17 says:

I agree with you Sussanad -- I should say that this is a scenario where we can clearly perceive how 'worldy barriers' affect the 'actuality of a God'.

When we speak of 'God', we are referring to something Absolute. A sky god is only a denomator that characterize a 'Highly Being'. If we say God, it is a million times more that a sky god.

I opened up before that religion is a product of creed and belief. On the moment you are into one, you must be able to justify yourself that you are on the right one. On this case case, you must also be able to defend not only your religion, but the 'One' you are believing in.

We did not see God up in the skies and under the oceans and seas...
...Now, wherever you are, head out and breath the air then smell the sea; admire the beauty of nature...
...after so, tell me that there is no God, then count yourself as the most absurd being.

jvboy_17 says:

"Being foul in language only implies foolishness, senseless aggression and unsophistication" -- I am amazed that in this current advanced age, stupid people, who ought to act like animals still exist. If we can just put them back to tribal times, there they should prosper."

"The way you respond to stimuli tells you what you are."

"Ignorance is bliss, but too much ignorance factor out laziness."

"You are the one who need to seek wisdom for wisdom cannot seek for you."

Anyhow, stupidity and aggressiveness only factor out humanity as humanity. God being external is not being affected by such elements.

I am always ready for a fight! I have been waiting for quite a while and appears like none is that competitive. The dare that I opened up months ago is still there...SHAKE MY FAITH! if you can.

Hoogle says:

I forgot to mention for those of you who talk about religion, religion is of Satan...Judaism, Islam, all of it is of Satan, who loves to put out the counterfeit to challenge you and he hopes that you will choose him by choosing one of those religions, Catholicism is another one, I hope the pope is saved, but he might not be since he is in that mess...Religion is to worship God without Christ...plain and simple and they all fit into that category, no exceptions...

Hoogle says:

Our Lord is both God and man ..when we read the Gospels, not only do we marvel at His divinity but even more we are moved and attracted by His human virtues. His behavior, His attitude, and the way He treated others were too wonderful; His humanity is unsurpassed. We praise Him! Such a God-man is pleased to indwell us. He passed through incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, ascension, descension, and is now the Life-giving Spirit in us. We have an organic union with Him.
When we open to Him, love Him, and desire t be joined with Him as one, we are filled and possessed by Him every day. In this way what we live out are the glory of divinity and the virtues of humanity. What a sweet life this is. So now I ask the ones on the left...what kind of life do you live out? Do you emulate the O.J.Simpsons of the world, John Kerrys, Ted Kennedys? Tell me who do you pattern yourselves after? What man who is not divine is worthy to be emulated and patterned after? And do you know the hearts of these ones? Neither do I, I can only see what they express outwardly or speak from their mouths. The Bible says your heart is revealed by what you say, so when you blaspheme God, those of us on the right know exactly where your heart is...one with Satan. You are born of him and so was I, but I have made a better choice and have been reborn. Born of the Spirit. So again, I ask you, tell me something, you who doubt God, who are you patterning yourself after?

Hoogle says:

I'm back...hee hee...oh I am always saddened by these ones that say that there is no God. I've spent over 50 years loving the Lord and these ones, any of them have spent -0- time with the Lord. Ayahhhhhhh how extremely sad...and then to think that while millions of us if not billions will enjoy the eternal life while these know-it-alls on the left question every minute thing that they think they know about God. You know, guys, He is a living God...that means that you can talk to Him! Wow!!!

I will readily agree that Christianity has failed the Lord. They are divided and the Body of Christ is not divided, they are not building up anything that will contribute to bringing Him back, yet the Lord is doind something on this earth to bring Himself back, it is just that it is not in Christianity. Having said that, and I say it because the Bible reveals it, what the left guys need to do is find out and see for themselves what God's plan is. Set aside the fact that you don't think that you believe, it is just that the Lord has not had mercy on you yet. You have some thick veils over your eyes and you are blind. However, just like in Mark when the Lord took away the blind man's veils, they ask him what he saw and he said some trees walking as men. Then they ask him again and the Bible says that "he began to see all things clearly". This should be your history at some point...you began to see all things clearly. BUT, it is truly by the Lord's mercy, this is true also for these ones that need to drop Christianity and be a genuine believer seeking the Lord with overcomers (those who desire to be overcomers, only the Lord knows who these ones really are). There needs to be some going through the entire process of being regenerated (saved), then going on in their pursuit of the Lord to be transformed, conformed, and then eventually glorified. Now if you are not in that process, then you have to ask yourself, "what are you doing with your existence?" Because it is not really a life, it does not have reality, for reality is only in Jesus according to the Bible. Now maybe you are "living" according to Sports Illustrated or what? your college textbooks? ah yes...lots of knowledge there, but what you need is truth and you need the One who is truth, the Lord Jesus.
Well, enough...I'm tired and ready for bed...just had to drop by and see who is making a fool of themselves on the left. Hey guys, I'm going to pray for you...not just say it, but pray right now..."Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the living God. Thank You for Your rich supply of life, Your life in us, those who by Your mercy and sovereign arrangement, have come to know You and seek to know You more. I give you these ones, Jeana Marie, slvrbk, bfwe1atnet, and the others who have come here to mock You, but don't know You. You love the ones that we don't find ourselves loving. You have the perfect love and are love. Lord, have mercy on them and gain them through this lens. We know You can do all things, that You wait on prayer, so right now I lift these ones up to You...not to mock them, but to sincerely take a minute to remind You that they need Your mercy and they need Your life in them. I love You Lord"...

American says:

You can't prove that there is no God.

Hoogle says:

be honest with everyone crazyduck, if that is possible for you...are you for real or are you just trying to stir everyone up by using foul language and being blasphemous with GOD. You have some serious problems, I'm assuming you are not married and of course, you couldn't raise any kids with such an attitude toward God or any human being that you happen to come in contact with. Let me guess, your a dimocrat? Ooops, shame on me, mixing politics with spiritual things...but I'm right, right?

Hoogle says:

Wow...I'm always amazed at how vicious and hateful the left side is, I guess if I mentioned that I was a conservative Republican in addition to being a lover of the Lord Jesus you would try to outdo yourself with more puke than you already have.
God has a plan. The living God, not allah, but the One who is carrying out His heavenly ministry on earth as I write. I'll repent for using the word "puke", that is my word, not His.

So to continue, God has a plan and His plan according to His Word is to work Himself into man so that man can become like Him in life and nature. This is what the Bible reveals. The Old Testament did not provide a way for man to get God inside of him, but the New Covenant, the New Testament, although being for the Jews first, is also for the Gentiles. And we can and do have God's life and nature in us, in our human spirit.

When the Lord incarnated and became a man, He then had both the divine life and the human life, but not a third life as a result. His divine attributes came out through His human virtues. He lived the perfect human life and in Matthew 5:48, it says, "Therefore, be perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect". So this is quite revealing and the way to become perfect is by receiving the spirit which is given without measure.

So youall go ahead and spit out your venom and waste your time throwing out things that do not matter one way or the other.

Me, I will vote for McCain and pray that God chooses the one that He prefers. The number one reason that I will not vote for Nobama is because of what he told the nurse in Illinois. She told him how she had been instructed to hold a newborn baby in her arms until it died and not to do anything to help it live. Why?
Because it was a botched abortion attempt and the baby was delivered alive. So the nurse was asking Nobama to vote for the piece of legislation that would protect such a baby. He looked her straight in the eye and said he would vote against it. He said he didn't care about her experience.

Folks, this is a cold cold hearted person and we certainly do not need such a one in the office of the presidency. He could impress me in a thousand ways, but I would not vote for him because of this truth about him.

God is real, loving, faithful, and when you read Job, it is a story about a good man, but God is not looking for a good man, He is looking for Godmen. These are those of us who have received our loving Savior, God, the Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ who embodies all of these distinctions in His wonderful self.
Whether you believe in Him now or not, it is a Biblical fact that you will believe in Him eventually. The catch is that you need to make that decision now, not later when it may be too late.
Yes, you have heard it said before and probably laughed or worst yet, threw out some more hateful comments, but it is a fact, and whether or not you believe that God is real and the Bible is His speaking does not make it so. It is so anyway, God is not depending on you to approve what He is or does, and does so well, after all He is God and is perfect!

I will check back in a few weeks...The Lord be with your spirit!
If you haven't allowed Him to be with your spirit, then you need to get regenerated and start living a life that matters.

Hoogle

jvboy_17 says:

Ahem!

Jeana,

People are swayed because they lack wisdom. They lack wisdom because they do not seek. The danger of being in a public place is not being recognized -- and people just grasp what they are told, and it ends there.

If someone gave you a coffee and told you that there is no sugar there, would you believe him so?; apparently, you wouldn't know until you taste it yourself or you saw how it was made.

When you said I can't prove that there is God -- there is only one thing that came to my mind. You didn't read the postings.

I respect your OPINION, however this is a debate and please present facts.

When I tell somebody that there is God (period -- nothing more, nothing less). He or she would rather not believe me.

Thank you.

jvboy_17 says:

The law of physics is not entirely absolute. Just for instance, the law of gravitational attraction, which is a key factor "theoretically speaking", on the formation of the planets has been recently disputed. Any planets that is close to a greater mass should be contricted due to a high level of gravity. Planet Mercury is close to the sun, that is why it the smallest on our Solar System...the theory works fine up to Mars only. All that are on the outer region does not comply, such that Saturn is smaller than Jupiter, Nepture and Saturn is Smaller than Saturn.

"The Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy" disctates tranformation. If your body turn to dust, what of your energy? For sure it cannot be destroyed as stipulated by the law itself.

"The Law of Thermodynamics" disputed the "Theory of Evolution". As stated...raw energy cannot generate the complex systems in living things, or the information required to build them. Undirected energy just speeds up destruction.

Theory is akin to a hypothesis. If a "Law of Science" fails then what more of the "Theories"? On this scenario, we can say that science is not absolute.

The human brain is not entirely logical. You cannot use logic to teach your kids how to love and should I do a smell test to know if my wife or my kids love me or not? Should I use 1 + 1 to know that it is not right to kill somebody? This is the reason why the brain was created with different regions.

The differences in religion does not change the very important factor, which is the existence of a God. Yes, beliefs are different, because cultures are different...but the belief in a higher being is absolute to each one.

Anybody on the Atheism side; please disprove the "Cosmological Argument" for me. If the universe started from "Hydrogen Atoms" tell me where "Hydrogen Atoms" came from. Is there a smell test for this?

I haven't been religiously deeper in my postings. For I have witness how God manifest by healing a cancer patient. Could science prove something out of this? If a doctor told you that you have 3 days, but you got healed on the 2nd day then what are the odds that there is no God.

"We must understand that not all things are measurable by tools, equipments and experiments..."

"I am not disproving Atheism. I am proving God. For there are atheist, but there there is also God."

"Did you see in your eyes how the planets were formed. Did you see the big bang with your eyes?"

"Would you say someone who is complex as you are is from something that is so destructive?"

"Tell my why something so intelligent that is a human DNA can be formed just by chance?"

"Show me one evidence of mutation. I mean real evidence. Not photoshoped images".

"Show me all the missing links in the theory of evolution. show me fossils, not a drawn picture of somebody's creative mind. Give me logic here."

Warning:
crazyduck...if you are to say something...please give proof ok.

jvboy_17 says:

Apparently on this debate we have to picture 'God' as a 'general subject'. No religion, no denominations and no sects?
"You cannot use the bible to an atheist for he doesn't believe in it in the first place. -- I can throw so much texts and verses, but in the ears of an unbeliever, it is simply words of deceit.?
Creed, morality, belief, religion and God are all different. To expound on this, people have their own belief and they act to what their creed tells them to do, even it is against morality -- and they establish their religion. All this worldly aspects exhibits limitations, bound by culture; if one religion says that it is ok to cut someone heads off, then it shall be for them. However, you will not see God there ? it is simply man being too stupid.
Where is God?
Use your imagination ?the cells that made you up to the universe that surround you, I can see order, cycle, complicatedness in a good manner, extensiveness and splendor. But man tamper with the world, play with natures fabrication and inflicted evil in something that is ought to be good.
Some people kill, people die with cancer, hurricanes and tornados destroyed homes, economy flunking, women raped, babies aborted, families ruined?name them all. Do you think God made this? Does he put his mighty hand cast a spell of curse to everyone? Nope.
Get into the roots of things; God will not tell a rapist to rape or kill somebody, the rapist or the killer do it in his own will. Hurricanes need to happen so nature could balance itself, but with the global warming we have right now that it is getting stronger (I bet you know who caused global warming), cancer leads to improper diet, and so a diabetes?I don't want to expound more on this. The only key here is to look for the ?roots?.
?I Have Called God For Help ? He Did Not Respond?
On everything that we do, there are complications. We reap what we have sown. If today I've been drinking a lot and tomorrow I have liver problems, then I should accept the complications. Also, the world is unjust, and even the bible is unjust ? If I have a daughter who got killed, why can't I myself put judgment to the killer? When I said, ?death should be given to those who deserve death? don't you think that the rapist should die now? What binds me for killing the killer? My creed. For the credo of the Christian faith give chance to the killer to change his or her ways or put the judgment in God's hands. This is painful, that's why I said that the bible is unjust, but looking closely, if you have killed somebody, by accident or not then what should it be?
God cannot pass judgment here on earth. All fall to sin, no exceptions, even the pope himself. If God will judge now, then our freedom is taken out and most are dead. If I stole a candy from a candy store, it is a sin, should I be stricken by lighting already? And there is no weighing of sin. A sin is a sin, such that lying = killing.
God cannot intervene directly to you and pour all the blessings to you. If he made everyone rich and satisfied then what is the point of having heaven. That is the reason why salvation is selective or should be earned by man himself. When I said ?Love should only be given to those who deserve love?. I am simply saying that if you are no by Him then you cannot earn heaven; and apparently, there is no heaven here on earth.
And lastly, please understand again that ?prayer? is not a magical lamp, or a time for someone to ask for something. Prayer is simply talking to God (as I've said before).
I am a Christian, but I am not inviting you to join me or whatsoever ? for the reason that their creed is exceptional ? love like Jesus did; I have adapted their ways. I apologize that I tend to exert strong words that might hurt somebody, but if my God is being assaulted; I should react on such manner. Nevertheless, the choice is yours to believe or not. But look at the scenario this way?(I already said this before) If today I die and there is no God, I am ok; and if today I die and there is God, I am ok?But if today an unbeliever die and there is no God, he or she is ok, and lastly if an unbeliever die today and there is God, what would it be? ? in the simplest words, ?in believing you will not lose anything?.

jvboy_17 says:

Objection Overruled!

jvboy_17 says:

Sorry crazyduck -- but you're not making any sense here -- is that a debate or just plain gibberish.

If this debate is too much for you, then just stay off and go back to school.

jvboy_17 says:

I have stated before that God is external, arthritis and God cannot factor out something. You may or may not have arthritis or any disease, but God would still exist.

It is not the will of God to give disease to anybody, nevertheless it is permitted and so as death... And how sure are you that is is God inflicting pain and not the devil? Or could also be man himself. And why can't He give death to those who deserve death? and pain to those who deserve pain? He is God anyway right? God = Absolute.

"Somebody who has diabetes cannot complain to God about his sickness. For he himself inflicted this to himself."

Also, the nature of a God should not be recognized with satisfaction in life, or ease in everything, or pleasure, or extreme happiness -- this can only be attained in heaven. AKA...If you feel pain in your life right now, it is normal and deal with. The world is tainted not only by evil but by man's iniquities as well.

Lastly ~ If you hate God it doesn't disprove him. Also, if a believer suffers, then an unbeliever should suffer more ~ NO MERCY! YOU WANT LOVE? THEN PROVE THAT YOU ARE WORTHY OF HIS LOVE. IF YOU HATE HIM AND DOES NOT BELIEVE IN HIM THEN WHY WOULD HE WASTE HIS TIME LOVING YOU.

Hoogle says:

The Bible says that all believers are priests. So if one is just looking to the Catholic priest to be their priest, they are already guilty of not reading the truth revealed in the Bible. Catholics show a huge mixture with the world, far too many idols (one would be too many), they have distorted the word "saint" and concocted some ridiculous and embarrassing system of identifying certain ones a "saint", a selected few. Well, read your Bible, Catholics, all believers are saints...see what Paul says in his epistles and how he addresses the believers as saints.
Anyway, I don't want to waste my time talking about Catholics...here is the deal...
The Bible reveals that God wants to work Himself into man. What did He have to do to accomplish this? He sent His Son to be the perfect sacrifice. Okay, so you have heard that, or at least we hope you have heard that. But there is much, much more. He lived the perfect human life and also was God, the entire God walking on earth as a man yet God, the complete God.

Wow, just think about that. If you had lived in that time, would you have believed that you were talking to God, your Creator, when you had a conversation with the Lord Jesus? Then He died to be the perfect sacrifice and His efficacious blood cleanses us from all sin. If you have not had your sins dealt with, then you are dead in the eyes of God already, even though you are "alive" in your human living. You need to receive the Son as life as it says in 1John..."he who has the Son has the life"...which is the divine life. John 10:10b, "I came to give life and give it abundantly"...this is zoe, the divine life that He came to give.

So He is carrying out His plan and it is nearing it's conclusion and He will come back. He doesn't need you to confirm that you believe that in order for Him to come back. Don't you think He can handle it whether you believe it or not?
Of course He can and He will. You need to be on the right side of the tracks (tracts) when He comes...you need to deal with your beliefs now and stop being so foolish. Proverbs tells us that a fool thinks he is wise in his own mind...however, God created us with a spirit to touch Him and the mind is not the right organ to carry out our beliefs.

Anyway, if you have read this far, then I hope if you haven't prayed to receive the Lord, that you will take care of this most important decision. Got questions? I mean, real questions that keep you from reading and understanding the Bible? Why not take a minute and post the questions. If you are just going to try to be a wise jerk, then don't waste your time, you are only insulting the Lord with your foolishness...

He has the perfect love and wants to not only shed His love on you, but also He wants to come live inside of you, eventually to be the indwelling Christ in your being. To pass on this opportunity is certainly the heighth of stupidity and hardheartedness.

Well, it's time to check the box below and go have some enjoyment in the Lord! And of course the right box to check is:
"What? God exists!!! and lives forevermore! We love You Lord Jesus!

dc64 says:

Of all the great men and women of science, history, art, music and philosophy, a large majority have a belief in God. Besides, I FEEL it, I believe it, and that's what matters to me.

jvboy_17 says:

crazyduck...

Atheism bound themselves to be plant foods, but those who believe in God think bigger than the picture. I have stated before that even science itself, through the "theory of conservation of mass", defines death as a transformation. If death ends your pity existence, so it will be. But my doctrines are extensive, and I'll rather put my faith in it.

Your contextual view of things limits your understanding - let me pick just one definition of religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith...atheism holds the same factor, you have your cause, your principle, and you have your faith. However you exhibit all these into worldly explanations. Why would I put my faith to jesusneverexisted.com or godispretend.com? They only present opinion on things, apparently with shallow grounds and representations of apparent truths.

I have given you a chance before to refute God based on other factors besides the bible, but you failed to counter attack. If I have taken God as General - let it be any religion, Islam, Christian, Catholic, Hinduism...then your scope would be too small. And if I say that God is not all good as we think -- then if He intend to slaugher everyone, they He may. The bible is direct -- those who are against need to perish, and mercy would only be given to those who are worthy...on this scenario, He may not be as generous as most see. He is simply a God taking authorithy that is all His.

Understanding the Bible requires faith. If you see the word "kill" in the Bible it doesn't just imply that you have to kill yourself or someone...it is because you just don't understand; apparently your "reasoning" is insufficient. Swallow and digest the book, not just chew it and start spitting out false opinions -- I am sorry but it is like a kindergarten student saying that 1 + 1 is equals 3.

And let this sink to you...EVEN HOW DIRTY RELIGION IS, IT DOESN'T DISPROVE GOD. I accept your postings as a challenge for us to change anything that is against our doctrines. It is indeed a shame that believers fail to exercise their belief correctly. And I myself respect Ghandi's opinion with Christianity, of how he like Christ but not the Christians. Our doctrines are better than good -- nevertheless, my point here is that if people don't follow this, God must not be blamed.

And I am not forbidding you to try refuting God. But as most atheist do. They are not targeting the "Object" of discussion, but they stray away and start attacking the church.

Lastly...I am not a preacher...I am an Information Technology graduate. But I do attend church regularly. And I love reading books...just a background about me. :P

May the peace of the Lord be with us always...Good Evening...

jvboy_17 says:

...and actually atheist(s) help in preaching the gospel...when they die they gonna be one with the soil aka 'fertilizers', then a tree will grow -- thanks to the nutrients; and then we can turn them to Bibles...

jvboy_17 says:

godpretend.net is same old thing. Attacking men but not God...and doing so, possibilities are endless, but still not a sufficient factor to say there is no God. And I am amazed that atheism is becoming more and more of a religion than just a status...really disturbing...

jvboy_17 says:

Amen Hoogle!

I am new to the Christian faith and like you I feel blessed in defending Him. Being in college is indeed dangerous, people get swayed because they hear, but they don't seek. This is a very dangerous act - "If a man of intellect told you to jump on a building and kill yourself, would you do so?" Intellect is significant to all men, but there is another factor..."wisdom", for men could me smart but not wise.

"A child at age of 3 could be wiser than any grown up man. For a childlike heart dictates true knowledge and understanding."

God blessed me to be in college, and I will use what I have learned for Him. At the age of 23, I know it is still a long way to go.

I believe the case on this debate is closed. And we have won. I know I am doing my part. With hope that I have saved somebody.

Hoogle says:

You guys on the left are wasting your time and your life, your current human life, by speaking the words of fools. A fool leans on his own understanding, a wise man seeks counsel (Proverbs). God spoke every word of the Bible through 40+ men who were used by God to speak His words. Man has never spoken anything higher than God's words spoken in the Bible. But of course, we have to use our human spirit to grasp what God speaks to us. Your human mind is far too limited and corrupted to be of much use to you and besides that, you are in darkness, living in the realm of darkness which is ruled entirely by Satan. So you are one with Satan, nice guy that you may see yourself to be. One day you will be perfectly clear, but it may be too late. If you are clear at the judgment seat (the second one)...then you are too late. Laugh if you will, try to think of funny names and words to say related to what I am saying, but again, you will be doing all of this out of your fallen and darkened mind. You have nothing else to work with so I don't expect anything much above that.
Some say that Christians shouldn't be so blunt to the unbelievers, but that depends on how far gone the unbeliever is and whether or not he/she needs a jolt to have a turnaround. It is ultimately up to the Lord anyway whether you ever have a turnaround, so don't be so stupidly cocky to think that you alone make that decision. The Lord knows your heart and how dark it is, but He also knows whether or not you are willing to turnaround if He allows you to. He draw those to Himself whom He desires to gain, it is not up to you and it wasn't up to me when I came to Him at the age of 6. I had better understanding at 12 when I got baptized, I had further divine understanding in my 40s and it just gets better all the time now that I have been reading the Bible with those who understand much of the Bible. You won't get light from your beerdrinking and pool hall buddies, and you won't get light from your university professors who dwell in darkness and are proud of it.
I'm thankful I didn't go to a college that housed a cesspool of liberal profs that were God hating fools and anti-American losers...the Lord was merciful to me and gave me a decent and unbiased education, then He mercifully opened up the Bible to me.
He has a plan and it is to work Himself into those who believe into Him. So you have a decision to make. Keep being your self and go through the rest of your life as a loser, or receive the Lord and live by the divine life and nature of God, but not the Godhead. That is what the Bible reveals to us.
The facts in the Bible are the facts and they are not proven fact or not by you. God never has depended on man to prove the Bible to be true and He is not waiting for you to give your stamp of approval for it being truth or not...it is the truth and Christ is the only reality in the universe.

What you "enjoy" now is the counterfeit, everything is from the father of lies and you are spouting out lies because your source is the father of lies. Your life is a lie and you are death in the eyes of God unless you have a turn.
So like it or not, God will carry out His plan using man, this being the principle of incarnation, and you won't be able to change it, but you will be able to participate in it if He is merciful to you and you have a change of heart.

jvboy_17 says:

"An absolute truth cannot be shaken for it is absolute".
The "Dare" is still on. Try to shake my faith!

Disproving God is all reason -- and atheism invoked this reasoning in areas that they are off limits. As far as they...
1/ Count the sins every Christian make
2/ Get a context on the Bible and literally negate it
3/ Expose homosexuality in churches
4/ Laugh about controversy in churches
etc...
...not all this disprove God's existence. It is merely a child's play (this is men vs men only, they are in battle with God) and these are the least things (a last resort) anybody can do to refute Him...

Be bigger, go out! See the universe, see yourself. From the smallest of the atoms and cells, to the biggest of the galaxies - there is "Perfection in Creation".

Science is trial and error - and in this universe, coincidences should be eliminated. Yet, there could be intervention. I am not refuting science as a whole. But it does coexist with God. For all things that men discover (not create) are all amazing.

Hoogle says:

oh my, crazy duck, oh my...you get so hung up on the far reaches of the Bible when God is trying to get your attention!
To call God's word "garbage"...ayahhhhh, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes on either judgment day...and you seem to be headed for the second one...you think you know so much that you can doubt God's Word...this reminds me of what one brother-in-the-Lord once said, "you run into these people that say they have read the Bible and they don't believe it. Then you ask them if they think they know, oh, let's say 1% of what there is to know in the world today...and some even have no second thought to say that, yes, they know at least 1% of what the world has to offer in the way of knowledge. Well, of course, we finite little people don't have a smidgen of understanding about how much there is to know of things just related to the world we live in, but taking it much further, without a lifetime of pursuing the Lord, we won't know a smidgen's worth about the Bible in the way of life, the divine life, as the Lord intended when He wrote the Bible through the ones that He chose to speak through...whew!

Okay, so understand something, youall...God has a plan...His plan is simple...He wants to get Himself inside of you...and He didn't choose to do this in the Old Testament, but He did decide to do it in the New Testament, the new covenant. And He did it through His death on the cross. When He died, He only died in His humanity. God cannot die in His Spirit. So that is why it says in 1 Corinthian 15:45 that He became the life-giving Spirit. This is the way that He works Himself into those who choose to believe and receive Him. Then, year after year of seeking Him through prayer and fellowship and reading the Bible with a mingled spirit, He gets into and transforms His believers so that they become like Him in life and nature but not the Godhead.

I'll pray for all of you, both sides...

hoogle

Hoogle says:

Hey, Crazy Duck...I agree with you ... that all religions must be stamped out! Absolutely...of course, it won't happen until the Lord comes back and smashes the toes as mentioned in Daniel...the problem with religion is that it is not God's way to carry out His sovereign and divine arrangement...religion is defined as worshipping God without Christ. People do it all the time, Catholics, Protestants, islamists, not all but most of them have no clue that "he who has the Son has the life (eternal) and he who does not have the Son does not have life"...chapter 5 of 1 John.

And of course, no one on the left wants to admit that they sin, or that their sin is unconscienable, but all sin needs to be cleansed from our being and forgiven, otherwise there is no way to contact God. We are filthy in His eyes without being covered by Christ.

Well, I know that most of this is beyond the left side's comprehension, because youall haven't figured out yet that to read and understand the Bible requires the use of your human spirit and this needs to be regenerated to be of use to you.

May the Lord be with your spirit...
hoogle

junjun says:

You couldn't express His "being" in forms of pixels. Maybe you could think of the evidence that a creator exists like where everything came from, or "someone" must start creating things in oder for them to exist. Even Physics couldn't grasp the thought of
a universe without the beginning.

jvboy_17 says:

godispretend.net...
...The world without cancer, killing, pain, suffering, whatsoever evil...is not here on this world...apparently you haven't heard of the promise -- a world without all those is only for believers.

Not all will be saved because not all are rightful to receive it. It is not like a mother giving a candy to his kid. It is a kid who washed the dishes that day to earn his candy.

Hell cannot be abolished. It is the only thing that controls people on committing more sin. People are so %$&#^$*&#^ that God still need to scare them.

Being God is not about power. Power is evil. God is not evil. He is just.

As I have said. Religion and God is not the same. And we must not use Religion to disprove God for religion is controlled by men and not by God.

Yes it is not God who directly wrote the Bible. But believes put FAITH in it. Which is the same FAITH science use to prove their theories.

...if she dies in the future it is His wish... "Faith" ...
A physically fit man keep himself up in shape everyday. He eat right, exercise everyday, etc. "I wanted to live long" -- he told himself...However one day a truck ran over him and he died. Science/medicine cannot save him.

I have to re-stipulate that the Bible and religion is historical. And is affacted by the barriers of the world. But this alone cannot disprove God.

jvboy_17 says:

crazyduck -- I have stipulated a lot and you only refuted one! Ouch...are that dumb? I don't really want to attack you directly but you left me no choice. If you wanted a mock debate - so it will be.

And yes God will exist even without me, even without you (that's a fact)...Maybe you need to go on a Philosophy class ( at least)...ahem
...or you're just a couch potato...

You won with the Bible that declares that the world is flat. However it doesn't prove anything that directly rejects God. And Who first taught the world is flat? Anyhow, when Science says the world originated from big bang it was really stupid.

The antiquity of the old text implies the same principle as of the religion, world literature, historical books and such. All is affected by the barriers of the world -- language, culture, etc.

If you wanted to target a certain group of people you have to sought for their interest and the fad on that era. You cannot preach to a blind mind about the colors of the world for he cannot see; on the same concept, if the people before believe that the world is flat, then God need to adapt to their capacity and say the the world is flat. On the modern time, God understand that the people are capable of knowing beyond the text (not all, co'z crazyduck doesn't. And if He may he'll have it re-written just for crazyduck's finite thoughts...perhaps He'll use jvboy_17) --I do love humor.

GOD bless us all

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. We Are Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural; For Centuries It Existed. Comics Are Fictional; A Few Decades Of Entertainment. How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting. COuld Be The Same As The Evolution Theory -- Survival Of The Fittest. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun. Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right?
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

jvboy17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

Uhmmm...How Do I Say This..."Keep It Rolling?!"

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

Uhmmm...How Do I Say This..."Keep It Rolling?!"

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

Uhmm... How Do I Say This... "Keep It Rolling?"

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

jvboy_17 says:

I Just Wanted To Answer Some Of The Questions On The Left Side Which I Left Out On My Previous Postings.

* God Doesn't Strike Unbelievers Because He Doesn't Have To Deal With Them. Otherwise He'll Just Be Wasting His Time. Do You Think An Atheist Is So Special That He Need To Put A Time For Them. Nope. Sorry.
* God Doesn't Invoke Threats, Torture And Death. People And Their Religion Do. Besides, Warning And Treath Is Not The Same. I Am Warning All Atheist That If We Are Right, We Would Still Be Ok On The Next Life, If You Are Right...Well, Then You Are Right, But Nothing Is Lost. Everyone Happy!
* Supernatural Nature Cannot Be Explored, But Experienced. However, It Is Only Exclusive For Those Who Believe.
* I Can't Find Any Text On The Bible That Stipulated Anything As The World Being Flat. Could Somebody On The Left Side Clear This For Us Please.
* Yes, There Are Many Religion, But They Have One Common Belief. That There Is A God. Religion Is Affected By The Barriers Of The World Such As Languange, Culture...etc... But God Is Static And External In Nature.
* Comic Books And Bible Is Different. Why? The Bible Is Both Historical And Supernatural (For Centuries It Existed). Comics Are Fictional (A Few Decades Of Entertainment). How Many Pages Do We Have On The Bible? How About Your Comic Book? If You Think These Two Are The Same. Enlighten Us More With Evidences.
* God Made Lucifer To Make Things More Exciting, Like An Action/Adventure Movie. Who Ever Wanted To Join Him, You Are Free To Be With Him With Endless Action On The Day Of Judgement. God Is Just Having A Little Bit Of Fun, Not Because He Is God He Can't Have Fun Right? As Some Athiest Says -- "Humor"Whahahaha!
* Evidence = 0? Please Venture Out Of The Box.
AND LET ME STIPULATE AGAIN THAT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR BRAIN FOR HIM TO EXIST.

jvboy_17 says:

Separate God and Religion (these two are different) I have To Stress Out That 'Religion Does Not Control God', It Is The People Who Controls Religion. It Depends To The People How They Will Will Live Their Faith. Not Because Religion Messed Up, God Also Messed Up.

If Somebody Here Wanted To Tackle Religion, Start A New Thread.

Mathematics Has Aided Men To Decipher The "Natural Domain" Or The "Tangible Domain". However You Cannot Use Mathematics To Measure Anything Associated To The "Spiritual World" Or The "Intangible World".
Gases' Molecules Are So Loosed. You Cannot Just Measure It Or Experiment On It Unless You Trap It.
Spirits Doesn't Have Molecular Structure. I Would Wonder How Somebody Is Able To Conduct An Experiment On This.
I Also Have To Stress Out That Spirits Are Shapeless. There Is No Evidence That God Is In Same Form As Humans. We Only Associated The Male Figure To God Because The Early People Are Patriarchal.

Another Thing, As I Have Been Imposing, God Is 'External'. He Will Tend To Exist Without Mathematics And Mentomatics; Let Me Reiterate Again That God Doesn't Need Your Brain For Him To Exist.

GOD Bless Everyone!

jvboy_17 says:

Apparently One Of Our Dear Atheist Friend Doesn't Know How To Have A Debate.
1/ "You Must Only Attack The Topic And Not The 2nd Person".
2/ "You Must Always Provide Proof And Evidences In Any Statement That You Declare".
Please Have Sense On Your Postings.

...I Apologize Myself Since I Am Also Out Of Topic Now.

I DARE YOU TO SHAKE MY FAITH!!!

"Men Created The Space Shuttle. They Reached The Heavens, But Didn't Find God?.
?Men Built Submarines And Went In Depths Of The Seas. God Is Not There?.
?Men Invented Telescopes And Saw The Distant Stars. Still No God To See.?.

?But Men Saw The MAJESTY, GREATNESS, COMPLEXITY and MASSIVENESS of the UNIVERSE? and they were AMAZED...MESMERIZED...

?And Then They Built Machines, Created Tools, Formulated Theories To Explain Things?. They Were Successful On Some, But Failed On The Most?.

?They Don't Have Answers, Because They Don't Have The Proper Machines, The Correct Tools And The Right Theories?.

Francis Collins, An Atheist Who Is Now A Believer States:
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?In my view,? explains Collins, ?there is no conflict in being a rigorous scientist and a person who believes in a God who takes a personal interest in each one of us. Science's domain is to explore nature. God's domain is in the spiritual world, a realm not possible to explore with the tools and language of science. It must be examined with the heart, the mind, and the soul -- and the mind must find a way to embrace both realms.
?I will argue that these perspectives not only can coexist within one person, but can do so in a fashion that enriches and enlightens the human experience. Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world, and its tools when properly utilized can generate profound insights into material existence. But science is powerless to answer questions such as ?Why did the universe come into being?' ?What is the meaning of human existence?' ?What happens after we die?' One of the strongest motivations of humankind is to seek answers to profound questions, and we need to bring all the power of both the scientific and spiritual perspectives to bear on understanding what is both seen and unseen. The goal of this book is to explore a pathway toward a sober and intellectually honest integration of these views.?
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In Addition To This. The Big Bang Theory Cannot Factor Out Our Current Universe, Which Is Characterized By Complexity, Harmony and Order. The Big Bang is so Devastating And So Chaotic...If The Big Bang Is True, I Bet Your Nose Is In Your Forehead.

The ?Cosmological Argument? was been a great resource to prove God's excistence.

The Argument Dictates:
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1.Every finite and contingent being has a cause.
2.Nothing finite and contingent can cause itself.
3.A causal chain cannot be of infinite length.
4.Therefore, a First Cause (or something that is not an effect) must exist.
Who Is This Cause? GOD!
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A scientist recently disputed Einstein's theory of gravity.
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?Gravity only appears to be an attractive force,? said gravity researcher Frank Thompson. ?In reality, it's a force that repels in the opposite direction. (Isaac) Newton and (Albert) Einstein are going to look pretty stupid after my paper is published.?

?Since gravity repels it only stands to reason that the Universe is expanding,? he said while writing equations on a chalkboard in his office. ?But this is confusing to Einstein's General Relativity zealots, because they still believe that gravity is an attractive force based on everyday observation. But a negative repulsive force can easily be mistaken for gravitational attraction. If you step out of an airplane in flight, for example, you may wonder why your body will splatter on the ground over a large area if gravity is not a force of attraction. The Earth's gravity is indeed trying to repel you, but it's just repelling you in the opposite direction from what you would expect. It's trying to push you through the Earth and out the other side into space.?

?Dark matter and dark energy are every bit as real as the tooth fairy,? Thompson explained. ?You only need them if you don't accept that gravity is a negative repulsive force. Stars stay organized in galaxies and clusters of galaxies not with the help of dark matter, but by repelling each other in a binding fashion. And who needs dark energy to explain the expansion of the Universe when gravitational repulsion is clearly responsible??

?My theory of repulsive gravity also explains the behavior of Einstein's hair,? he said.
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On this scenario should we still recognize ?Annus Mirabilis??
And what is this black matter? What made this? -- Or should the question be ?Who made it??

A recent Discovery Channel Documentary ?Rameses: Wrath Of God Or Man? imposes a very interesting hypothesis of what may have caused the 10 plagues. They have associated a volcanic activity may have triggered the said event. The frogs, hail, darkness..etc..all originated on this specific natural cause, which if you look closely to the odds, why would this occur on the same moment Moses is about to led the Israelites out of Egypt; somebody might have intervened.

I dare you to venture out and try reading some religious books. I have read science books, studies different religions, even atheism. ?A Christian would not understand Islam unless he tries to become a Muslim?. So as an unbeliever and a believer. After you learn, be creative with your thoughts ? science and religion often tend to coexist....

The bible story may not necessarily imply the creation story as it was written. But it rather recognized a Creator that must exist.

The evolution theory could be true ? but Someone may have intervened, for us to attain perfect evolution.

...Benjamin Franklin is dead, he discovered electricity, he did not create it. He is dead now.
...Phillip K. Dick is a good writer. But he is also mentally retard. He is also dead now.
...Dan Baker tackled religion, not God...religion can be foul, but God cannot be foul. How long would he live?
...Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a good philosopher, but he has serious mental illness. He is also dead now.

GOD would still tend to exist without Benjamin Franklin, Phillip K. Dick, Dan Baker, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche...AND NAME OTHER PEOPLE...People die, God doesn't...And why would I follow the teachings of mentally disturbed people (I can exempt Dan Baker on this)? GOD doesn't need your brain for Him to exist.

?Human discovers...but God created?.

The greatest question of everyone...If there is God...Why people suffer? Why are there disasters? How come some people are born ugly and with disorders?
People suffer because of ?free will? - if God would intervene all the time, it would be a very scary event when the skies strike those who committed sin. And we probably all be dead now.
People suffer because they want to, because people are bad.
People suffer because they don't want to help themselves. God will lift your spirit, God will use other people to assist you...But God is not a genie. Prayer is not asking for help, prayer is not a magical lamp, it is not entirely a problem solver. It is simply talking to God. Most atheist see prayer on a different manner.
There are disasters because nature has to balance itself. If there are no volcanic eruptions, Earth will explode.
There are disasters because men caused them.
People who are born with disorders are not really ugly. True beauty lies within.

Good day everyone. I need to talk to my God before I sleep. May blessings be upon you...

jvboy_17 says:

"I am not losing anything..." -- If I die today and God is not real I am still okay."; And If I die today and God is real I would be rejoicing in heaven. You non believers! If you die today and God is not real, yes you are ok. But! If you die today and God is real...where would you go?

animerobot says:

althought i am only 8 years old, i know God exist. I can feel it...in my heart. God Bless you. :_)

rms says:

this great lens is today's feature at the Giant Squid Community Showcase.

Caleb Gray's Clone says:

*sigh*

crazyduck says:

Oh My God! I've seen the Light! Jesus *IS* my saviour - how could I ever have been so blind?

Thank you for pointing out how wrong I was. (I looked up what you said dude about the eyes, and you're right! I was just too stupid to know better because I was blind to the Lord.)

Thank you JaneDoe01 for setting me straight about what I've got to loosen. Now I'm real loose for the Lord to do his thing with me :-)

Thank you Hoogle for constantly stickin' it up me and all those other atheists and sinners about how wrong we are - I would still be going to Hell if it wasn't for you.

And thank you jvboy_17 for your philosophical input. Even though I don't understand a word, it must be right because you are believing so strongly in Jesus and almighty God.

Hellaluyah praise the Lord!

jvboy_17 says:

An Athiest would definitely declare an ideology that refutes the existence of God and opposes the teachings of the churches.
Let say for instance, the foxhole athiesm believes that God is only made by man out of fear. Sigmund Freud on the other hand said that God is only a product of man's thinking. Karl Marx also gave another statement that the church is like a police force (that forces us to worship because we are told to do so) and opium of the masses (we use prayer - and only prayer - as our resort when we encounter difficulties). The theory of evolution and the big bang theory opposes the power of the creator. These are only some of the ideologies presented and sometimes we intend to believe these because there is also something real in it.

However these ideas can also be answered or refuted. The foxhole athiesm only presented the internal fear or the emotional fear. God is an external being and we should use our fear in an external manner if we wanted to know Him. It is not that we fear God because he punishes us but we fear Him because we are afraid to lose him. Also it is a fact that man cannot exist without God but God can exist without man, also God can even exist without fear. As proven by science everything in this universe is in order and harmony (the movement of the planets, the life cycle etc...) and it could only be done by an intelligent super being. These expanation is also true in refuting the ideology of Freud. Karl Marx had a great flaw because he didn't tackled the freedom given to man. The theory of evolution had a great flaw because it wasn't explained there how the human soul evolved and the missing link is not yet clearly proven. The big bang theory could not be true because a total chaos can't create order and harmony, which I said characterized our universe.

Hoogle says:

tsk tsk the blind speak forth such rubbish...the hard hearted,
the "intelligent" ones, using their minds which have probably been polluted on some liberal campus somewhere...what is the statistic now? 92 per cent of professors are extremem liberals spewing out that God does not exist? Well, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. It is prophesied, therefore it will happen. So the critical part of mentioning this is that you want to be in Him when you bow. To take care of that you need to have the thick veils pealed away from your eyes one layer at a time. This is only done by using your human spirit. Calling on the Lord (not Obamaramadingdong)
will bring Him to you...may He have mercy on you...you and I need His mercy...and then the grace, which is just God Himself embodied in Christ and coming to us as the Spirit. I don't visit this sight much any more because the left side and often even the right side don't have much to say in relation to the Bible. But, it is God's speaking to us and HIs declaration of who He is to us. If you want to listen to a professor who is possibly hellbound (the torment side of Hades) over listening and reading God's Word, then you are setting your eyes on your destination and you won't like it when you get there. And once you are there, that is it. When this human life for you is over, you will have had to make your choice by then. We have three choices...to be an unbeliever, to be a defeated believer, or to be an overcomer. That's it...there are no other choices. Two of those are the best of the three. And hopefully the obvious choices for you to choose one from...

In Him,
Hoogle

CindyJaneStone says:

Imagine this, you get to the end of the road and you realize God exists and you did not believe in Him, what do you do now? But on the other hand you get there and you realize He does not exists...well what did you loose living a good life being a good person and helping those around you, believing in what God tells you.

what do you loose in believing?

what would you loose in not believing and you realize too late that He exists....

Caleb Gray says:

*sigh*

says:

your wrong as stupid duck. Its loss of pigments in the cones man. God has blinded you to the truth. when you try using science to make a joke of Michael it's really the Devil guiding you to your final resting place in Hell. So go ahead and laugh you stupid duck

Philium Benedict Mondego The Sixteenth says:

I once made toast that looked like donald duck. If you read this then you are a homo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And god is me. no he isn't. SHUT UP!!!!! I love gay ants.

Michael says:

I don't think blue eyed women exist, if they did why don't you show us right here on this web page. I'm color blind so color doesn't exist. Come on and prove it! You're God blind, that's the problem. His existence is all around us, look outside and see His creation. All things have a creator, including this web page. I've never met the webpage creator, but I bet he/she exists! So where is the creator of the universe? I don't know, but I see His creation daily.

jrs1013 says:

This is a rather interesting conversation. Let me say right off the bat that I am a believer, but I am a little disturbed by a few of the comments on the right side here. I am a Christian, and I have been for quite some time now. However, I am a little disturbed at the lack of respect.

Everyone on the left side...you are very intelligent and I respect all of your comments. Thank you for teaching me some things. There have been a lot of good comments on the right side too...I just don't appreciate the doomed to hell speech, and I don't choose to use it.

I have seen and experienced MANY things in my day, in which to deny the existence of God would be to deny the existence of my soul. And yes, the "feelings" that you get from knowing God are awesome, trust me you cannot compare them with a "drug high" or the occasional drunken spells! The things I have seen are completely inexplainable by science, and no one has had any answers for them, and they have nothing to do with "feelings".

All feelings aside, I don't think we will ever solve this age-old discussion. It is good to debate, and I think that if you can't open up your mind and learn from another human being, Christian or Atheist, then you don't understand life.

Unfortunately, Christians have gotten a bad rap, due to religion and their close-mindedness. I welcome all views, and seek to learn more and more every day from all people no matter what your view.

So, I am not a philosopher, I kind of wish I had been, so I could get involved in this juicy discussion. My uncle is an Atheist and I love talking to him. He is very intelligent. I have to say though as he is getting older, he has been questioning his views. I don't know why, he hasn't told me, but if he does I will share the juice.

So, thank you for the good read. I always enjoy good intelligent people debating over a very important topic. I have some research to do, and if I find anything good I will write back.

Peace to everyone (left and right side!) :-)

Remixer96 says:

@JudasX

I am indeed citing natural evidence for a supernatural presence. However, unless we presume supernatural phenomena ONLY have supernatural effects, I don't think this is unjustified. In other words, I wouldn't only expect miracles from a supernatural deity, but also a gathering of worshipers to follow such a thing, which can be observed.

By this definition, I think the growing number of Pastafarians or dwindling number of Catholics would lend or detract support from those interpretations of a higher power, but I'm presuming the topic at issue is "God" on a scale beyond that of the Christian conception, a shorthand for a greater order beyond the natural one we can observe.

In this vein, I think the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim God fit the bill, but I also include Gaia and the nothingness described in Bhuddism and Budo. While not conscious entities, they do describe an order beyond the natural realm, the supernatural.

Your point also doesn't address that coupled with falling numbers in organized religion, an increasing number of people classify themselves as "spiritual but not religious," who I would argue mostly believe that God, in the inclusive way I've tried to describe it, exists. So my question returns, which is more likely? That a supernatural order exists causing an overwhelming number of people to react to it in some fashion, or that that very same group of people (on the order of billions) are all simultaneously suffering delusions of supernaturalism?

says:

Thank you Kru (22 May). Although I do not believe in the God of the Bible, I found your posting refreshing and thoughtful. At last a voice of sense and reason.

Kru says:

To me it seems that a lot of the arguments against God seem to be because the Christian faith has tried to sell itself better by pretending that once you accept Jesus everything will be rosy. The Bible never pretends that this is the way God would want the world. In fact it seems to me that the Bible is pointing towards a Heaven on earth when things are as they were meant to be.

The reason why I believe in God is the only "proof" I can offer because we are not talking about an object. Like if you tried to prove love you can only talk in personal examples because the nature of what love is cannot be placed on a webpage or explained in an equation. You could attempt to but you can only ever fully understand love by experiencing it and even at that its a mystery. Which makes it interesting the way the Bible says God is love.

I guess for me the big question is why do we have fulfillment or a sense of purpose? Like a dog doesn't lie relaxing in the shade on a summers day but yet feel incomplete or that their life has no meaning. But humans can. Even when all the pieces fit together why is it that you can still feel unsatisfied? I have found satisfaction in God when my life wasn't all that great and thats why I believe. I believe we have a spirit and when the spirit is happy the whole of you is happy. I've experienced that and while you can tell me there is no God can offer me fulfillment? Because if you can't what is the point?

Also if you want to know what God looks like read the New Testament. The church is meant to be the place where God now dwells through people who are loving. Unfortunately most Christians follow God in name but wouldn't have the first clue about what the Bible really asks of them and what Christianity is supposed to mean. Even Jesus knew there would be hypocrites tho and he didn't pretend they were okay because they seemed holy.

says:

Hoogle (May 15 and 19), you're scary....

Hoogle says:

crazyduck...your comments just further prove what I believe, and that is that the ones who write on the left side have no joy in their lives...you must be a liberal, an unhappy smuck who loves to dish out venom at every opportunity and then can't understand why you can't get a date on Friday night.

Well, I just am not sure about this column...I think it is a waste of time to come here. Of course, if one was truly seeking to find God, he would get some help once in awhile, but he would have to check this site for a long time to glean a little bit of life out of all that is spoken here.

God created everyone of you, but the shame of it all is that He also gives man a free will, and fallen man is stubborn and full of opinions and a mindset that is set on the flesh and not on the spirit where there is life and peace.

So crazyduck, you rattle off about how smart you and the scientists are, but what I have heard is that many scientists come to the Lord the more they study the universe. Many doctors also are gained by the Lord as they labor on human bodies day by day and see how magnificent it is that man is created by God, and that there is no other way man could have been created. There had to be a beginning and God provided that beginning with Adam.

Well, I'm done .... the gloom of darkness awaits all those who choose to believe that they are smarter than God. I even feel foolish writing such a statement because to me it is so obvious that you don't have a smidgen of sense in comparison to the One who created everything, and yet you are willing to argue on and on with your vain arguments against a mighty God. Whew!

Hey, it doesn't matter if I was a Jew or not. I will warn you however, that to be blasphemous about the Lord is almost the ultimate foolishness and whether you believe or not, the more you blaspheme, the further away you may be putting yourself from saving your conscience before it is seared and you position yourself for the lake of fire...yeah, you laugh, but that is due to your ignorance...in other words, ignoring the fact that God is who He says He is, and whether or not you believe in Him does not make it therefore a lie...again, how foolish cnn this be...

later

Hoogle says:

Colin...Gpd is only in us if we have received the Lord Jesus, who is God. Religion is just Satan's attempt to divert your attention away from Christ, and he has used it well. The Bible
is God's speaking, but one has to spend time in it and be open to fellowship about it to begin to profit from it and that profiting would be to the glory of God, not for one's own selfish purpose. The Bible is the only book we need.

The babble that shows up on this site just shows how man wants to use his mind to reason out everything, and without Christ, his mind is corrupted and influenced by Satan day by day. This is obvious in these postings now on both sides of the issue of,
is there God or not"...of course there is God and what a Creator He is. Certainly man is not speaking things into existence. Watch the birth of a newborn baby and tell me there is no God. How foolish can man's fallen mind be with its limitations...it is even the more obvious when we look at the world governments and the crisis here and the crisis there...what? You mean man can't solve these problems? Of course he can't.

says:

I believe that there is a force for good and that it is embodied in humanity. I believe that the different faiths (Christian, Muslim, Judaism, Hindu, Buddhist etc) are simply interpretations of this force. I do NOT believe in the written words of these faiths (the Bible, Qur'an, Veda) as these were written in times when much of our existence was un-explained and mysterious. Therefore much of the symbolism and "miraculous" was an interpretation of a mysterious unexplained event. So, is there a God? Yes, if you believe in the human power of good. But it is not the God of religion. It is the God within us.

Hoogle says:

Judas X,
To see by faith is to open the eyes of our heart...

Hoogle says:

Hmmmm...a human cannot survive in the belly of a whale...so what you mean to say is that God is a liar. Interesting, but also quite foolish. And to say that man evolved when God says that He created man is also sadly off. The Bible is not called "the book" for no specific reason, it happens to be God's speaking to man, so that man can know God. Of course, as I always like to remind readers at this site, unless any of you engage your human spirit in your Biblical readings, you will probably not get any light to speak of. The apostle John tells us in his gospel in John 4:24 that "God is Spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and in truthfulness". So if God tells us that this is what we must do, then how can we expect the same results by doing something our own way.

Those of us who read the Bible and enjoy the Lord using our God-given human spirit are in a realm that the left column knows not of...at least at this juncture, and I would venture to say that some in the right column also have not touched their human spirit. This is crucial in order for the Bible to open up to you. The human spirit is the inner man in our being, it can only contain something of the divine life and nature of God. Satan has no way to enter into it. He has our soul from day one and even after we pray to receive the Lord, he has control over our mind, emotion, and will until we gain enough of the Lord in our human spirit to start to permeate into our soul. We are tri-partite people, we have a body, soul, and spirit. The Bible spells this out for us in 2Thess. But, the atheists have a deadened spirit and rely on their soul, which Satan has control over. There is no neutral ground when it comes to either being in God or being opposed to God. If one is not sure, then he is opposed to God. No grey areas here. Even the Lord says that He will spew the lukewarm ones out of His mouth. He wants an absolute commitment, He seeks His overcomers...until He gains a certain number of them, He will not come back.

Back to the whale, the Lord Jesus told this story...as a reminder, He is the only human being who ever dared tell anyone that He was God. If you say you are God, and someone blows you away, then it kinda leaves you looking a little foolish, but He said He was God and when He was on the cross, He was dying in His humanity while carrying out His heavenly ministry in His divinity, defeating Satan, sin, death, and a multitude of things while He was on the cross...then He resurrected, ascended, and then descended and spent, what? 40 days on the earth walking around showing people that although they thought He was dead, He was living again as proof of who He was.
Marvelous...He walked in and out of Hades, no one had ever done that before or since except the apostle Paul insinuated that the Lord may have shown him Hades after the incident on the road to Damascus.

Well, sorry to go on so long, I'll check back again some day...
For you believers, the Lord be with your spirit!
For you atheists, may the Lord have mercy on you

corruptedworldsaveyr says:

Rod, ? there's only me and me only alone in this world>?
Then what about scientology?

corruptedworldsaveyr says:

the only thing why people choose not to believe in God because they think if there was a higher power, one could shift blame onto someone else, or explain things they don't understand

and why this hoohaa a about christian and God?
there are so many religions out there, and we're only talking about GOD

corruptedworldsaveyr says:

hmm, true about the chosen part hoogle,
because i think it's really true

Grasshoppa says:

If you think the Bible is "just another work of fiction", you either haven't read much of the Bible, or you haven't read much fiction. I've read plenty of both, and there is plenty of difference.

Ignorance? True science will point to God's existence every time. Just because he's a gentleman and allows you to believe whatever you want to believe is no reason to insult him and his followers.

But go ahead. Yuk it up. Enjoy your superiority complex while it lasts, because it won't last forever.

Lim dhlim says:

There is God existing in this world.. It is up to each individual how he/she looks at the perspective of whether he/she believes God.. Well, God is really magnificient, he really helps to save our lives, and also to fulfil our dreams/hopes that we yearn for.. With God, we can really find our true happiness, and also can find real relationship perhaps.. Yeah, Gen, that has answered to your question! :)

ShushiDenMaster says:

YOUR FAITH LIMITS YOU TO WHAT IS REAL TO OTHERS.

Hoogle says:

By the way, Leslie, making jokes about God is actually blasphemous, and even as an unbeliever or atheist, as you proudly call yourself, it is extreme and deadly foolishness...

Hoogle says:

To Leslie, regarding your question of "what went wrong"...
I noticed you on both sides, so I don't know how you are using this site, but of course you have it right in saying that God is
all knowing and all powerful, certainly no one else has ever called themselves God, but when Jesus came as a man He called Himself the Son of God and the Son of Man.

God has destroyed man completely on one occasion and then promised by the sign of the rainbow that He would not do that again. However, since He works through the principle of incarnation to carry out His "economia", His plan, His household arrangement to have a house that He can dwell in among His people, He left it up to man to see what man would be willing to do. God has His permissive will and man has abused it too many times to count. God, the Lord, empowers those who chose Him and not the world, and chose to gain His life and nature by seeking the Spirit which the Lord gives without measure. And of course, the Lord is the Spirit and the Spirit is the Lord. When you receive Him, you receive the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, because they are not three separate Gods, but one God in three aspects and distinctions.

How wonderful this is. Would I trade this life for the life that the ones on the left live by? Not hardly and never would I deny the Lord regarding my faith. Once He has come into us, He will never leave us. If He has never come into you, then you have only this lifetime in your human living on earth to gain this One into you that you would have His life and nature for eternity.

To the unbelievers, the Lord said that all of this is foolishness, and as we read the left column, this is what we see exhibited. Check it out for yourselves. Who seems to exhibit joy and peace and happiness? These are virtues of God,
not had and enjoyed by the unbeliever.

May the Lord have mercy on the left siders...if is only by His mercy that you will "see" anything, or touch your human spirit. It is impossible for you to touch your spirit without the Lord because the spirit contains only the Lord!

May the Lord be with your spirit...

LeslieBrenner says:

As an atheist playing devil's advocate, if God doesn't exist should we be polite and not tell him?

Hoogle says:

You have to read the Bible with your human spirit...God says that all Scripture is God-breathed, the Gospel of John is the gospel of life and this life is God's life. Peter tells us that we can be partakers of the divine nature...so together we can have the life and nature of God. We need a Savior and there is One who has made Himself available and has made salvation as easy as saying "Oh Lord Jesus"...of course, the ones who write in the left column can't quite get the words out of their mouth, and it is up to the Lord if you can say "Lord Jesus"...I have asked different ones to speak the highest name on their lips and then watched their lips quiver and their countenance hit the floor while they stammer and studder without a sound coming out, especially the highest name in the universe who also created same.
Yeah, God is real, the Lord Jesus is both God and Man, it is a mystery, God has opened up the mystery to those who present themselves to Him, and that will not be everyone, obviously, but for those who do, even the majority of these ones will not present themselves fully and obediently to submission to the Lord. BUT, for the overcomers that are under the light and shining of the Lord, these ones will rule and reign with Him in His millenial kingdom for a thousand years...then all of the unbelievers and all of the fallen angels and Satan will be cast into the lake of fire. You guys on the left, if you decided not to repent and receive the Lord will be in the world of torment and anguish for ever...it is no small thing...and you will remember having read these words...and you will remember how easy I said it was to receive the Lord by just calling on His name...and you will certainly wish that you had taken care of this three second response to your need, but...you didn't...and now the rest of your existence will be in torment...the torment being that you were not open...

American says:

Do you ever think to yourself "what if I'm wrong?"

The New World Order and Christianity

American says:

You are in for a rude awakening.

EelKat says:

I believe there is a "God", but I'm not certain that the "God of Abraham" is entirely correct with the "Real God". I mean just look at the teaching of the God of Abraham: promotes murder, death and violence. Hates women, thinks nothing of children, esp if they are female, glorifies in the slaughter of animals! WTH? THAT God, the God of the Old Testament IS NOT the God I believe in!

I believe that God (the Real God, not the Bible's fairy tale version) is a kind and loving Great Spirit or Creator, the way many Native American religions teach.

But yes, I do believe there is a God.

Calagara says:

If you really want to "find" God, you'll have to do the work yourself, friend. No one can "force" Him on you - you have to want it for yourself. The carnal mind cannot discern the things of the spirit and until you focus your spiritual eyes on Him, you'll never see anything but yourself. If you are satisfied that all the God you need is right there within yourself, go in peace and have a nice life. But when you reach the highest plane of self aware spiritual enlightenment or the lowest level of the darkest pit of despair, you will realize that you are not enough and that He is always there. That is when YOU will find out what "this God" looks like.

says:

It's funny you think such just because you can't see him. That does not mean he does not exist. Think about it, we can't see air but we can feel it thus,we know it exists. We have a toothache we can't see it but we know it's there because we feel it. It's the same thing with GOD, we feel him around us all the time. let me put this to you, you want us to prove that he exist right? God does not bargain with humans, he is the one in control and he would do such when the time is right. Look at you pity atheists,trying to disprove that God did not create the universe. Trust me scientist did not convince me otherwise that God does not exist. They FAILED miserably. Up to this day, they can't give a scientific reasoning as to why humans exists. So DUMB!! If they sooooooo brilliant, why can't they prove such huh? Let's take your theory. You claim it's a BIG BANG (how foolish) Fine!! Uh, don't you think there was a force behind the big bang? Of there was GOD, IDIOTS, GOD!! A BIG BANG would NOT have caused the Earth to be in such organsied form whereby everything is balanced

surfchicky23 says:

For those who say there is no God because you cannot prove it, ill give you this example. Can a painting comprehend the artist? Can a flower comprehend the realm of the animal? Animal comprehend the realm of the Human? Human comprehend the realm of the soul?
No we cannot, but for me there is enough evidence to know there is a higher level of existence. Just take a look at the universe and be humbled. I am.

ChurchDuck says:

I'll make this short. I hardly believe anyone will read this message anyways though.

I pitty you. That you would be so numb, to assume God will show himself the way you want him to. He's bigger than that.

I have debated numerous times, over scientific reasons why God does or does not exsist. Its quite pointless, because you will be able to reason within your head whatever you want.

But I want to point something out to you, that maybe you have overlooked.

Your breathing right now. Thats a gift from God in my oppinion.

You've blinked about 60 times since you started to read this. That is also a gift from God, in my oppinion.

You just seamlessly pulsed muscles in your eye, without even thinking about it. Another gift, in my oppinion.

My oppinion may not matter to you. But I want you to know it is not based on petty things like emotion. But I have spent the past 16 years of my life chasing God. And I could give you many accounts of when I have caught him.

But it wouldnt make any differance. Your looking for a god that will do what you want. That will show himself the way you want. And will give you knowledge of him without use of faith.

Again, I pitty you.
Sooner or later, before or after you've passed away, you will realise its not about what you want.

SivartM says:

Sorry, I can't scientifically prove God. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah", that is, that Jesus was killed and rose again after three days. God doesn't have to prove Himself to you, and besides, if you literally, physically saw God then you'd die, so you don't really want to.

God says:

I exist. Now go do something else.

Anon says:

Standing by for any slight bit of evidence that there is no God.

totalmuscle says:

"If there was not a god that favored mankind, life simply could not have developed. Life shows an extremely high level of order and complexity that must have been created because order is not the natural state of the universe, disorder is. In other words, there is design and design requires a designer! Therefore, there must be a god. There's just way too much evidence against the spontaneous appearance and progression of life or "naturalism" as some call it. Saying the world has a beginning and it created itself is a formal contradiction because how can something create itself before it even exists? Nothing finite can cause itself because it is connected to another, prior cause. Sorry Darwin, self-creation just can't explain reality and lacks the imperative that this cause and effect universe requires. That's like saying you created yourself and did it before you were even born!" - from the mouth of a scientist!

Read this:

The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel

Hoogle says:

Yeah...well, I am not going to put in 3 or 4 days worth of verse mentioning while you refuse to engage your spirit. Nothing I say or write will penetrate through your mind, you have to use your spirit. It is amazing to me how anyone would resist God, and since the Bible is a lifetime study and you are choosing to sit on the sidelines, because, well you're so smart and know more that God knows, then your future looks bleak. God is perfect, so by me saying that, and not quoting a scripture, are you going to come back and say that first there is no God, and second, if there was He would not be perfect? Ayahhhhhhhh
I am bailing out of here...words of love to you don't matter, a burden to share something of life to you is not of interest to you, you want what God will not give you and that is a truckload of tangible proof when in His eyes He has created not only you and me, but everything that you see. He has had His hand in it. So tell me Judas, what is the purpose of your life?
To make a lot of (Satanic) money? To buy fashionable clothes, buy a big home on a hilltop? Drive a Porsche...tell me, what drives you to get out of bed every day?
The Lord is the one that motivates me, I long for the chance to share something of His marvelous life and how He even became a man so that by gaining humanity and the experience of humanity, He could uplift humanity into the Godhead...and this humanity had to be perfect in order to be received into the Godhead. So while you are looking to dissect every word out of a Christian's life, they on the other hand are enjoying God and His life and nature. There isn't anything any higher, of course you will come up with something, but I won't be back to read it. This is something I have done out of a burden, if it doesn't help anyone, then I need to move on and use the Lord's time in another way, He will not be limited. All Christian's share something as the Lord leads, I've shared what I felt was appropriate for the need that I sensed. Obviously I missed it here. May someone else be used by the Lord to touch you, but ultimately it is not even up to what we say as to whether you choose life or death, it is up to the Lord. You cannot will to know Him, He has to choose you first. Yes, I know that doesn't fit in with your ego, but I'm just speaking a fact and being direct. The Lord was direct and He was perfect. Those who follow the Lord become Him in life and nature. The Bible is God's romance with His people and there is no higher love than His. His is incorruptable and inexhaustible. Yours is corrupted and exhaustable. Again, a fact. If you want the verses that go with what I am saying, open up a Bible and ask the Lord to have mercy on you that a veil would be taken away. Otherwise, you will live your "life" in ignorance. But, again read the Bible, one day you will have a "moment" before the Lord, and if you have not believed in Him in this lifetime, you will be crystal clear on that day as He dismisses you into the lake of fire. Yeah, you can laugh about it now, but there will be one day or I should say one moment when you will be crystal clear. Actually when you die and go to Hades, you will be crystal clear at that very instant when you experience Luke 16. How anyone could read that chapter and not turn to the Lord is beyond me.

Hoogle says:

God is not known by using our feelings because our feelings can mislead us and do mislead us. We need to use our human spirit, that is the core of our being and what has been deadened by the fall of man.

By God's mercy He has opened up a way to the Tree of Life again after having closed it off to Adam and his descendants. The Tree of Life in Genesis is mentioned again in the book of Revelation as the Bible consummates. So the Bible begins and ends with the Tree of Life, however, it also shows us the Spirit and the Bride "say come"...this has become one entity, God and man are one...God has accomplished His goal and the two speak as one...so we have a choice, be in God or be in torment for all of eternity...if you use your mind to read the Bible, you will be disappointed because just like you use your ears to hear, you need to use your spirit to read the Bible. Then the Lord uses His Word, which is Spirit and life to come into you and begin growing in you.

lol

Raf says:

God does exist

Hoogle says:

Sorry, Judas X, I spend more time with more verses quoted on my lens at "The Mystery of Human Life"...I don't come here to promote my lens, but you might check it out and give me some feedback if you have a minute...thanks

Hoogle says:

Okay Judas X,
I just happened to read your comments, thanks for making them, I sense a little more thought in what you say, however, I wouldn't bother reading something from a Catholic about anything, they are in darkness, some are saved, but many are blind. For one, you as a believer don't get baptized into the Lord Jesus spiritually speaking until you have reached an age that you can make a decision based on having received the Word of God helped along by the spoken word. That is not possible with an infant, a two year old, three year old, etc.
Peter is an excellent example of a buffoon, uneducated fisherman who stumbled around for three and a half years making a fool of himself in and out of the Lord's presence. He even made his famous three time denial of Christ to a little girl. Then he wept, because he remembered what the Lord said he would do, which was deny Him three times. But what happened after the Lord died and resurrected? He breathed Himself into his disciples, which means that He began imparting His divine life and nature (John 10:10b, "I have come to give life (zoe) and life (zoe) abundantly") into them. On the day of Pentecost, what happened? The Lord, who had been appearing and then not appearing to different ones after His resurrection, supplied Peter inwardly and outwardly, and over 3,000 got saved after hearing him speak. Do you think that these Jewish people converted because they heard an uneducated fisherman speak to them? Of course not, he allowed the Lord to speak through him. They had the difficult transition of seeing the physical Jesus to knowing that He now lived inside of them, just like He lives inside of me right now. This is quite a lot for even believers to grasp, that the One who created them dwells in their human spirit and wants to permeate and saturate their entire being, with the glorification of our bodies taking place when the Lord returns.
One last point, how can anyone watch the birth of a baby, like I have four times, or considered the universe and the ORDER in the universe and not think that there is One who is overseeing everything that He created? Anyway, I'll check back again...

Hoogle says:

Hi Rod, I can only speak for myself, but the greatest joy and lasting enjoyment is Christ, the Lord Jesus. Nothing ever has compared to Him and nothing will ever be more precious than this One. You call us fools, so be it, I'm a fool for Christ.
My heart (spiritual one, that is) is in the light, I have turned my heart to the Lord and the veils have been taken away.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there lies Rod, calling out to all the enjoyers of the Lord, "why can't I see this God with my eyes?" Well, read Corinthians, which is the Lord's speaking through the apostle Paul, 2nd Cor 3:17 "But whenever their hearts turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away". Rod, you have not turned your heart, so of course you cannot see, nor will you ever be able to see, even in eternity, you will not be able to see because your heart is hardened and you live in darkness.
1 Cor 6:17 "But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit"...I am joined as one spirit to the Lord of the universe...not bad huh? I have the life and nature of God, while our friend Rod here has the life and nature of Satan...OUCH...hey, Hoogle didn't really say that did he? Ah, but yes I did because I read the Bible and it reveals that there is no neutral ground, we are either for the Lord or against Him, and His enemy is Satan and the unbelievers. All of human existence has witnessed this battle. We are born flesh, our soul and body belong to Satan, he is personified in Romans 7, read it Rod, and then if you chance to read Romans 8 you will see this matter of the Spirit. "the mind set on the flesh, yours, is...death, but the mind set on the spirit is ...life and peace."

So I'll choose life and peace...death does not appeal to me.
Rod, not only do you need to read the Bible, but you have to read it with your human spirit, even one better than that, you have to read it with your regenerated human spirit and that requires that you turn your heart to the Lord.

The things that I read on the left column are enough that I really won't take much time visiting this site. I think youall just play the game of teasing the believers, I don't really think that you are that numb and dumb (ignorant is to be ignoring) to the Word of God. Surely not...you are paying too great a price to have such a stinking "reward"...which is eternal torment with your buddy Satan. Yes I know that non believers think that that is a cheap shot...actually it is the truth and the truth hurts. I would rather be faithful to the Word of God than be calling up one of the left column writers for "wisdom" and "supply"...these are virtues that only God has and gives only to His believers. Why not give it a try...actually I think you are already one and just like to prod a few of us from time to time....if I were younger, I might spend the time...if you have a serious and genuine question to pose besides the silly argument of "is there God?", then I'll entertain it and not promise an answer because obviously I don't have all the answers, but your question would probably be one we've all heard and answered many times.
lol

spirituality says:

I believe in something beyond what my physical eyes can see - because that's just how I experience my life. Not sure I'd call that something God, but for the purpose of this lens - I think that's the only word I'd know how to use.

GeminiSky says:

I can't even try to debate with all of the previous posters but I can tell you that I was a non-believer until 1.5 years ago.
You can try to scientifically prove or disprove the existence of God all you want but does it really matter if one has proof. People of Faith don't need proof for Christ lives within them and they can feel him. It is a joy like you've never felt before and when you are in the "divine flow" creative thoughts, insights,revelations,feelings just start flowing and don't stop for a while.
It is one of the best experiences I have ever had and am going to start journaling all of my "Conversations with God." That is my proof. I feel him, I've gained insight with him and he transformed me from a person who hating living to a person who loves it and finds joy in everyday living.

Even though I am interested in all of the scientific theories about God...he is really above that and is a "Supernatural being" who created all of these Scientists who are trying to disprove him. He's probably up there laughing. You can be a nonbeliever but you'll never find the joy that I am now witnessing after too many years of hell! I wish I had discovered the truth a long time ago.

I go in Peace.

heistrue says:

Maybe you think God doesn't exist because you can't see him.. but can you see wind? no, therefore by what you are thinking, wind doesn't exist. Even though you can't see wind, you can see its affects in the trees and snow and many other things in nature. In the same way, God leaves traces of himself behind. just go out into the untouched wilderness, which is hard to find these days, and just sit there, and look around you, explain how that would all be created. Also, what are the chaces of, one, the earth being the perfect distance from the sun, and then us evolving, and besides that, all the other things that come into play that make us live, like the perfect amount of oxygen in the air. That is all I have time to write about.. Give Jesus a chance, maybe you will realize the truth

Hoogle says:

I only have a minute, but the left side just doesn't get it and I've said before that it takes a regenerated spirit to understand the Bible. Jesus is God, said He was God, is the only man to ever declare Himself to be God, and there are too many verses that make this perfectly clear. I just can't even believe the things I read on this site...of course I use the terms God and Christ interchangeably because I have read and studied the Bible. Read the gospel of John chapter one where the six greatest events in human history are recorded. I've sat in on Bible "studies" that totally miss this point...it takes a genuine seeker to "see" in the Bible, the blind man came to Jesus and Jesus asked him, "what do you want Me to do for you", and the blind man said, "I want to be able to see"...and Jesus gave him his request, why? Because He is God, remember? and then the Bible says, "and he began to see all things clearly"...the key here, "he began"...you need to begin "to see all things clearly"...I don't know that I'll continue to come back to this site, and no one will miss me, I know...so you don't need to express your joy that I'm gone, but when I read the left side, and sometimes even the right side, I get discouraged. If I'm discouraged, one could only imagine how the Lord feels about fallen man and the darkness that he chooses to dwell in.

georgie curtis says:

my best friend was betrayed by one of his other friends on a bribe. they arrested him and rigged the trial in order to put everyone against him. the judge knew he was innocent...but he sentenced him to death anyway. he was beaten and hung from a tree. he had at his disposal all kinds of help...but he let himself be killed because he knew I, georgie curtis, was going to die a horrible death if he didn't. but in a supernatural chain of events, he emerged alive and defied death. he was killed, but came alive again. he's with me every day to listen to anything i want to tell him. he has a perfect solution to my every need. he is the love of my life. his name is God.

Hoogle says:

Oh my...Rod...you actually think you know what the eternal life is all about? Tired of praising and singing to God in the eternal life? What, you would rather be here in the midst of the cesspool of the world where no one except the believer has a clue of the true reality of life? God doesn't even explain what the eternal life will be in a vivid picture, but He tells us in the Bible that we will be in the New Jerusalem...not a physical city as Tim LeHaye would tell you, and not in heaven as Christianity likes to promote as our eternal future, but which the Bible does not speak about. The New Jerusalem is God and we will be in Him. The picture of a city is helpful because we are so limited without a picture and this is why the Lord Jesus spoke in parables, so that people could get a grip on what He was trying to convey to them. The Bible reveals that we will become precious stones, this after having been born of clay. For clay to turn to precious stones, there has to be a process and we have been living here on earth going through a process if we have become a believer. If you want to stay on the left side, then you will have no idea what I am saying, but for the ones on the right side, you know that we start with regeneration, sanctification, having been separated unto God, we are being perfected, we are being transformed, and we are also being conformed to His image...in fact, in Genesis God said that He made man in His likeness and His image, so this would be to be like Him inwardly and outwardly...this takes a process and a lifetime to work out. If some choose to work it out by being in the enjoyment of the divine life, then they will live a life that is gaining the mind of Christ, and allowing Him to actually live out His life through us (Gal 2:19-20)...no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, yet I still live...I'm still here as a human being living a human life, but no longer is it just my human life, but the human and divine life.
The problem that I have with Christianity is that it has the low gospel message and many do not even talk about their human spirit. God says in John 4:24 that He is Spirit and that we must worship Him in spirit. So I would encourage all believers to exercise their human spirit and all on the name of the Lord. As for you left siders, if you do something as simple as call on the name of the Lord, guess what? You shall be saved. It just takes 5 seconds...isn't God lovable and wonderful...He makes it so simple. Read John 1:12...
later

Hoogle says:

Oh Rod, I just saw your comment about the flow of the divine life versus your walk in the garden...well, I would expect the left column to choose a heathen nation for their dwelling so that they could be with like kind. I would expect to find the Christian's common factor of Christ to be what we enjoy and the One we love to be our center and our focus. No surprise, huh?
Christianity is a mess, and was not created by God, our Lord, neither was Judaism, and certainly above all, not Catholicism. The current pope is a poop of a guy, has no clue what is going on, and will leave his position without contributing one solid word of Biblical revelation as was also the case with his predecessor pope Paul. The whole pope thing is a dream someone concocted a long time ago, I suspect it was Satan as he is in the midst of everything that they do (don't do). Christianity has missed the boat so don't go out of your way to wander into the world of division after having been in the world itself. But there is hope, Christ is doing what He said He would do, and that is "build My church"...it is just that He doesn't display it in division and in a lack of oneness. The Body is one, not 1,500 denominations around the world, and one day the real Body will surface and all will be in awe, as it should already be by now, but has failed. It's coming and these ones who are genuinely one will be sought out by quite a few during the last three and one half years of human history, which will be the worst 3-1/2 years of human history. The anti-christ will appear on the scene, but the Lord will come with His army and smash him and satan and all of their followers...hello kitty, the lake of fire...come one, come all of you who never believed but used your minds to apprehend more darkness than even satan could come up with. later...

Hoogle says:

Oh JudasX...are you saying in essence that you are smarter than God? You see, God created the universe, what have you spoken into existence this week? The only problem with your reasoning is that it is flawed. God created the heavens, and the earth, for the spirit in man. And that spirit cannot be activated within your being without you reaching out to God. You know, there will be the day, and it is after we have all died and entered into the next phase of "living" that it says in the Bible, "all knees shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord"...so whether or not you base your belief on how the perfect One we know as God carried out His plan on this earth, you and all the ones in the left column plus the ones on the right will bow...and the ones who have believed every word out of the mouth of God will bow in joy, others will highly on the nauseated side because they then realize when they see Him that He is as He has always said He is, He is the living God. Islamists, Jews, Catholics, etc, etc, worship a distant God without Christ...it falls into a category called religion...and Islam likes their religion because it doesn't require them to deal with their indwelling sin. You apparently haven't dealt with yours either and you use your mind to debate, which is fallen in the eyes of God. To understand the Bible and to get into the essence of God requires our regenerated human spirit, there is no other way. To learn to know Christ requires us to use our regenerated spirit, there is no other way. Living the human life in a way that pleases God is not up to what you think it should be in your mind's eye. It is up to how often you allowed Christ to dwell in your heart richly AFTER you prayed to receive Him. This is a basic requirement of all Christians, most of whom fall short, including myself. He has a plan to carry out, in the Bible it is called His economia, His economy, His household arrangement, and for those who receive Him, they will be rewarded or punished depending on God's assessment as to how they conducted and lived their lives in Christ while they had human lives, as for you you are dead in God's eyes already, unless you repent. Be proud if you so choose, you are the loser in the big picture. You can list all the lists you want to, but God has already spewed your lists out of His mouth. He judges and He is a fair judge. He governs and He governs perfectly. He does all things perfectly, He sees quite a lot more than you do and of course, you have no clue how He does anything, because you don't have a regenerated spirit.

TATER says:

maybe LSD will help.

MichellePrevette says:

Everyone has the right to choose where they are going, so sad to see people in such disbelief. That's why this world is so corrupt. God is Good

Barbann says:

I am a believer. No debate, no argument. My choice. What if you are wrong? I would not want to have to pay the price you are going to so I choose to err on the side of caution.

wisenupinfo says:

Be aware of who you call out to in your need

Hoogle says:

Praising is the highest work that we can do for the Lord. It is even higher than praying. King David said that he praised the Lord seven times a day, and prayed three times a day. The more we search His unsearchable riches (Eph 3:8), the more we see of Him and enjoy Him. When was the last time that you just took a moment and said, "Lord Jesus, I love You and I can't live without You!" He counsels us in the book of Revelation to buy gold...and when He counsels us, we should listen. So what is it to buy gold? Gold typifies the nature of God, and to "buy" is to pay a price. We need to pay a price to pursue the Lord that we might have more of His life and nature in our being.
It is sad to me to see so many be indifferent to their Creator. But it saddens the Lord much more. Even when He was Immanuel, God with us, His own did not recognize Him. Even today my Jewish friends are waiting on the Messiah, and He has already come! And He is on the earth today living inside of every one of His believers...what a mercy. I am praying for ones on both sides of this "debate"...I will check back in a day or so if someone has a lingering question...I don't have many answers but love to fellowship with my brothers and sisters in the Lord anytime...it allows the divine life to flow among us and what could be better than that for the moment? Praise the Lord!

corruptedworldsaveyrdebatendless says:

does God need to be created
and the universe of course is not infinite. if theuniverse is created, and its big, then the God must be bigger, so since he can do this, much more greater thing able.
Intelligent Design Theory...

fefe says:

Three Letters: F S M
http://www.squidoo.com/fsm-exists

driewe says:

Everywhere present and fillests all things.

corruptedworldsaveyrmind4sevendaysifoundaholyguyherewoo=hoo says:

Hoogle?
May I have yr email,
sorry I have some questions too, harmless

corruptedworldsaveyrmind4sevendaysifoundaholyguyherewoo=hoo says:

I forgot to change tabs

And Hoogle, youre a nice guy. God Bless. Shld I brush up, or is it too late?

You know MAny ppl believes that God exists because of the Intelligent Design Theory - there's to be one intelligent being up there would designed everything so perfly.
Hmm, BUt, that being is Wisdomy Deign rites
How is that?

Hoogle says:

Oh my, the wasted words of man...God is interested in one thing and one thing only...working Himself into the human spirit of man...and He can only do that if man turns his heart to the Lord and the veils are taken away...while the veils remain, the speaking stays in darkness and who needs the thoughts from the dark when there can be the glory of the light...even though the Bible has become an open book, man is still rebelious and refuses too many times to take serious who God is and how God's judgment will come down. The interesting point is that He judges His own house first, then 1,000 years later He judges and dismisses all the ones in the left column who haven't turned their hearts and deals a blow to the majority of the ones in the right column who, although they received Him, continued to live in the world and take care of their "self", which the Lord said that we should deny.

corruptedworldsaveyrmind4sevendays says:

On whom/what do you base ALL knowledge on? Two choices: God or Man
If man ? Rationalism (Clark) OR Evidentialism (Aquinas)
If God ? Presuppositionalism
A presupposition is a fundamental assumption. Something that you assume to be, an assumption that is often made without critical analysis or independent verification. It is your foundational axiom.
Rod, this to and fro has been pleasing. Rod, you find science/chemistry INTERESTING rite? Well, chemistry DOES hypothesis.

We presume the existence of G/god. Lets see..
If Man must use evidence to find G/god, then God is dependent upon man for revelation.
If logic is the analysis to which we ?get? to G/god, then God is dependent upon logic.
Both are unproven throughout records far far back if you wanna say
Because god is independently extant.

You want to SEEEE GOD? I/he am that/who I/he am, so you/even I don't need an explanation from god!
We stop asking where god stops

Corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

trust me, scientology is not the way to live. it is not evil, but it is a bag of lies. i believe in science, but science is not the only way to explain everything. there is faith, and believes.
if you go to a cult, SDAC Mrmns JW , where they are branched chrstianity one would rather not believe theres a God
step foot inside and see the dangers because it is contradicting
find out whats a cult and true
trust me, there is always a God. man are far from knowing the wonders of life. so what makes scientologist think they know all the answer to life? they do not know any more than us!

And wads this saying its monotheism . this debate clearly concentrates on one: christianity! What
And you talk about ?having children like Jesus? clearly concentrated here. Its discriminating.
If I'm not wrong, only Stan will rebuke Jesus. You are not possessed but you are possessed

Make friends and is this debate thaking up your time, fill out your fullest life by contributing back to society then. charity
One cannot always condemn religin, find out whats wrong with them that makes them so obsene then TELL THEM
Go to that church / mosque and TELL your friend who is there what is the thing they do that turns people off.

They are self-conceited? should love more? TELL them because you dont know they do not know tt they do not know.
If Atheist dont make war than how selfless can they become because they dont have love to tell the people this is hurting me
But in the same time, what makes you have the right to tell them , but yr telling your affiliates there

corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

What's this hoo-haa on Muslims, Christianity when there can be this argument about whether GOD even exist.

How about Baha'i Faith
Buddhism
Confucianism

Hinduism

Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Shinto
Sikhism
Taoism
Vodun (Voodoo)
Asatru (Norse Paganism) *
Druidism
Goddess Worship
Wicca
Witchcraft
Caodaism
Damanhur Community
Druze
Eckankar
Elian Gonzalez religious movement
Gnosticism
Gypsies
Hare Krishna - ISKCON
Ifa, the religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa
Lukumi
Macumba
Mowahhidoon
Native American Spirituality
Rom, Roma, Romani, Rroma, (a.k.a. Gypsies)
Santeria Elian Gonzalez religious movement

Satanism; The Church of Satan SATAN EXIST SO? NO GOD@
Scientology
Unitarian-Universalism
The Creativity Movement (formerly called World Church of the Creator)
The Yazidi branch of Yazdânism
Zoroastrianism

Stop tiring us out in this endless geneologies and debates, where it's ok but
SO dont speak so unlovelily, biggest hypocrites - talk about being in love but you are speaking spitefully-Hoogle has been nice - please poll-, condemnation tone and preconceived notions against people.
Go solve problems having with people in church first.
I want to see an argument for those persistent to win this debate from Zoroastrianism whether god is in heaven.

corruptedworldsaveyrmindsevendayadventistchurchwebsitethisiswhatwillleadtoperhapsifthisgoesonendlesslyilljustleavethisirritatingdebate says:

What's this hoo-haa on Muslims, Christianity when there can be this argument about whether GOD even exist.

How about Baha'i Faith
Buddhism
Confucianism

Hinduism

Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Shinto
Sikhism
Taoism
Vodun (Voodoo)
Asatru (Norse Paganism) *
Druidism
Goddess Worship
Wicca
Witchcraft
Caodaism
Damanhur Community
Druze
Eckankar
Elian Gonzalez religious movement
Gnosticism
Gypsies
Hare Krishna - ISKCON
Ifa, the religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa
Lukumi
Macumba
Mowahhidoon
Native American Spirituality
Rom, Roma, Romani, Rroma, (a.k.a. Gypsies)
Santeria Elian Gonzalez religious movement

Satanism; The Church of Satan SATAN EXIST SO? NO GOD@
Scientology
Unitarian-Universalism
The Creativity Movement (formerly called World Church of the Creator)
The Yazidi branch of Yazdânism
Zoroastrianism

Stop tiring us out in this endless geneologies and debates, where it's ok but
SO dont speak so unlovelily, biggest hypocrites - talk about being in love but you are speaking spitefully-Hoogle has been nice - please poll-, condemnation tone and preconceived notions against people.
Go solve problems having with people in church first.
I want to see an argument for those persistent to win this debate from Zoroastrianism whether god is in heaven.

corruptedworldsaveyr says:

So, Irregular world fails to show us any actual proof that God does not exists. All he can do is ask a bunch of questions showing that he doesn't understand a lot of things about the world. I don't understand a lot of things about the world either, but that doesn't mean that I make up an answer in order to feel better.

says:

Thats hilarious :) Ok if I were to say there is no God then ok. In that case the universe was formed from nothing, The planets were created from nothing, Earth was created from nothing and all the resources we have such as air is by a pure fluke/Chance. Or can I beleave that we men did all that? I,ll stick with there is a god as the alternative is just plain silly :-)

Hoogle says:

Hi Rod,
Here's what I believe...I believe the word of God. Although I don't consider myself to be illiterate, I'm not a genius either, but to read and pray over the Bible doesn't take a Rhoades Scholar, in fact he/she might be at a serious disadvantage...because the temptation with too many who read the Bible use the wrong organ...they use their mind, but they need to use their spirit. If you have never receieved the Lord, then you have no choice but to use your mind, and it is a corrupted one just as mine was corrupted before I received the Lord.
The Lord makes many profound statements in the Bible. I just have time to give you one. John:14:20, "In that day (the day of resurrection)you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me and I in You." Now is this not a profound statement? Are these the words that come out of every other fictional writer in the universe? Of course not...this is God speaking, and He does all things well. He created you...I hope you have some sense that this is a fact. He not only created you, but He predestinated you...another profound thought, well over our heads. Do you think that I would be foolish enough to say that I totally understand the Bible when the believers like myself will have eternal life, a never ending life that will be the life of God in life and nature but not the Godhead? Christianity does not speak this, but the Bible does.
Okay, one final thought, John 1:10-14, "He was in the world,and the world came into being through Him, yet the world did not know Him. He came to His own, yet those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name, Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.And the Word became flesh and tabernacled (dwelled) among us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father, full of grace and reality."
WOW...are you not impressed at all by this word from the apostle John regarding who the Lord is?
God was in the world, the whole triune, trinity God was walking among men as a man...and they didn't recognize Him and in fact eventually put Him to death. While He was walking among men, anyone who believed in Him received salvation by becoming a child of God. A child has his/her father's life and nature. My son has my life and nature in him because he was born of me. Likewise, when we are regenerated, born again, we receive the life and nature of God, thereby becoming children of God. How? By being rich? By being smart? By being first in line? Well, what does the Bible say, the Bible says by receiving Him which is by believing in Him. The Word became flesh, so who became flesh? Jesus, so this shows that Jesus is the Word and the "Word was God." And lastly, in verse 13, John says that to be begotten is not up to us...so even if you think it was you who decided to receive the Lord, it wasn't you according to the Bible, it was God who drew you to Himself. So you can't even take credit for the decision to receive Him.
Glory be to God.
I won't continue arguing with you when you choose to use your mind because the mind can't comprehend the Bible without the engagement of the spirit. I'm using my spirit to speak to you, you are on the other side of the fence using your mind and if I continue this, then I get led into using my mind, and the discussions become endless and pointless. Sorry to say, but you have no argument against the Bible.
Are you going to take the position that you are smarter than God? May the Lord have mercy on you...it sounds like you want to know the Lord and have been disappointed by Christianity. Well, join the club, they disappointed me for 30 years before I met some Christians that lived the transcendant life rather than the fleshly life. It isn't easy, I haven't arrived yet, but I just say, probably as a final word to you, that you need to see your need, but this will be by prayer and the Lord's mercy, not by your decision alone. And if you look long enough and pray to the Lord to help you, you may find the church one day, this is my prayer for you and your family.
I harbor nothing against your comments, you feel entitled to rant and this site gives you the opportunity.

Hoogle says:

Oops, I just read your comment about the evil one possessing you. I need to speak something more. When any human being is born, he is under the law of sin and of death automatically and this is because of Satan. Satan in Romans 7 is personified and is in your being as well as mine. Am I possessed by him? Well, as a believer I am growing daily in the life and nature of God, but not the Godhead, but until any of us die, we have this daily battle going on inside of us. On the one hand, we are simple, and yet on the other hand we are complex. We have Satan in us, we have our "self", and then if we are regenerated, we have God, (the Lord) living in our human spirit. To be a Christian does not mean that we no longer have to be concerned about the evil one, if anything, he is after the believers who pursue the Lord because these are the ones that will eventually throw him into the lake of fire. Now I'm not making up anything when I say that you will perish in the lake of fire if you are not a Christian. That is a Biblical fact and facts are facts, and truth is truth, and it is not ever nor will it ever be dependent on what you think is truth or fact. Sorry, but I need to be direct with you on this one matter more than the others. Read Luke 16 for starters, it gives a picture of Hades where the rich man has gone, etc. Keep coming here and we will talk about these matters. My lens will be called, "The Meaning of Human Life" and I will have it up and running in a few days. Please come there and here for some sharing, I love you as a human being who needs to come to the full knowledge of the truth. I don't have it all and would be a fool to represent that, but I am willing to share what I have received and credit all things to the glory of the Lord. I am not trying to impress you with myself.

Hoogle says:

Hey Rod,
First of all you don't "go to church", the believers make up the church and where they go is a place of worship if they gather together in a meeting place, but the evil one has diminished this term, "church", to keep you blind. In reality, all believers should be one and the blessings of God have gone to the oneness that is expressed among the believers who see this matter clearly and set aside (deny) their self. Don't judge the Christian faith by one place that you went, you will surely be disapointed more than once. You can always just talk and have fellowship with the Lord, your God directly. You don't need a priest, you don't need a pastor, it does help to have spiritual companions, but the key here, and the one that I will emphasize when I launch my next lens will be that you as a believer have a human spirit and you need to exercise your human spirit. This is where the supply from the Lord dwells, He and you are one in the spirit IF you have gotten regenerated. To get regenerated is to genuinely receive the Lord.
I should stop here, I don't want to go long on these messages.

Hoogle says:

To Irregularworld, just a quick note...
John4:24 tells us, "God is Spirit", so although He was a man yet God while living as Jesus on this earth (and He today is a Man on the throne), as for the earth today, He is the Spirit in our spirit...so you can't "see" Him, but you can certainly talk to Him...let me ask you, do you believe in electricity? Of course you do, but can you see electricity? Can you see the wind? If so, describe it to me...the point is that you believe in things that you don't see, we as believers believe by faith, and that faith is none other than a Person, the Lord Jesus...as for my brother in the Lord jimb, I have to add something to what he said, the King James Version was translated 400 years ago or more, and God is progressive in His revelation, so the translations done after that time were actually more spiritually accurate and I have no problem with them, and I say this not to start arguing with other believers because that is sweating and we don't need to sweat, but I feel we shouldn't confuse a nonbeliever by saying that the King James is the only Bible because that is not true. As for Baptists, I wish more of them would read 1Corinthians 15:45 and have the reality that the Lord today is the life-giving Spirit dispensing His life into us day by day, us being the believers, and I feel the Baptists should emphasize this more than they do, or at least see it if they don't.

Hoogle says:

The Bible is a fascinating book, the first book to be published when Gutenburg came up with the presses...anyway, I sense a lot of frustration and anger coming out of some of the posts that appear here and elsewhere and I know why that is, it is mainly because without the Lord living in you, you cannot have peace, and your love is exhaustable. The reason there are so many divorces is not so much that two people don't love each other as they did on the day of their wedding, it is that for a marriage to work, or a friendship to last, someone has to "die" in order for the two "selfs" to not clash. This is a simple statement, but I don't have much space here, you know. The self is ugly and self-centered because it is what fallen man is consumed by. The self according to the Bible is made up of our mind, emotion, and will. Our human spirit is made up of our intuition, conscience, and fellowship. Also, the human spirit can only contain the life and nature of God, but it has been deadened by the fall of man until one prays to receive the Lord to come into our human spirit and regenerate us. All of you on the nonbeliever side are arguing with your minds. You have no choice because you cannot engage your human spirit without regneration. So the spiteful comments spew forth, you argue with your girlfriend or spouse about too many things, and above all you try to protect your "self". Guess what? It isn't worth protecting, dude. It just is the manifestation of the evil one who has possessed you from the day of your birth and will take you with him to the lake of fire if you don't take a stand and pray to receive the Lord. Then, like the Bible says, when the heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. That means that if your heart doesn't turn to the Lord, you stay in darkness. So I don't speak this in a condemning way, you are actually condemned already and dead in God's eyes even as you read this, but you can change that by making the right choice. More soon...Praise the Lord, I love You Lord Jesus!

jimb says:

i dont mean i see GOD with my eyes. i feel him with my heart because he's inside me thats all and thats all it matters to me. i dont have to explain why i feel him inside me. you will see GOD when you die he is waiting for you and because you dont believe he will send you to SATAN who will wont love you. then i will be with JESUS and GOD. why dont you come to my church mr irregularworld and pray with us and ask JESUS to forgive you for your sins. its real easy and it doesnt cost anything just a pray is all

dogbark says:

Well, personally I think that an unguided, chaotic universe wouldn't have made creatures and instances with such a high correlation to the environment they live in with such a low margin of waste. I always wonder how on earth things like giraffes and angler fish could be the way they are through a long, gradualist process of change through natural selection. Or hares that change color from brown to white with the seasons. It could take millions of generations before you found a lucky mutant that could breed a specific strain to match the specific environment it exists in.

That's why I think a god exists. I admit i don't know much about it, but the world seems too regular in ways to be operating by random occurences.

jimb says:

oh hey guys. i'm a christian and i dont agree with those who cant see GOD and dont love JESUS. they cant see what there missing out on but i feel sad to for the other christians who have got the wrong message. My pastor says that only the kjv is the right one and those corrupt bibles like the asv the isv the rv and all those other especially like the jahovahs witnesses are all going to HELL for blashpeming against the TRUE GOD. only the baptists have got the TRUE MESSAGE OF JESUS so come to our church and pray with us and be baptized in the living waters

fdavis says:

He's right there in front of you on the web page. I don't see how you could possibly not see him.

Hoogle says:

Since I mentioned the "high gospel" I guess I should come back next week and share it with you nonbelievers. Also, just one more point: if you read the Bible with your mind, you will not receive the light and truth...you need to use your human spirit...which was deadened by the evil one when Adam took the fall, but you can choose to get regenerated by receiving the Lord, then when you read the Bible, you are using the proper "organ" to get the understanding. You hear with your ears, see with your eyes, and read the Bible with your spirit!
See you next week!

Henry says:

It not only saddens me, but also the Lord Jesus, when any human says that he does not believe in God. I used to say to my brother who waited until his dying days to receive the Lord, that it is a shame to not ever have lived one minute of your life for the Lord, your Creator.
The Bible can be summed up in one phrase, "God became a man (Jesus), so that man could become God in life and nature, but not the Godhead". If Christianity ever saw this and spoke this fact of the Bible, then their testimony would be much more effective and you nonbelievers would have millions more Christians preaching the high gospel to you, providing you with a way to be touched by their speaking, which should truly be God's speaking through them.
Only Jesus ever claimed to be God. Hmmm, think about that one. And I love John 14:20, which says, "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." Now what day is this? The day of resurrection...He died in His humanity, which was what Mary provided Him as God had never had humanity, but God can never die in His essence, in His Spiritual existence, so when Jesus (God)died on the cross, He resurrected as the Spirit, actually the Bible refers to Him as the life-giving Spirit, the divine life Giver. So when He says He will be in the Father, He means in the spiritual realm, and when He says "I in you", He means He will come into our human spirit.
Thus the verse, Galatians 2:20, in which Paul says, "no longer I who live", meaning Christ has come into his human spirit and he now lives Christ. This is to be a Christian.
I hope this helps...I will read the responses and respond, in love of course.
You nonbelievers, the joy in this world not to mention peace, is found only in receiving the Lord into your human spirit. When He comes in, you then possess the greatest treasure on earth, and you receive the eternal life. WOW!

Debbie C says:

That if you spend time in Prayer, meditation or just quiet time & ask Him (God) to show you the truth, He will. He is in ones' heart. Also if you take time to study the word of God ( the Bible) you might learn something. After all that book has been proven spiritually and scientifically to be true, except for the situations that have not happened yet. People study everything else, why not the Word of God, before one opens their negative mouth. I am sure glad that I know Him & that I have something to look forward to after I live this hateful world.

will993 says:

Well something or someone better than use has to exist somewhere whether it be God or something else it's really just a name.

Oosquid says:

I'm a bit of a fence sitter. I can't say that I absolutely believe that there is a god but I can't say I absolutely believe that there is not.

What I can say is that I hope there is - I hope there is something better than man.

kab says:

People in every culture in the world have believed in some kind of God. I can only believe that they have experienced things over time that you and I have not. And why should God prove himself to YOU?

Alban says:

If you say, there is no God, then you also say that death is reality, and you a meaningless pile of nothingness, that is not dead yet. God is, and death is not real. I don't need a God to feel better. How can what is meaningless be made better? There is only one solution to the problem you see. This is not reality. It is what you have made to blot out reality and not to know God. There is only your Self.

Nirvinyls says:

Dont get me wrong today's church is crap, preachers are crap, and Christianity is crap. But to say no god, wow who are you master of the universe. I don't claim to know all and I'm not saying God loves you but come on. Stop being so small and give some credit. Do you think you came from a monkey? If so who created the monkey and the planet upon which he stands?
NV

Nirvinyls says:

Show me a human that can create a universe. Come on show me just one. Dont let mans theology make you stupid. Look into the stars and think about it. You have made your existence small in your mind and set boundaries. Maybe that makes you feel better about yourselves. You must open your mind and heart and look inside for the truth. Otherwise you've made yourself a simple minded twit stuck in your own ideologies.

NV

 
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