Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you!
- Ramen!
Why are you the religion you are?
Gia
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Just curious
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+3Pastafarian - only one that makes sense!
Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you!
- Ramen!
2-every day i see my religion has many people who convert to it .
3-easy and i like it and i see it is the truth.
4-i can't live without God .
I couldn't reconcile the miraculous, with the reality.
I couldn't reconcile a loving god, with a the hateful punishment he inflicts on those who don't follow his word, verbatim.
I couldn't reconcile a good and omnipotent god, with a world so full of unnecessary, and unprovoked tragedy.
In the end thought, the reason I don't believe in God, is that there is no reason TO believe in him. There is no evidence of his existence.
some Folks become Spiritual because they've already been through it.
The World would be a better place if Religious Folks weren't so Religious about Theirs.
-I didn't find any religion or alternative way of life that could explain to me the big questions of life better than I already know them (There is a God and he is above all and created us for a reason) for me everything else including the characteristics of the God I believe in are in subject to question and are debatable and that is approved by my own faith I believe in
despite what people (including Muslims) might think; Qur'an actually and always encourages and provokes people into thinking and contemplating about everything around us
However, I am sort of Jewish because my parents are and it's part of who I am, to me.
My lack of religion is due to the fact that none of the mainstream religions appeal to me. I see belief in God as stemming from wanting three things: 1) a way to explain what humans can't explain, 2) control over others, and 3) more meaning in your life. Religion is simply a convenient means to these three things. But convenience is not a means to a belief.
Abrahamic religions and their motivating force of fear of Hell didn't appeal to me. I've never met a Christian who didn't ultimately boil their belief down to Pascal's wager. It's incredibly unfulfilling and hollow.
I'm a Christian primarily because Christ authenticated Himself far better than any others who have made religious claims. Christs teachings and life were sublime and deeply accurate with respect to man. Nobody could do what Christ did based on conspiracy or fraud. He proved He was who He claimed to be.
sure some may look or sound like they are getting close, but even for ancient ppl some things were just way too obvious to describe them any other way, or even have absolutely nothing to do with the subject it supposedly proves
i don't mean to bash anyone's beliefs, i just prefer to side with facts, not faith
Big Bang cosmology confirming an absolute physical beginning or the Universe from Physical Nothing. Borde Guth and Vilenkin (BGV -2003) Mathematical Theorem proved it in the most absolute way possible. That points away from God?
Modern Electron Microscope's allowing us to peer into a cell and discover a radically complex network of integrated machinery with electrical motors, stators, electrical storage and distribution systems....all driven by radically sophisticated DNA software. That's pointing away from God?
I think you have been duped.
Where is your proof and evidence to justify your belief that No God exists?
Here is a very cursory outline of some of the best evidences for God. The full arguments and evidences are not NOT adequately explained here. This is a very compacted outline I put together - not comprehensive.
Contingency – Why does something exist rather than nothing? Something cannot begin from nothing without a cause, so Something must self-exist. Self-existence is necessary. Self –creation is impossible. The Universe began. Universe is not self-existent. Universe requires a causally antecedent agency to explain it’s existence. God does not – no beginning.
Cosmological – Absolute beginning requires a cause. Cause of Physical Universe cannot be Physical. Must be non-physical, space-less, timeless and willful to cause Physical Universe from Physical Nothingness.
Design: Specified ordered and integrated interdependencies aimed towards a third-purpose design objectives clearly infer intelligent agency. ‘Chance’ events within limited time-frames cannot rationally account fo...
Where is your proof and evidence to justify your belief that No God exists?
Here is a very cursory outline of some of the best evidences for God. The full arguments and evidences are not NOT adequately explained here. This is a very compacted outline I put together - not comprehensive.
Contingency – Why does something exist rather than nothing? Something cannot begin from nothing without a cause, so Something must self-exist. Self-existence is necessary. Self –creation is impossible. The Universe began. Universe is not self-existent. Universe requires a causally antecedent agency to explain it’s existence. God does not – no beginning.
Cosmological – Absolute beginning requires a cause. Cause of Physical Universe cannot be Physical. Must be non-physical, space-less, timeless and willful to cause Physical Universe from Physical Nothingness.
Design: Specified ordered and integrated interdependencies aimed towards a third-purpose design objectives clearly infer intelligent agency. ‘Chance’ events within limited time-frames cannot rationally account for Design achievements No plausible Naturalistic mechanisms or explanations actually exist. Origin of radically sophisticated DNA information (software) driving molecular highly sophisticated molecular machines within each cell. Also, the design inference from irreducible complexity cannot and certainly has not been adequately explained.
Precision FINELY TUNED constants and quantities present in initial conditions of the Universe to within infinitesimally narrow ranges to permit life. Universe is precision balanced on razor’s edge. This is virtual mathematical proof of intent – a function of mind – is necessary to explain these precision orderings.
Ontological argument – God is a metaphysically necessary Being. Since God’s attributes are metaphysically possible, and all metaphysical possibilities must also be actual if possible, God must be actual.
Intelligence in Nature: Intelligence, order and reason and information all from Nothingness?
Spiritual instinct of man: Evolved to connect with something not actual?
Free-will: Chemical causation is not free-will. Agency requires a soul. Chemicals have no moral duties.
Moral Truth / Apprehension of Objective moral truth. Is rape really wrong or just an illusion? Is rape just a natural chemical byproduct caused by electrochemical activity (Atheism) – or an act of will.
Massive Historical evidences of witnessed Miracles, visions, fulfilled prophecies,.
Personal experiences: Ubiquitous NDE’s, supernatural phenomena
Christ’s resurrection witnessed by hundreds.
Absolute failure of Naturalism to explain a Finely tuned Universe, Finite Universe, Sentience, Rational truth and natural order, Moral Law (morality), intuition, intentionality, intelligence, purpose, free-will…
ur not telling me anything i don't already know, and why are u even coming to me for evidence, go talk to the ppl who have spent their entire lives devoted to finding the answers and see if u even last an hour. this is a site for opinions, not debates. i've spent the last 7 yrs studying biology, cosmology, astronomy, philosophy, archeology, geology, botany, name it, all trying to just gain knowledge and have hound nothing that screams "god" to me no matter how far back i go
"before the big bang" so far as i can see it, there didn't need to be a god to trigger it. if u want a quick rundown of the idea just go watch "Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe" with Steven Hawking, then go do the research as i did to why he comes to these conclusion, and u may understand why i believe there is no god
again, u want to believe in god, that ur burden, not mine
good day, sir.............