RE: An unorthodox belief in God.
June 11, 2014 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2014 at 11:09 am by Mister Agenda.)
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Hope is evidence of God. The internal instincts of an animal, is unlike this hope humans have.
Sigh. This is an unsupported assertion. Let me clarify: Before you can say hope is evidence of God, you have to make a case for WHY it's evidence of God. Before you can say the internal instincts of animals are unlike the hope humans have, you have to make a case for why we should believe that is true. Do you get it, yet?
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Against all odds, hope holds an unseen power that motivates and inspires. This is something science cannot measure, because its a God given quality which can be like a battery; a strength of its own.
Perhaps you should have Googled 'measuring hope' before making this particular unsupported assertion.
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Such internal power is a spirit, which like God is evidence of itself.
Emotions and attitudes are evidence of emotions and attitudes, not whatever happy claptrap you want to make up.
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: We cannot see wind, but we see the evidence it is there.
EVERYONE can see the evidence that it is there. That's one of the things that make it evidence. When only the people who believe something already can see 'evidence' and people with different beliefs see different 'evidence', that tells us something else.
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Hope is internal unseen unmaterial evidence, but each human who has it, can tell you its real.
As real as love, ambition, greed, and friendliness; and just as biological.
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Care is evidence of God. Its concern and protection, and its another ingredient that can only come from a creator who cares.
Or from a process of evolution that favors populations with strong social cooperation.
(June 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm)mickiel Wrote: Rocks and chemicals don't care , theories don't care; care is a caliber of existence , which comes from existence; comes from the heart.
Rocks don't care, and chemicals don't care on their own, but everything we have evidence of being able to care, is composed of chemicals. The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, and have properties none of its parts possess on their own: water molecules aren't wet, nor do they have surface tension. Molecules don't have to have hope for beings made of them to have hope.
Thanks for posting something that actually merited a response rather than a dismissal. I really appreciate it. At the least, you've shown the capability to accidentally post something thought-provoking; but I hope it's a sign of better things to come.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.