(October 23, 2013 at 9:41 am)Brian37 Wrote: Prove my vehicle does not run on pixy dust.
I don't have an interest in believing your car runs on pixie dust but I'm interested in the ultimate truth of the universe. Either it's God/a purpose giving higher power and we know something about his nature and it's relationship with ourselves or it's...nothing at all.
Quote:Prove to me Allah does not exist.
Prove to me Yahweh does not exist.
Prove to me Vishnu does not exist.
Prove to me I am not fucking Angelina Jolie.
Prove the universe and everything in it merely exists for no reason at all. That's essentially where you get to with atheism. You can say you don't know but no-one would claim to know. If anyone knew for a fact then you would have no need for faith. Just because it is faith based it doesn't automatically mean it must be false or as ridiculous as a pixie dust engine in your car. You could say a universe that has no creator or reason for it's existence would be equally as ridiculous concept.
Quote:I don't care if someone wants to claim Jesus was Chinese or an Eskimo, there is no such thing as godsperm and humans don't survive rigor mortis.
Whatever actually happened the idea is through Christ death and sin have been conquered.
"O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?[a]”
56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. Corinthians 15:55-57"
Though if you prefer the idea that we're born, arse around a bit and then die and simply go into the ground the whole thing being a senseless accident in the first place then is an option you can believe. We don't know if what you believe is in fact true and the alternative/s isn't. There's no way to know so it's just a matter of what you have decided to believe or put your trust in. In your case think a certain materialist philosophy or "science" has all the ultimate answers. Not God not Christ not any other religion or belief.
Quote:The Egyptians who believed the sun was a god, had more to point at than you do.
"The sun is a medium-sized main sequence yellow star at the center of our solar system, about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from earth. Measuring about 865,000 miles (1,400,000 kilometers) in diameter, the sun could contain 1,300,000 earths. The sun is very big, very hot, and makes life possible on earth - but the sun isn't a god. God created the sun, and the over 200 billion other stars in the "Milky Way" galaxy, plus hundreds of billions of other galaxies throughout the universe. The sun was created by the Creator."
http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000704.htm
Not created directly the process would be precisely mathematically coded into the laws of physics since the beginning of time. But you think it was an accident right?
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." Psalm 19:1
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.