RE: What do believers say when you ask or tell them..
March 7, 2010 at 2:18 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2010 at 2:24 am by Pippy.)
Quote:1. What happens if the religion you're believing in is wrong? Since there are more than the one God you're believing in. Don't you think it's a waste of time praying when you have no idea what might be the truth?
2. Don't you think heaven would be extremely boring after 5 billion years of being there, and still having forever left? It may be paradise but everything gets boring in the long run.
3. Who created God?
4. Why does God let bad things happen to good people?
5. The reason you don't commit horrible crimes, is it because you're afraid to be smited by God or because you think it's morally wrong?
Hey,
Greetings. I like answering questions. These are very standard, easy to get through.
1.if the religion we beleive is wrong, than we are wrong. I am not religious, but do believe strongly in god. If I am wrong, then I have been quite mistaken with reality as I saw it. I know that the existance of god is truth, just like most of you all know that the non0existance of god is truth. It dosn't seem silly to me, because it seems true.
2.The main characteristic of heaven is that it exists outside of space and time. If you went to heaven, you wouldn't be able to judge 5 billion years. There is no time, you're just there for a while. If it is really heaven, we think you would not get tired of it, but some of us thing you might get to come back here.
3. No one. This is the most common misunderstanding about the causal argument. I read a article on Alternet yesterday where the woman went on and on about this confusion. In the first cause argument, there are two options. Either the reality exists as a literally infinite chain of cause and effect, or it has a beginning. To have a beginning means there is something that was an effect without itself being caused. The 'unmoved mover'. If there is an un-caused effect, it could be god. If something made the something that made this reality, than it automatically becomes the first, and is upgraded to god. In the first cause argument, there is no room for 'what made god'.
4. The only issue more common than the flawed first cause, the 'why does bad things gotta happen?' line. God lets bad things happen (theoretically) because god made this beautiful machine, why would she fuck with it. Things have to die, bacteria have a right to live, pain is necessary. Usually people that argue god dosn't exist because they broke their leg once are misunderstanding the relationship between the world and god. God made the world. She made it the way it has to be. Why would she break the rules of the way things have to be for little old you? If the people that came before you didn't die and get out of the way, you wouldn't be here (or at least be more crowded). So when it's your turn, die and don't hate on god for it's inevitability. I just think that is a very weak argument. How come god lets people suffer? God gave people free will, so we can choose to suffer. We can hurt or be hurt. That is an example of her giving us freedom of action, do you want her to take it back?
5. Not smite, just right. I don't commit horrible crimes because I am a soldier in the army of Light. All morality, no fear.
I hope not to offend, but I love questions. The third and fourth points are very, very common and I feel like they need to be addressed.
"How come there has never been any evidence of any miracle ever?"
But if the weight of the proton was 1/4 of 1% larger or smaller, no start, no planets no life. That is a miracle. Small ponds and lakes lift off the ground and float around in the sky! Miracle. There are miracles everywhere. Every cell in your body has about 230 billion base pairs of DNA. Miracle. You can see art and hear music. Miracle... It's all in how you look at it.
Thank you.
-Pip
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