(August 19, 2015 at 3:53 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 19, 2015 at 3:27 pm)Godschild Wrote: You have no evidence He doesn't exist, so you must use faith to dismiss God, it's by necessity.
GC
Project much?
So I'm using faith to dismiss Bigfoot, the Yeti or the Loch Ness monster? I use faith to dismiss Odin, Zeus or Osiris? Or Allah, Vishnu or Ganesha?
You dismiss them all with a wave of a hand. Is that based on faith or simply because it's reasonable to dismiss them based on what you know and in the absence of evidence for their existence?
What you fail to understand is that for us, your particular god plays in the same league as the above.
For your information I do believe in the God of creation and He has made it plain that He's the only God, so I have no problem dismissing the other gods, they are not real, period. As for Nessie and Bigfoot, well let's just say they generate a lot of money and the people who make money from them will keep them alive for as long as they can.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.