Godschild Wrote: Let's see He has helped me to stop smoking, drug use, profanity, abusing alcohol
Relative to these addictions it sounds more like the placebo effect really. If at the time of these addictions you already had decided that you needed to change things in your life, then "God" was there as your placebo (your sugar pill). You basically did all of these things on your own, you just don't realize that. All the other things in your list are all circumstantial and subject to interpretation from your own religious perspective, but seen from the outside looking in it is not evidence of anything.
Have you ever heard of the terms; "being in the right place at the right time" or the opposite "being at the wrong place at the wrong time"? An example of the first would be for instance that you are unemployed and desperately looking for a job, and it turns out you go out one day to the park and strike up a conversation with a stranger who just happens to own his own company and is looking for someone of your abilities and experience. You tell him your plight and he reveals that he has one or several openings and sets you up for employment, would you say that was God or just a random coincidence?
This week one of my daughters friends of 11 years old died abruptly due to her blood sugar sky rocketing (she was a diabetic). My daughter went to her funeral yesterday. With God in the equation I don't see any way to justify the senseless death of a child who had her whole life ahead of her. Without God this occurrence makes a lot of sense to me because I recognize that life is nothing more than a continuous series of random events that we have no control over. Some things we can control but there are things like death, fatal illness, etc. that we just are helpless to do anything about.
Relative to these addictions it sounds more like the placebo effect really. If at the time of these addictions you already had decided that you needed to change things in your life, then "God" was there as your placebo (your sugar pill). You basically did all of these things on your own, you just don't realize that. All the other things in your list are all circumstantial and subject to interpretation from your own religious perspective, but seen from the outside looking in it is not evidence of anything.
Have you ever heard of the terms; "being in the right place at the right time" or the opposite "being at the wrong place at the wrong time"? An example of the first would be for instance that you are unemployed and desperately looking for a job, and it turns out you go out one day to the park and strike up a conversation with a stranger who just happens to own his own company and is looking for someone of your abilities and experience. You tell him your plight and he reveals that he has one or several openings and sets you up for employment, would you say that was God or just a random coincidence?
This week one of my daughters friends of 11 years old died abruptly due to her blood sugar sky rocketing (she was a diabetic). My daughter went to her funeral yesterday. With God in the equation I don't see any way to justify the senseless death of a child who had her whole life ahead of her. Without God this occurrence makes a lot of sense to me because I recognize that life is nothing more than a continuous series of random events that we have no control over. Some things we can control but there are things like death, fatal illness, etc. that we just are helpless to do anything about.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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