(October 13, 2015 at 9:54 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(October 13, 2015 at 9:51 am)lkingpinl Wrote: You cannot make the statement "God exists" and call yourself an atheist. The label contradicts the statement. The moment you say God exists, you are a deist. When you start identifying that God or making equivocations about the nature of this God, you are a theist. Based on your statement that God disapproves of dishonesty, to me means you are a theist.
I'll specify: By the standards of the Judeo-Christian God, is it a sinful action to say "God exists" if I don't believe it?
If you don't believe it why would you be concerned if it was sinful or not? Just makes no sense to me.
There are innumerable things not discussed in the Bible as being sinful or not. If you want to know what it says about believing/not believing look at John 3:18
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
