(October 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Blondie Wrote:(October 17, 2015 at 2:55 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh wow, that's a lot if "ifs". So you don't REALLY believe. You are trying to hedge your bet WITH GOD - - with an entity that you believe is all-powerful, that created the universe and billions upon billions of galaxies, and that (you believe) knows every thought in your head. You don't really believe, but you have chosen a way to go through the motions that you think will save your precious bacon from your God's wrath. After you tried to scam him. You are basing your every breath on the fear of hell. And here you're bathing in pride, because you think your "choice" is better than ours.
Keep on lying to yourself and to your god. I'm going to say I don't have enough evidence to believe in god until he tells me otherwise. If he sends me to hell for that, so be it.
And you my friend, have no evidence He doesn't exist. You are simply saying that He doesn't because it is illogical. You choose not to believe, your choice and your decision. Might be alot of what if's. God does not make sense to the human mind and men have came up with tons and tons of excuses and reasons why He can't exist. Others can't stand the fact that there might just be a Supreme Being over us. It is easier to reject the idea or the possibility of God than it is to have faith. Who knows? You might just be lying to yourself.
Yeah, I'm calling poe too. Unlike you, I'm open to possibilities. Yes, I might be lying to myself. But I was raised Christian, you see, like most of the folks on this forum. I spent decades in the church, and I still have most of the Bible memorized. Like many other forum members, I have gone through a long and laborious process to earn my current beliefs. When you have spent more than 40 years of your life under the slavery of faith, and then rejected those faiths for hundreds of reasons, it is NOT easier to reject faith. Faith is saying that you know something that you cannot know, because there is no proof of it. It is simply group-think and fear of hell. I have shaken off my fear, and I have declared that in over 2000 years, gawd has not provided enough evidence of his existence to earn my faith. Who knows, right? Give another reason for your church attendance and for telling people on the internet that they are stupid and you have all the answers than fear of hell. We don't believe hell exists, and any deity who would send us there over a lack of evidence is not worthy of worship.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein