RE: God and the dilemma with unfalsifiability
September 30, 2017 at 4:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2017 at 5:08 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(September 30, 2017 at 12:38 am)Godscreated Wrote:Mathilda Wrote:Yet you have no way of determining whether you actually experienced your god or you imagined it. Hence the reason that you claim that you need faith first, because otherwise the 'evidence' outside the bible won't come. It is indistinguishable from a confidence trick.
Oh yes I know the difference and you would too if you ever experienced Him. The reason faith comes first is simply because we are asked to believe in an unseen God, just as Jesus said blessed are those who believe in Me without seeing Me, blessed I am. You can't get past ownership of something you in actuality do not own, once you over come that you might see things differently.
Except lots of atheists on this forum believed the same confidence trick that you do. They were just as convinced as you that they had experienced your god and then later realised, unlike you, that it was all bollocks.
All the answers that you have given me above are based on believing in this confidence trick and you can't back up any of it. You make plenty of assertions, such as about your god but provide absolutely no evidence. As Hitchins said, that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You say 'Many highly educated doctors have said that the healing can only be explained as a miracle' but provide no evidence for this statement. I'd certainly find a different doctor if my one said that to me.
You say that I am asking stupid questions but they only feel that way to you because you do not have critical thinking skills and therefore do not question your assumptions. If they were stupid questions then you'd be able to answer them with evidence and describing plausible mechanisms involved. You can't. All you can do is assert what you have been told yourself and do not question.
Does your god actually ever refer to himself as male? I don't personally know but I would be interested to see a passage in your bible were he does explicitly refer to himself as male. But again it's an assertion you are making without providing any evidence. You don't even try answering the question of why there a being can be something described as male if it's the only one that's ever been in existence. If it's male then it implicitly tells us that there are other gods who are not male., otherwise it's like referring to every part of the spectrum of light as purple.
You don't provide any evidence that your god created you. Again it's just something that you have been told and are repeating without evidence. Yet there is plenty of evidence for evolution and development of complexity since the Big Bang.
You mention Adam's body having a soul, but again, have just accepted this and not asked what a soul could possibly be. This is because you do nt have critical thinking skills. No doubt you would say that it's a stupid question, but at the same time be able to answer yet another seemingly stupid question.
Questions are not stupid if you cannot answer them. Referring to them as stupid shows us just how deeply indoctrinated you are.
Your god's power is also indistinguishable from an illusion and you can provide no evidence that it isn't.
P.S Feminists do not want to be men, they want all genders to be treated equally.