(May 1, 2018 at 8:53 pm)Kit Wrote: I merely wonder what one chooses to decide that this "god" being exists.
My main concern is "is it something that can be shared with someone else in order for the belief to be upheld"?
My next concern is, if someone else agrees with your shared experience, is it due to an actual mutual experience or an immediate need for community?
I want to know how god can exists for some and not for others; my experience is that those who seek with an open mind shall find. With an open mind, I can find anything; even the visible pink unicorn. You don't see it? Guess your faith is not strong enough.
See. That's why the "faith" argument doesn't work.
It can be argued to encompass anything.
Faith is a mere excuse, not a worthy argument. You want an argument for god, try harder.
Faith is not the answer.
If you want eternal life you must have an all-powerful God character to give it to your soul. It doesn't really matter who that God character is as long as he can put you up in some sort of heaven, paradise, or happy hunting ground.
Yahweh doesn't promise anyone eternal life although he did say that if people ate from the tree of life they would get it. He put the tree of life off limits. So that's where the Yeshua character comes in. He isn't really God (Yahweh) but his son. So if anyone believes in him he will get eternal life.
Uthman couldn't use Yahweh and he demoted Yeshua to just a prophet. So he had to create Allah as his all-powerful God. He needed a messenger to sell the idea and came up with crazy Mohammed.
There's nothing really special about the idea of souls, eternal life, all powerful gods. It's a universal belief across all cultures and time periods. The details may vary a little bit but just about all cultures subscribe to it.
You are a true atheist if you don't believe in eternal life or eternal punishment because you need a God to give it to you.
