RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
January 4, 2019 at 10:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2019 at 10:35 pm by Angelina.)
(December 30, 2018 at 10:24 pm)Angelina Wrote: If not God, then what? If not nothing, then what is the something?
God has become clear to me through my experiences being born again and filled with the holy spirit.
(December 31, 2018 at 12:31 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I could understand why you'd believe something, if you had an experience like that. It won't help others to believe it, ofc...since they didn't have such an experience, nor is there any lack of alternative explanations for such experiences.
How would you go about things if someone else offered an identical but competing assertion? That they'd been filled by the holy spirit of some other god, which made clear to them that it wasn't your god?
Other people do offer identical but competing assertions regarding what they consider to be God. Although if you were talking about Judaists or Muslims, that is all the same God (the God of Abraham). If it were say a Hindu or a Jainist or sikhist, I would not criticize their right to believe in what I would call simply a different version of the same God. I would encourage them to embrace the teachings of Jesus and I would share my own experiences with them.
(December 31, 2018 at 12:32 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.That's ok. What I should have said was since it's inception, Christianity has done more good in world than any group of people who have ever existed.
(December 30, 2018 at 11:58 pm)Angelina Wrote: Christians are doing more good in the world than any other group of people who has ever existed, and by a lot.
I'm sorry but I have to nitpick about this.
Firstly, human civilization goes back 10 or so thousand years with hunter-gartheres going back 50 or so thousand before that.
The current 'Monotheistic' phase only goes back a couple thousand. With secularism and separation between church and state occuring for an easy quarter of even that time.
The assertion of 'My theism has done more good' is demonstrably false given just the time scales of history involved.
Sorry for the slight pedantry.