Do you wish there's a god?

[Acrobat]

Thanks, so if I'm understanding you correctly, God is the creator and designer, and also the signifier of the universe. From other of your posts, I infer that the God you believe in, intentionally 'set the universe up' in a way that would result in the natural formation and evolution of life.

In order to best understand what I mean by God, it’s best to leave the term God out of it. Atheists bring a lot baggage when it comes to to term God. So it’s best to use terms like the Good, or meaning so that you don’t make the mistake of thinking that I’m speaking of multiple different things, rather than just one thing. I believe meaning brought the world into existence.

And since you describe yourself as a theist instead of a deist, the God you believe in does intervene in the course of events at least on occasion, and prayers are something that God perceives and may or may not act upon. I am also taking it that you wouldn't think the Bible should be taken too literally if you're a Christian.

No I’m a determinist, that our story has already been written, both past and present, that the will of God is foreordained, that god need no more to intervene than an author need to intervene in the novels he’s already composed.

And the Bible ought to be read like any other book, with the intentions of its writings, context, audience all in mind. If some portions of the writing were composed to be read and understand literally than we should understand it as such, if they were written to be allegories and metaphors than that’s the way they should be understood.

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So what point is Acrobat attempting to make? I'd ask him myself, but he keeps ignoring me.

With all the contortions he's going through to avoid making a point I'm surprised he hasn't slipped a disk.

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Christians have also been called atheists, because they rejected pagan gods.

[citation needed]

https://chalcedon.edu/store/39865-the-at...rly-church