RE: Christians what would change your mind?
August 8, 2020 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2020 at 2:43 pm by Belacqua.)
(August 8, 2020 at 11:32 am)Xaventis Wrote:
I sure know what would change my mind if it comes to the existence of god. All god needs to do is show himself to me, hang out for 1 year with me fly around across the universe create some galaxies, and I would talk to him about theology and have lots of questions.
I'm curious why you think God is a thing that does this sort of stuff.
I don't know what the Christians in your family think, but serious thinkers have never described God in the way you're imagining. Maybe you're thinking of Superman, instead?
If you were to read the descriptions of God by, for example, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Spinoza, Tillich, etc. etc. etc., you would see that the image you've dreamed up has nothing to do with how smart people believe in God.
What you've done is set up an easy proof based on a false image. It's like a Creationist who says he'd happily believe in the theory of evolution as soon as he sees a monkey give birth to a human. He can be confident he'll never see proof, because he's thinking of something that the theory doesn't really say.


