RE: Fine Tuning Principle: Devastating Disproof and Scientific Refutation of Atheism.
July 22, 2023 at 11:14 am
I did not say you were depressed, FM. I was pointing to a general trend among the non-religious: "Of the 178 most methodologically rigorous studies, 119 (67%) find inverse relationships between R/S and depression" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426191/ Man was never meant to live without God. True, your Sunday mornings may be occupied in going to Church etc, but then you receive so many blessings for fulfilling your obligations to Him in that way, from receiving Him in Holy Communion, to so much else, both in this life, and the next, and that's how we were always meant to live. God created us for Perfect Happiness in the life to come, and a fair degree of happiness here in this life as a foretaste of eternal bliss, provided we are ready to faithfully serve Him, our Creator, and the Designer of the Universe, Who gave us so many good things including life itself, not to mention the faithful Promise of Eternal Life and Eternal Happiness to be received in its due time. The researchers above postulated various reasons why the Religious are more happy than the Non-Religious, and those are fine; imo, the Promise of Eternal Happiness also plays a great part in it, because when you believe/know you will be Eternally Happy one day, in a sense you already begin to be happy anticipating it.
There are conditions, of course, to attain that happiness, but those are very simple: love God, keep His commandments, accept Christ as Savior, confess when we fall short/sin, try to amend etc.
GN, and do you think 360 MN Christians, some of them in Atheistic countries like North Korea, have it better than you do? Everyone should treat everyone well irrespective of our beliefs, so that that can lead to human flourishing in time. But just saying, come to Church, give your life to Christ, and He will fill your soul with joy, is not persecution. What happens in North Korea to Christians is, though, but because God is with them, they are able to endure and to overcome it. God Bless them.
Grandizer, here is more on the book I mentioned, which could help clarify the matter: https://www.eclectica.org/v4n2/skea_rees.html
"The first is a ratio of the strength of the electrical forces that hold atoms together divided by the force of gravity between them. It is very large, about 10^36, and were it a few zeros shorter, only a short-lived miniature universe could exist and there would be no time for biological evolution.
The second number is also a ratio and is the proportion of energy that is released when hydrogen fuses into helium. This number is 0.007, and if it were 0.006 or 0.008 we could not exist."
There are conditions, of course, to attain that happiness, but those are very simple: love God, keep His commandments, accept Christ as Savior, confess when we fall short/sin, try to amend etc.
GN, and do you think 360 MN Christians, some of them in Atheistic countries like North Korea, have it better than you do? Everyone should treat everyone well irrespective of our beliefs, so that that can lead to human flourishing in time. But just saying, come to Church, give your life to Christ, and He will fill your soul with joy, is not persecution. What happens in North Korea to Christians is, though, but because God is with them, they are able to endure and to overcome it. God Bless them.
Grandizer, here is more on the book I mentioned, which could help clarify the matter: https://www.eclectica.org/v4n2/skea_rees.html
"The first is a ratio of the strength of the electrical forces that hold atoms together divided by the force of gravity between them. It is very large, about 10^36, and were it a few zeros shorter, only a short-lived miniature universe could exist and there would be no time for biological evolution.
The second number is also a ratio and is the proportion of energy that is released when hydrogen fuses into helium. This number is 0.007, and if it were 0.006 or 0.008 we could not exist."
