RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
June 9, 2012 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2012 at 12:29 pm by Mystic.)
(June 9, 2012 at 12:10 pm)Tempus Wrote:(June 9, 2012 at 11:28 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I'm a little confused by what you meant here. Perhaps you can clarify.
Ah, sorry about that. I meant: "Clearly you're at least slightly confused [about whether you have knowledge or not] - why use such an error prone method of communication?" But I accept maybe I misunderstood.
Basically I meant why not use a clearer way of conveying this knowledge so that confusion could be more easily dispelled. Presumably this god is aware of such confusion and has the power to clear stuff up, but chooses not to. That is odd. If I contain within me this knowledge, I'm not aware of it. And if this god wants me to have it why not just create me aware of it and prevent situations where I would be unaware? That doesn't make any sense.
Well here is the thing. I think free-will and beliefs go together. Those whom did 9/11 would not have done it, if they didn't believe in what they are doing.
When you chose to believe it is wrong, it's a choice, but it's the right one. Choice doesn't mean it is baseless.
Ofcourse if God wanted everyone to have it, then everyone would have it. But perhaps he wants people to chose to have it, in the same way we chose to believe killing apostates for leaving a religion be it a true one or not, is wrong.
It's a choice. Not everyone does the same choice.
Perhaps he wants you to pull out the sword of God so to speak instead of just being forced to believe he exists. Perhaps he wants you you to chose to recognize him in the midst of the falsehood.
The next thing is aside from the soul being given properly basic knowledge, there is no way else to know about God really.
Suppose he writes in the sky that he exists, how do you know he is good? how do you know he is loving? how do you know he is great?
For all you know, without knowledge, he is evil, and intends to torture you.
Everything he tells you can be a lie. He can be lying to you.
Even after you die, you don't know if he is telling the truth to you.
So you can see, if we are to have knowledge to him, coming down to us or talking to us or writting in the sky or bringing a million books down from the sky, all would not really prove anything, aside from a creator.
Proving a Creator does nothing, because you know nothing about the Creator.
