RE: Reasons for God
October 19, 2009 at 1:37 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2009 at 1:39 am by ecolox.)
(October 18, 2009 at 9:39 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I still fail to see how you have explained how having "Faith" in God makes you be able to care when others don't. Because you just asserted that it matters to you and applies to you personally because you feel that you wouldn't have a reason to care without it... and you also just asserted - it seems - that God is required for "Faith" and faith is required for true morality. And so, the reason why "faith" is required is because God is required and he is required for faith...
But you haven't actually explained how "Faith" is required, how it is given to us by God as a choice to 'have faith' in him and how we somehow would be unable to care without him.
I thought I explained that faith, both in general, as a concept, and in God, enables a person to do more (e.g. suicide bombers, the saints, etc). I want to do more, everything else is meaninglessness, so I seek God. Now I can do more, and I do. This is why I seek/believe in God, so that I am able to do more good.
I didn't say you were incapable of caring, I said you can care with constraints - e.g. survival. For example, give us a random selection of your general goals in life. Be honest.
What is it that you do that makes you think that you are good? How do you live out how much you care about others?