Creation and G-d

[TosinAsLeader]

The more observant of Jews don't either. They have a lot of funny ideas about words and their power (hence, Kabbalah) and the name of God isn't supposed to be written down. Why a Christian would be doing this is beyond me.

And now, for something completely different.

Oh my goodness. LOL!

I know, I realized going all Jewish on "God," isn't wise.

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I know. I don't believe there is no god; I simply don't know either way, but feel that positive claims like the existence of god need to be demonstrated before they are believable. I'm an agnostic atheist.

Agnostic Atheist? DO you think all of us go to far with these terms?

Well, I mean that you can't consciously force yourself to be convinced of the truth of something. You can't will yourself to believe; I can't make a choice to believe in christianity any more than you can choose to become a muslim or what have you. As individuals we have varying levels of credulity that, among other things, affect which beliefs you are able to accept, but
it's not like a menu at a fast food joint, we don't get to pick and choose the things we believe.

Forcing yourself to believe in something would be a suicide of ourselves, right? Based on what I have read and study, I choose to believe.

We can be convinced into belief, but that's an organic process of information input and internal reactions; you never just go "hmm, I am going to believe in this now," and make it so.

Unless if you are completely[/quote] brain dead and join a cult such as of Jim Jones