RE: Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism
July 23, 2013 at 9:18 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2013 at 9:22 am by Bad Writer.)
(July 22, 2013 at 9:07 pm)BettyG Wrote:(July 21, 2013 at 4:42 pm)Chas Wrote: Yes, but I'm an atheist and do good deeds. No gods are required.I'm glad. I think it is easier to love others when one's heart is overflowing with God's love and joy.
Why do you need a god to qualify your deeds as good or, I suppose in your mind, better? So when you have an abundance of love and joy in your life, you attribute that to something you can't know is real...but what if you were really sad and down in the dumps? Why do you not attribute that to some supernatural cause, like the Holy Ghost of Debbie Downer?
(July 23, 2013 at 1:54 am)Godschild Wrote:(July 22, 2013 at 1:17 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: A belief in the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ is still self-serving, for it gets you to Candy Mountain, and all the nay-sayers go to Mordor.
Yes and no, one must die to self to reconcile one's self to God through Christ. One must die to self to be repentant of sin and through faith believe in Christ, so yes we get an eternal reward, but if you die to self do you really do it for yourself or is it for God.
Always for oneself, for we cannot prove/disprove that there is/isn't a god. Even if that person dying really was doing it all for his invisible god, he's still serving himself in the end, for it's a perceived mutual benefit anyway.
