(February 17, 2014 at 8:52 am)Esquilax Wrote: Wow, you're telling me how I'd feel, now? We still haven't met, have we?
I can understand how someone in your situation would feel in this situation. Here you trying to argue that a belief in God is irrational when it will turn out that you were irrational all along for denying the obvious truth of the reality itself revealed to you in all it's fullness. Something to look forward to there.
Quote:I would feel, sir, the same way that I felt when I was able to correct my understanding of many other things in my life; happy that I've finally come that one notch closer to the truth.
You would have to accept God fully and be reborn into a new eternal life in God. It's something ideally you would like to do while you're still alive though as you can get the benefits of that right now. This isn't some kind of cold clinical understand but a complete transformation of your being. If you don't do this then you will have an eternal separation from God which is Hell.
Quote:I would also be proud that I didn't bow to emotionally based arguments, and instead changed my mind only when there was sufficient evidence to justify this.
If you have nothing specifically to base what you believe upon then emotion is all you have. There are plenty of rational things and evidences to base a belief in God/Christianity upon. Atheism is purely what you want to believe as there is nothing else to base it upon.
Quote:Why is it that you think discovery is a risk?
It's like you're at a feast, you have the feast of God at the table right in front of you and you aren't eating anything.
Quote:More importantly, as I've repeated to you a couple of times now: I don't think you understand what atheism is.
It doesn't involve the belief in the existence of God or any specifically defined supernatural higher reality beyond the physical universe of whatever form/name from what I understand. You can correct me if I'm wrong about this.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
