RE: Evidence for god? Convince me! [CHALLENGE]
March 17, 2014 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 10:27 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 17, 2014 at 5:03 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 17, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: That's an oxymoron. Unless you're privy to information nobody else possesses, you're not a Christian because of "evidence." (What's "biblical evidence"? Is it special somehow from empirical evidence? Like, uh, "revelation"?)
It's emotional attachment, plain and simple. There's no such thing as a Christian skeptIc.
No the information is as plain for you to see as it is me. It's only a question of understanding.
I have no emotional attachment at all. Why would I? How does that work? Please explain.
I'm guessing it has something to do with your belief in a soul. What information do we all share about that? Your belief in a soul that survives death. Again, care to explain your evidence? Your belief that the soul goes on to a realm of eternal bliss with all your loved ones who were saved by a human sacrifice...who was actually God...your evidence was? Of course, nothing emotionally difficult for you to accept that maybe, just maybe, there is no purpose or comforting hand waiting for you when your time on Earth expires. I'm sure that thought has nothing to do with your faith in the magical answers that Christianity claims on absolute authority.
(March 17, 2014 at 9:03 pm)psychoslice Wrote: I don't like the word god, but I do see a force that everything is controlled by, I do also feel that we and everything else is connected in some way. We are connected to the earth, the sun, the universe and on and on it goes. Science may have their theories for this connection, especially in quantum theory, but there is still this force, or whatever, and this to me is what God is, even though I like the words Higher Consciousness better.
This so called God doesn't judge, it allows, you don't have to worship it, unless your ignorant of it, to experience this Source is known as Enlightenment, it is tasting something beyond the mind body organism, and I can tell you that it taste beautiful.
If I may so advise, just be careful that you let your intellectual processes be guided by the evidence, otherwise your imagination is bound to run wild and yield false results (albeit probably still closer to the truth than anything Christianity or most of the other religious scams proclaim). It seems you elevate Nature to God status or otherwise demystify God to basically mean all of Nature. That's fine enough but you're carrying around a lot of unnecessary baggage by appealing to some sort of divine quality.
