RE: Tourettes
December 14, 2008 at 11:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2008 at 12:01 am by Daystar.)
(December 14, 2008 at 11:43 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Anyway....
If you are born without a certain belief how is that a belief? If you no longer believe what you used to. How is that belief?
And how could you choose your beliefs unless you happened to believe that you could choose your beliefs?
That doesn't even begin to make sense to me on any level that I could obtain at this hour.
But I will try.
You are not born with belief, belief forms like most every thing else as one matures. At a certain age, depending upon the level of maturity of the person, beliefs are more carefully examined and one may separate from influences of a cultural or traditional nature in exchange for a more personal and substantial pardigm.
One chooses what they want to believe based upon a variety of criteria regarding any subject.
Beliefs change. I used to believe that there was no such thing as a god. True, at the time that is the way I was raised and I didn't even know what a god really was, but ... nevertheless that is what I believed. I chose to believe. This changed when I educated myself on the subject and realized I was wrong.
(December 14, 2008 at 9:07 pm)rjh Wrote: The flaw lies in the very thing that was designed to be prefect. These are not problems that occured after the fact, these are manufacturing errors.
Well, that isn't true though. The Bible says that they would die only if they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad. Had they not done so there wouldn't be any flaws.
(December 14, 2008 at 9:07 pm)rjh Wrote: The lack of data on the subject forbids me from making such assurtions. The bible doesnt say how much water there was. It could have been three centimeters, it could have been three thousand million feet. I don't know if the following statement is true, but it seems to be the vibe im getting: The bible says there was enough water to cover the land.
If said statement is true then life as we know it wouldnt be possible. However, we're not talking about life as we know it. We're talking about magic land, where water is immune to the laws of gravity and some magic sky daddy snapped his fingers and people crawled out of the dirt.
Don't be like all the others . . . please? I don't ask that you be like me but don't be like all the others . . .
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