RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 20, 2015 at 5:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2015 at 5:48 am by robvalue.)
You are asserting it is written on our heart. For such a bold statement, which sounds more metaphorical than anything else, justification is needed. Just repeating it is not justification.
If there's anything "written" for me to read about god, anywhere in my body, he has failed utterly to communicate it to me. And that's using the brain he gave me the best way I know how. If he's giving me a brain unable to read his own message, then that really is his problem not mine.
He should have written it in my brain, if he really wanted me to know it. I am not ignoring a message, there is no message that I am aware of.
What I am aware of is my conscience. It's a very real thing which plays a huge part in guiding the morality of my actions. But to just give credit for that to some undefined and unproved entity is pure fantasy.
Even if you could demonstrate that my conscience is "written by God", that doesn't explain:
1) Why the message changes over time, rather than being static like the bible.
2) Why some people are born with no conscience. God forgot to write on their hearts?
If there's anything "written" for me to read about god, anywhere in my body, he has failed utterly to communicate it to me. And that's using the brain he gave me the best way I know how. If he's giving me a brain unable to read his own message, then that really is his problem not mine.
He should have written it in my brain, if he really wanted me to know it. I am not ignoring a message, there is no message that I am aware of.
What I am aware of is my conscience. It's a very real thing which plays a huge part in guiding the morality of my actions. But to just give credit for that to some undefined and unproved entity is pure fantasy.
Even if you could demonstrate that my conscience is "written by God", that doesn't explain:
1) Why the message changes over time, rather than being static like the bible.
2) Why some people are born with no conscience. God forgot to write on their hearts?
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