RE: Christans show Jesus is God and not Satan
March 19, 2015 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 4:33 am by robvalue.)
Lek: You are setting up criteria where you can prove to yourself god exists whether he actually does or not. Anything that happens, you'll find a way of telling yourself that god was behind it. The thing is, you can never know what, if any, supernatural force is behind anything. You can't possibly distinguish one supernatural force from another because there is no way to confirm that they exist, or were specifically responsible. Sure, you can tell yourself "it was god", but that is pure speculation. It could have been evil mind pixies laying part 529 of their world domination plan. It would look exactly the same at your end, because all you see is the result. There is nothing testable in what happens that can lead us back to a specific supernatural cause. Sure, you'll get a bunch of nice feelings after thinking it was god, but this is just your mind congratulating itself on confirming what it already believes and releasing nice chemicals into your body. It's not a way of determining truth.
It all comes down to this: do you choose reality, or do you choose a comfortable delusion which is wholly unsupported by the scientific findings of the most brilliant minds? If you discard science entirely and just randomly "believe" what you want to believe, you can't possibly have any way of knowing what you believe is true. So that's the real question. How much do you care if your beliefs are true? You'd almost certainly be talking about how Islam is true, in contradiction to Christianity, if you were born in another country. Does truth depend on where you are born?
It all comes down to this: do you choose reality, or do you choose a comfortable delusion which is wholly unsupported by the scientific findings of the most brilliant minds? If you discard science entirely and just randomly "believe" what you want to believe, you can't possibly have any way of knowing what you believe is true. So that's the real question. How much do you care if your beliefs are true? You'd almost certainly be talking about how Islam is true, in contradiction to Christianity, if you were born in another country. Does truth depend on where you are born?
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