(April 17, 2015 at 10:21 am)nicanica123 Wrote: Thanks for all the replies on the other thread I started. One poster recommended that maybe I start with just 1 point and go from there. The following is what rattles through my brain. Please remember that I'm not debating I'm sharing my thoughts...
The argument against god that there is no proof
My few thoughts on this are as follows, 1. Why would this almighty god be subjected to what a human demands as proof? 2. Does gods creation not make him apparent? 3. If god popped up one day to make himself readily known as existing, would all people serve him any way? 4. If gods purpose as I have been taught, is that one day the earth will be a paradise like state with no evil. Back to its original Eden conditions. Proving that Satan, Adam, and Eve were wrong to reject gods sovereignty and humans are not capable of ruling themselves... how would it serve his purpose if people worshipped him out of fear of him killing them rather than from their hearts?
I know the last one will get a lot of flack
How do you love God from your heart unless you know something about God?
How do you know something about God unless you have some evidence for God's personality, attributes, etc?
You might be able to love things that you do have evidence about - say cats.
Then after you die, God might tell you that cats are his favorite animal, so you were loving God from your heart when you loved cats.
That's the best you can do IMO without some knowledge of God based on evidence.
(Of course the evidence doesn't need to be scientific quality, but it's got to be something.)
