RE: Why be good?
June 3, 2015 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2015 at 5:30 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 2, 2015 at 2:39 pm)wallym Wrote:(June 2, 2015 at 11:50 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Kinda sounds like the whole original sin thing~
I agree. This is why I'm not worried about being good. The impetus for everyone to behave is your guys' thing. I'm interested in behaving in my own self-interest. Which can overlap with 'being good', but is a very different motivation.
I hope that works out for you.
(June 3, 2015 at 11:37 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Grown-ups know that they are Santa. Kids who are older know that their parents are Santa.
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How does this work with Christianity?
Generally speaking, adults have left their security blankets behind, while children cling to them in fear.
(June 3, 2015 at 2:02 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Because God is immaterial, and science deals only with the physical, material world.
How can an immaterial being exist in a material world?
And more to the point, how can you, or any other human (including the ones who wrote the Bible) know anything about the immaterial?