RE: [split] Hello everyone
December 30, 2014 at 5:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 5:54 pm by Chili.)
(December 30, 2014 at 4:18 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(December 30, 2014 at 1:42 pm)Lambert Wrote: Well you know, I do not even know what theism is if that makes the atheist position possible for you. A theists believes in God or gods, let's say. If the concept God is not prior by nature to me how would I know what God is and what the very word God means if I cannot identify with it. Would my first question not be: "you believe in what?" unless the not-visible concept God is already prior to me by nature right from the start?
It's interesting and not a little revealing that you balk at well-defined terms such as "theism" because you don't know what it means, yet you have no problem with telling us what atheism means.
Are you saying that the concept of gods need to exist a priori in order to have a position about them? If so, would you accept the same argument regarding Star Wars fans and the existence of Darth Vader (or Dartford Valerie, as my autocorrect insists)?
Sorry I have never watched a Star War show and do not know who Darth Vader is or what he represents.
To help you here, I just Googled the word theism and I do not agree with this this idea of Theism
Quote:Theism, in the field of comparative religion, is the belief that at least one deity exists.[1] In popular parlance, the term theism often describes the classical conception of God that is found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, and Satanism.
The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning "god". The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–88).[2] In Cudworth's definition, they are "strictly and properly called Theists, who affirm, that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, existing of itself from eternity, was the cause of all other things".[3]
On top of it all the writer does not even know what eternity is. But there is a lot more wrong about it because Christianity is also taking the word Christian one -ity to far. Christianity does not exist with no being to be or I AM would be not be the end in which God and Lord God are one and the same.
He further is all warped about this "perfect conscious understanding being, or mind, existing of itself from eternity, was the cause of all other things." None of that of that is correct and clearly is not part of anything that I hold to be true.
