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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
December 31, 2011 at 8:16 pm
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(December 31, 2011 at 12:58 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I didn't say anything about intrigue. I put forward a tangible benefit. That's what I get, and why I have to love God. So it benefits you to love God? Is that why you love it?
(December 31, 2011 at 1:45 pm)Perhaps Wrote: Why do we love what we cannot know? Why do we love beauty? Why do we love awe and wonder? Why do we love the idea of nurture and care? Why do we love the idea of infinity? Why do we love explanation of cause? You tell me.
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
December 31, 2011 at 9:40 pm
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
December 31, 2011 at 10:07 pm
(December 31, 2011 at 8:16 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: (December 31, 2011 at 12:58 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I didn't say anything about intrigue. I put forward a tangible benefit. That's what I get, and why I have to love God. So it benefits you to love God? Is that why you love it? Yeah. You feel love so you love back.
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 2:42 am
Aegrus Wrote:You think of order as a thing, when in fact it is not. Order is simply disorder that we can see and understand.
not really. we don't understand how the human brain works exactly yes we consider it orderly. most of the things in this universe that are orderly we do not understand. the differance between what is orderly and what is not is organizagion. organization does not just happen, it is organized by someone or something.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 4:50 am
The reason I love God: because He loves me, because He does forgive me of my sin through the sacrifice of his Son, he gave up his Son to a death on a cross for me, why shouldn't I love him. God brings peace to my life when troubles seem to rule the day. He allows me to live another day, this is one of many reasons to love him and to worship him. He has given me eternal life. He gives me opportunities to help others when they have needs I can help with. He gives me good loving friends who care for me even with all my faults. He's my Father, friend, companion, savior, prayer partner, provider and no one else comes close to fulfilling my life as he does, there is so much more but I believe you can see why I love God.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 5:02 am
(January 1, 2012 at 2:42 am)chipan Wrote: Aegrus Wrote:You think of order as a thing, when in fact it is not. Order is simply disorder that we can see and understand.
not really. we don't understand how the human brain works exactly yes we consider it orderly. most of the things in this universe that are orderly we do not understand. the differance between what is orderly and what is not is organizagion. organization does not just happen, it is organized by someone or something.
You really are one of them that thinks 'if we don't yet know how it works, goddunit.'
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 5:27 am
5thHorseman Wrote:You really are one of them that thinks 'if we don't yet know how it works, goddunit.'
i simply commented on his deffinition of order as it is flawed. we consider many things orderly that we do not understand.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 6:19 am
(January 1, 2012 at 2:42 am)chipan Wrote: it is organized by someone or something.
Prove it.
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 6:42 am
Ace Otana Wrote:Prove it.
well every time we find something organized we can infer that someone organized it example: stonehenge. they're just random big rocks that don't make anything complicated other than a circle, but we assume they were placed there by someone as we know of no natural process that can do that. how does applying the same to more complicated things make it different?
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
January 1, 2012 at 6:46 am
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