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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 6:37 am
Come on Christian! Without evidence what are we supposed to think?
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 6:46 am
Why would your god need to hide in an invisible dimension while his "beloved children," with whom he is so interested in their private parts, exist and only in this dimension?
According to the bible, over a million people have heard the direct voice of god. Why has god been silent for 2000+ years?
When you pray, how does god converse with you from this other dimension?
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2014 at 8:22 am by robvalue.)
This video may be of interest to the claims of extra dimensional type stuff. How can you possibly claim to know anything about something you define as out of our field of understanding and measurement?
How do you distinguish a claim like this from mental delusions? They make a good point in another episode, that religion makes mental illness harder to diagnose. When you have so many people regularly describing "acceptable" delusions about reality (god did this and that, I talked to Jesus) it is much harder to be able to tell when someone has a "real" delusion and needs professional help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvftq2ystmY
PS: Whether or not god is transcendental and untraceable or whatever, either he has an effect on reality as we know it or he doesn't. If he does, it should be measurable.
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 9:20 am
(October 16, 2014 at 12:58 am)Christian Wrote: God is not what you think He is. He is not a a physical entity that you can feel. He is a force that exists in no tangible form, in a separate dimension.
Well, you've convinced me.
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 9:22 am
(October 16, 2014 at 12:58 am)Christian Wrote: God is not what you think He is. Maybe she's not what YOU think she is.
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 9:41 am
If he's just an intangible force that exists in another dimension, instead of a guy that comes down from on top of the world's firmament like the bible says, then why worship it?
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 12:21 pm
(October 16, 2014 at 12:58 am)Christian Wrote: God is not what you think He is. He is not a a physical entity that you can feel. He is a force that exists in no tangible form, in a separate dimension.
How do you know that?
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 12:25 pm
(October 16, 2014 at 12:58 am)Christian Wrote: God is not what you think He is. He is not a a physical entity that you can feel. He is a force that exists in no tangible form, in a separate dimension.
If he doesn't exist in our dimension and isn't tangible, how do you know he exists? If you have some way of knowing he exists, then he can be observed, by very definition.
So, which is it?
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 12:48 pm
(October 16, 2014 at 12:58 am)Christian Wrote: God is not what you think He is. He is not a a physical entity that you can feel. He is a force that exists in no tangible form, in a separate dimension.
I have no idea what the crazy idea of god refers to and, it appears neither have you.
Not tangible and in a different dimension. This is code for "there is no evidence for it so I'll put it somewhere you can't check".
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RE: Real God
October 16, 2014 at 12:55 pm
I wonder if anyone ever did that with the greek gods. Some people reach the top of Moutn Olympus, and say there are no gods up there, so people who still want to believe just say they left for space or another dimension.
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