Your last statement is ludicrous, and your english seems a little 'funny' as well. If we were fighting>>>talloola
May be alittle funny, but loving.
Peace>>>AJ
May be alittle funny, but loving.
Peace>>>AJ
My only reasoning is that they must believe that He exists, otherwise, why bother to dispute it.
Does that mean all the people who dispute that 9/11 was an inside job actually believe that it was an inside job?
Very interesting read.Honestly…I can easily answer all of your many questions of concern…How and Why?...Because its a part of my bought and paid for expertise…What does that mean…?>>> CMCummings
If there is to be a God then why is it so difficult to agree on what it would be?
We had a pretty good discussion on wether or not God exists and one of the points is that perhaps God isn't what we assume. So if God in fact is what we can nature and acts within those rules, why wouldn't evolution be exactly God's plan?
Main reason is because we are carnal thinkers. Our minds have to be transformed into the mind of God. Meaning, that in order to understand Godly things, we must have God open up our spiritual eyes to see, otherwise, we remain in the carnal way of thinking.
The Jewish nation expects to see a carnal conquering Messiah to deliver them, but failed to see the spiritual Messiah in Jesus.
And another reason is that only where there is opposition, can there be any advancement.
Peace>>>AJ
As I understand it by what I have heard, read, studied and experienced of God, I find that God is my life now and forever more.So I guess my next question must be what is God to you?>>> Unforgiven
Are you saying that there is no purpose without opposition?>>> Unforgiven
1)It's called occam's razor two equally possible reasons or conclusions ( and they are not equally possible but lets assume so for fun) the simplest answer is the most likely to be true . Evolution as an independant process , evolution as a god driven purpose which is simpler ?So if God in fact is what we can nature and acts within those rules, why wouldn't evolution be exactly God's plan?
As I understand it by what I have heard, read, studied and experienced of God, I find that God is my life now and forever more.
I live as one loved by Him and by which I am most grateful to suffer through this worlds holds to overcome them in Him to His honor and glory.
This was the designed plan, in my opinion, for the human specie.
Mankind is given the opportunity to be like as God being able to lord over its own environment, and to exercise it towards the good as a learnt condition by education, experience and spiritual guidance.
God created this world to be experienced in the knowledge of good and evil.
In the story of Adam and Eve the point of the story is that they were created as like babes, innocent of any potential to do evil for they as babes had not as yet being exposed to knowledge of it.
When knowledge of good and evil entered into their education, they discovered that they were naked. Naked not physically, but naked in the sense that they discovered that they came short of being a spiritual being, therefore bringing about death to the spirit of fellowship with it’s creator.
Unless the creator made accommodations to revive (Renew) their spirits, they were as a lost humanity to eternal habitation.
Hence the term “Born again” as spoken by Jesus. Not a physical rebirth but a spiritual rebirth.
What became lost, dead, was made to be revived in the obedience of spiritual requirements for us by Jesus, who as God reconciled all the world from it’s beginning to the present and for ever more to be.
Therefore death spiritually is done away with, hell, being a prison or a holding place, done away with and mankind free to worship how they please without that death penalty looming over its spirit.
However, knowledge of God alone does not bring blessing from Him, but faith in action does.
If mankind chooses to abide on this earth with no regards for God, then they must live with what this earth has to offer as solace, kindness, mercy, or to simply say, at the mercy of the earth’s desires.
God therefore to me means hope of being with Him where He is, peace through my sufferings and trials on this earth, and contentment for what I have or given.
To: love my neighbor as my self and to love God with all my heart, mind and soul.
Your next question falls in harmony with His plan.
Let’s say you are an engineer and design a bridge. How will you know whether this bridge will hold the stress if it is not tested?
Stress test then is in direct opposition to the strength of the bridge.
So one could say then, that the test is good for the bridge to see of what strength it is .
Evil in itself is not evil, but the potential to do evil is in the hands of the individual barer.
We all are evil potentials, with the burden of denying it’s power.
And let me tell you, overcoming evil is the greatest struggle that humanity has to deal with.
If the potential for evil were not so, then how could humanity know to do good?
Good is produced when tested by something not good, or the opposite of good.
In humanities case, evil is the operating opposition that when it is performed, evil is done to others, and the others may forgive the evil, in turn producing good.
Not to say that we should do evil so that good may come, but rather we should overcome evil with good.
You asked, so that is my long winded answer.
Peace>>>AJ
1)It's called occam's razor two equally possible reasons or conclusions ( and they are not equally possible but lets assume so for fun) the simplest answer is the most likely to be true . Evolution as an independant process , evolution as a god driven purpose which is simpler ?
2)God does not solve the problem if everything has to have a creator and people answer god as the creator of the cosmos then who created him ? Certainly any creature advanced enough to create us and the world we live in raises more questions with his own origins that he answers .
Exactly , the 1st law of thermodynamics tells us that energy and matter within a system cannot be destroyed just altered so if the universe is a closed system (according to some physicists the multi/mega verse ) then the matter that composes the universe around has always existed .Yes occum's razor. Does this not bend in practical measures?
Allow me to play devil's advocate on God's behalf.
Who says everything has to have a creator? One wrong doesn't make every thing false, correct? And so why does the creator of everything have to be the same thing?
And who says God, whatever that might be, wasn't always present?
There is a priciple that nothing is ever destroyed, only changed. While you can break things down into their components, you can't really change what they are at that level. And so, you can not destroy anything, only change it until you are down to the level of it's base components. There for if you can't destroy anything, doesn't it stand to reason that all were here, only they changed to what we have at the moment?
Exactly , the 1st law of thermodynamics tells us that energy and matter within a system cannot be destroyed just altered so if the universe is a closed system (according to some physicists the multi/mega verse ) then the matter that composes the universe around has always existed .
Now applying the same amount of logic to the god thesis one realizes that unlike thermodynamics
it doesn't solve the regress that is the question of creation it complicates it (Back to occum's razor ) If everything has a creator as theists will claim then god presents a logical conundrum .(Any god complex enough to create the universe has to be too complicated to just arise himself) . Theists escape this logical black hole by removing god from the time/space reality in other words saying that at least by strict definition that he's fictional .
Couldn't that be considered heresay and emotions?
I think that has something to do with our preconceived notion of what God is or might be. Granted, a tender subject matter fraught with many a pitfall, no one has found the language to describe an acceptable definition.
Isn't that something we need to have in order to eliminate it, or not, from the equation?
As well it gives rise to the question, is it possible for something to be more than the sum of it's parts. In this case did God come and go?
First the latter: emotion.
Creatures we are of emotion whether some show it or not, yet a very integral part of life. Or say emotion is the result of an inner movement of either joy or anger.
In my case, it is more of joy for having a satisfactory understanding of who God is and how His word the bible translates all His wonderful works.
Heresy? That is a matter of perception that the human mind conceives due to their interpretation of who God is.
Honestly you could say that everything is God therefore God clearly exists as well, but that isn't really proving anything at all other than what you believe and I doubt anyone would be so crass as to argue with you about what you think.
The point is a wish to move on from that and get to the real and the now.