God / Religion Thread [merged]

Yes, I agree with the "fingerprints of the Christian God" thing. All I'm saying is that it is perfectly natural for humans to come up with supernatural explanations for the way the world around them is. The ancient Greeks used to dig up dinosaur fossils and think they were giant's bones, left over from some ancient war between the gods and the Titans. There are literally thousands of different Creation myths out there. People came up with these stories to explain what they couldn't explain, which is why I find the fact that some people still believe in Christian Creation so ridiculous.

The concept of Heaven & Hell plays in all our minds. Heaven is good, Hell is evil. Reality is the limbo that formulates our destination. Be as good as you can be and you will be, while living a life or your own, and be rewarded with a place in Heaven, but commit acts of evil, while denying others of their modernate sanctum, and you'll pay for it forever in Hell. Heaven is peace and serenity, Hell is pain and suffering. Life is a test, I believe. And it's what you do with it that determines your place in the ultimate universe.

Everyone has different beliefs. The thing is, we must all respect those beliefs or risk war. The wars around the world fought in the name of God is a strong example. Religion helps those lost attend meaning in their lives. Perhaps having something to believe in helps people not to go crazy.

Still waiting on The Force to get back to me on my question.

-AC

Perhaps having something to believe in helps people not to go crazy.

Now that's a poor attitude. We need unity to survive.

unity aint the same as peopel blabbering about their believes

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anything is possible. ✅

what i'm telling you is true, haeck if marilyn manson decided to one day stop being a satanist and become a christian, he could get into heaven, that's all it takes, for your life to be changed

CS Lewis suggested that the heavenly experience is an adventure that gets continuously better so as to avoid monotony.

Originally posted by finti
what you are telling him are what you believe, that aint the same as the truth

If you believe something wholeheartedly, then that is the truth for you, regardless of it's the infinite truth, because we just don't know.

Plausibility Quotient = 1.0

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If you believe something wholeheartedly, then that is the truth for you, regardless of it's the infinite truth

So you're saying if you can't see or touch it it doesn't exist? The way of the philospher, always questioning things, may lead him/her down a path of discovery, however in the end, if he spends all his life questioning everything, what kind of life has he lead? A noble one? A lonely one IMO.

lol. What a crock. It gives the same answer to every tick, mostly.

Originally posted by The Force
although the belief that there is a heaven is most to some, there is an argument about what heaven is really like, the Bible says it perfect (forever), and the most common debate states that staying in perfection for so long will turn into an imperfection, because of the basic human need for tribulation. Anyways, since we right now do not know what perfection looks or feels like then how are we to say what it does, or how it works?

Ok, just to clarify, I'm not religious and I don't personally believe in a heaven. But I'd just like to say that being there so long can not cause any problems due to a basic human need for tribulation. Surely that basic human need will no longer exist?

Originally posted by Reborn Again
If you believe something wholeheartedly, then that is the truth for you, regardless of it's the infinite truth, because we just don't know.

Just a general query; do you live on a pink, fluffy cloud??

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Some things are either true or untrue; I could say I have three arms, and believe that with all my heart, but it wouldn't make it true. Some things depend on perspective... others don't.

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The individual's perspective.

It doesn't make it fundamentally true, only from that person's point of view.....