I bet a million lives that you merely labeled your experience 'god'; for it did not divulge its godness clearly to you (thus it cannot be 'aptly described'), so that through a lack of other explanations you reached for the easiest one: god, religion, tradition.
True, but so has theism. I would like a god. I actually need a god. I would love it if there is some powerful being behind this whole wonderful universe. And I would prefer a god who cares about me (despite me being only a human), who only asks to follow some simple rules and who makes me feel welcome in this world.Athiesm has a hubris to it that has always ran a chill down my spine.
Please tell me about it? Especially if (like your wording suggests) you didn't believe in God before?I have experienced God in a way that forced me to concede his/her existence.
Of course not. It simply means that it is a highly dubious kind of 'proof'.The reality that people exaggerate what they consider to be divine intervention or prescence doesnt mean that every attribution of experience to the same is false.
I can prove love exists. It's coded by chemicals in our blood.I don't think this analogy is apt, because no one really cares if there is a teapot between Mars and Jupiter. However almost everyone cares about whether or not God exists. The question "Does God really exist" is more like the question, "Does love really exist". I can tell you it does, but I can't really prove it. All I can say is if you sincerely look for it then you will find it eventually.
Of course not. It simply means that it is a highly dubious kind of 'proof'.
I can prove love exists. It's coded by chemicals in our blood.
Of course the existence of God is more important than the existence of that stupid teapot. After all, no wars are fought in the name of the teapot. But existence doesn't depend on importance of the question. The reasoning is the same. We haven't observed a god.
And the people who claim they have: please tell me how to do it. I'd like to meet the god too!
But I would.For the individual involved I would not consider that so.
If there is a god, he can prove his existence. If there is none, we go on as usual - believing, hoping, guessing, inventing.In these sorts of matters if you believe already you dont need evidence, if you dont believe then no sort of evidence will suffice.
Athiesm has a hubris to it that has always ran a chill down my spine.
But I would.
If there is a god, he can prove his existence. If there is none, we go on as usual - believing, hoping, guessing, inventing.
Athiesm has a hubris to it that has always ran a chill down my spine.
Why would he leave his book behind, then?
So the holy ghost did not instruct those men to write their respective parts of the bible?The book thing, there's lots of books written by people about spirituality, its part of the lexicon, Jesus himself didnt instruct any books be written or seek to leave one as a lasting legacy, the only thing he left was the Church in the shape of the 12 disciples but it was mainly to tell people they could stop living in fear of God.
I meant atheism in the sense of not having a belief in God, as opposed to strongly believing in no God. Agnostic would probably have been the correct term, but I'm an agnostic who leans toward the not believing side if I had to guess the unknowable.
I find absolute rejection of God's existence to be drawing conclusions that can't be drawn. It takes as much faith in the unknown as religion.
So the holy ghost did not instruct those men to write their respective parts of the bible?
I think you are running away.Think you're just trolling now. Bye.
If God is enacting change and we simply don't notice it than I challenge people to pay closer attention and find these changes. God is thus provable and people can not use the argument that it is not.
I bet a million lives that you merely labeled your experience 'god'; for it did not divulge its godness clearly to you (thus it cannot be 'aptly described'), so that through a lack of other explanations you reached for the easiest one: god, religion, tradition.