If there is
no God or Gods then what is morality based on?
If I had zero faith that there was
a god or gods then I would call myself an atheist.
If they truly don't believe in
God or any god then why bother doing ANYTHING?
If someone finds solace in believing or having faith in
a God or Gods then who am I to tell them they are wrong?
... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of
a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.
Not exact matches
Well the picture was made under the title of Magnifico Straniero, so when it was Fistful of Dollars I didn't think anything of it, and
then about the fourth
or fifth time that they mentioned this film they said Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood, little tiny letters down there and I said - I said oh
god, that's it, huh?
And if they are,
then are not those who would tax
or criticize Wall Street «
God - killers»?
If you don't believe in an afterlife,
or God for that matter, well
then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.
Even if you don't believe in a religion
or God more than likely the morals you identify do come from a religion at some point that
then became the norm for society.
If you agree with what
God calls sin,
then you need only look at your own thoughts and conduct to know that you don't measure up to his standard, whether you were born with original sin
or not.
If someone were to show me evidence that either
god or unicorns exist
then I would believe.
For if a man
or a woman's body —
or his
or her status as a married person,
or his capacity to be a father
or hers to be a mother — doesn't matter for his
or her sex life, why,
then, should anyone imagine that the body of the Son of
God matters, whether it is in a manger, on a cross, risen,
or fully and really present under the signs of bread and wine?
If
God had left the ability to do the opposite out of the equation
then there would have been no choice, thus no freedom
or free will to choose what we want.
Doing that in every flight trip I take make me at rest that if any thing happened on the way at least
then if died will not go waste but would face the mercy of
God on my soul... Because there only in the upper heavens
or mid oceans you have nothing but the mercy of
God and nothing in hand to relay upon trying to save self...!!!
However, if one believes in evolution
then one MUST conclude that
God lied in the description of creation (
or not know the details of creation).
Hardly, after man came up with
then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000
or so
gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became of all the people who had never the chance to hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?
You said, «If you believe in
God,
then follow his teaching...
or else..»
At first, you ask yourself if it is real
or coincidence,
then you see
God's hand working in it all.
My opinion is that if someone has never heard of Jesus,
or heard the gospel,
then God would look at them the same way he does an innocent child.
If you believe in
God,
then follow his teaching...
or else..
Or can you kill a bunch of children and
then ask
god for forgiveness?
If it's the matter of
god,
then you're dealing with something other than atheism considering atheism focuses on religion, not the matter of whether
god exists
or not.
If he truly believes his religious text as a Christian
or Jew would their own
then he is doing the right thing in the eyes of
god.
He is
God and Lord alone and he (Jesus) will love you for all eternity whether you choose to go to heaven with him
or to hell with the devil, its up to you, but I guess if you don't believe in Jesus Christ
then I guess you don't believe that Satan exist either.
OTOH, disregarding denominations, 33 % of the world population believes Christiantiy in one form
or another, where Jesus was born of Mary, with
God using the Holy Spirit to form him within her, and Jesus using the Holy Spirit later, dying on the cross, and
then giving the Holy Spirit to the Apostles after ascending to heaven.
If I worked at NASA and insisted that the expedition to Saturn should reveal evidence of the ancient Greek
or Roman
gods, and kept insisting that the data supported that mythology, I'd expect to be told (first) to stop preaching about it at work, and
then get fired if I kept doing it.
Many people over the years have had opinions about things that later on recanted when faced with contrary viewpoints, perhaps you have just not realized that if there is a
God and He commisioned the Bible
then whatever He said could not possibly be either ignorant
or prejudiced since He would be the ultimate authority...
I one does not understand (
or believe) in
God then he has to go with what he's got..
If
god designed the system,
then anything that happens is to his credit — be to his praise and glory
or to his shame and guilt.
We tend to expect that in times of silence we are supposed to hear from
God —
or at least feel particularly close to
God — and if we don't
then either we weren't silent long enough,
or we didn't do it right.
It's always very funny to see the religious zealots scream about what they «know» their
god wants, but when it's an uncomfortable contradiction
then «oh
god can't be understood»
or «who are you to question
god» (might makes right?).
I mean really?!?!?
God's word says what is right and wrong, and if you believe differently
then that is between you and
God; because whether you want to believe it
or not everyone will stand before Him, and if your name isn't in the book of life
then you will suffer the consequences.
And for those of you who think of themselves as the» know it all kind» and everyone else is ignorant, whether you like it
or not
God created you and the universe, now if you don't see that
then that is the ultimate ignorance.
Your belief in
god or any
god type is nothing less
then equal to that of children believing in santa — be good
or else!
well chutty - oh where to start - if you don't beleive in
god, fine...
then don't... i don't beleive in mermaids, but i don't espouse my non-belief as «passionate»... nor do i denegrate those who may believe in mermaids with derogatory labels like zionist
or evangelist... if you don't believe in
god,
then your belief in your fellow man should be a little stronger than having to slap labels on them....
In the absence of
God or as some claim that there is no
God then Good and evil become relative
or subject to the culture and time.
Then God opens up the trap door,
or however you get in there, and says, «Hey, you're cleared for entry!
If this is what you have been reading
then I need to tell you that ai nt no Bible
or do you just get the word of
God fed to you by way of deceitful bigoted morons...
It makes sense
then that we celebrate Ramadan (the month of fasting) with Eid and the pilgrimage to mecca with Eid and many of us do not celebrate Halloween (because of reasons above)
or Christmass
or Birthdays but many of us celebrate a slightly altered version of Thanksgiving (on Thanksgiving day) that focuses on being grateful to
God and sharing a meal.
The concept of
God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and
then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and /
or like about evolution.
then thats my issue and not yours
or anyone else's, if someone wants to believe in a man made
god thats there choice but don't shove ur beliefs down others throat!
You are either intentionally
or ignorantly — both
then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom
God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of
God — i.e. true love which stems from
God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.
If you're going to make the stupid argument that the term «belief» means the same thing whether it's applied to a
god or the sun coming up,
then argue with someone else.
3) If simple separation
or exclusion from
God is all that Hell is,
then how would it be any different from earth now?
Likewise, if you have had a bad experience with your father,
then it's not always going to be easy to relate — consciously
or subconsciously — to
God as your Father.
What a simple test you just offered up to us «until I reached the most reasonable conclusion» if you reach any conclusion other than «there are no
gods»... well,
then we will undoubtedly know whether you are either a liar
or just old - fashioned dumb...
A vast majority of the Old Testament is
God telling Israel, «you better stop that
or I'll have to kill all of you»
then proceeding to do exactly that.
And since
God is a just
God, more just
then anything
or anyone we know on this earth, He can not just say I forgive you and let us be cleansed of our sins.
1) everything is made of energy 2) energy CAN NOT be created nor destroyed 3) energy merely changes from one form to another; matter / energy conversion 4) if energy can not be created nor destroyed
then it remains a a constant 100 % 5) energy will always remina constant for ALL ETERNITY, thus the universe either recycles itself,
or never stops exsisting 6) you «idea of a
god» violates the basic laws of the universe, thus he can't exsist because we do.
But to
then derive from their conversations that to learn about
God we shouldn't read any books
or learn any theology but love each other is ridiculous.