Sentences with phrase «reasons i think god»

He can, with no qualms, assent to any of the catechisms of historical Christianity, but for some reason thinks God is wrong when he teaches love of enemies, therefore rejecting that teaching.

I wholeheartedly believe that, and it's one of the reasons I think God has stirred my heart so much for folks that I may not see in person every day, but that are out there praying for things I probably take for granted.

Not exact matches

And that sounds really weird to people but if you think about it, a really happy 80 - year - old couple that's been together for 60 years, the reason that they've been together for 60 years, it isn't because they took all these private jets and they had these crazy vacations and «Oh my God, look at their pictures.»

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

I think Colin may have been wanting to know what believers feel is the reason god would make hell.

Science just defaults to no belief in god since there's no evidence or reason to think there is a god.

I think the reason he dwells of God so much is because relgious people can't stop questioning him about it and he lives in a world where people seem to have to believe in God.

Nick, arrogance in the extreme is claiming to understand God's motives, reasons & justifications or personifying him with human emotions like jealousy, vanity & vengance... Between athiests & believers, who do you think does this?

And if at that point I could think or reason which, of course, atheists probably believe I would not be able to do because I would be nothing but decaying matter... I believe that I would be disappointed to not see God as I expected to.

No... the reason many people will wind up in Hell one day, is because they didn't think God important enough to think about.

Nay do not simply walk away from it... FLEE it as quickly as possible... lest you lose your ability to think and / or reason as God intended.

God gave us inquisitive minds and brave hearts for a reason... and it wasn't to bow in submission to the past or common thought / practice.

So for the normal thinking person, the one who is not gullible and living in fear of a vindictive child abusing - rapist - murderer god, there simply is no reason to accept it.

If you apply basic principles of logical reasoning, scientific inquiry, and rational thinking, you would come to the conclusion — God does NOT exist!

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

I fought it, thought about it, reasoned it, talked to God about it, read the Bible, talked to Christians, talked to unbelieving friends and then He saved me.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

The reason I asked is to find out how you thought about God.

The reason a Chrisitian would be so willing is that we do know what awaits us when we leave this God foresaking world... Heaven... the only thing awaiting an atheist is what someone of your thinking said one time to me... «dirt».

I think this is what causes me uneasiness with those who attribute belief in God to the fear of divine retri bution, brainwashing, indoctrination at an early age or any other contrived reason.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

======= @Cheese «Even if your first 2 points were true (and we don't know that they are) there is no reason to conclude the first cause was an intelligence and even less reason to think it is your specific god.

Personally, I find the above problem to be one of several good reasons why I do not believe in the Christian god, and why I think the bible is 100 % man - made, as is the god that it speaks of.

Yet, for some strange reason, York god didn't think that black folks or women needed that same right.

I don't even think there's a god, and even if I did I'd have no reason to believe your understanding of him is any better than anyone else's.

also, there is no reason to think that if a particular Christian stopped believing in God, then they would completely stop doing «good» things, right?

The same reasons BC condemns the readers and contributors to this forum — that we think, question, use our own God - given intelligence and reasoning skills, don't accept the easy answers, and are accepting of differences which create no harm — are the very things that make that notion quite bizarre.

And yet, I sometimes think that the reason we don't see more miracles is simply because God is performing miracles in our midst every moment of every day and they are so commonplace, we fail to see them.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

He identifies three reasons why young men think they don't need God More

So unless we are to substitute wishful thinking for careful thinking, we need to ask what would be the possible reasons for God to test us with suffering, and are these in keeping with God being good and loving?

And if your god has put a thought into your mind but you don't know it, and that thought causes you to act in a way that's different from how you would have acted if that thought was not there (which is the whole reason it would be put there, otherwise it would be unnecessary, right?)

You'd think that some god would take some action if for no other reason than to have more cult members.

Perhaps I am deluded to believe in an all — powerful benevolent God, but it's the best explanation I can think of for the life experiences I have had and rationally, for that reason unless and until something happens or someone shows me something to give my objective and indefatigable evidence to the contrary, I can't sanely not believe.

This is a reason why I don't believe that intrusive prayers will damn you: God will understand that those thoughts aren't what you actually want, though it may be worth asking Him to show you why you have these intrusive thoughts, and ask Him to, if it is His will, heal you of such things.

I also have done what I thought was in the will of God only to find out I was doing it for the wrong reason.

Fantasy world is someone who stil thinks Santa Claus delivers presents and that for some mysterious reason a God that looks like man created all the Cosmos.

So there is no reason to think of where God came from, because God has always been.

Many theists are really unconsciously pelagianistic when they think they can prove to a non-theist the existence of God through reason alone, for this is to presuppose that one had God at one's beck and call.»

Like the religious objectors, scientists wishing to separate faith and reason — a minority, but a noisy one — claim that nature, which they often think of as self - subsistent rather than as created, can not be reconciled to God, whose existence they often deny.

I think one reason God left it vague in Scripture is to increase our desire to tell others about Jesus.

As a result it has to let go of reason; it has to reject many of the findings of modern mainstream science, thinking that this is the only way to remain faithful to God's revelation.

While Faith continues primarily to reason for the existence of God through science, the book's salutary contribution to this reviewer's thought is the case that the moral argument is the most effective in reasoning for God's existence on university campuses.

I think that God wants us to know Him better, which is one reason Jesus came... to reveal Abba to us.

The only reason you are having those thoughts or thinking those words is because you thought I was a certain type of god, and I have not turned out to be that way.

After all, if you believe, then you MUST think that God didn't endow you with logic and reasoning so you'd forgo their use.

The truncated idea of God that figures in the analysis, and in much of the rest of the church's ethical reasoning, automatically precludes or minimizes the investigation of certain lines of thinking, and leads to reductionistic treatments of a wide range of issues.

@Athy... You'd think if they read the bible like they say they do, they would «see the big picture» or «know god's reasons» for these things happening and get the H3LL OUTTA THERE!

The God haters and atheist / qu eer bigots that think they have something to say are not going to be affected by evidence, reason or common sense.

But for the above reasons, I don't see anything wrong with verbalising what we're all saying, thinking and doing all the time as Christians, and saying that God agrees with one position but not with another.