Reason is the default position so until I can come up with tangible physical evidence that he can
verify God or gods simply do not have meaning other than sociological implications of religion.
Not exact matches
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my
god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with
god (I've never seen
or heard from any
gods nor have I seen any independantly
verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
It's simply preposterous that these ancient Hebrews that you consider to be ever - so holy, prescient, prophetic, wise, and all - around the cat's meow — and guaranteed not to rust, bust, collect dust, bruise, bend
or tear, — all of a sudden become «disobedient» and «willful», when they were right there on the spot to witness (
or allegedly to easily
verify) this «Messiah» / «
God» character within their midst.
Hearing radio interference and thinking it's screams of hell in no way
verifies your claim of
god, the bible, hell
or anything else.
In fact, if he is to be true to the scientific method, he can not bring
God into the picture even if he wanted to, for by the methods of science, there is no way of
verifying whether
God is present
or not.
Hence, to use the present and its language structure as a basis for
verifying whether
God is real
or not is doomed to fail, for
God, who by presupposition is the most fully empirical, can not be found in the region that is partially empirical.
Belief is a poor way to
verify the truth
or existence of anything,
god or gods included.
I only ask because it would seem you are saying that due to the nature of
God we have no way to test for
or verify the existence of the spirit realm, thus you have assigned those unknowable spirits superpowers the likes of which might be better found on the pages on a comic book
or in ancient fairy tales.
Islam mentioned this for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access
or means to
verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence of
God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from
God), it only solidifies Islam as the true religion of
God.
A lovely little tale... problem is, there is no
verified evidence for supernatural beings - angels,
gods, demons, spirits (holy
or otherwise).
We also can not
verify how «
god» feels about abortion, gay rights, euthanasia, immigrants, war,
or any other BS.
I am not trying to prove that the Qur» an is the word of
God using scientific knowledge as a yard stick because any yardstick is supposed to be more superior than what is being checked
or verified.
Question: Why does
god allows so much confusion over his plan and will when he could have just made it like math
or chemistry ---
verified by measurable experiment?
Some might claim this is agnosticism but it is not as an agnostic believes there may
or may not be
God's but we have no way of
verifying it so they see no reason to commit.
But if there is a
God and He created the universe, who are we to question how He moves
or to insist that He moves in a particular way so that we can
verify it?
I'm simply saying that if we start at a supposition that the
God of Abraham did create this universe, and that the flood story might be true, then what evidence do we have in any direction about his possible past dealings
or ethics that can be
verified?
Just as it is impossible to demonstrate the existence of
God by either strictly empirical
or logical evidence, so it is impossible to
verify that a person has been confronted by
God.
However, the accounts of
God telling a person in the Old Testament to lead the Israelites to kill another group of people can not be
verified as they were often individual appearances, dreams, visions,
or «feelings» to a single person, leader, priest,
or king.
And its accuracy can not be
verified as concerns the divinity of Jesus
or the existence of a
god.
Every so called religious person
or scholar obviously knows nothing about the word of
God, since he / she / it has never
verified to anyone that he / she / it even exists let alone personally wrote
or directed to be written anything.
There are no measurements that can be made to
verify the
god hypothesis
or falsify the
god hypothesis, which means that the hypothesis is untestable, so you might as well say that an invisible and undetectable sky wizard chanted magic spells to create the universe... oh, wait... that's precisely what you are saying.
Like when people say they «know
god helped them»,
or «know
god exists»,
or «the bible is historically
verified».
The emphasis on
God's immanence should be noted, because most of the attempts to show that
God is dead
or that assertions about him can not be
verified are directed toward
God as transcendent only.
If
God be in anything
or anyone, He will
verify that fact as we attempt to follow.
There is no
verified evidence that any «
God» ever spoke to Moses
or any other ancient Jew.
What can we measure in order to
verify or falsify your claim that
god exists?.