Why do you believe in God? [Spirituality & Religion]
If you sin unknowingly in between the last time you prayed for forgiveness and death, do you go to hell?
22-25, M
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
Many reasons. Difficult to explain, but the most important reasons would be:
1# Logic: Why are we here? Did earth come into existence from nothing at all for no reason at all, or did it come into existence from something and for a reason?
2# Science: We know that time is infinite. Not only does it stretch into infinity and beyond in the future, but also the past. This means that time is not a linear line but something beyond our ability to understand.
3# Fulfilled Prophecies: The Bible's words proves to be true to this day, and this gives me reason to believe in the religious texts.
And only God can answer that question.
1# Logic: Why are we here? Did earth come into existence from nothing at all for no reason at all, or did it come into existence from something and for a reason?
2# Science: We know that time is infinite. Not only does it stretch into infinity and beyond in the future, but also the past. This means that time is not a linear line but something beyond our ability to understand.
3# Fulfilled Prophecies: The Bible's words proves to be true to this day, and this gives me reason to believe in the religious texts.
And only God can answer that question.
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@MartinTheFirst 💩💩💩😈 😂
MaybeTooNarcissistic · 22-25, M
@MartinTheFirst Look, I've been to church every week of my life for 17 years. You won't change me with a few "unanswerable" questions.
1: It does not matter where we came from, why would it?
2: If time is infinite, does that mean God is under the constraints of time? Why would he not?
3: Confucius' words prove to be true to this day as well. If you make the rules vague enough, people that believe them will compare them to their lives at that very moment. You don't think the people during the Black Plague thought it was the "end times?" Here we are 600+ years later...
1: It does not matter where we came from, why would it?
2: If time is infinite, does that mean God is under the constraints of time? Why would he not?
3: Confucius' words prove to be true to this day as well. If you make the rules vague enough, people that believe them will compare them to their lives at that very moment. You don't think the people during the Black Plague thought it was the "end times?" Here we are 600+ years later...
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@MartinTheFirst mate the bible was put together by a number of people in the 1500's and was hugely embellished with tall tales to get people in ... the Dead Sea Scrolls are the closest thing to it and not a lot of them are in the Bible and they were written in such a manner as to appease the Romans and a lot of it was sarcasm that they did not get.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
MaybeTooNarcissistic · 22-25, M
@MartinTheFirst As I've said before, I've been to church every week for 17 years. The great message is to change souls throughout the earth, wherever you are, and whatever you are doing. If you are not doing this, how can you call yourself a Christian?
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@MaybeTooNarcissistic which supposed God are you talking about ..... every religion has their own .... your christaian God killed thousands of people and must still be doing it to Syrians etc as the Bible says so so what sort of God are they ... not worth following
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@MaybeTooNarcissistic There's a saying
If you kick every rock in your path, you'll never get to your destination.
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@MaybeTooNarcissistic I am not a christian and never have been I follow Buddhism
MaybeTooNarcissistic · 22-25, M
@MartinTheFirst That is not a Christian Proverb. Careful there buddy. You're walking on the edge of sacrilege.
MaybeTooNarcissistic · 22-25, M
@Ozdharma Hey man, not talking about you.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@MaybeTooNarcissistic A lot of good teachings aren't christian proverbs. Don't be silly.
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@MaybeTooNarcissistic I meant it to Martin sorry
@MartinTheFirst
1) I feel that i should point out to you that it is not logical to believe in god on the basis that you feel there ought to be a reason for existence.
2) Can you elaborate on why this makes you believe in god?
3) Biblical prophecy is as worthless as any other prophecy. It can be made to fit the events of any time and any place. It's not a useful metric for determining divinity. Not to mention that the bulk of prophecy fulfillment is "fulfilled" within the bible itself.
1) I feel that i should point out to you that it is not logical to believe in god on the basis that you feel there ought to be a reason for existence.
2) Can you elaborate on why this makes you believe in god?
3) Biblical prophecy is as worthless as any other prophecy. It can be made to fit the events of any time and any place. It's not a useful metric for determining divinity. Not to mention that the bulk of prophecy fulfillment is "fulfilled" within the bible itself.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Pikachu Not interested.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Pikachu I don't respond positively towards insults.
@MartinTheFirst
To be fair, you didn't respond positively to a simple challenge of your reasons either😉
To be fair, you didn't respond positively to a simple challenge of your reasons either😉
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Pikachu Since half of it was insults. Look, I've proven scientists wrong before, but if they have the attitude you have then it does not matter what I say. In the end after 10 hours of back and forth debating you'll agree to what happened but you'll basically say it was a coincidence becuase "if you say many enough prophecies some are bound to be fulfilled" bla bla bla... And if a scientist on here with the same mindset turned to that silly argument, then I doubt that you would be much more objective. Especially since your insults are even more intrusive, trying to just spike a argument, and not a debate.
Go to someone else for that. Ciao.
Go to someone else for that. Ciao.