Is the neutral verdict on the existence of God being maintain by God?
Truth is, if there was solid evidence for the existence of God, it then would be a point of fact with no room for faith.
Therefore is it possible that the continued neutrality is being sustain by God for our benefit?
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on -
RE: "he is all yours again Archaeopteryx" - if you want to give me something John, I could really use another pair of socks - in fact, as a gift, I would prefer measles, mumps and chicken pox, in combination, to Michael. Thanks, but no thanks --
pax vobiscum,
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Permalink Reply by Karen Lollis on -
Seriously. F-off is the only right answer to the a-hole who tests your loyalty by telling you to murder your child. Said a-hole, who, BTW, already knows your innermost thoughts so shouldn't have to actually assign the test to know the outcome.
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Permalink Reply by Michael on -
Of course, Occam's razor must render faith foolish. If faith weren't so foolish, it would not have been so hard for Abraham to offer up Isaac. The sacrifice of logic is so profuse and profound, yet as a high priest in the Holy Temple of your body, this is what he dwell in the Holy of Holies of your soul and in whom we move and exist, requires.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Lollis on
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Well, you've clearly sacrificed your logic. It wasn't faith that made it hard for Abraham to offer up Isaac. Take faith out of the equation, and most fathers would still have a hard time killing or allowing their child to be killed. What if Isaac was a psychopathic killer and couldn't be stopped until he was dead, it most likely would still have been difficult for Abe to kill him.
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Permalink Reply by Pope OoO (Out of Order) on -
Perhaps the gift of intelligence is also just to test our faith, for both faith and foolishness are much easier to accept without it?
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Permalink Reply by Michael on
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True, "We preached, Christ crucified, foolishness, to the Greeks and a stumbling block to the Jews"
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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on -
WHAT neutral existence? There's nothing neutral about theism in MY mind. There is no God lurking in MY mind. There are NO gods competing for a place in MY mind. The concept is rejected totally by MY mind. The evidence for any sort of theistic entity does not engage MY mind, since it simply does not exist. Religion is a supernatural fantasy concocted by fearful, irrational minds. That's certainly not MY mind. Bottom line: it's only MY mind that counts, and there is no such thing as "neutrality" in MY mind.
And the question, "...is it possible that the continued neutrality is being sustained by God for our benefit?" is a silly one, since the question itself lacks neutrality, since it accepts, implicitly, the existence of God's (capital G") intent. The answer, by the way is NO, it is NOT possible!
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Bates on -
This is nonsense. You're basically suggesting that "God" loves us too much to provide any evidence for its existence because faith is a virtue. That doesn't make any sense at all and presupposes the existence of a god.
What makes far more sense is that ambiguity is part of the essential infidelity that allows the idea of religion to evolve and survive generation to generation. If the idea of a god was strictly defined, it would be so inflexible it could not change and adapt as cultures evolved. The religions and spiritual systems that are more adaptable (ie, more vague) have a greater survival value in modern times because of all the access to information we have. This is why pantheistic conceptions of god (ie, "god is energy") are more and more popular today. People are more and more picking and choosing from the 'faith buffet' and that works for religion as it is the only way religion is going to survive as more specific conceptualizations of gods are dismissed and discarded.
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Permalink Reply by Michael on
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Don't get me wrong, the son of God will return and usher in the thousand years of peace some time after the Jews construct the Temple in Jerusalem using the Keystone recently found from the previous Temple. They have already bred a sufficient amount of red heffers necessary for the purification of Priests. Moreover the Sandhedrim has been reinstated. Slowly Jerusalem is molding into the pre-Vaspasion destruction era, as it must to fulfill the prophecies.
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Bates on
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Drivel. What does that have to do with what I wrote?
The idea of a god is a selfish meme. No more, no less.
The scary part is that there are people out there breeding red heifers -- and doing worse -- in order to bring about the conditions talked about in Revelations, real world political and environmental considerations be damned.
Supernaturalizing the human experience makes it impossible to understand and value humanity's place in the natural environment. That is why religion is so bad and why actively resisting it is one of the most worthwhile things a person could do.
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Permalink Reply by Michael on
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Incorrect, the Jews do not believe in Christian prophecies nor Revelations.
Their motivation and goal have been decreed before the foundations of the earth. Foreshadowed by Melchizedek, the high priest of Salem to whom Abraham tithed with Levi being in his loins connoting the superior Priesthood which was to come: Melchizedek- "Neither having beginning of life nor end of days, but of whom it is witnessed, he lives"
Yeshua (the Anointed) is that high priest.
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Bates on
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Eh, who said anything about Jewish people? WTF are you talking about?
I am, in fact, correct that there are those who are actively trying to bring about a 'Biblical apocalypse.' John Hagee, for example: http://prospect.org/article/pastor-strangelove
The rest of what you've written isn't worth responding to as it is utter nonsense. If you continue to follow up with irrelevant drivel, I'll simply respond in kind by quoting from Lorem Ipsum.
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