Well listen carefully to everything he says to you; He might inspire you to write down some interesting facts and stories about existence that could expose all the stuff in the bible that is fiction.
If you plug up your ears and cover your eyes with a blindfold and refuse to listen, that in no way proves God doesn't exist. It just proves you are incapable of wanting to know.
God isn't all that hard to reach, but you have to extend your hand at least.
Hard to prove. Just like proving to a "flat-lander" that spheres exist...Anyone who lives in 2 dimensions will never be able to imagine anything more than a circle even when he encounters the evidence that a sphere provides him.
Hi Kittigate. Odd question: "What is your evidence that any supernatural force exists? If any iota of supernatural forces be around that would not necessarily mean that a God must exist."
Why not just ask evidence for God? I mean, why ask for evidence of any supernatural force and then say that doesn't mean a God must exist?
Honestly though, the fact that the universe exist and we exist should be some evidence of a God.
Pretty much anyone that walks upon a childs block or a simple tinker toy thinks they required a maker but many think that a blue whale and a platypus just happened. I don't get it.
We exist is evidence of narurally occurring intuitive consciousness rather than the questionable existence of a supernatural creator or Intelligent designer. Life is little if anything at all more than instinct to eat and reproduce; given a few billions of years you can throw in something known as evolutionary process as well -and then you got humans!
Is a tinker toy also proof of naturally occurring intuitive consciousness as well? Seems to me that something simpler would be easier. The instinct to eat and reproduce is the cause of life? Billions of years and wallah! So simple, right?
Intuitive consciousness is where parts of the whole 'know' (intuitively) where they fit in; no intelligence required. That is how construction of complex moleclues occur in nature. Ie. a snake needs a poison to stun or kill a victim.. nature provides. To eat and reproduce is the purpose of life -life is enabled when conditions are suitable. Simplicity is efficiency.
I don't think so however the basis of life is consciousness which exists in every particle of matter; not exactly non life. Without naturally occurring consciousness there probably would not be existence. The theist might be more likely to want to think supernatural spirit than naturally occurring 'consciousness'.
We have no evidence that any supernatural force exists out there, but if you seriously, and logically think about it, is there any reason why out in the cosmos, there shouldn't be intelligent entities, that could probably influence our lives?
Like most people of my age I was brought up to believe in the God of the Bible, and although today, I could never believe in all that stuff, I still can't help having the reflex to imagine that there is a presence that's observing me, and has often been there to make things easier for me.
Anyway, I know it's only a theory, and I certainly don't count on it. 'Better to continue being practical, and count on myself.
There are no atheists in foxholes - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_no_atheists_in_foxholes
The statement "There are no atheists in foxholes" is an aphorism used to argue that in times of extreme stress or fear, such as during war ("in foxholes"), all people will believe in, or hope for, a higher power (and there are therefore no atheists)
I think that there are likely some atheist in foxholes, although some may start praying in hopes of there being a God when they know they are about to die?
Nick Batchelor asked a question on answerbag something to the affect of would you have heiled Hitler. Every atheist known to me that answered said something like that they would have done whatever it took to survive. Sad that people will murder innocent people to preserve their own life.
I had an uncle who faught in the Korean War, (was raised Catholic) -returned home non-believer because of the atrocities he witnessed could not believe an existing God could allow that kind of horrors.
I found I had lung cancer just over 2 years ago -never occurred to me to ask or expect any kind of divine intervention. In remission now anyway. I can't speak for other atheists but I am sure they are not that cowardly.
Many don't know what the Bible teaches in regards as to why God allows suffering and why people die.
Glad your cancer is in remission. My birth father recently died from cancer, he had three kinds.
I took them at their word. I think it likely that some Church people that participated in supporting Hitler didn't really believe in what they were doing but chose to kill others to save their own lives. Do you think that atheist are inherently braver than Church people? I know that there were some political entities with religious ties that were disbanded as well as at least one political entity with atheist ties that was disbanded. Was there a particular symbol that atheist had to where to show that they were atheist? Were atheist thrown in to the camps for non-belief, for refusing to serve Hitler or did they serve Hitler or what do you think?
Hitler declared "as national socialists we believe in a Godly world view". Seems he thought atheists would be difficult persons to submit to discipline since they did not believe in a higher power. He just did not want them in his military or have anything to do with atheists.
Or perhaps most of them did as the vocal atheist on answerbag said that they would have done? History reveals that Hitler did not tolerate people not supporting him and his war effort or even not saying Heil Hitler. History also reveals who Hitler did have a hard time submitting to his way of thinking. It also seems that perhaps it was their firm belief in a higher power that gave them the conscience and strength to not participate in the cruel atrocities and carnage.
I've done a lot of research in the past and I really don't see how anyone that has researched it would think that Hitler would just leave people alone that were difficult to sway.
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