If you had one question to ask GOD.

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  1. Object227

    Object227 Well-Known Member

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    I'm an atheist. I have no questions for a being I don't believe exists in the first place. All of my questions are directed to believers.

    The first question I have (that is never actually answered) is ---> How do you know God exists?
     
  2. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The Law of Probability.....
    x String Theory
    x Wave Theory = Intelligence beginning and evolving (learning) in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy......
    probably trillions or more years....(yes that is not the correct term, sorry).... even before the most recent Big Bang event of
    13.72 billion or so years ago..........

    www.CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/
     
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    Among other things, I have a conscience, which I wouldn't have without God.
     
  4. AboveAlpha

    AboveAlpha Well-Known Member

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    And you know this how exactly??

    I mean it's OK if you say that is what you think or believe or that is your opinion.

    But you cannot definitively state as a fact..... I have a conscience, which I wouldn't have without God.

    You can't.

    It is opinion or belief.

    AA

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    You and I both know a religious person is going to answer this with.....BECAUSE THE BOOK SAYS SO!!!

    LOL!!!

    I have no problem with a person believing in a GOD or being religious.

    What I DO have a problem with is when those people try to tell ME what to believe!!!

    AA
     
  5. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am of the belief that a conscience....
    developed over infinite time in the past.....
    as Fundamental Energy Mom and Fundamental Energy Dad.....
    figured out how to work together inventing lower and lower and lower levels
    of space - time....(that is probably a terrible way to word that... .but it is the best that I can do)......

    Investing huge amounts of energy and time in various projects.....
    would tend to make the original intelligence highly emotionally involved in the created beings.... .others........
    so
    effort x time = conscience...
    or at least some of the aspects of conscience

    ....... .....


    http://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/experiences/mellen-thomas-benedict.html#a05
     
  6. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Around 1990 I began to literally raise my right hand in the air.....
    and pray.... about G-d taking me by the right hand and guiding me.....
    much as G-d had guided a Gentile king who did not even know G-d.....

    My life has changed in astonishing ways since I began to do that.....
    if you try.....
    you may notice the shift in your life......


    I suspected strongly that I was an ignorant idiot when I began to pray that way.....
    I know I am less ignorant these days.....


    https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/isa/45/1/s_724001


    Isaiah 45:1
    ΒΆ
    ....


    You could call this an experiment......
    if there is not G-d.....
    what harm could it do?

    ........
    http://www.politicalforum.com/opini...lligence-begin-matter-fundamental-energy.html

    Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?



    I am an Evolutionary Theist........

    I am of the belief that a being with "Godlike" technological capability

    began, far far far far far more than 13.72 billion years ago, in
    fundamental or nearly fundamental energy that to at least some
    degree corresponds with "Energy from Quantum Vacuum."
     
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    Why confuse me with environmental dustbins? I only need one.
     
  8. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    In regards to your Multiverse Theory.....
    I finally have been able to put into words one significant disagreement that I have with it
    in the form that you wrote it at first.......


    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=424926&page=13&p=1067054624#post1067054624

    Thread: The Philosophical implications of Multiverse Theory?

    It seems to me that
    IF.... it is true that vastly greater intelligences than we humans have
    indeed evolved in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy.......
    who exist in what could be referred to as "invisible dimensions of space - time that
    we can't observe yet..........

    then.......

    those intelligences could well influence the way that future events work out
    so that Multiverse is NOT infinite.....
    but instead.....
    could be working out in a way that is better and better and better and better.....

    less and less violence......

    in each time line... .or at least in many time lines.....

    http://www.heartcom.org/FutureVision.htm

    Which leads to another question for Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and /or the Being / being / beings of light
    of NDE fame........

    So why don't you obliterate the seriously bad guys who
    are attempting to lead humanity to a nuclear war?????????????
     
  9. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I just noticed your comments on the Book of Revelation over in another discussion.

    For the record.... I think that what you wrote was accurate......

    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=431430&page=46&p=1065779413#post1065779413

    Thread: Is it moral for God to punish us?




    AboveAlpha... what do you think of the theory that I read several years ago that
    the Roman Catholic Church was set up with celibate priests and nuns partly......
    to wrestle control of the second and third century Messianic Gentile and Messianic Jewish community.....
    out of the hands of women..........????

    Since churches in the first and second centuries took place in homes.......
    nobody could go to church if the woman of the house really, really, really disliked them......
    so in order to take control of Christianity away from women.....

    the desperate but effective gambit of a supposedly celibate priesthood and nuns.....
    was initiated.....
    although it was obvious that that was NOT what Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus had initiated......



    Matthew 8:14

    "And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. "



    Mar 1:30

    But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
     
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    He'd reply "Can you narrow it down a bit?"
    Then he'd say- "Anyway the answers are already in the Bible"..:)
     
  11. Johnny Brady

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    What bad guys?
    Anyway God would probably reply- "I've just given you Trump to ease tensions between the West and Russia, what more can I do?"

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  12. Johnny Brady

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    He'd probably reply- "But I gave humans the commonsense not to have more babies than their land can support, what more could I do?"
     
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    Nobody can be 100% sure he exists, but believers are probably around the "95% belief" mark for 3 reasons-
    1- they can 'sense' God in themselves.
    2- they regard the universe as evidence of a Creator.
    3- Jesus said there is a God and he did miracles to show God's power working through him.

    Even Dawkins said-

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  14. Grugore

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    God created a perfect universe. Man F'ed it up by sinning. So it's our fault. But God loved us so much that He sent His only Son to pay the price for that sin.
     
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    Well..... .I guess something else that G-d could do is
    fulfill Isaiah 45.... through President Donald Trump.......

    that would certainly impress me!


    https://www.facebook.com/notes/nati...n-the-making-by-reeni-mederos/510694685796579
    Donald Trump, A Prophet In The Making by Reeni Mederos
     
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    Yes somebody up there is looking out for Don..:)
    Jesus said- "And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" Matt 10:30
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    Yup.....
    he is all set up to be willing to tackle problems in
    Federal Reserve policy one of these days......


    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=424298&page=5&p=1067083832#post1067083832

    Thread: Did P. M. Pierre Elliott Trudeau save the world environment?
    ....

    Here is my basic reasoning......
    by taking Canada off a brilliant central banking system that had been in place
    from 1940 - 1974, P. M. Pierre E. Trudeau set in motion a series of events that
    caused the Canadian economy to be relatively stagnant in comparison to what it
    could have been.........
    which of course also had a dampening effect on the USA economy.....
    and set the stage for the massive increase in interest rates in the late '70's and early '80's
    that caused the national debt of both Canada and the USA to spiral out of control.

    (The USA Federal Reserve would not have been able to so greatly increase interest rates
    if the neighboring nation had continued with its policy of putting about fifty percent of the money
    supply of Canada into our economy through low interest loans to provinces and other levels of
    government for infrastructure projects).

    Although I don't like what he did.....
    it sure did dampen the North American economy.....
    and thus slowed down the entire world economy......
    which could be argued was a good thing for the environment?!

    .....
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

     
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    AboveAlpha.... I got a theory for you.....
    it is said that the person in a relationship with the most power......
    is the one who cares the least!

    This is interesting.... and could explain why
    the superior Intelligence / intelligence / intelligences who probably evolved and learned over eternity in the past
    in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy may deal with humanity in a manner that
    is highly questionable.

    If some sort of "G-d, Creator, Ancient of Days the Father and Ancient of Days the Mother"
    care so deeply for us humans......
    that they observe and record absolutely all that we do and think........
    Then.... perhaps the principle of do unto others as you would have them do unto you......

    kicks in and G-d.....
    has decided to give us humans astonishing power and responsibility to alter our own situation......
    ourselves.... with relatively little interference from our Creator / creators.....

    almost like was done by the cast and crew of Star Trek......

    Since we humans care the least for G-d.....
    we have been given the most power... in a sense.....
    over our relationship with our Creator.....

    http://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/howard-storm.html#a06
    So I guess the obvious question that springs from this would be......
    "Is it true that......?
     
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    WTF are you saying. Gud in Swedish creater every human life in mothers stomach to normal standard even there are few percent handicapped humanity in world they wannabee handicapped or there are any God how willing these cruel or are handicapped born wrong or it are God how creater them after born and to follow or it are Lord how willing this sickness ? I feelings great when I eat food and from distance eat it feelings bad when one are handicapped far from when they try to be stronger than I am.
     
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    One wrong with handicapped are creaters in mothers stomach. It are evil power with handicapped humanity not my life from begun sure I am normal standard but my voices are handicapped...
     
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    Has defied my God when he lines up against my vote for them have eaten my food far away. Forbidden faith and eat my food and from a distance it is totally forbidden to believe in my faith. Can otherwise eat my food myself. When a remote eaters eat from a distance, he and she are not normally made so I interpret those trying raw at me from a distance. No one can rough on me to eat. Who has creater eat far from ? An US citizen from 70's ? Stupidity magics. America is evil if true. I think also nobody can see me from distance so it is handicap species by America. But I liked USA since I leave my Anti USA friend in education. He liked terror attack 2001. 2003 it were over for his Iraq in second Iraq war. He is also likes terrorism. I will president send US troops to Iraq unless again to fight ISIS.

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    60,000 US Marines to Iraq war.

    :thumbsup:
     
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    Near death experiencer Dannion Brinkley was shown
    that only the most courageous and philosophically advanced
    spiritual beings will volunteer to become a child destined to be
    handicapped or suffer from a serious disease in childhood.


    http://www.near-death.com/science/research/pre-existence.html

    Pre-Existence and the Near-Death Experience



     
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    Excellent question! I suppose one could ask why God allows suffering but I think I'd rather go with ...

    We have all of this conflict caused by our inability to come to an agreement about who/what you are and what it means to worship you. You could resolve all of this by just coming here and showing us which path is correct. Why don't you?
     
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    I would ask God for a copy of the universe's video, complete with zoom-in, zoom-out, fast-forward and rewind. Then I could figure out who shot JR. Hindsight omniscience! :eyepopping:

    Sure would make social media boring by comparison.

    But it could be a royal hassle if you let anyone else know of your video...
     
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    Here is the condensed version:


    http://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/experiences/mellen-thomas-benedict.html#a05
     

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