That statement invigorates many questions.
Perhaps mankind was not the original "inventor"?
What if God really does exist and earth is simply a "test" of our faith?
Can you prove that God doesn't exist?
If God does exist, and you die, what would you think?
And your answer exemplifies immaculately the mindset of religious people.
It’s not about concrete facts that can be observed; it’s only about the “what ifâ€.
Ironically, religious people can’t handle it when these games are played on them.
Perhaps mankind was the original inventor?
What if God doesn’t exist and Earth is simply a rock floating around the sun?
Can you
prove that God exists?
If God doesn’t exist, and you die, what would you think, after wasting your whole life on him?
Why do your questions hold more weight than mine? Oh! Because you have the Bible, right?
But the Bible only has meaning to those who chose to believe it.
So, then, doesn’t that mean you’re only “right†because you
chose to believe you are “right�
But hark! How many religions are there? And aren’t they all “right†by similar logic?
So if you’re right, then they are wrong, right? But why would you be more right than they are?
Why are you special? Their books say their Gods are the only Gods.
Doesn’t that mean you’re wrong? Clearly they are the ones who are right, right?
But wait, they can’t all be right, or else you would be right too.
Now all that’s left is for one egotistical religion to proclaim that it is correct and all others are wrong, or for all of them to agree they are
all wrong.
Believe what you want, I suppose the only way this debate will end is when we die and we'll all learn the truth: Either we cease to exist and lose consiousness forever or we continue to exist in consience, simply without our bodies.
Some also believe they will be reborn after they die, but the only thing anyone
knows is that you do get at least one life, and it’s this one right here.
So living this actual factual proved-to-be life that you have right now for the sake of an imaginary skeptical hope-it’s-there life you
think you’re going to have (including “life in Heavenâ€) kind of defeats the purpose of living at all, don’t you think?
What you have is your imagination.
It is easy for you to buy into the things people told you as a child while your mind was still vulnerable to brainwashing (not that it isn’t now).
And using a rebuttal such as, “If God does exist, and you die, what would you think?â€, is one of the most traitorous things you can do to your religion.
I’ll let you figure out why.
Perhaps he simply created dinosaurs so we could later have oil?
Or perhaps the Bible is wrong, the Earth wasn’t created in 6 days, and dinosaurs ruled for many many centuries before “man†was even a sperm in a scrotum.
A religious person can only raise questions whose only compulsion for substantiation is an assumed belief in the Bible.
Why don’t you (all religious people) try to pose questions that actually have substance, or admit that your own questions, when asked back at you, cancel your questions out 100%?
…you can prove that it exists and I can go on faith.
No, he
can’t prove it, but you may
still go on faith, because you also can’t prove he
didn’t see it.
That’s the whole foundation of religion in a nutshell.
And you missed it.
You think religions would last if they could be proved (and I mean blatantly) wrong?
Religions are tricky bastards.
They are specifically
designed to be so abstract that they can never actually be proved wrong.
Why don’t you read your own Bible, and Bibles from other religions, with this in mind, and try looking for all the ways they use abstractions to obscure their “facts�
And don’t even
think about going off on how history books aren’t more substantiated than the Bible simply because I didn’t see the historical events myself.
The things I see today align quite well with most of the teachings in history books.
I can see landmarks, buildings, geological structures, etc., that fit historical descriptions quite well, unlike with
anything that is said to have occurred in the Bible, particularly the great flood.
Even history books know when to admit to things they simply can’t explain, such as Stonehenge.
Quite amazing that ancient humans literally knew
everything, from how the planet was created to its flat shape.
I guess humans have really just been getting dumber over the last centuries, huh?
L. Spiro