Wouldn't it be nice is there really was a God?

[Bodhi]

Why create a seperate deity for a god you believe in, or may or may not exist? Are you polytheist?

The Bible god says that he will reward you for good deeds. No, I guess it would not be "right" to do good just to receive reward or in fear of punishment, but the Bible god does, in fact, act on reward and punishment.

There's a problem with your last point. The Bible god WANTS you to know him. If I wanted that person to know me like the Bible god does, I'd stress it as he does and repeatedly tell them who I am like the Bible does. Of course, they don't have the authority to decide who I am or change who I am, but through me, they would know me. Again, theism suggests that you know God

 

[judahxulu]

1.) to know itself. to experience and be the experience of intention and purpose.

So we are god's "consciousness", you would say?

"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively"

DAMN NOW IMA HAFTA PAY A LIL CLOSER ATTENTION TO BILL HICKS. I LIKE THAT QUOTE.

 

[alissowack]

Why create a seperate deity for a god you believe in, or may or may not exist? Are you polytheist?

The Bible god says that he will reward you for good deeds. No, I guess it would not be "right" to do good just to receive reward or in fear of punishment, but the Bible god does, in fact, act on reward and punishment.

There's a problem with your last point. The Bible god WANTS you to know him. If I wanted that person to know me like the Bible god does, I'd stress it as he does and repeatedly tell them who I am like the Bible does. Of course, they don't have the authority to decide who I am or change who I am, but through me, they would know me. Again, theism suggests that you know God

Maybe I should have made this clear. I drew up this idea hoping that you would assume that I had no knowledge of the Bible God and I was like..."wouldn't it be a good idea to make one?"

The "God rewarding for good deeds" part...the Bible speaks out a whole lot about people who do "good" just for reward or fear of punishment. In fact, that is the mistake that some churches make in preaching the message.

You know...God does want people to know Him. But does God "need" people to know Him? Is God's existence totally depended on how many people embrace Him? I did a "Webster" and theism isn't what you are suggesting. If people can know God, we would need it to be an -ism or -ology.

 

[Bodhi]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

 

[Bodhi]

1.) to know itself. to experience and be the experience of intention and purpose.

So we are god's "consciousness", you would say?

"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively"

DAMN NOW IMA HAFTA PAY A LIL CLOSER ATTENTION TO BILL HICKS. I LIKE THAT QUOTE.

cosign. That quote always sticks out to me

 

[GSonII]

The bible is the book of death as I stated a year or so ago. If we did not have to die I doubt anyone would be worried about some God that is not going to do anything for you directly rather he exists or not.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

There are no choices though.

Do tell....

:-w

 

[fiat_money]

There are no choices though.

Do tell....

:-w

INB4 determinism.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

What do you think would happen after a long while of always thinking of determinism before any thought or action? If before you thought or did anything, you brought to your awareness how determinism determines everything, how wonderful would life be?

 

[fiat_money]

It wouldn't be particularly bothersome.

So any "clever" ideas or thoughts I have are simply the product of pre-established factors that I have no control over.

Big whoop. Just means I'm "clever" by default.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

Your life would suck.

Constantly aware that everything you do is naught but because there was no other choice.

This being true, we ignore it, we don't want to think about it.

We want to believe we have choices.

I think constantly focusing on determinism would cause a lack of determinism in an individual.

 

[fiat_money]

Your life would suck.

Constantly aware that everything you do is naught but because there was no other choice.

This being true, we ignore it, we don't want to think about it.

We want to believe we have choices.

I think constantly focusing on determinism would cause a lack of determinism in an individual.

I'm totally cool with the bolded.

Even if someone gets in a vehicle and determines its path completely by evaluating every physical factor that will act upon it, it doesn't mean that the ride can't be enjoyable.

 

[alissowack]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

 

[GSonII]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

If God would exist without you knowing he existed and will not do anything to directly prove he exists a sensible person that is not trying to make a point to state something they can't prove would most likely conclude that he really does not care where you stand about him.

 

[Bodhi]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

Where and how would he exist if no one knew of him (could feel, see, hear, touch, smell the effects of his existance or was influenced by his actions)?

As a human being, you may not know me personally but my existence is still observable. Obviously, I'm typing to you and you can read what I'm typing as I'm typing thoughts that arise within myself. My existence is observable. But you don't really KNOW me. I don't need you to tell me who I am but just because you don't personally know me doesn't mean I'm not observable in some way. If I wasn't observable to you, I am to someone else. If I'm not observable at all to anyone or anything, there's a high probablity that I just don't exist.

You said yourself that god is not observable, so going by what you said, we have no clue at all as to whether he exists or not. You're just making an assumption that he exists, based on what? Because you're not observing any of his actions. And you said yourself also that we can't rest on assumptions about god so what are you really doing?

And right, if I wanted you to know me, I would tell you everything you need to know right here right now so you could get a better understanding. Maybe I would call you or even possibly come to visit you and your family so that you can know who I am. That's possible for me, even in human form and recognizing the limits I have AS a human. God, on the other hand, can do whatever he wants at any time, however he wants to do it (according to the Bible) but he isn't observable in the slightest way. And the odd part is, God WANTS you to know him. (also, according to the Bible)

Either God is hiding from us. Or he doesn't exist.

 

[judahxulu]

The bible is the book of death as I stated a year or so ago. If we did not have to die I doubt anyone would be worried about some God that is not going to do anything for you directly rather he exists or not.

Im saying tho, without the false translation and concepts inserted, the bible doesnt really say there is an afterlife so your premise is flawed. And just to say its a book of depth and gross generalization.

 

[VIBE]

A real higher power that would actually help us out and settle all the confusion. Not an asshole ass God though.

If there were to be, I'd prefer a female god.

 

[alissowack]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

If God would exist without you knowing he existed and will not do anything to directly prove he exists a sensible person that is not trying to make a point to state something they can't prove would most likely conclude that he really does not care where you stand about him.

Who is to say that God hasn't done anything? There is just this sense that if God exists, that this deity needs to put on a spectacular show of cosmic proportions to get people to be like..."Oh, I see now that God exists." However, even with a demonstration of power and might, does it mean that God can be trusted or that God even care? God's intentions may be to insight fear or make someone jealous that they can't do what He does. Or maybe He is a push-over hoping that His Creation would like Him...who knows? What if not doing anything is a way of showing that He does care?

 

[Bodhi]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

If God would exist without you knowing he existed and will not do anything to directly prove he exists a sensible person that is not trying to make a point to state something they can't prove would most likely conclude that he really does not care where you stand about him.

Who is to say that God hasn't done anything? There is just this sense that if God exists, that this deity needs to put on a spectacular show of cosmic proportions to get people to be like..."Oh, I see now that God exists." However, even with a demonstration of power and might, does it mean that God can be trusted or that God even care? God's intentions may be to insight fear or make someone jealous that they can't do what He does. Or maybe He is a push-over hoping that His Creation would like Him...who knows? What if not doing anything is a way of showing that He does care?

1. Name some things God has done

2. Giving the universe concrete evidence of his existence would take the same amount of effort as blinking, riding a bike, logging on to allhiphop.com or anything he supposedly did in Bible times, like splitting the red sea for example or lighting a bush on fire and speaking from/through it (all because of his triple O status) Why isn't he doing any of these things now? Most likely, he never did.

3. He showed more than once, that he cared, in Bible times by helping his creations, even showing prejudice (which is odd for a triple O being in the first place--I mean, even some humans who AREN'T triple O are above such undesirable traits), helping and saving some and killing and cursing others (all under the category of being his creation, and knowing the outcome before he even created anything at all). Obviously, if we go by the Bible, we can tell that god has no problem with intervening at any time he pleases, to show that he "cares" about something.

4. Bible God doesn't HOPE that you like him. He DEMANDS that you like him. Or else. He'll throw you in a lake of fire for all eternity if you don't like him. If it was that important, he could have just created us, programmed to like him. He could have created heaven, created hell and seperated everybody from the beginning since he already knew the outcome from "let there be light". He could have saved everybody from the get-go and also programmed into our "souls" whatever the moral of the story is supposed to be, so that we don't have to learn it. We'd already know it. Keep in mind, he's triple O. He could have easily done any of this, just as easily as he allegedly created the universe as is.

5. Who's to say a magical giraffe hasn't poisoned your water supply? Does he need to put on a spectacular show of cosmic proportions to get you to be like.. "oh, I ain't drinkin this shit"

 

[alissowack]

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

Where and how would he exist if no one knew of him (could feel, see, hear, touch, smell the effects of his existance or was influenced by his actions)?

As a human being, you may not know me personally but my existence is still observable. Obviously, I'm typing to you and you can read what I'm typing as I'm typing thoughts that arise within myself. My existence is observable. But you don't really KNOW me. I don't need you to tell me who I am but just because you don't personally know me doesn't mean I'm not observable in some way. If I wasn't observable to you, I am to someone else. If I'm not observable at all to anyone or anything, there's a high probablity that I just don't exist.

You said yourself that god is not observable, so going by what you said, we have no clue at all as to whether he exists or not. You're just making an assumption that he exists, based on what? Because you're not observing any of his actions. And you said yourself also that we can't rest on assumptions about god so what are you really doing?

And right, if I wanted you to know me, I would tell you everything you need to know right here right now so you could get a better understanding. Maybe I would call you or even possibly come to visit you and your family so that you can know who I am. That's possible for me, even in human form and recognizing the limits I have AS a human. God, on the other hand, can do whatever he wants at any time, however he wants to do it (according to the Bible) but he isn't observable in the slightest way. And the odd part is, God WANTS you to know him. (also, according to the Bible)

Either God is hiding from us. Or he doesn't exist.

I've made it known where I get my belief from...it's the

Apparently, God needs people to know him. If no one knew of him, would he exist? He's omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent: need, want.. what's the difference?

Oh...God would still exist. It's kind of like this. You don't need me to tell you who you are. You will be you regardless of who knows you or doesn't know you. Your existence is not depended on whether I find out who you are. Your life expectancy doesn't increase by how many people know you. But, if you want me to know you, you would communicate that to me.

If God would exist without you knowing he existed and will not do anything to directly prove he exists a sensible person that is not trying to make a point to state something they can't prove would most likely conclude that he really does not care where you stand about him.

Who is to say that God hasn't done anything? There is just this sense that if God exists, that this deity needs to put on a spectacular show of cosmic proportions to get people to be like..."Oh, I see now that God exists." However, even with a demonstration of power and might, does it mean that God can be trusted or that God even care? God's intentions may be to insight fear or make someone jealous that they can't do what He does. Or maybe He is a push-over hoping that His Creation would like Him...who knows? What if not doing anything is a way of showing that He does care?

1. Name some things God has done

2. Giving the universe concrete evidence of his existence would take the same amount of effort as blinking, riding a bike, logging on to allhiphop.com or anything he supposedly did in Bible times, like splitting the red sea for example or lighting a bush on fire and speaking from/through it (all because of his triple O status) Why isn't he doing any of these things now? Most likely, he never did.

3. He showed more than once, that he cared, in Bible times by helping his creations, even showing prejudice (which is odd for a triple O being in the first place--I mean, even some humans who AREN'T triple O are above such undesirable traits), helping and saving some and killing and cursing others (all under the category of being his creation, and knowing the outcome before he even created anything at all). Obviously, if we go by the Bible, we can tell that god has no problem with intervening at any time he pleases, to show that he "cares" about something.

4. Bible God doesn't HOPE that you like him. He DEMANDS that you like him. Or else. He'll throw you in a lake of fire for all eternity if you don't like him. If it was that important, he could have just created us, programmed to like him. He could have created heaven, created hell and seperated everybody from the beginning since he already knew the outcome from "let there be light". He could have saved everybody from the get-go and also programmed into our "souls" whatever the moral of the story is supposed to be, so that we don't have to learn it. We'd already know it. Keep in mind, he's triple O. He could have easily done any of this, just as easily as he allegedly created the universe as is.

5. Who's to say a magical giraffe hasn't poisoned your water supply? Does he need to put on a spectacular show of cosmic proportions to get you to be like.. "oh, I ain't drinkin this shit"

Woah...I think you read too much into that question. When I asked the question "Who is to say that God hasn't done anything?", it wasn't mean as a challenge or a battle cry for the Bible. It was just a generalization out of trying to respect the "other" religions out there. You went in like a beast!!!! But with that, you kind of prove my point (and just in case it wasn't mine...yours) that you may know the book (or in this case the words), but you don't know me. Your perspective on that question was totally different from mine which ought to bring up something. We always talk about the Bible have many translations and how it is written differently from the many other versions out there. But is it really a matter of many translations or many perspectives? You read the same question I wrote but you got something totally different from it.