Do You Know Why You Don't Believe? (beliefs, experience, atheist)

[Super Universe]

Originally Posted by Darkness

I tried answering the OP but that didn't satisfy you. My first post in this thread was and I quote:

I take it then you believe God murdered innumerable people in Egypt, that God told the Israelites to slaughter the inhabitants of Palestine, and that God kills people for picking up sticks on the Sabbath?

Why would I be satisfied with someone who isn't honest? This is a place to come and type words on a screen. No one knows you, there is nothing to be afraid of.

You don't understand God, you don't like what you've been told and what you've read about Him and you are correct. You are more correct in believing what you do than the believers who love God and think He kills, tortures, and harms those who do not obey Him.

God never harmed a thing. He is the Creator, not the destroyer.

Ancient people did not understand disease or storms or earthquakes. They were ignorant about meteors, the wind, drought, and every other natural event so they thought God was angry with them. These teachings were passed on as stories and eventually written down.

[Mestemia]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

Why would I be satisfied with someone who isn't honest? This is a place to come and type words on a screen. No one knows you, there is nothing to be afraid of.

You don't understand God, you don't like what you've been told and what you've read about Him and you are correct. You are more correct in believing what you do than the believers who love God and think He kills, tortures, and harms those who do not obey Him.

God never harmed a thing. He is the Creator, not the destroyer.

Ancient people did not understand disease or storms or earthquakes. They were ignorant about meteors, the wind, drought, and every other natural event so they thought God was angry with them. These teachings were passed on as stories and eventually written down.

wow.
The lengths you go to...

[Darkness]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

Why would I be satisfied with someone who isn't honest? This is a place to come and type words on a screen. No one knows you, there is nothing to be afraid of.

How am I not honest?

Originally Posted by Super Universe

You don't understand God, you don't like what you've been told and what you've read about Him and you are correct.

God never harmed a thing. He is the Creator, not the destroyer.

I dislike the Gods of Christendom and Islam very much. You have one fatal flaw in your reasoning, though. God, the Universal Father of the Urantia Book, is a God I actually like. He seems like bunches of love and that He loves us very much. That is what I gathered from the first Chapter anyway. I wish Father existed, but wishing something does not make it real.

[Super Universe]

Originally Posted by Darkness

How am I not honest?

I dislike the Gods of Christendom and Islam very much. You have one fatal flaw in your reasoning, though. God, the Universal Father of the Urantia Book, is a God I actually like. He seems like bunches of love and that He loves us very much. That is what I gathered from the first Chapter anyway. I wish Father existed, but wishing something does not make it real.

Christians, Muslims, and all of the other religions barely have a fraction of God correct. They're not ready for the truth, they can't handle it. They need a God who directs angry retribution upon those who, unlike them, do not believe and obey Him.

To them, God is justice for the things they think are unfair in this life. What they don't get is, it's not supposed to be fair.

As for you, believe, don't believe, honestly no one really cares and it really doesn't make any difference. You are where you are because of you, not because of anything I or anyone else did or believed. You will go where you go because of you, not I or anyone else.

The Urantia Book is light years ahead of the bible but still well behind the times. There's more advanced stuff available when you're ready, maybe in the next life or the one after. If you wish to read the UB anyway I would recommend reading the entire life of Jesus versus the universal theory stuff.

[Darkness]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

As for you, believe, don't believe, honestly no one really cares and it really doesn't make any difference. You are where you are because of you, not because of anything I or anyone else did or believed. You will go where you go because of you, not I or anyone else.

Just don't act like my disbelief is unjustified. You are acting like all of us are idiots for not believing in God, and yet I do not criticize your belief in God.

The Urantia Book is light years ahead of the bible but still well behind the times. There's more advanced stuff available when you're ready, maybe in the next life or the one after. If you wish to read the UB anyway I would recommend reading the entire life of Jesus versus the universal theory stuff.

Is there more advanced stuff on this planet?

[Super Universe]

Relax... You really take all this too seriously. If God wanted you to believe in Him, you'd believe.
It's just not that important right now. No one tries to teach pre-schoolers theoretical physics.

I'm not acting like anyone is an idiot, think whatever you want.

Is there more advanced stuff on this planet? Uh, yeah. Stuff that's out of my league.

[Tiberius]

So you're reduced to insults? We nonbelievers are like preschoolers compared to you, the university graduate?

[camanintx]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

God never harmed a thing. He is the Creator, not the destroyer.

That statement assumes that the universe needs a creator.

[diemisus]

well, the bible dictates that the earth is only 4,000 years old (which consequentially makes the universe only 4,000 years old), which means that dinosaurs couldn't have existed, which everybody knows is not true. And everybody knows the earth is not 4, 000 years old, try more like 4-5 billion years old. Stuff in the bible just doesn't add up.