Your question is solely limited to the possibility of one god being the correct god. Suppose Zeus was who you met in the afterlife and he punished you for believing in Allah. So the question can also be posed: would you be better off justifying your faith in the wrong god or in justifying the...
I was refering to my post where I ask the reader to make the "obvious" assumption that God exists for a discussion about the nature of God. I was hoping for a discussion of whether I had any sound conclusions given the assumptions I made.
Saying that everyone is an atheist in some form or another is like saying that everyone is a skeptic. Sure, it is the disbelief in something, but to apply its meaning is such a general way loses all of it significance. Usually, when people say they are atheists, they do not hold a belief that...
I have some interesting thoughts about the nature of God, how he resembles human beings and what conclusions that leads to. For this post I am assuming that the Bible is correct in its statement that humans were created in God's image. Obviously, for the sake of argument, I am also assuming God...
I think that well-established absence of evidence is enough of a justification for the non-belief in whatever is absent. Absence of evidence for the existence of God or gods is well-established.
However, I would not personally use that as my chief reason to be an atheist, even though I belief...
And the one with tinted glasses that were perfectly balanced on his/her/its nose asked, "You can take the blue pill and you will awake in your bed with your memory erased. Or you can take the red pill and learn some CRAzy stuff."
You also said this:
and this . . .
and said this about the evidence. . .
and. . .
and also this about subjectivity . . .
Your right, I added "unique." I inferred that the connections you made between depression, emotions and subjectivity seemed to be missing something. I'm sorry, I don't...
I organized my thoughts and provided and argument directly from your various explanations of subjectivity. Its everything you said--I just organized it so it was understandable. Everything I said about people's emotions and depression were your ideas. Calling them baseless is calling your ideas...
I've been trying to wrap my head around this and think I finally got it.
Your deduction is (1) depression involved emotions and all emotions are unique, thus subjective. (2) Subjectivity results in different decisions, answers, explanations and opinions. (3) Evolution is a single explanation...
This isn't an argument. You're just explaining that if there was a Creator, he would set the terms of the life he gave us. You are assuming that a Creator is a given.
First, why are you willing to trust the Devil's word for anything? Second, the Devil hasn't been allowed to rule over man for a...
If God exists, and he is the creator of the universe, the he is no more free of sin that human beings. God is then just as accountable as we humans. We must then hold him accountable. But since we have no knowledge of his moral sentiments, or that he has any, how can we hold him accountable...