Exactly. So if one religion says "God only talks to us" then they must, by your definition, be wrong. Guess what, most religions do say this. (Not the believers who belong to the religions, but their leaders and creeds say they are the only correct church in many if not most cases.) So if...
Good point, but also I think if God was "all powerful" he could cure someone without hurting them. Why would he have to hurt them in the first place. I don't think lizards who grow back their tails or starfish who grow back their arms are in a lot of pain when they grow back.
Ever had...
The promise made by Jesus you mean?
Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
I realize Jehovah-god of the old testament made no such promise.
I appreciate a jewish perspective on this issue. Of course if you are saying your god didn't make those promises then my original question doesn't pertain to your god, only the christian god who DID promise to heal people and answer prayers.
I disagree that the questions which religion cannot...
So are you saying God has no power over people on this planet because we are under a different management for the moment? Why are people praying to god to help them then?
Maybe that's the answer - amputees need to be asking Satan to cure them, not god! :)
Good point, except it's not known if he made the ear GROW BACK or if he just stopped the bleeding. But in any case, if Jesus can heal a Roman soldier (probably a pagan) why can't he heal a faithful christian? Where is the story of that happening? Nowhere. Why? Because it's so easy to see it...
If it is impossible for people to believe "enough" to move a mountain then the promise is really just an empty taunt, isn't it? "If you can just jump 6 feet in the air I will give you eternal life!" NOT POSSIBLE. "Well then, you just lost out on eternal life because you aren't a good enough...
The basic problem with your premise is the idea that healing someone with a severed limb would be somehow different from healing someone from blindness. Both would equally "prove" gods existence and there is multiple stories in the scriptures of Jesus healing blind people.
As far as the idea...
I was responding to you when you said DallasApple "God cures amputees by creating our brains big enough to develop thechnology to make prothesis. "
If you are claiming the people who developed prosthesis are God curing us of amputation, then my question was "Is god's promise...
Only if by natural skills you mean our mental skills. What I mean is there is nothing about our BODIES' natural skills (on their own) which would ever have allowed us to take over the planet. (I.e. we aren't the fastest, biggest, or strongest animal.) The only way we have become the dominant...
If you were cloned you would just have an identical twin. What I am talking about is a copy of your mind as well as a perfection of your body. Basically the question is aimed at what you consider to be the definition of yourself. If you had a completely new body but with the same mind is...
Where are you getting these numbers? It would be more like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. This is only assuming they also decided to have children or didn't die before they had children or a bunch of other things.
I'm guessing if you lived forever there would be less motivation to have...
That could be a problem but I would guess that 100 years in the future people would keep track of their family a little better with futuristic IDs and Facebook. :)
Plus if she is your great-great-great-grandchild she would be so many other people's descendant (64) that she people in the future...
Even if it was real there is no guarantee to not come back alive as a worm or something worse. I think I would rather take my chances with the magic duplicator machine! :)
I'm glad you like this thread, Varion, and I appreciate hearing your thoughts about it!
I would imagine if you believed in an afterlife which would be much better than this life a long mortal existence wouldn't be as attractive comparatively - although it just transfers the problem from a life...
Unfortunately the act of obtaining the information needed to create the "new you" the current you would be destroyed. Kind of like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - the machine which will make the new you can't know EVERYTHING about you without destroying you first.
I don't know if this...
Nothing about us becoming the dominant species on this planet has anything to do with our "natural" skills. It is the combined knowledge and learning abilities of the human race which govern our lives today. We wear clothes, live in houses, drive cars, watch tv, use computers - none of this is...