About a god existing....or not

[Clara Tea]

I find belief will only carry you so far.

I believe that your belief that belief will only carry you so are is believable.

 

[Clara Tea]

General Religious Debates will do that. ;0]

So will private debates, and there are a lot of military ranks between general and private.

 

[Clara Tea]

What some mystic "states" and what is real are apt to be quite different.

Maybe God is imaginary, but if we are also imaginary, then God might be real to us?

 

[Clara Tea]

Its pretty much like Joe saying he believes blue is the prettiest color but John says BS, red is the prettiest color.

Isn't it up to the individual?

There are an infinite number of shades of color. There are an infinite number of conceptions of God (many religions around the world). Apparently John and Joe don't have the only opinions.

 

[Clara Tea]

Well, "real" is like God, it has no objective referent. You can't see God or real. They are both mystic "states" in the mind and only works for those, who believe in them. I don't believe in either.

Reality is overrated?

 

[Audie]

Maybe God is imaginary, but if we are also imaginary, then God might be real to us?

True tho a bit ot

 

[Sheldon]

We as Christians believe Jesus is truth.

Then a more accurate claim would have been, there is but one belief you think it is true. Since truth and belief are not necessarily the same thing.

Can you demonstrate anything approaching objective evidence for it? Only I have never met or read anything by any theist that could.

 

[Sheldon]

Only if that God wanted to be known to everyone. If God does not want to be known to everyone, God will not be known to everyone, only to those He chooses to be known to. God is known to some of us.

You do love your circular reasoning fallacies, and of course these using begging the question fallacies that assume the inclusion you like. No objective evidence though, again.

It's pretty straightforward. God does not exist in the material world so God cannot be seen in the material world.

Hahaha, and another one....like buses.

God exists in the spiritual world, which is the real world. This material world is just a shadow stretching out.

Two more claims reeled off without even a pretence of evidence.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Reality is overrated?

No, reality is a metaphysical construct in a sense. Just like God in a sense.

 

[George-ananda]

Okay, lets discuss religion and spiritual topics.

My starting point as I said is Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism and kindred things.

Let's pick a topic. What do you think of the modern world evidence suggesting life after death?

For starters here is a recent paper by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove that actually won some award.

The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death

 

[Wildswanderer]

Its pretty much like Joe saying he believes blue is the prettiest color but John says BS, red is the prettiest color.

Isn't it up to the individual?

This sounds like truth does not exist. Of course it matters if one is true and the other isn't.

 

[Trailblazer]

You don't believe that psychics can communicate with God? Then what about the psychic predictions of Revelation?

No, I do not believe that psychics can communicate with God and I do not believe those were psychic predictions of Revelation.

 

[Baroodi]

Joe Bob believes in a god, goes to church regularly, says his prayers, lives his own life as if heaven and hell exist and wants to go to heaven.

Jim Bob doesn't believe in a god, doesn't go to church, takes life day by day, and lives his own life as when I die its all over because there is no heaven or hell.

Who's right? Do we even know?
Why does either of them living their own life bother anyone?

The trace on a road indicates that some one has beaten that road. Joe Bob is right

 

[lukethethird]

About a god existing....or not
Don't say or not when I'm
concentrating on god existing.