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It's not 'trivial' when billions of people believe a pack of lies. Ever.
I'm pretty sure that's why we're all here. But, I could be mistaken.
a reply to: BuzzyWigs
Which pack of lies?
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
Actually my friend, you are totally wrong on that.
People DO know God exists and I am one of them.
I know it for an absolute certainty.
It does indeed begin with faith and I was there before, with only faith.
I did not know it for a fact then.
I have always been willing to believe God exists though, but I haven't always been faithful.
After many years of that and many rough spots, God revealed himself to me and took my spirit away to another place and spoke to me.
I have also seen Christ in spirit and he was disappointed with me and waited for me to tell him why.
It still isn't easy even when you know 100 percent that God is real,
A person who is never willing to even begin with a belief, and have a smidgen of faith to start with will likely never know God.
God wants people to begin their relationship with him using faith and belief to begin with.
Saying there is no proof as if that gives people an excuse not to look for God isn't going to save anyone, it will just mean in the end that that person was unwilling to play by God's rules.
One of the biggest rules is humility before pride, and that means there will then be room for a little faith and just believing will be good enough to start with.
originally posted by: TobyFlenderson
a reply to: randyvs
To all of the atheists, do you believe in internal truths? Eternal truths? Do you believe love exists? Has anyone told you that they loved you and you believed them? Based on what evidence did you believe them? I sought out a relationship with a higher power, that I don't have a name for. That higher power has shown me evidence of its love for me and for humans as much as any human has shown me love. I have evidence, but not evidence provable in a lab setting. If I had not sought the evidence with an open mind, it would likely have never been evident to me.
originally posted by: strongfp
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
Wait until you all find out an extraterrestrial species genetically created you by manipulating a few strands of DNA from another humanoid mammal on Earth. (wishful thinking)
I wonder what the conversation would be like? Would you all except advanced species as your God(s) then? Or would you all stick to the atheist/ one supreme being(s) theology?
It would make for an interesting discussion.
No. It would finally put an end to this silly fairy tale or a magic man or mythical beast(s) popping humans out of mud, air, water, what ever, created by humans tho. If this alien species is so advanced to alter genetics and DNA to sort of push our evolution into what we currently are they would most likely have a lot more answers for us than just who or what, when, etc came from.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
a reply to: logicsoda
You don't know what I know as facts, you only know what you know.
Freewill is a fact of human existence and you are free to think anything you wish, even to the point where you have decided you know better than others what they themselves know to be true and factual.
All I'm seeing in your earlier reply is a whole lot of self pride and zero humility. That is a wall that you have already built between you and God.
magic man or mythical beast(s) popping humans out of mud, air, water, what ever,