38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

The mere thought of time, space and matter coming into being all by itself for absolutely no reason and the earth forming the way it did, molecules and elements forming as they did, and humanity evolving and life occurring how it did, without a force guiding it, intelligently, is so absolutely absurd, my mind cannot fathom how any intellectually honest person can describe themselves as anything but agnostic, at best.

After admitting that God or a god/gods may possibly exist, you then have to ask yourself, what would a Gods characteristics be? Then you must begin investigative research into world religions,

After conclusively and objectively researching world religions and comparative theology, how any open minded, intellectually honest person could reach any conclusion aside from Christianity, is also beyond me.

I am saying this as somebody who spent my first 19 years as a through and through "atheist", and the next two as an agnostic, and only my last few years as a Christian......

Have you ever compared writings such as C.S. Lewis and Lee Strobel or St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas to works from goons such as Dawkins or Harris or other "bright, new atheists" buffoons?

The quality of work and the intellectual genius and the sheer volumes of the former, so absolutely and totally overshadow and overthrow the latter, my mind cannot come to terms with how anybody subscribing to the worldview of an "atheist" can at the same time call themselves an intellectual.

We were nice, you know.

The bones to begin with, then the flesh around it. The blood must be the brain... train train.

Originally posted by stupid girl

Originally posted by phroziac

Originally posted by redreemer

Originally posted by phroziac
If god exists then why does he allow all the evil to happen in his name? i call bull #

Even if we eliminate all the 'evil' in the world. We would be left with a range of good deeds.
Our minds would categorise this good and lesser good according to our new spectrum, and we would still ask the same question. Why does he let the lesser good happen in his name?

That question leads nowhere IMO

But in his name? Hes ok with people killing eachother because god hates them?

We are Gods greatest creation .....made in his image.

God doesnt give a # about us whatsoever

If God doesn't give a, *the word you used*, about us, then why are we here? Why do we exist? Why were we created in the first place? And why hasn't He just obliterated us into molecular unconsciousness?
What would be the point?

The simple fact is, we are an inexplicable enigma that exists. Thus, we must hold certain value.

However, believing that is entirely your own choice. Also known as free will.

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Originally posted by Angle
The bones to begin with, then the flesh around it. The blood must be the brain... train train.

If you do, in fact, have pearls of wisdom to share, then it would behoove you to add more bait to your hook lest you continue to cast it in vain.

I have yet to perceive you garnering any fruitful dialogue from anyone on ATS with your non sequitur approach.

Perhaps you might humor us and consider throwing us a bone? As it stands now, you have not given us anything to work with.

The bone must be the train.....brain train.