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  1. osgart

    Reasons for atheism

    Yes, absolutely! And that life needs so much to survive in nature. I always thought of ethics as applying morality to the external world and other people in many situations. I always thought of morality as exploring and introspecting about what is a good conscience, and what offends, and what...
  2. osgart

    Atheists: does God exist?

    No one has any worthwhile answer as to why living intellect should arise in nature. So perhaps there is an eternal foundation of pure non living intelligence with a living source. Life is quite a mystery! The supernatural and God might as well not exist for all those ideas do and don't do...
  3. osgart

    Reasons for atheism

    If you look at God in general what comes to mind? For me it's that there is a living entity that has power and authority over life. That's what a God is. The other claim to Godhood is one of true justice, and right morals. I've heard guys like Professor John Lennox describe this universe as a...
  4. osgart

    Is creator of this world cruel ?

    If you had an infinite past I would think your mind would be flooded with memories. Not so for me. I've had false memories before from my conjured imagination. I've had deja vu. Yet I can distinguish between false and true memories.
  5. osgart

    Is creator of this world cruel ?

    An Omni creator is, at best, indifferent or inept. Do you remember anything before you were born? I sure don't! I believe we manifested from infinite intelligence, but not a living source of it. If there is a living source then it's only learning, and trying to grow. Our universe is born...
  6. osgart

    Transtheists: Does God Exist?

    I would say that eternal beings must exist in the foundation of eternal reality. I don't like the term God as to me it implies power and authority over the living. All beings are but drops in the ocean of existence. The soul is but a droplet. The foundation is but the infinite possibility of...
  7. osgart

    Theists: Does God Exist?

    What I like about Theists is when they push against the boundaries of the unknown in the areas of logic and reason. There's a profound frontier that they are exploring that I hope doesn't go up in ashes. What can be known by logic and reason with experience alone? Are there incomprehensible...
  8. osgart

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    Who's assuring and convicting? Zarahustra, Allah, Yahweh, your own mind, the Holy Spirit? God is God because God says so. End of story? Sufficient? People have hopes and assurances that are false. Convictions can be false as well. You discard, reason, evidence, and proof necessities like...
  9. osgart

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    Blind faith it is then. Then you are saying you really don't know. That's like jumping into a pool, eyes closed, hoping for water where there is none. Good luck with that!
  10. osgart

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    Declaring something to be so does not make something true. The Bible is full of declarative claims that it doesn't back up with any kind of reasoning, proof, nor evidence. Anyone can claim to be all mighty judge, and juror over mankind's fate. That's a claim of absolute truth. So you need...
  11. osgart

    The World of Isms (List/Definitions)

    Ismism - ismists take the position that isms are accurate descriptions of people's point of view, and convictions. non-ismists - they feel that isms do not capture people's point of view accurately.
  12. osgart

    Social service & believe in God.

    That's how society becomes civilization. The basis of morality is to help others from a sincere desire to do so for them others. Morality provides a quality of life without exclusion. There is many a self benefit to helping others such as a cleaner, safer environment, less crime and more...
  13. osgart

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    Empty false claims from the Bible that can't be demonstrated to be true. Nothing of any moral substance in all of that. Condemnation from falsehood is all you got there.
  14. osgart

    One God or many gods

    I'm against theocracy. And in the leadership of the West, God and religion is used as a political ploy to gain self serving power. The real battleground is in people's perception of what reality actually is, and what constitutes a genuinely good life worth living. Just those two things...
  15. osgart

    Heaven = Life as a Ghost

    I really don't like the Christian, Islam ideas of heaven. They are pretty shallow. I am atheist, but I'm open to the exercise of religion hypothetically. My conception of heaven is that it would be a place of innocence and trust, charity and benevolence. There'd be no need of distrust...
  16. osgart

    One God or many gods

    I believe in one foundational comprehensive universal truth. One God makes no sense since that would be very anti social. The Truth is social thus there are probably an infinity of beings that have always existed. The word God denotes power and authority with the Truth over all inferior beings...
  17. osgart

    Adam and his wife died physically after eating the Forbidden Fruit. Genesis 2:17 is Literal.

    Wow, a whole thread on literal Genesis interpretations! I hope no one gets it wrong because of the fires of hell. Good luck with the mental gymnastics!
  18. osgart

    Heaven = Life as a Ghost

    I like to think of heaven as being self sufficient with endless motivation to do things and endless things to do. Perhaps a glorious body that has no needs of hunger and pain yet feels very deeply about things. I'm quite sure most believers in heaven think this way, and not the version where...
  19. osgart

    Faith ...

    In the KJV it's ' Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen ' . So faith is in reference to spiritual truth realms.
  20. osgart

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    And what is this righteous cause/ obvious truth? Because I hate eternal damnation for believing the wrong set of things. And I don't subscribe to a God that doesn't exist. And I certainly won't worship a God that doesn't reveal His nature. The real situation is that God reveals nothing of who...
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