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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Having a lack of certainty to the degree I'm saying actually prevents thoughts from forming unless we have faith. Faith is simply natural for us to do, and it's what we are actually doing right now, and what we have always done. From your perspective, that's not what we're doing, so that's why...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    You keep making it sound like I'm saying that I know for certain that we cannot be certain about things, but that's not what I'm saying at all, I'm saying we cannot be certain about anything, not even about our lack of certainty. Without having faith, a lack of certainty in even a lack of...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    No, that is not my argument. This is my argument: 1. we cannot be certain that awareness is what is seems to be. 2. therefore we cannot be certain that our knowledge is truly knowledge It could be that what we think is knowledge is truly knowledge, therefore the number 2 you provided does not...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Ok, you're making a claim right now, but you're not backing up that claim at all, that implies to me that you just think this is true, you don't actually understand why you think that.
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    What is your Belief? A statistic for RF

    May I ask you what you define as an atheist?
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    What is your Belief? A statistic for RF

    I couldn't since I'm an atheist who believes in a religion. Unless you're just fine with grouping all atheists together, but since your post title implied differently, I don't think that's what you're aiming for, right?
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Yeah, you're clearly a troll, so I'm blocking you.
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Wow... that is such a troll-like response. It's like you can't be bothered to even listen to what I've been saying and given how you somehow think that my OP was long, yet you felt the need to comment, implies to me that yes, you are just trolling me. Just because we don't know why someone...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    McBell literally explained to you what I already said about faith not too long ago: "From the OP: It's through faith that we believe we know things, as faith is belief in something without evidence." And you responded with this: "We can believe we know things due to empirical evidence. The...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    You are talking about your system of faith. I don't believe we have free will, so yourself not being able to choose what you have faith in makes perfect sense to me, but thinking it's because your system of faith is true with complete certainty is what I believe is an error in judgement.
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Really? I think that you keep believing in empirical evidence being a means of discovering truth because if you suddenly stopped believing in it once it does a few things you don't like, that would mean losing out on the benefits of believing empirical evidence is real. In other words, because...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    But you want empirical evidence to actually mean something in the way of proving something, that's what I was referring to. Life doesn't have to make sense, you just want it to, and that want proves nothing in the way of complete certainty.
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Empirical evidence is based on the foundation of wanting to believe that empirical evidence is actually empirical evidence. Reason is based on the foundation of wanting to believe that reason is actually reason. Logic is based on the foundation of wanting to believe that logic is actually logic...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    In other words, you want to have your opinion, and refuse to see it differently. Fine, you do you, but this conversation will go nowhere, so I'm ending it.
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    Sure, I agree, but just because that's true doesn't mean that faith isn't required to think otherwise. Understanding that it requires faith doesn't suddenly change anything, you'll still believe as you do, but you'll no longer be out of sync with myself saying that you're 100% certain. The...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    And why does life have to make sense? Can you explain that to me?
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    You're making the assumption that life must make sense, but life doesn't have to make any sense at all, which is why we must have faith that it does to believe that logic is real, because evidence cannot be evidence of itself, as that is circular reasoning. I do not believe in Solipsism. This...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    You seem to think that we can know that we exist, but you've yet to prove this to me. So instead of just going all over the place with this argument, let's just focus on why we can know we exist. Please, prove it to me with 100% certainty, and also explain why I'm able to doubt such a thing as...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    How do you know 100% for certain that math is a human construct? How do you know that the first person who invented math did so of their own free will? If logic requires faith, then by extension, it requires faith to think you have free will. However, by understanding that even logic requires...
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    Why we don't have free will using logic

    So your argument is that I'm not human?
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