There are many religious families with secular family members. I will just talk about Christianity here. The God in the bible literally hates secular humanists with a secular worldview that never changes. He thinks they are disgusting sinners worthy of condemnation in hell and he thinks they...
Wouldn't you agree that any animal that viciously attacks another animal for not obeying and serving its life to it would be a truly cruel and vicious animal? Furthermore, for this animal to inflict eternal torment upon this disobedient animal, then wouldn't you agree that this would be the...
But, again, if these scriptures had a God with the absolute worst and most horrible moral atrocities and such a God was claimed by scripture as an all loving, all just, and merciful God, then if you believed these scriptures, then you would be thinking that this would still be an all loving, all...
Just the very fact that God judges almost everything we do as sinful and condemns that is enough to justify this God's morals as atrocious regardless of the situation.
Again, the idea that God is omniscient and all powerful does not automatically mean that he is also morally righteous. I already stated this in my opening post and gave an example in my last paragraph of that opening post.
This is what I was wanting to debate because, according to my opening post, only a morally atrocious God would deem such people as wicked and worthy of condemnation. As long as you have a humanistic moral standard that treats others with kindness and dignity, then that is morally righteous...
I hear horrible things regarding the moral standard set by the God of the bible such as that we are flawed sinful human beings worthy of condemnation and judgment. According to God, I, as a kind and respectful human being, am a corrupt individual worthy of condemnation since I do not believe in...
This is a debate topic regarding the book: "The Godless Bearit" (pronounced bear-it). I would like others here to debate the concepts in this book because I wish to learn from these debates.
I don't know what is likely to be true. All I see is a philosophical debate going on here where one side argues against the other in regards to the existence of hell or a God and such debates just get nowhere. That leaves me in a position where I don't know whether the eternal hell spoken of...
I am just worrying about the possibility of me going to hell since I worry that this God is real despite my doubts of his existence. But, at the same time, I do not wish to waste my time and my life obeying and serving this God who might not even be real. That puts me in a stuck situation...
But what if one is an agnostic atheist like me who considers the possibility that God and Jesus are real, but think that they could very well not be real due to the idea that no God could have someone go to hell and remain there forever? This person would think that since a kind and loving God...
So, if someone is an agnostic atheist and he/she follows the bible and lives the way God wants him/her to live, then he/she should all of a sudden somehow magically believe in God? I know plenty of agnostic atheists who have did so and they still could not believe even after many years of...
But isn't not believing in God/Jesus a sin you need to be saved from? Therefore, even if you lived your life according to the bible, if you still did not believe God and Jesus were real, then wouldn't you still be sinning anyway and be condemned to hell anyway?
I don't think living your life in obedience to someone is the only way to earn honor, reward, and respect from someone else such as a parent. If you choose to disobey how your parents want you to be and how they want you to live, then they might very well say to you that you are on your own and...
Actually, it would be like having a pan of water, saying that this pan of water was never meant to be, and saying that it actually does not exist at all.
This universe was never meant to be. If you think about it, it makes no sense for there to be anything at all. As a matter of fact, it would make no sense to say that there was a God who existed and created this universe. Therefore, this universe existing is all lies. None of it is real...
I've always wondered the possibility if the concept of life after death and the existence of God is no different than those types of philosophical debates that go on and on where one side of the debate will argue against the other all day long, but no given conclusion can be reached one way or...
I am going to explain some more things and give more analogies in regards to my good feelings. The only way something can be a powerful experience to me would be if I can feel from it. If, for example, someone sawed off my limbs and I had no ability to experience any feelings of pain, then...
People who don't know anything about how music works hear amazing beautiful masterpieces that they never heard before when they take a very powerful psychedelic drug. That is their brains creating these amazing beautiful masterpieces based upon the musical information that these people have...