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Does theism lead to immoral behaviour?

Audie

Veteran Member
What it tells about humans. For example:

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim. 3:1-7

Bible has been correct also about what happens to Jews, will be scattered and gathered back after a very long time.

And also the knowledge of earth and the great flood, which explains well why earth is as it is nowadays.

" knowledge" of a fistitious flood. Impressive.
 
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Audie

Veteran Member
I believe Bible is true in matters that I can't check, because I trust it is correct. And I trust it, because I see it to be correct in many things and I think it shows greater wisdom than what humans have.
Still waiting to hear about that there so called " wisdom".

Was it using a rock to cure snakebite,
where to place nails through your slaves,
or about beating children? Maybe the
part about beating people to death
with rocks.

Do tell, Im wanting some transcendent wisdom.
 
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1213

Well-Known Member
But your figurin' Adam (1) plus Eve (1)
does not equal a claim of two people. 1+1=2

30 ÷ 10= 3, but not to you?

Of course, another aspect of the Pi=3
prob is for the " Believers" to just accept that
the measurements given in the Bible simply are not
( gasp) accurate!
Bible doesn't have the word Pi. And the dimension 10 is apparently outside diameter, including the edge of the "sea". And 30 is apparently the inside circumference. By these two dimension we an calculate that the thickness of the edge was about 0,71. So, no, Bible doesn't have an error in this.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Bible doesn't have the word Pi. And the dimension 10 is apparently outside diameter, including the edge of the "sea". And 30 is apparently the inside circumference. By these two dimension we an calculate that the thickness of the edge was about 0,71. So, no, Bible doesn't have an error in this.
Doesn't say Pi...well that makes all the difference
doesn't it? It does not say 1+1=2 either. So there.
That sure proves, what?

You just made it up where the (inaccurate)
measurements would have been made.

Religionists must be the most dishonest
people in the world. Making things up.

But that little whopper is nothing compared
to the world wide flood.
Religionists have been preching and teaching
that big far lie all over the world without
the least show of conscience.

Do you know of a bigger more dedicated group of fibbers?
 
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1213

Well-Known Member
Nobody has proved that leprechauns don't exist either. So should we believe in leprechauns?
Why should we? I don't have any reason to say you should believe anything. You can freely choose not to believe. I don't think it is a problem. Bible tells eternal life is for righteous. So, if there is a problem, it is unrighteousness, not disbelief.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Why should we? I don't have any reason to say you should believe anything. You can freely choose not to believe. I don't think it is a problem. Bible tells eternal life is for righteous. So, if there is a problem, it is unrighteousness, not disbelief.
Noye how you say "choose" as if what is
real is a matter of choice.

In enjoying fiction we do what's called
" willing suspension of disbelief".

Bur the key is knowing when yiu are doing
it, not choosing instead to settle into
permanent self deception. Which is what
" choosing ro believe" is.




.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
Why should we? I don't have any reason to say you should believe anything. You can freely choose not to believe. I don't think it is a problem. Bible tells eternal life is for righteous. So, if there is a problem, it is unrighteousness, not disbelief.
I'm trying to demonstrate to you how the burden of proof works. We don't believe in every single thing just because nobody has proved it wrong. If we did that, we'd be believing in all sorts of untrue things, like the existence of leprechauns. That's why we demonstrate something actually exists before we believe in it.
At least, if we're being rational.
So your point that "well it hasn't been shown to be false" isn't really a point in your favour at all, and it doesn't make your belief true until someone demonstrates that it isn't. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim - not the other way around.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I'm trying to demonstrate to you how the burden of proof works. We don't believe in every single thing just because nobody has proved it wrong. If we did that, we'd be believing in all sorts of untrue things, like the existence of leprechauns. That's why we demonstrate something actually exists before we believe in it.
At least, if we're being rational.
So your point that "well it hasn't been shown to be false" isn't really a point in your favour at all, and it doesn't make your belief true until someone demonstrates that it isn't. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim - not the other way around.
IOW, an inept and useless annargument
for something. But, good enuf for some.
 

1213

Well-Known Member
...We don't believe in every single thing just because nobody has proved it wrong. If we did that, we'd be believing in all sorts of untrue things, ...
like politicians, media and that all species evolved from single species even though it is based on claims that can't be demonstrated to be true.... :D
 

Audie

Veteran Member
like politicians, media and that all species evolved from single species even though it is based on claims that can't be demonstrated to be true.... :D
Which "claims" are those?

Or are you just saying things to be cute?
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
like politicians, media and that all species evolved from single species even though it is based on claims that can't be demonstrated to be true.... :D
I don't know what you're talking about here, exactly, but evolution is a demonstrably true fact of life.

The point is, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. We don't believe things until people prove them wrong. It's the other way around. So when you say "nobody has disproven the Noah's ark story" for example, you're not really saying much of anything. It's not an argument in favour of anything. I mean, nobody has disproven the existence of Thor, so you must believe that Thor exists, right? Or, probably not, right?
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
I don't know what you're talking about here, exactly, but evolution is a demonstrably true fact of life.

The point is, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. We don't believe things until people prove them wrong. It's the other way around. So when you say "nobody has disproven the Noah's ark story" for example, you're not really saying much of anything. It's not an argument in favour of anything. I mean, nobody has disproven the existence of Thor, so you must believe that Thor exists, right? Or, probably not, right?

In a very limited sense you can prove a negative, but that is only for formal thinking as per e.g. 2+2=5.
 
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