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Just don't break the rules and stop performing your basic responsibility and get fired before you have a chance to meet the CEO.
You have no need for God?
I already told you - the kind of proof you are expecting from folks is not available right now. So learn to settle for less. You don't need to know everything about your CEO to do your job right - not when your CEO is watching to see if your evil immediate boss can manipulate you and make you work against the company. Trust is everything! And sometimes folks need to be tested!
So, that is your defense - right there! Hope it works but it won't because you are smart enough to find the truth!
I did not claim that it was only power that defines God .. these strawman fallacies don't know up from down .. but the claim that the powers of a God are not part of the definition of that God .. is as false a claim that there ever was .. once again you deflect to the God of nothing without even realizing it .. then cry out that Nothing does not exist .. complete mental upside down because if the God of Nothing does not exist then God of Everything does not exist .. you fail to understand that one can not be without the other .. and once again have managed to deflect away from defining your God .. and quantifying its power in relation to humans or other Gods.
I don't blame you for wanting to avoid it because it pretty much obliterates any creator God existing as a first cause. The funny thing about the search for truth is tat if you find truth it can answer such dilemmas.
This is a terrible attempt at an argument. There is no tool here that leads anyone to an understanding or valid conclusion. None of it has any basis in fact or truth. There's a reason believers try to make their case using absurd stories because they have no facts nor real explanations.
False. We humans can be aware that we exist, along with all the other stuff in the universe. It doesn't inform us that any creator exists. That means we can't assume anything about any creator that we imagine. Who told you a creator exists, and why did you believe them?
The "tools to figure out" anything is typically reasoning. And reasoning requires evidence to work. You aren't advocating for this. You are suggesting people adopt religious lore despite a lack of evidence for it. Look at your posts, you offer nothing that "connects dots", or "solves a jigsaw puzzle", do you?
Right. That's why a LOT of knowledge is what smart people attain.
But no one knows why we are here, or even if there is any reason at all. There are many who believe they know, but it isn't knowledge, ir is speculation and belief for the sake of emotional comfort. What's interesting is that emotionally secure folks don't need to believe that there's inherent meaning in human existence.
And we don't find evidence for any of the many thousands of gods. Even you can't provide any evidence from seeking.
Just religion in general. And not doing a good job of it thus far.
Vedanta follows a similar approach. But no matter what anyone tries to parse together into a better picture there really is no evidence that any sort of supernatural gods existing.
Bad analogy since CEOs actually exist, unlike any the many thousands of gods. Feel free to demonstrate any of the long list of gods exist outside of human imagination.
Yeah, kind of like I'm going to hell for not doing X, or Y, or whatever some arbitrary Christian says I'm doing wrong, as if they are God themselves. I'm not convinced. These threats don't work.Just don't break the rules and stop performing your basic responsibility and get fired before you have a chance to meet the CEO.
The only tool you've promoted is a healthy imagination that is unconcerned with reality. I'll stick with logic and reasoning for it's high stanrd for truth and reliability.
Well I do have a couple of nuts inside of me, but I'm not sure you know biology well enough to get it.Good part is - you may have a few less nuts inside of you. Just kidding!
What are you talking about? Read what superficially? What I'm wondering about is why you are being judgmental and vague about what you are judging atheists about. You don't seem aware that the reason atheists are atheists is because they aren't reading religious concepts superficially and instead are scrutinizing them.Assuming you are an Atheist, why most atheists read superficially? Someone should really look into that - maybe this is why atheists don't dive deep into anything because they get repelled off the surface! Something to wonder about!
It was a flawed analogy, so no harm done.
Why haven't you explained how you connected the dots? Don't you realize that "connecting the dots" means using logic and reason? Yet you were critical of that as a tool, so which is it?
I did not claim that it was only power that defines God .. these strawman fallacies don't know up from down .. but the claim that the powers of a God are not part of the definition of that God .. is as false a claim that there ever was .. once again you deflect to the God of nothing without even realizing it .. then cry out that Nothing does not exist .. complete mental upside down because if the God of Nothing does not exist then God of Everything does not exist .. you fail to understand that one can not be without the other .. and once again have managed to deflect away from defining your God .. and quantifying its power in relation to humans or other Gods.
I grasp your opinion. The problem is just that this kind of reasoning is a very good way to believe things that aren't true.
There is two explanations for life to exist, either it is created, or it was formed spontaneously on its own. Because we can't see life appearing spontaneously, the best explanation is the creator.
But, not known to exist and not known to happen anywhere.
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
That doesn't answer the question at all.
It appears you are asking if a tree that falls in the woods makes a sound if no one is there to hear it. The positive and negative poles of a magnet, for example. This is the premise I operate under, and I apply this to the term God in relation to the universe and how the universe operates. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm right. I'm sure I'm both.
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None of his is factual, so logic can't apply to any of it. Logic can only be used with true premises and true statements, not religious lore.
None of this is factual. Don't you have anything truthful to support your beliefs?
This is in the Bible, not in logic. So you are incorrect again.
There is no logic to apply since there is no God known to exist. Demonstrate that any God exists and then you can procede.
You keep mentioning logic but then don't cite anything factual. Logic doesn't apply to anything you've said.
You must not understand what logic is and means. None of this is factual either.
How does the word "God" correlate to anything in reality? The word can't be defined in any way that describes observed phenomenon, so questionable as being accurate.