Balthazzar
N. Germanic Descent
You're free to do so. I call it the universe also, by the way. I just wanted you to know what God is. To me, specifically.
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If God Wanted Us to Believe...
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Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I'd be more than glad to after I get back from my walk.
Sorry, I don't think that is true. If one would look neutrally all the evidence that can be seen, it would not lead to TOE.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Baha'is believe that God was the cause of all existence.
Two other things that God is needed for is to rule and maintain all of existence.
“Baha’is believe in an almighty creator who has fashioned the universe and has made man in his own image; they believe in a non-created cause of all existence, in a single God. The word ‘God’ is a symbol for that transcendent reality by which all existence is ruled and maintained. ”
(Udo Schafer, the light that shineth in the darkness, p. 19)
Another very important thing that God is needed for is to send Messengers to humanity for guidance every 500-1000 years or so.
“Can one of sane mind ever seriously imagine that, in view of certain words the meaning of which he cannot comprehend, the portal of God’s infinite guidance can ever be closed in the face of men? Can he ever conceive for these Divine Luminaries, these resplendent Lights either a beginning or an end? What outpouring flood can compare with the stream of His all-embracing grace, and what blessing can excel the evidences of so great and pervasive a mercy? There can be no doubt whatever that if for one moment the tide of His mercy and grace were to be withheld from the world, it would completely perish. For this reason, from the beginning that hath no beginning the portals of Divine mercy have been flung open to the face of all created things, and the clouds of Truth will continue to the end that hath no end to rain on the soil of human capacity, reality and personality their favors and bounties. Such hath been God’s method continued from everlasting to everlasting.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 68-69
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
If God Wanted Us to Believe...
Yes, G-d does; does one want to believe in Him, G-d welcomes it, right, please?
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Yes, G-d does; does one want to believe in Him, G-d welcomes it, right, please?
Regards
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
If God Wanted Us to Believe...
Yes, G-d does want every of humans being to believe in Him, G-d welcomes it, right, please?
He has afforded innumerable reasonable argument and signs in his truthful Word Revealed/Exhortation for the benefit of the humanity, please, right?
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Yes, G-d does want every of humans being to believe in Him, G-d welcomes it, right, please?
He has afforded innumerable reasonable argument and signs in his truthful Word Revealed/Exhortation for the benefit of the humanity, please, right?
Regards
River Sea
Well-Known Member
@Tomef
People create gods using their characters' feelings and actions, yet this is a very low rank in the pyramid; what is further up? Yet what happens when a person drinks from the light within them, which feeds their spirit fire-burn?
Have you ever sensed god showing you anything in science? You're god, and so am I. And what causes people to run away from science and invent another god? What is this void that their souls tell them what to think? What is a soul, a spirit, and a physical body? How does one know what is being done when it eventually becomes a past story? What is the purpose?
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
If God is the author of the universe then it could be designed as self-evolving. TOE just shows that no divine intervention was necessary in the process. It doesn't prove anything about authorship.
Sure, but that is the point. Leaves no reason to believe in the big guy.
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
And no reason to disbelief.
Yes, no reason to disbelieve in Scientology, or Hinduism, or Druidism, or Wicca or whatever belief makes you happy.
Lots of folks around willing to provide answers to why we are here a what happens after.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
That is sort of the point. Science deals with what is and how it works, but for what matters you can't use science.
So you in effect end in a binary of what is and what matters.
Yes, my position, it doesn't matter if you can't know.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Yes, my position, it doesn't matter if you can't know.
Yeah, but that is not science. It is something else.
Yeah, atheism.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
That only makes sense if one believes that God created for sake of self-validation.
If God doesn't then no reason to worry about it. Let God go on about their business and I'll go on about mine.
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
Science gives no reason to believe/disbelief in any Creator. The only reasonable position is agnosticism (for now). And rejecting some religious explanations (creationism) that are clearly refuted by science.
Yes, hold belief in abeyance.