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TashaN

Veteran Member
Premium Member
doppelgänger;844537 said:
My own consciousness awareness and use of language, the interaction between my self and the social reality in which I exist, creates the order and complexity I see.

They exited even before you were born and became able to see them.
 

~Amin~

God is the King
Well i have some serious questions, i think it would be great to have answers to.

1.the claim that because the universe is so complex and all that, there must be a god, well i question this notion. because you are saying that for something so complex to exist there must be something to have created it, well at first it makes sense, but that thing would have to be so much more complex to have created the universe, yet people believe it can exist forever.
The design and complexities is how the Almighty
draws our attention to Him Self,God is not bound

by time, matter, or space,He created time.
The way time is determined is the rotation of
planets around the sun,How can He Be created
when He is not within His creation?
He Can Not Be Created Because He Is Not
Like His Creation.

2.The whole jesus birth, most christians agree that man(woman to) has a sin nature, well mary is a sinner right? christ was born through her, as you guys say we inherit this sin nature from adam and eve, birth of all people, so since mary is a sinner, jesus couldnt be perfect right, because a HUMAN concieved him.
In Islam we dont believe in original sin.
3.Christ teaches things such as, love god with all your heart, and love your neighbor, do good to those who persecute you, treat others as you want to be treated, yet the old testemant says things like eye for an eye, stone your son all that stuff, how can god change his rules at one time if he is absolute truth?
Thats not true "DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE
COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF MOSES
AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS.

I HAVE NOT COME TO DO AWAY WITH THEM,
BUT TO MAKE THERE TEACHINGS COME TRUE.Mathew 5,17
just a few questions, from me to you guys, hope i get some answers soon. peace out
I hope thats simple answers
 

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
Well i have some serious questions, i think it would be great to have answers to.

1.the claim that because the universe is so complex and all that, there must be a god, well i question this notion. because you are saying that for something so complex to exist there must be something to have created it, well at first it makes sense, but that thing would have to be so much more complex to have created the universe, yet people believe it can exist forever.
This isn't a question.

2.The whole jesus birth, most christians agree that man(woman to) has a sin nature, well mary is a sinner right? christ was born through her, as you guys say we inherit this sin nature from adam and eve, birth of all people, so since mary is a sinner, jesus couldnt be perfect right, because a HUMAN concieved him.
Neither is this.

3.Christ teaches things such as, love god with all your heart, and love your neighbor, do good to those who persecute you, treat others as you want to be treated, yet the old testemant says things like eye for an eye, stone your son all that stuff, how can god change his rules at one time if he is absolute truth?
The law was given as a schoolmaster to teach mankind to understand what sin was and what to do about it. the arrival of Christ and His subsequent death and ressurrection fulfilled the old law. Man then needed a subsequent dictate in order follow the law of love. there is no contradiction.
 

Darkness

Psychoanalyst/Marxist
1.the claim that because the universe is so complex and all that, there must be a god, well i question this notion. because you are saying that for something so complex to exist there must be something to have created it, well at first it makes sense, but that thing would have to be so much more complex to have created the universe, yet people believe it can exist forever.

The simple answer is that time hasn't existed forever. When the Universe first began, that is the beginning of all time. You cannot say before the Universe, because that is non-existent. The beginning of the Universe (t=0) is the start of the concept of time. Even if God did create the Universe, He would be as Old as the Universe.

Read: Eternity and Time in William Lane Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument by James Still

Sandy Whitelinger said:
The law was given as a schoolmaster to teach mankind to understand what sin was and what to do about it. the arrival of Christ and His subsequent death and ressurrection fulfilled the old law. Man then needed a subsequent dictate in order follow the law of love. there is no contradiction.

Actually that is a complete mutilation of the Torah and is Moral Relativism at its best. It is either moral or immoral to stone a girl who commits adultary. Moses believed it to be moral, Jesus felt it was immoral. But of course, I misunderstand the Scriptures because I do not agree with you. :rolleyes:
 

Melissa G

Non Veritas Verba Amanda
It's nothing to do with God, who actually doesn't exist. The OT and NT mark the split bewteen Judaism and the emerging mythology of the rebel teacher Jesus, whoever he was.

Melissa G
 

Random

Well-Known Member
It's nothing to do with God, who actually doesn't exist. The OT and NT mark the split bewteen Judaism and the emerging mythology of the rebel teacher Jesus, whoever he was.

Melissa G

You sure know how to layeth the smackdown. :D You're right, in that all GOD concepts are flawed, however, this does not mean something, possibly an entity of some transcendental sort, does not exist outside the System of things we observe. But that remains mere speculation...
 

Melissa G

Non Veritas Verba Amanda
As Dawkins has said, probablity says there is no God...smackdown lol. We do not have to prove a negative, it's for the true believers to bear the onus for proving God really does exist, outside of their subjective beliefs :)

Melissa G
 

Darkness

Psychoanalyst/Marxist
Melissa said:
As Dawkins has said, probablity says there is no God...smackdown lol. We do not have to prove a negative, it's for the true believers to bear the onus for proving God really does exist, outside of their subjective beliefs :)

You sound more like an Atheist than a pagan. How do you justify your belief in the Pagan gods and goddesses.
 

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
Actually that is a complete mutilation of the Torah and is Moral Relativism at its best. It is either moral or immoral to stone a girl who commits adultary. Moses believed it to be moral, Jesus felt it was immoral. But of course, I misunderstand the Scriptures because I do not agree with you. :rolleyes:
You misunderstand Scripture because you misunderstand Scripture (or maybe because you are a Luciferian)...don't blame me for that...although i'd be glad to straighten you out.:yes:
 

Darkness

Psychoanalyst/Marxist
Sandy said:
You misunderstand Scripture because you misunderstand Scripture (or maybe because you are a Luciferian)...don't blame me for that...

Yet you can never explain how I am misunderstanding the Scripture.

Sandy said:
although i'd be glad to straighten you out.

I would love for you to try. But let it be know that if your God existed, I would rather choke on my own blood for all eternity than serve Him. (In fact, the God of Calvinsim is such a sadist, he will probably do that to me).
 

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
I would love for you to try. But let it be know that if your God existed, I would rather choke on my own blood for all eternity than serve Him. (In fact, the God of Calvinsim is such a sadist, he will probably do that to me).
that explains why I won't bother to straighten you out...you don't care.
 
to natural phil.,,hi the first question you ask revolves around "intelligent design" and it has nothing to do with the complexity of the universe per se. It has to do with logic. Simply put ,if you find a watch ,you marvel at it's mechanisms,now the watch either came to be randomly, or there was a watchmaker . It is self evident tahat these parts did not randomly fly together magicaly,so there must have been a watchmaker.There is an old philosophical saying that what you can say of a simple object ,by extension you can say of a more complex object. So it is by extension that we say ,,the universe is greatly more complex,,and if the simpler obj.,the watch had a watchmaker,,then it wld be reasonable to say ,the universe had a universe maker. Simple. Your second question operates on the premise "mary was a sinner ",,most christians do not belive this ,,she was regarded as sinless. Your last quiry is the old test. states an eye for an eye,,yes but christ said he came to deatroy the old law [old test,he was the fulfilment of the old prophesies.....hahrley dav.
 
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