Nothing. Nothing is something that I don't have. Can't have.
No, it's about community.
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What does God have that you don't?
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Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
Well, the way I see it, we can imagine the nothing by making it something, or imagine the nothing by understanding that it does not differ from the something. Either way, there is the something. Something cheats.So, you don't have nothing?
*flips open english grammar textbook...*
I believe in 'God'.
Mr. Hair
Renegade Cavalcade
I think religion is mainly about expressing numinosity and symbolism, oftentimes collectively. I doubt there's reason why asking cannot be a manifestation of this, but I also doubt it's the only one.
I'd suspect that sometimes the being being asked is not the one the person calls and sees as "God", however... "God" is a strange chemical to answer for.
As to the OP; I honestly think "God" can be found in the before-of-asking, so perhaps "She" gives not-yet-something.
Captain Civic
version 2.0
That has to be one of the weirdest, yet true, dichotemies in life.
Smoke
Done here.
If double and triple negatives were good enough for Chaucer, they're good enough for me.So, you don't have nothing?
*flips open english grammar textbook...*
I ain't never had no problem ignoring the grammarians.
Jeremiah
Well-Known Member
People are trying to get order out of chaos. What they are getting is just more chaos though.
Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
If double and triple negatives were good enough for Chaucer, they're good enough for me.
I ain't never had no problem ignoring the grammarians.
Well, I actually am a stickler for grammar, normally. I have to hold myself back sometimes from correcting people, so as not to be a jerk. However, you are correct that there are times when these things are OK. Actually, not even grammarians couldn't never argue with Willamena's original sentence, considering she was using nothing as a positive, not a negative. I couldn't help making the joke, though.
A belief and love of Jehovah God, provides me with a chance to prove myself to Him by fulfilling his word and trying to live by his will. In the end of all this problem with the world, when God finally acts my belief and love for him and my having actually lived my faith practically, gives me a hope of living through the end of this system of things and into the paradise on earth.
God does ot hold a threat of eternal hell over your head. What he does give you is a chance to live again in a paradise on earth, once this system of things has passed away and h creates the better world.
god loves all humans, thus the reason why we have a hope of a resurrection, if we died before aramgeddon and if we live through armageddon a chance to live happily in an eternal paradise.
god loves all humans, thus the reason why we have a hope of a resurrection, if we died before aramgeddon and if we live through armageddon a chance to live happily in an eternal paradise.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Does eternal hell exist, in your view?
no there is no hell, what there is is two different kinds of death.
Death number one is the one you get resurrected, during the resurrection of Judgement day, Death number two is death which you go into non-existance and never get resurrected, this goes for all those who are the worst of the sinners, People like Adam and eve, who had already given up perfect life, they wont return. There is no eternal hell, the lake of fire is death, but no torture, you cease to exist.
Which I know sounds horrible, but it is better than burning in eternal torture forever.
Plus at the resurrection, both the righteous and unrighteous will be resurrected. to give them all a chance to know who Jehovah God is and a chance for perfect life.
Death number one is the one you get resurrected, during the resurrection of Judgement day, Death number two is death which you go into non-existance and never get resurrected, this goes for all those who are the worst of the sinners, People like Adam and eve, who had already given up perfect life, they wont return. There is no eternal hell, the lake of fire is death, but no torture, you cease to exist.
Which I know sounds horrible, but it is better than burning in eternal torture forever.
Plus at the resurrection, both the righteous and unrighteous will be resurrected. to give them all a chance to know who Jehovah God is and a chance for perfect life.
gnomon
Well-Known Member
I believe the human brain has evolved towards the propensity of belief. There are some recent studies suggesting that on average we apply some notion of truth to every proposition we hear as a means to even understand the proposition.
That doesn't explain what people expect to get from God. It depends upon the definition of God as well. For the traditional meaning of God, a personified creator, there are a variety of reasons. I think those reasons have changed, or at least changed in which reasons dominate, over time. It's quite feasible that the existence and nature of the gods were not one of what people wanted. They just accepted that they were.
I have seen nothing in anything I've read to suggest that the majority of people believe in a God in order to get something. I apply this phenomenon to the modern spiritual movements within and outside traditional spiritual beliefs.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
"God" has the substance. "I" have the forms.