What if it was your choice?

[Skwim]

Never mind.

 

[Penumbra]

I don't really care about gods, assuming this world is the way it is with or without gods. If a god exists but the world is no different, when what does it matter from the perspective of people?

If it's a god as depicted in most Abrahamic religions, I wouldn't want that to exist. Having no god is preferable to a wrathful and vengeful one that encapsulates a general Iron Age mentality, I certainly think.

It would be cool to have certain forms of afterlives, like getting to live multiple lives or going to better realms for a while. That doesn't necessarily require a god, although it's commonly associated with one. That would compensate for at least some of the various forms of suffering in this world.

 

[Nymphs]

For all of you who don't believe in God due to lack of physical evidence of his existence, hypothetically speaking, if it was your choice, would you like God to exist? Why?

No. Because if we are going with the God in the Bible or other religious texts -- he is an *******.

 

[mystic64]

What is funny is that you "can" create your own god and that god will be as real as anyother god. And you can define the parameters of the god that you have created and that god will function within the parameters that you have established. Or you can give anybody else's god, and the parameters that they have established for that god, permission to exist . Or you can change the parameters of their god to fit your version of a more functional reality as Lord Jesus did for the God of Abraham. And basically that is what the battle between religions is all about. Permission for their god and the parameters they have set to define their god, to exist. With the understanding that the more of humanity that believes in your god and it's defined parameters, the more permission your god has to exist.

Along with that is the power that any given group has that allows them to force their god and it's defined parameters on other individuals and other groups of people. Which is the other part of the battle of religions.

Anyone can create their own god and that god will be functional at least to some extent. The only true question is, "Will the rest of humanity, or the group of humanity that is around you, allow you to promote that god, and it's defined parameters, that you have created?" Should, of course, you actually wish to share your god with others .

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Which god would be the deciding factor. There are several that would be fun to have around...none of which are Abrahamic.

 

[mystic64]

Which god would be the deciding factor. There are several that would be fun to have around...none of which are Abrahamic.

Yes ! What you have presented is the ultimate question, if one were to choose to share their life with a god. And Gjallarhorn, a god that is fun to have around could be considered an extremely radical concept .

 

[Ingledsva]

Lovely.
I would like a god to exist whose power is revealed in the workings of my heart. I want no miracles of wind and rain, but give me the miracle of courage in the face of the storm. I have no use for magic tricks, but if there exists one who can trick my heart into loving that which stirs my wrath, I would welcome this god. A being of pure love, whose gifts are peace, joy, and strength, this god I would recognize as holy. This god would have no responsibility for the ways of the world, or the ordering of the stars, only the ways of love, and the ordering of the heart. I would draw near to this god, and wish to be in its presence always.

Only Jesus leads us to the Father. Be 'born again the way He said. Read His Words and follow them. Hold them dear to you're heart and let you're heart express it out you're mouth.

He loves us so much.

And what does that have to do with what Amechania actually said?



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[idea]

What if it was your choice?.

It is a choice for everyone. Not seeing is believing, but believing is seeing.

 

[kashmir]

Only if I could get him to swing a huge baseball ball at the earth and smack it straight for the sun.

 

[1137]

I'm not sure, to be honest. The god I picture isn't very classical, and if it actually existed I doubt it'd change anything. The idea is enough.

 

[Iti oj]

No . I say no.

 

[Nymphs]

It is a choice for everyone. Not seeing is believing, but believing is seeing.

Yeah, about that.....:areyoucra

 

[mystic64]

Only if I could get him to swing a huge baseball ball at the earth and smack it straight for the sun.

There have been times in my life where I have felt just exactly like you seem to. And who knows, if there is a God It might do that. And even if there is not a God it still may happen . What you are presenting is something that we all have to live with. Life is actually a fragle thing and it does not take much for circumstances to destroy it. Kashmir, you may get your wish, God or no God. Science now has enough information that they are worried about what you are presenting, actually happening.

 

[idea]

It is a choice for everyone. Not seeing is believing, but believing is seeing.

Yeah, about that.....:areyoucra

I'm sorry you have not yet progressed past dualistic thinking ...

William G. Perry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mystic64]

I'm sorry you have not yet progressed past dualistic thinking ...

William G. Perry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Idea, just out of curiosity, how do you find Nymphs "dualistic"? It is the God of the Old Testament that is "dualistic" and Nymphs is just saying no to that type of God.