God is dead?

Question

What is it with this site? Why is there so many questions and answers about GOD. After all there is no such thing as an invisible man in the sky . Are you all delusional ? Please if you happen to run into him/her . Give him /her my regards

Answer 1

In defense of the asker, believing in love is not the same as believing in god - love is an emotion which is made certain by the experience of it. Love is an experience, while God is not. Since love is an experience, you can be certain of its existence (even if it is an illusion or mistaken) when you feel it, while an experience of the presence of god only is proof of the existence of that experience (because it can be illusionary or you can be mistaken about its source) not of God himself.

Yes, in the sense Nietzsche meant, God is dead today. God has ceased to be a meaningful way to explain the world. Even most devout christians look to science to explain the natural world today, which is why they try to claim that creationism is science. Whether or not God actually exists is a different question. When Nietzsche made this statement he was commenting on the replacing of God with enlightenment values, and there is no doubt that this is what has in fact occurred in the Modern West, even among Christians.

Answer 2

you think that god is an invisible man in the sky?.. that's not nessecarily true.
god is what you make it to be...
god is just a representation-- a common word of faith, hope, belief and happiness--
you just use the word god as a term which means these things.

it's not a question of whether people are delusional or not. --

Answer 3

Whether or not you believe there is no God, this is a question that the world has been asking since the dawn of man. And it is a question that will be asked till the dusk. You or I can never know for certain about God until we die.

Answer 4

First of all, God can't die as he has always been. He's not "an invisible man," but an omnipresent, omnipotent spirit. No, I'm not delusional - just saved and going to Heaven when I die by his grace and the blood of his Son, Jesus ( who also died for you).

Answer 5

What is with this site is questions about the God/Allah/Creator, etc that so many people around the world believe in. Just because you do not believe, does not make it true. It would be wise to respect the beliefs of others so that they will respect yours.

Answer 6

It is God who impels you to raise such a question, so that you realise His existence with added conviction.

Answer 7

You are so Reported, Why I Ought-ta! You wisenheimer! That is all I got!
But serious, this is a very Valid Question. You know people are going to be out there all pissed off instead of just leaving this question be! You got Balls!

Answer 8

Keep praying to that Golden Calf then. And he's not dead. He takes the Summers off to relax in Bermuda.

Answer 9

You are entitled to your opinion, but I for one will pray for you that one day you will be saved by God!

And btw, the phrase "God is dead" does not really mean he's dead, it is referring to Nietzche's philosophy that most christians are only "christians" out of habit and although they believe in God, they don't pattern their lives after him.

Answer 10

No, however, German poet and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is most famous for making the statement "God is dead" in the Nineteenth Century. Nietzsche, influenced by both Greek philosophy and the theory of evolution, wrote, "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? . . . Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?" (Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §125).

Nietzsche's purpose was to abolish "traditional" morality-Christianity, in particular-because, in his mind, it represented an attempt of self-serving religious leaders to control the weak and unthinking masses. Nietzsche believed that the "idea" of God was no longer necessary; in fact, God was irrelevant because man was evolving to a place where he could create a deeper and more satisfying "master morality" of his own.

Nietzsche's “God is dead” philosophy has been used to advance the theories of existentialism, nihilism, and socialism. Radical theologians such as Thomas J. J. Altizer and Paul van Buren advocated the "God is dead" idea in the 1960s and 1970s.

The belief that God is dead and religion is irrelevant naturally leads to the following ideas:

1) If God is dead, there are no moral absolutes and no universal standard to which all men should conform.

2) If God is dead, there is no purpose or rational order in life.

3) If God is dead, any design seen in the universe is projected by men who are desperate to find meaning in life.

4) If God is dead, man is independent and totally free to create his own values.

5) If God is dead, the "real" world (as opposed to a heaven and hell) is man's only concern.

The idea that "God is dead" is primarily a challenge to God's authority over our lives. The notion that we can safely create our own rules was the lie that the serpent told Eve: "ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). Peter warns us that "there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction" (2 Peter 2:1).

The "God is dead" argument is usually presented as a rational, empowering philosophy for artists and intellectuals. But scripture calls it foolish. "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). Ironically, those who hold to the “God is dead” philosophy will discover the fatal error in the philosophy when they themselves are dead.

http://www.gotquestions.org/is-God-dead.html

God's Not Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OTz-lpDjw