One of the great anti-atheist believers on Y!A posted this sentence in answer to a question some 10 hours ago:
YOU CAN NOT HAVE GOD'S KNOWLEDGE, OUTSIDE GOD'S WILL. PERIOD.
I apologise for the caps-lock. It's his words, not mine.
I'm trying to understand this sentence. Is it God's will that there be atheists in this world?
2006-07-13 21:44:23 · 17 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Obilee, I described him as a 'great anti-atheist believer'...
2006-07-13 21:51:15 · update #1
According to some Christians, yes. I've heard the argument that the free will to not believe is granted by God/god. The bottom line is there is really no point in trying to reason with someone who won't listen to anything outside their own head. In the big scheme of things, what difference does it make if God is real or not? It's funny how people say "it's in the past" when dealing with almost any other issue, but many seem so fixated on finding some magical answer to how the world came to be. People are still fighting and hating and killing each other and for what? Some magical afterlife promise? Okay, but we still need to figure out a way to function together on this plane right now.
2006-07-13 21:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think otherwise, I think God wants you to deny all the idols of God and Atheists are doing it very well.
Unintentionally, you as an Atheist have already said half of Islamic creed "There is no god" now I can do a wishful thinking and hope that someday maybe some of you will finish it by saying "But God" and make it "There is no god but God"
2006-07-14 05:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mesum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wants us all to love Him from our free will, which is why He gave us free will. He is God after all, and could conceivably force us to love Him, but then we all would just be puppets, and it would not ease God's loneliness (one of the reasons we were created was to keep Him company, but we had to go and sin!). God wants us to have a choice, and some of us choose to be atheists, although I don't understand how someone could be one when all you have to do is take a look all around and witness God's handiwork everywhere.
2006-07-14 04:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by BY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he's an atheist and he posted that than he's actually not an atheist. The definition of an atheist being that you do not believe in God at all!!
2006-07-14 04:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Obilee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I remember correctly both the Bible and the Qur'an claim that their gods need non-believers as fuel to keep the fires burning in Hell. Maybe that's why he makes atheists. :-/
2006-07-14 04:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup....jus remember....God is God no matter what your belief system is....He is there and He's watching. He won't interfere...but He will always have the first and the last say in everything. Peace
2006-07-14 04:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows what HE wants. Sometimes it seems that even HE doesn't know what HE wants. If it were important for him for us all to be believers, he would make his prescence obvious, but he doesn't, he hides. He is develishly coy, isn't he?
Does he want world peace or world war?
2006-07-14 04:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by hellbent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IMHO God is far more concerned about how you treat your fellow man than whether you believe or not.
2006-07-14 04:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by Quester 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would prefer us to follow him.......but he has given man a choice to decide what he wishes to believe.......It's up to everyone on what they want to chose
2006-07-14 04:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what he is saying is that you are lost if you dont follow god. i seem to be getting along just fine without him thank you very much. ignorant opinions like that are why i often despise religion.
2006-07-14 04:48:52 · answer #10 · answered by Dorkchop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋