How can you come up with something that doesn't already exist? Don't say Santa Clause, or unicorns.. A unicorn is simply a horse with a horn. Santa Clause is simply an old man, with a red suit. I can create a orange rabbit, with wings, and fangs. But all your doing is taking each individual known thing, and combing it.
Make a new color up in your mind, that I can't see. God is an entirely different concept, nobody had the power to create him in their minds.
I know your just going to give me bias answers,, so why even bother...Jesus is alive that is enough for me to believe.
2006-08-10 04:34:32 · 23 answers · asked by ۞ JønaŦhan ۞ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly, why bother if you have decided in advance that we're not going to give you good answers at all?
I have already told you this, but I think you're very arrogant in your questions for unbelievers, and you're also very patronising to us. We can do without your attitude, you know?
Besides, what is your point with this particular question? So God is a unique being? I don't really think so, but even if he were, so what? A good science-fiction writer (like Ray Bradbury, for instance) could make up a richer much better, elaborate and complex character than your God.
And BTW, if you have the capacity to imagine God, then you also have the capacity to make him up. So, I don't really think I can grant you your point about the unique nature of your God. American cultures previous to Columbus had their elaborate religions, only that some of your Christian fellows destroyed those cultures, and most of the people who professed them, too.
2006-08-10 06:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
No human being could come up with the concept of a divine being? Can you support this claim with evidence, or is the crack making it too hard to sit still?
And besides that, assuming for the briefest moment that your rant makes sense, and that man could not come up with the concept of "God," then what about the Greek gods? Under your "logic" the Greeks could not have simply made them up, which means that you are admitting that the Greek gods existed. And the Pagan gods, and the Nordic gods, etc.
2006-08-10 11:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't understand the question...
If no one had the power to create god in their own minds, how can the bible be used as scripture since it was written by man.
My "belief" that there is no god has nothing to do with Santa Claus or Unicorns. It's based on the understanding of early man and their desire to explain the universe. For the things that could not understand using their knowledge system, they attributed to "god".
If you believe that "Jesus is alive and that is enough....", that's fine and more power to you.
2006-08-10 11:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by JerseyRick 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't get it, you say no one had the ability to create him in their minds? So all the other "gods" out there are real too? Zeus, Osiris, Vishnu, Ahura Mazda, etc... they all have to be real since it's impossible to make up a god?
This is an amazing statement... seeing as how I could make up a new god in like 5 minutes. Complete with a nice back story, and a better outlook than the biblical god.
2006-08-10 11:44:51 · answer #4 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All you are doing is starting with man, then assigning him magic powers.
Thinking of things in terms of degree is easy. If I remember correctly, the argument you are making is Kantian and I thought it was rubbish when he wrote it too.
You say that I should make a new color up in my mind and use that challenge to somehow affirm God. Isn't God supposedly beyond human comprehension? If he were real, all your mind would be able to handle is a loose concept. It would be exactly the same as imagining the possibility of a new color but not being able see said color in your mind.
2006-08-10 11:40:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying...it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
2006-08-10 11:42:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
"nobody had the power to create him in their minds."
Incorrect. What the mind creates, the will can manifest in the material world.
I love the Vedic idea that this is all an illusion. Thus we can create our own reality. That reality can have god in it or not. It's up to the person who envisions the reality being experienced..
2006-08-10 11:48:14 · answer #7 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's an original thought for you.
If time is a dimension, like all others, and one can understand that there is a future and a past, just as there is a left, and a right...
Seeing as how we can see and travel from left to right, and we apparently travel forward in time every second of every day, why is it that we only remember the past?
Have you ever tried to "remember" the future?
There's an original thought for you. Don't hear that one every day, do you?
Hey, you asked for it, bucky.
2006-08-10 11:44:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This place is called Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo Lectures. Do you have a question, dear?
PS your argument for the existence of God is as old as the hills, and has been discredited long ago.
2006-08-10 11:46:51 · answer #9 · answered by grammartroll 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"so why even bother"....you believe jesus is alive and that is enough for you. Great! But I think differently. If your mind is made up, why ask the question. You are clearly not going to listen to the answers.
2006-08-10 11:42:34 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋