Despite what folks "believe"-or not!?

Question

In truth are we not all agnostics, because we are not in the realm of evidential proofs.

Answer 1

I was there where you are for a long time but not any more. This was proof enough for me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

Nope, not at all.

You can form an internally consistent cyclical model and then you can stop bieng agnostic without believing either that God does or does not exist.

Known as implicit atheism, it is in theory practised by the majority of atheists.

The reason that it is no longer agnostic is that the parameters for what you have to know to stop bieng agnostic change.

I suspect there is some way that religious people can do this also, but I have not yet run across the derivation.

Answer 3

I do understand, because I too, was on a search for truth. I, like most people, am in a religion (Pentacostal Christian), because my parents were, and they kept me and my 3 sisters in church. My mother was the choir director, and we all sang. As I became older, I was given my own bible so that I could read the word for myself. I did, and I still was attending church with my parents. But when I turned 17, a boy took me to the prom, who was a Jehovah's witness, and we dated. But I found he loved me, but wanted me to convert. That's when I began to read and compare other's bibles. I then went to a Prestigious Catholic University in IL, and we had to take philosopy and religion as requirements. It was then I learned just how many different philosophies of religions were, including those that had changed the bible to fit their philosophies. They also had me take a class on Evolution and Creationism too. It's no wonder you are confused and searching for proof. You must look at the earliest religions of Egypt. They worshiped gods and idols. The bible says that there are no other Gods before me. There are religions today that continue to worship idols, and I'm ashamed to say it's the one the Protestants came from. That's why they protested! Now, there are two branches of Christian, and not just that, some of the religions that fall under the Protestants, still practice idol worship. They've added to their bibles to fit their own worldviews, and this is considered punishable by death in Revelations!
One has fooled its followers by the ramblings of an 18 year old boy, that believed that there were other gods in heaven too. There are different factions of Muslim too; Zionists, and Israelites. They all claim to be the one true religion, and I know they can't all be right.
Then you hear about Evolutionists beliefs. They aren't right either, because they think we evolved from primates, when Human Blood's most common type is O, Apes is B, and Chimps type is A. Apes and Chimps have almost no occurrance of O. Anyway, I know that I didn't just magically appear from a monkey. Lower life forms evolve. The one thing that you can believe in is God, the almighty, God's Word made flesh through Jesus, and God's Holy spirit that impregnated Mary. It's all God! The only one. He doesn't share heaven with any one. Don't just read the King James Version, there are other versions too. But find the ones that follow the same line, That Jesus is Lord God almighty and His Spirit is in us All.

Answer 4

I'm agnostic myself. I'm a true believer in science. I believe in the big bang, I believe in evolution, I believe the universe was created 13 or so billion years ago. I have no belief whatsoever of any knid of organised religion. I think any kind of organised religion is man made for peolpe who are afraid to die and want to have some comfort about the after life. I don't believe in magic, rising from the grave, virgins becoming pregnant through ghosts etc. I'd need serious mind altering drugs to dig this theory. But if it floats your boat, go right ahead.
But life is too complicated, too prolific, too tenacious and just too wonderous to take for granted that it came from nothing. I think there is an obvious design for life. If we are all a fluke, we are one HELL of a fluke! I just dont think he/she/it/them/other lives in the sky on a great cloud.

Answer 5

well i have had my evidential proof ... that doesn't mean it would be proof enough for everyone
but it takes me out of the agnostic category .. but i see what you mean

added note
everyone should look for proof i agree

Answer 6

Agnostic was a term invented by Thomas Huxley. He was a biologist and thought that anything that couldn't be demonstrated by biology didn't exist. That rules out God, electricity, computers, iPods and pop music. It all goes to demonstrate that no matter what discipline of thought people adopt, arrogance rules.

Answer 7

Well, we are all agnostics. But weak agnosticism is compatable with theism and atheism. No one knows that there's a God, but we can believe otherwise.

Answer 8

No. Agnostics do not know what to believe when it comes to religion. That distinguishes them from atheists 9who do not believe in a deity) and theists (who do believe in at least one deity).

Answer 9

There's proof all aorund us. Look at creation. Evolution did not do this, it is the hand of a merciful, just God.

Answer 10

What does this question mean? Is it a question?