When one turns to faith for answers, they have ceased to "reason" or to seek their own answers. When one ceases to "reason", they have stopped exercising "free will". God's supposed greatest gift to mankind was "free will". So it stands to reason that if there was a "God", then he would not want us to run our lives based on belief in him, because we would cease to look for our own answers to life's greatest questions. (This is not an argument against God, because it allows for the existence of an unseen, unacting God).
Therefore God either doesn't exist, or exists but remains unseen and unacting in order to allow us our "free will". What this argument DOES put forth though, is the idea that organized religion, and the act of making one's decisions in life based on unsupported beliefs in an omnipotent God, is a mistake. This is because there is either A) no God, or B) a God that wishes us to live our lives without consideration of him.
SO WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK OF THAT????
2006-10-20 21:32:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(PLEASE NO RESPONSE SAYING, "PROOF OF GOD IS EVERYWHERE", THIS IS FALSE)
2006-10-20 21:33:50 · update #1
JEWISHGIRL, the bible did not create organized religion,organized religion was around LONG before the bible
2006-10-20 21:38:56 · update #2
THANKS FOR MINDLESS CRAP SNUGGLES, YOUR ANSWER MAKES NO SENSE OR ANY ATTEMPT WHATSOEVER TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION
2006-10-20 21:58:13 · update #3
THANKS GUYS, I ASKED YOU ALL TO USE YOUR POWERS OF LOGIC TO CONSIDER SOMETHING, AND I'M FED A BUNCH OF SCRIPTURE AND QUOTES IN RESPONSE. NICE WORK MINDLESS SHEEP
2006-10-20 22:00:02 · update #4
Yes....absolutely! I agree with option "B".
Freedom of will....we all have it! God's will is our will or our will is God's will....either way....we all should reason it out for our selves and decide in our own time what to make of our own spiritual path.
2006-10-20 21:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OK, I didn't look at your answers so far, because I'm pretty sure that they're all a bunch of people with nothing to say, yet they're saying something anyway, if I've read the Yahoo Answers community correctly, so far.
God's greatest gift to us has been our bodies. You know, the whole "My body is a Temple" thing... Somewhere inside that body is a brain, and the answer to all those aforementioned prayers comes from our brains. It's called common sense. The whole 'What would Jesus do?' thing, ya know? It's not about the marketing scam that they've been running, because I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't pay $20 for a frigging hat that's only got four letters on it.
It's an internal thing. The answer to your prayers is your own answer to 'what would Jesus do?', and your own brain is supposed to answer the question. Prayer is alone-time to think about what to do next.
It doesn't matter whether you're religious or not, taking time for yourself to do some thinking is beneficial to everyone.
Faith is funny. Either you believe or you don't. You choose. Apparently you have chosen not to. But, trying to argue out a choice others have made, and you haven't chosen, that you don't understand because you didn't choose it, is uncool. They've made their choice. Leave them alone.
You can harass me all you want. You won't bother me. But others are more shaky in their faith than I am.
I'm doing God's work by giving advice to my daughter. By asking her how school was today. By going to work, and processing the food you eat. Every step I take during my day, I'm doing God's work. Because I made the choice you didn't make. I'm not completely, over the top, head over heels religious, but I've made my choice, and I'm standing by it.
So, I guess, now that I think about it, you're absolutely right. He sits back and lets us do as we want, trusting us to do the right thing. Sorry for seeming like I doubted you, you were right all along.
2006-10-20 22:04:49 · answer #2 · answered by 42ITUS™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does God control everything that happens? If it was, God would be responsible for all the tragedies and evils that are evident in the world.
A God who controls everything would keep us from ever maturing into actualized human beings. At some point, parents must decide to limit control over their children. Giving children freedom is a risky, painful business because freedom can be abused. Yet responsible parents are willing to take the risk and endure the pain of watching their children make bad decisions. There will be times when the parents weep as they watch their children do things that they know will have disastrous consequences.
So it is with God, the parent of us all. When God placed Adam and Eve in Eden and relinquished control over their decision-making, God took an enormous risk. But that is what God had to do. Adam and Eve were not forced to obey God's will. Instead, their obedience would have to be freely chosen.
After giving Adam and Eve and all future generations this precious gift of freedom, God's greatest fears were realized. Not only did Adam and Eve blow it, but all who came after them have made matters worse with more of their own wrong and evil decisions. We read in the Bible that things got so bad that God "repented" of ever having created the human race in the first place.
All the sin and suffering that have marked human history since Eden are the result of God relinquishing control over what we do. People like you and me abuse our God-given freedom and thus increase the hurt and destruction that is in the world.
Without God choosing to be limited, we could not love God, because love is something that must be freely chosen—nor could we freely choose to love each other. And love is what is ultimately important.
2006-10-20 21:43:55 · answer #3 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody really knows whether he exists or not.In history we read of peaple like mahatma buddha who had attained enlightenment,who had got answers to all such questions. well buddha sat contemplating for 12 years before he finally found the truth.sad we do not have such patience and will power today after3000 years. only if we come to know of the motive of his having created us can we really come to th conclusion that he is unacting or not.not only in case of different religions but also in thousands of other happenings we see that if god is there then he is unacting.millions of innocent jews were murdered by hitler,thousands of innocent families including infants were slaughtered mercilessly during partition of india.was'nt god unacting in those moments.we need a buddha to answer such questions.
2006-10-20 22:22:00 · answer #4 · answered by Mave Rick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free-Will is not Gods greatest Gift to Mankind
His greatest gift is His love and support in Him
which is shown by His willingness to Forgive
God is not going to hold your hand through YOUR choices in life...He will however help you in your time of need(which means that He is not going to hit you across the head in order for you to believe in Him)
so does this mean that He will come running each time you call Him?.....No...Because He is already there..(He knows what you need before you ask)
God Does Exists.......You have your mind made up on this issue so I wont go into details on this
Edit:
Aw you really lay the sugar on don't you
oh well still smiling
It could be that your to closed minded to actually Know what I'm typing
2006-10-20 21:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think believing or disbelieving in God are both examples of free will. I don't follow your reasoning that faith or belief in God means we have stopped exercising free will. If that is true it would mean making choices is not exercising free will.
There are many problems about organized religion however, as we are told by an elite hierachy how to understand God, and if you don't agree with these elite hierarchy you will go to Hell.
that is not free will but blackmail.
2006-10-20 21:41:04 · answer #6 · answered by angle_of_deat_69 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
wrong. God is organized, he is very orderly and expects that out of us. All of us are different therefore not all of us can be organized but because we are imperfect through him and only him can we achieve perfection.You cannot change yourself. God's love is Egopy our love has conditions.His love is unconditional.Whether you make your own choices he is waiting for you to return back to him.Because of free will you are choosing your own path, that is the beauty of his love which our parents sometimes fall short of. But Gods love doesn't end there. He cant help you though If you refuse to take heed of his calling for you.Your life could be cut short and that would be too bad.Gods commandments the first four are about our devotion to him. Your arguments are treading in dangerous waters.
2006-10-20 21:52:31 · answer #7 · answered by johnknight 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is organized. "Organized religion" may have gotten a bit muddled, but its existence does not disprove God's existence. Faith is not a cop-out from reason, because reason has its limitations--I know that I exist, but my reason cannot tell me why. But in searching for the "why" of this life, the existence of organized religion has absolutely no bearing on whether or not God exists. It's the height of arrogance for us to assume that if God exists, He wants us to ignore Him. I think the Bible's portrait of Him as a benevolent being who is offering us a relationship with Him and the opportunity to know Him and be with Him forever is the only reasonable explanation for why we're here. If God just put us here for the heck of it, to let us try to figure things out for ourselves but we'd better ignore Him or else, then God is just a total sadist for putting us here and refusing to tell us why we're here and refusing to let us find out. But I don't think that's the case at all, and I think that both of your conclusions are flawed if for no other reason than they arbitrarily rule out the possibility that God might exist and that He might want us to live for Him. I don't know how you arrived at either of your conclusions but I'd be interested in knowing because I can't make sense of them.
2006-10-20 21:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, God is just a human manifestation of the powers within us, there is no external god or any such power watching over. It's all a matter of what we believe.
2006-10-20 21:41:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God worked by human beings to place in writing the Bible human beings did no longer arise with it from scratch the way you whinge approximately what God shall we take place makes me think of which you somewhat choose the international to be all happy and sunshine & marsh mellows God can no longer make life that straightforward in simple terms by way of fact an Atheist is rich does not advise that they are happy Who cares approximately mansions and unique autos? as quickly as we die we pass away fabric stuff in the back of besides God is speaking to all individuals, yet we are to busy to take heed to him human beings will never have the flexibility to understand God His techniques are no longer our techniques, nor does his techniques tick comparable to ours i assume you will possibly be able to desire to declare that we are examined all of our lives to work out if we can shop the religion in God or shutter and buckle and lose the religion
2016-10-15 06:22:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋