God created both good and evil, the concept of being seperated from God is a foreign one because God is within all things.
2007-01-02 08:44:05 · 17 answers · asked by yinyangandsomewhereinbetween 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
secular even
2007-01-02 08:44:31 · update #1
Prove to me how God made this manila folder in front of me, and how God is in it also!
Can't prove it? Then you have just answered your question.
2007-01-02 08:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by ÜFÖ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do you mean secular or atheist? It sounds like you mean atheist.
I'm Christian so I agree with you. Others are free to disagree.
If you really want an answer to your question, rather than gibberish, read Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not A Christian." This is a brilliant philosopher who, in several essays, gives a fine answer in defense of atheism. Example: a) If God creates goodness, then goodness is an arbitrary thing, and could have been defined another way. b) if God did not create goodness, then we don't need him as a reference point for goodness. c) Whether a or b is true, God bcomes irrelevant to the equation...... and so on. You get it.
I am unable to justify my beliefs as well as Russell does, but I feel the presence of God, and that is all I need for everything that follows from it.
2007-01-02 19:50:52 · answer #2 · answered by KALEL 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God only created GOOD. To Him, evil is the outcome of rejecting His ways.
If His Spirit is not living in a person, then God is NOT within them.
John 3:5-8
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
(from New International Version)
2007-01-02 18:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you prove it?
Don't think your superstitions are factual.
"God created both good and evil, the concept of being seperated from God is a foreign one because God is within all things."
How do you know that? How do you know a god exists, much less that he created everything?
2007-01-02 16:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Atheists reject the IMAGES of god -- the ones that make him into this small, ego benig that judges, rewards, needs to be worshipped, makes real the concepts of sin and hell, etc. Without these images, the whole universe is sacred and is of 'god' -- but this god has NOTHING to do with the small god that is presented and worshipped in most major religions.
2007-01-02 16:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting. God definitely does exists. I do believe that God created the Universe... and God created all things.
2007-01-02 16:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by Soul saviour 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What does God have to do with being worldly and not caring about religion.
I can be secular and believe in my God.
I just don't want anything of your religious self righteousness.
2007-01-02 16:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think people can be "secular" when they put too much attention on the things of this world and forget about their Creator. Like that bumper sticker says "We are spiritual beings having a human experience," but many people often forget that.
2007-01-02 16:49:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is an atheists right.
They don't believe that God is all things, so it's easier to be Secular
2007-01-02 16:49:13 · answer #9 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Secularism isn't about separation of God and state, it's about separation of church and state.
2007-01-02 16:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋