The Truth cannot contradict itself. But you contradict yourself by having no proof in believing in the nonexistence of God.
2007-01-20 10:26:30 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I cannot see or experience something, is that good enough for me to believe that it doesn't exist? If so, then I must be stupid to come to that conclusion.
2007-01-20 10:44:16 · update #1
Well the proof is in the history isn't it...i mean look at where your records of "God" come from? flawed manuscripts that were copies of copies of copies that were picked from over a thousand versions? doesn't sound like the divine word of god to me...Evolution has been proven....i mean there is no way for you to go around that withouth delusion. Most Atheists deny all gods that we know on earth today but we aren't going to say that nothing is out there...because we don't know...we believe what we can see,touch,feel.
2007-01-20 10:31:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Why be an Atheist if you have to prove it? That just defeats the purpose of the here & now. Not even a person who says they believe in a God can tell you what this God is. Is it unknown? Or is it known after a person dies? Some power has created all that is life & no human can say for sure just what that creative force really is. You can label it God, but that isn't proof either. Just accept the fact that you are here & enjoy life & stop trying to force others into a belief system that can not be proven or disproven. Keep it between you & your maker & we'll all be a lot better off.
2007-01-20 10:43:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm an atheist, but I don't not believe in God because it haven't been proved, but because there are too many contradictions in religion for me to be able to believe it.
God forgives all, Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but we still have to follow the Bible or we will go to Hell.
Why??
If He's already forgiven our sins, AND Jesus has paid for them, why do we have to go to Hell???
Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth, they got sons, who then met woman whom they got children with - from where did those women come?
These are just the classics - I've got many more questions just like these, and until someone can explain this to me, I can't believe in God. I just can not live my life by a book with so many contradictions.
I do believe there's more than meets the eye, but I can not believe in God. And I don't want to. If there is a God, it is not even one I would want to worship - I say he should think about retirement, because he's not doing a very good job, with all the suffering there is in the world today.
2007-01-20 11:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by c_lotty2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that the atheists, will believe me or care... My proof of God's existence lies in the Word of God, The Bible! I am willing to bet none of you read the Bible before tossing it aside as fiction, nonsense & garbledy-goop!
I can point to a house, a car, a plane & I know that someone: a contractor or a mechanic made those & built them. I look at our solar system and our special planet earth, & think who made them. I am a Christian & an evolutionist! Surely, if God created the planet, then he created science too! The more I study science the more I see God’s fingerprint on all of it, everything works too well together, like the cogs of a clock, to have happened by accident, to have not had a supreme maker.
The other thing the Bible had taught me is it isn’t until you want to believe & do, that you will see the way God works in your life as well as others.
God loves us & because he loves us he gives of the freedom to choose him or not. I certainly wouldn’t want someone to feel forced to love me. He created us for his pleasure. (Also in the Bible) I chose to love God, not so I wont go to Hell, but because I have seen him work in my life…I can & choose to see his great works! I love him because he loved me so much even as an unworthy sinner, that he sent his perfect Son to die, so that I might have eternal life by His side. Amen.
Most Christians revert to rudeness & righteousness out of their sinful human nature, when they are frustrated at trying to tell those, who do not believe, the reasons why to believe, it is not right. Being a Christian doesn’t allow you to judge others, which is a right reserved for God! And though some think this to be true, being a Christian does not automatically make you perfect!
Everyone should read the Bible open-mindedly; let it shine light on your life even if when you finish you toss it aside. Then & only then will you be in a position to say what you feel about the Christian God! My one & only true God!
Yes- for those who are going to jump on me, I have studied & am studying other religions: Mormonism, Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish… So that I may be educated in the Truth! Gods Truth!
2007-01-20 11:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by Boppysgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My question to you is, 'how can you prove God DOES exist?'
The problem is so many things in the Bible have been disproven by hard, scientific fact.
I have nothing against religous people, my best friend is Christian. But it annoys me that some of you cannot take a good look at the facts. I know your beliefs will never change, and nor will mine. If they can get some rock solid evidence that God does exist, then by all means, I shall believe it.
2007-01-20 10:51:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has been well established than you can not prove the non-existence of something. Are there pink unicorns? Probably not. Can we be sure? No. Maybe, somewhere in the Universe there is a planet with pink unicorns on it.
To an atheist, however, positing such entities doesn't make any sense. There is no more reason to believe the Christian God than pink unicorns, people on Pluto, smurfs or leprechauns.
In truth, the only real reason to ever believe in such an entity is that this entity helps a person makes sense of the world. Personally, I have nothing against that. It becomes a problem when that person starts demanding that everybody else believes it also, or wants to use their belief to influence laws in the whole of society.
2007-01-20 10:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
How about this? There is NO proof that god does not exist, but I don't believe it anyway. I don't need proof that god does not exist...I don't care whether god exists or not. It's totally irrelevant in my life. I live, love, and am very happy with my husband, children, parents, siblings, extended family and good friends. I have no need for god. So I don't have to prove anything!
2007-01-20 10:59:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
what are you talking about. thats part of the reason why we dont believe in god, because there is no proof supporting it. how is that a contradiction? its more of a contradiction believing in something that doesnt exist. think through your questions before you write them next time
2007-01-20 10:52:29 · answer #8 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Consider an empty box. If someone put a statue in a box and closed it up, there are several ways you can tell that the statue is in the box: you can weigh it; you can x-ray it; you can shake it. You can acquire evidence to indicate that there is a statue in the box. Now, remove the statue from the box and close it back up. Give it to someone to prove that there is nothing in the box and partner him or her with someone who believes there is something in the box, but it’s feature are unknown. If they weight it, the believer can say that it is something incredibly light; if they x-ray it, the believer can say that it is invisible to x-rays; if they shake it, the believer can say it doesn't move. You know there's nothing in the box because you removed the statue, but the believer can come up with an infinite number of ways to say the other person is wrong. One could even cross-reference all the tests to show that all the signs that there is something in the box don't indicate that anything is in there now, but the believer can keep coming up with ridiculous ideas because he or she isn’t limited by evidence.
This is similar to humanity's experience with God. The more we come to understand about the universe through science the more tests we put on the box, and the more tests show us that there is nothing there. The history of science is the deconstruction of what we used to assume was God's role in the universe. Some of the basic scientific beliefs you probably hold today were considered heresy back only a few hundred years ago. Everything that people said were indications that God was in the box: the sun revolving around the earth, the earth as the center of the universe, divine right of kings, disease, famine, complexity, etc. have been proven time and again to correspond to the basic physical laws. God went from directing the Sun across the sky, to not even being in control of the weather. All God seems to do today is maybe randomly answering some people’s prayers, but not all people and certainly not all of the time—not enough to give up one’s health insurance. All of our provable repeatable data points to nothing being in the box. That's your evidence. And like the box, someone keeps trying to come up with ways to say the tests don't tell us everything, but those critics don't come up with a way to show us with evidence that there is anything in the box. We've done our tests and shown our data, we're waiting for someone else to come up with the evidence that we're wrong.
2007-01-20 10:44:20 · answer #9 · answered by One & only bob 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Relatively few atheists assert the nonexistence of God in the sense you mean. We don't believe in God like we don't believe in invisible unicorns. You couldn't prove that they don't exist, but we find no reason to believe in them.
On the other hand, we can disprove individual deities if their nature is a contraction. Consider the contradictory nature of omnipotence and omniscience.
2007-01-20 10:38:55 · answer #10 · answered by Phil 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
*Yawn*
You can't prove God does not exist the same way you can't prove that I don't have a dragon in my garage.
You can make probability judgements though and look at how theists think which is laughable. You can think about how there's no point in an afterlife, how there's no point in creating people just to suck up to you. How vile the God is in the bible or how many different contradicting gods there are in human mythology.
Oh dear, did you think you'd just refuted atheism? Back to the drawing board, huh? Oh and the burden of proof is on the one saying there is something more than we can see, not on the sane ones who say 'prove it'.
2007-01-20 10:30:44 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋