Are you willing to be mistaken?

Question

Generally speaking, our ancestors were mistaken. It was a common belief that the world was flat and that the expanse beyound the edge of the Earth was God's domain alone. Obviously, they were wrong.

We now face a similar question of where God's domain might exist. Our universe seems as impossible a barrior to us as did the vastness of the oceans to our ancestors. Are you willing to be as wrong as the bulk of our a ancestors were? Are you willing to give the beyond to a god who probably isn't there?

Your thoughts, please.

To eliminate any doubt of my belief, I just can't find a reason to think that we will ever find "God" no matter where we look. I don't think there is a god... not here ...not there ...not in body ... not as energy ...not as anything at all.

God quite simply isnt.
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Answer 1

Not all our ancestors were mistaken. The Egyptians not only figured out that the world was round, but they came up with a pretty accurate measurement of it's circumference and diameter.

On the other hand, St. Augustus (Augustine?) claimed that anyone who said the world was round was a lunatic.

So the truth always exists, it's whether people are willing to open their eyes and have the courage to admit they were wrong.

Answer 2

Faith is about being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. For you to say that God probably is not there, conversely I can say, God probably is there.
I can't see the wind but I feel it. Can you prove it isn't? Look at the affect it has on those it touches and I tell you again, can you honestly say nothing is there? I am not able to give something back to God which is His to begin with. Whatever the boundaries are that He made, are His. But having incorrect thoughts about the physicality's of the geography of the land around us has no bearing on believing about a mightier creater. The two have nothing to do with one another.

So the question now is, Are you willing to be wrong? You are so adamant something doesn't exist, just like those in history were adamant that the world wasn't round. You're claiming to know so much but you are discounting an existence because you can't see it...I have never seen the globe with my own eyes but do believe that other people have seen it with their own eyes. There is more to life than science. The possibilities are endless. You have a closed mind just like those in history who said "it wasn't possible", so why don't you try to open your mind a little more and try to think "Is it possible?" GL

Answer 3

First of all, not everyone thought the world was flat. The Greeks, 1500 years earlier knew the earth was round. The Dark Ages messed that all up. So much knowledge was lost.

Am I willing to be wrong? I'm not sure I follow, but all I DO know is questions similarly asked over the centuries have never come up with an answer that could be proved.

All I know, is that the answers to your question are mysteries.

Answer 4

God is there, Jesus Christ is our only hope to God. I can tell this for sure cause I received Holy Spirit that Jesus said we will receive. How can He give it, if He is not there. There are many who want to know God and get a closeness to Him and God gives them.
Its nice to go to a place who worships God and you feel at ease to worship there yourself, so that u are not aware of people around u,but God alone. Or some 2 min or 5 min to spend just talking to God from where u are. You can tell anyhting u want and u will receive answers if u have a good intension and God's will to do it for u. What more can anyone ask for, than getting our petitions answered.

Answer 5

Absolutely. If you're not willing to be wrong you should just shut up and keep your opinions to yourself. It is only in the expression of ideas and concepts that true debate can take place, and debate is essental to understanding. I question daily whether I may be wrong in what I believe. And daily I make a choice to follow Jesus. The evidence of all I see tells me that God is real, and that He loves me, and that He wants and knows what is best for me. Let science say we came came from monkeys if they want. Let them say this whole thing is just a fluke and never should have happened in the first place. But even if I did believe all of that, it would only serve to strengthen my belief in God. More on this if you want it.

Answer 6

Well, I'm not upset by the idea that some of the scientific conventions I accept as true might be proven wrong by future generations if that's what you're asking. That's just how science works. I'm still gonna do my best to be right and not make any outlandish and undue speculations however. Like, for example, a creator being.

Answer 7

Actually, I can guarentee God isn't there. Scripture says that creation is but a footstool under His feet. God is in what we might consider another dimension. Heaven is not a place in the way we think of it, we are limited by time/space, God exists outside of the time/space continuum in eternity.

That is just my humble belief though, I'm sure atheists and others of that ilk will disagree.

Answer 8

I am willing to be mistaken about anything except my belief in God. I know you nonbelievers think that believers are all a bunch of loonies who have convinced themself to believe in a fairy tale and I also recognize that my telling you that God IS is not going to change your mind. The only thing that would change your mind would be if you personally experience His presence with you . . . and that won't happen unless you are willing to open your heart instead of your head. God is not a provable fact anymore than your existance can be proven. You could be a figment of my imagination.

Answer 9

Sure am. If I am wrong by asking God to come into my life and change me and to forgive of my sins and live according to His will, and he is not real when I leave this earth. I haven't lost anything. Yet, if I do none of these things and die and find out that He is real, then I have lost everything.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?

Answer 10

I saw Angels twice, both times they appeared to come from the north west. One time I had a experience so intense I looked straight up to heaven unconditionally and cried father please help me. It is hard to explain but when I say unconditional I mean the spirit inside me was crying ABA Father and I was looking into heaven, not that I saw anything but new it was spoken sincerely. Anyway my prayer was answered and how. No body would ever believe me if i told them.