Since 33AD there were millions of people who claim to experience god's love and mercy and the no. is still growing.
But for those who deny his existence may be for various reasons: closeness of one's heart, pride, science, etc etc.
If 100 people says that God exist, then u might doubt their testimony but when it cross million marks and last for more than 2000 years, how could u possibly deny that?
It doesn't matter how many atheists there are, as each has its own agenda for denying his existence. What matter most is you, your choice to open your heart in communion with your creator.
2007-04-20 06:31:16 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I like your thinking but these @$$ holes see anything to do with God and put up their guard.
2007-04-20 06:35:27 · answer #1 · answered by Crystal Blue 3 · 0⤊ 9⤋
"Are u sure God doesn't exist?"
I don't need to be. Are you sure that he does?
"Since 33AD there were millions of people who claim to experience god's love and mercy and the no. is still growing."
Argumentum ad Populum. Next.
"But for those who deny his existence may be for various reasons: closeness of one's heart, pride, science, etc etc."
Here's the only semi-true thing you've said.
"If 100 people says that God exist, then u might doubt their testimony but when it cross million marks and last for more than 2000 years, how could u possibly deny that?"
Argumentum ad Populum. Next.
"It doesn't matter how many atheists there are, as each has its own agenda for denying his existence."
Why do you deny the existence of the Hindu gods? Why do you deny the existence of the Norse gods or the Greek pantheon?
I just go one further god than you.
"What matter most is you, your choice to open your heart in communion with your creator."
No, spanky, that's what matters most to YOU. My creator(s) are my parents, not a Hebrew war-god.
Come up with something ORIGINAL, please.
2007-04-20 06:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh sweet pea. You really do think that you're going to help atheists don't you. I was a christian for a long time and I don't have a problem with christians I just think that religion can ruin people and relationships and that some people are naturally power hungry and the church seems to be a great place for them to get the power they want. Also gotta point out how long people worshipped the earth and the sun and many other gods long before this particular god idea came around.
2007-04-20 06:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God exists in the same sense that the square root of minus one exists, beyond the limits of what is material.
If God's existence were to be physically real he would no longer be God, because a real God must be beyond the limitations of physical reality.
Actually, if you want to take God seriously, you should not even speak his name. A God worthy of consideration has to be greater than any limitations any human can put on him. The act of naming something places a boundary around whatever you are naming. A true God must surpass all boundaries. If you want to be really respectful toward God you should never write "God" but just "G-d".
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God has no obligation to conform to any human definition. All God has to do to satisfy his job description is to exist. That is why when pressed to give his name he declined to state anything except "I am." That is what YVH means, and Yahweh is just an assertion of what exists.
If you insist in naming things, you are asserting power over them. Thus Adam in the Garden of Eden names animals because he assumes power over them. Therefore it is downright blasphemous to name God. As far as I know there is no authorization to name God offered anywhere in the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity.
Your remarks about atheists suggest that you have not met many atheists. I have, and I have seen only of them concerned to either deny or assert the existence of any God. His name is Gordon Stein. See:
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/2040116/used/The%20Encyclopedia%20of%20unbelief
and observe that his book is now out of print and is getting very high prices on the used book market.
Most of the atheists known to me just don't care whether a God exists or not.
2007-04-20 06:53:09 · answer #4 · answered by fra59e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To which God do you refer? Most religions claim that only their God or Gods are real. Before Christianity, and since, for thousands of years, millions of people claimed other Gods existed... in your own words, "how could u possibly deny that"???
2007-04-20 06:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am more sure that God does not exist than I am about leprechauns or the Easter Bunny, but one can never be truly sure about anything. The number of ignorant people who believe something is irrelevant to the truth.
I don't believe in gods because they are irrational. You can't solve the problem of the origin of complexity with a prior greater complexity. It merely leads to infinite regression. And saying your infinitely unlikely God "Just Is" is no answer either it is merely a cop out.
2007-04-20 06:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Utterly convinced of it, and would cheerfully bet my life on it.
You're very gullible if you think that the number of people who believe this nonsense counts for anything at all. How many people thought the sun went round the earth before the facts became known? All of them, I suspect.
The truth is not a democratic process. No matter how many people believe a lie, it's still a lie.
CD
2007-04-20 06:41:15 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody experienced god's love before 33AD? The old testament god was not capable of showing love? Why does He need Jesus (I assume that is why you reference 33AD) to show love?
Did millions of people believing in Zeus for hundreds of years make him any more real?
2007-04-20 06:37:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist, but your logic is lawed.
if 100 million people commit mass suicide, that's no reason to follow the lemmings.
you say each atheist "its own agenda," implying atheists' motives are dubious, when it's clear Christians' motives are no better (and could be argued to be worse). You exemplify the worst side of Christian hypocracy, and taint good Christians in the process.
2007-04-20 06:36:16 · answer #9 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
First of all, the number of faithful Christians only increases in countries with low education levels. In the civilized world it is decreasing rapidly. (Faith is the bread of the poor)
And before the Bible existed most of the world population believed in several gods, how can you claim they are wrong.
As I said before, considering knowledge, we all are agnostics, because, face it: nobody knows for sure. When it comes to faith and believing, I don't believe in a god.
2007-04-20 06:38:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You just disproved your own argument by discounting the Atheist position.
When you say that one should consider the possiblity that god does exist because of the number of Christians, but that it's unimportant to consider the number of atheists, you've logically dismissed your entire argument.
Ther are millions of atheists. There are millions of non-Christians. Why should the number of Christians matter, but not the number of competing beliefs?
2007-04-20 06:37:15 · answer #11 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋