Christians: You cannot just stop at discussing whether God exists. Can you address all of the relevant issues?

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It's not so simple as proving God exists (and there have been no proofs that have not involved a large spoonful of faith). There is a much longer list of questions to address with evidence or some justification why you don't need evidence.

1. Does God exist?

2. Is this God aware of humanity?

3. Is this God judgmental regarding thoughts and behavior?

4.Do humans have a soul?

5. Does this God offers a life after death to humans' souls?

6. Does God only reward (with life after death) those who have the correct behavior and thought processes.

7. Does something else (e.g., hell) happen to those who don't believe correctly?

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Answer 1

You forgot to clarify something:
"Can you address all these issues without quoting the bible?"
Because many christians copy+paste some verses of it and tell that this is proof.

Answer 2

Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it's not possible to enter God's kingdom. When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch—the Spirit—and becomes a living spirit.

"So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above'—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God."

This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

Answer 3

Children would not accept an answer explaining that Divinity is not created but creator, because grown ups teach them so. And we and the rest of the creation are not creations at all, we are part of the same Divinity and reality, just at different levels of existence. You surely want a prove... we have one, we always had and you use it everyday, Mathematics. Someone said: "Biological life is much too complex to not have had a creator, yet a deity who would be infinitely more complex than us requires no creator? It is truly horrid logic." You can't believe of a creator without creator but you do believe in Infinite, don't you? You believe that the universe is infinite (until proven different), Any number divided by 0 results in Infinite (even negative numbers), and you DO believe it You believe in negative numbers, eventhough they do not exist You believe in 0, eventhought there is no such thing as "the nothing" You believe that there is a counterpart of everything, a dualism, positive, negative, up, down, left, right, etc, and yet, there is no counterpart of 0 (and it is not the infinity) and of course there is no -0 So, take a look at this, if 0 is the origin of all, 0 is the Divinity, and nothing comes before it; But the Divinity is one and only one, 1, creator of itself and the rest that there is. If the Divinity creates itself, that is divides itself to create the rest: 1 __ = infinite -> the creation, the universe and all of tis 0 components That is how The Divinity creates everything and itself Can you believe that the limit of X when X tends to Y, is Y eventhough X never reaches Y??? Can you explain somebody something you don't really understand? How can you answer a question for wich you neither you have a certain answer? Science and atheist don't believe in things until they see them. There is a time for everyone to open their eyes and see. I had my time to see, verify and experience for myself. I'm not a believer, I don't support what I say on faith but in true knowledge. Open your mind to see beyond what you can see with your normal sight... I'll quote a book, but not the one most of the people in this site does: "Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" "...the essence is invisible for the eyes..." The little Prince Antoine d'Exupery

Answer 4

I am not a Christian in the same way as most, I am a member of the Baha'i Faith, but Christ is more important to me thatn to most Christians I think.


1. Does God exist?

Yep

AND, God is singularly all encompassing, the Christian and LDS trinities and the Hindu pantheism are for me polytheism not monotheism. For a believer though, they are not. Knowledge of God is relative, but He is absolute.

2. Is this God aware of humanity?

Yep

3. Is this God judgmental regarding thoughts and behavior?

Nope

4.Do humans have a soul?

Yep

5. Does this God offers a life after death to humans' souls?

Nope, there is no such thing as death, only moving on from this plane of existence.

6. Does God only reward (with life after death) those who have the correct behavior and thought processes.

God rewards or punishes no one. God gives us free-will, the ultimate reward, and too all people, those who choose to develop tools such as love and compassion in this life will prosper int he next and use those tools through the many spiritual worlds to eventually reach spiritual nearness to God (Heaven, Nirvana). Those who choose not to will not be able to get near to God, because they have chosen not too, and God gives them that right.

7. Does something else (e.g., hell) happen to those who don't believe correctly?

I answered that up there really. Hell is just a state of spiritual farness from God, you can be in hell in this life if you want, but you have the option to choose not to be.

Answer 5

I believe in God but I judge no one who doesn't. I don't believe in a Hell because I think I'd be going there before any good atheist. Some humans have a soul but people like kkk, I think have none. I can't prove there's a God & I think the Bible is a fairytale book. I don't have all the answers, all I can do is respect people of all religions or people who don't believe

Answer 6

And you do the same!!!
1. Jesus is well and alive.
2. Yes. He has provided us with all we need to make this place like a Paradise for all of us during this temporary assignment. It is the corruption of the hearts that prevents that from happening.
3. God is not judgmental. He is Righteous and Just. His Word is the same for everyone.
4. We have soul.
5. Yes, and His offer is the same for everyone.
6. Luckily our salvation is not about our righteousness, it is something what Jesus did for us. You can take or leave Jesus' offer.
7. Yes, hell happens to people who does not let Jesus to save them.

Answer 7

NO ONE can answer any of your questions for you. That is the beauty of religion. You have to find out the truth for yourself, and if for some reason you can't figure it... ASK God to confirm the answers in your heart, I have never met anyone that has asked and hasn't received! God Bless you in your quest for the truth!
#1- YES, God does exist. He is the creator of everything, and every living thing.
#2- Of course he is aware of the people he created. He gave us breath of his breath. He isn't going to just "leave" us here.
#3- Yes he is judgmental, that is the entire reason he put us here. This is not to say he doesn't forgive and love us.
#4- Yes we have a soul. That is evident when a new baby is born and the same when someone dies. The spirit is in the body when we are born and leaves it when we die.
#5- He put us here to live the best life possible so we could return to live with him. There is life after death!!! This question is the easiest of all. He didn't create us to just have us "die".
#6- This is not a points and reward thing-- there is a place for everyone. The murders won't be with the people that obey Gods commandments.
#7- Kinda goes with the answer above, I don't think we are judged for having thinking errors. If you have never learned the truth of God he won't judge you if you never received that opportunity. But if you have an idea of him.. you had better find out. Pray and you will receive direction!

Answer 8

No one doubts there are other questions and at times they do get asked and answered. But it is also logical that most of these questions wouldn't be discussed with people if they don't believe God exists in the first place. It iseems little purpose in having a conversation with someone about whether God is aware of humanity it they don't believe he exists in the first place.

Answer 9

I find many of the above questions to usually have a circular answer, "because my book/god/faith" states so

I think something should be proven by itself without supporting documention and can stand alone, like the soul question

do we all have same perception of "soul" -I don't think so

so we will naturally disagree from the beginning and hardly come to any conclusion that unites us

I think we have some sort of energy and will to live in us that we tend to defend, irregardless of creed, we want to survive and part of that is to reproduce or write ideas that also are created and then disseminated, and then morph and mutate from there and "never die"

is this then the eternal life?

Answer 10

Science can confirm that what is believed to be supernatural (including superstition) or paranormal is explained, described and accounted for by the known laws of science. In other words, science can only confirm that something is actually a part of the realm of nature, not that it is outside the realm of nature. Questions of what is outside the realm of nature can be addressed only by theology and philosophy.
It is true that we need to have belief systems so as to give our lives structure, meaning and purpose. It matters not whether such belief systems have any true bearing on objective reality. For the believer, the belief system is reality. The danger of belief systems, especially of the supernatural and superstitious kinds, is that they can be used as the bases for denying the human rights of others who just happen to hold different beliefs. As long as belief systems do not deny or seek to deny the human rights of others, they are perfectly safe and harmless, and even vital. But remember, you can drown in the same water that gives life.
In the view of the physical sciences, every observable phenomenon, including what is believed to be supernatural or superstition or paranormal, can be explained by the known laws of nature or by natural laws yet to be discovered. If there is a phenomenon that we cannot understand or explain with our present knowledge, then we have to await future discoveries and developments. The fact that we do not understand a phenomenon should drive us to seek a rational understanding of it. There are no mysteries in the Universe; everything has a scientific explanation.
The existence of the human moral compass or conscience can be explained as an evolutionary product of the human brain and the self-organizing property of matter. The study of the nature and origin of human consciousness is currently one of the areas at the cutting edge of biology and neuroscience.
Our self-awareness is something we should be truly thankful for: that a few bits of non-living matter (dust of the ground) comprising our bodies and brains have achieved the ability to live, to learn and to love (a living soul) so that within our finite lifespan of threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength, fourscore years, we can strive to be the highest moral beings that the Universe might ever witness.

Answer 11

Very true, most Christians can only argue for the Trinity and offer very little else after that.


They cant even convince the Jews that the Trinity is god, and the Jews have been receiving revelation for thousands of years before Christianity came.

Jews clearly say the Trinity is a polytheistic concept and it is not the God of the Jews and Muslims.




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