It is logical impossibility to prove a negative. I agree. God may not be that negative, maybe you knowledge of God is. To label God of negative because you cannot quantify him suggest that maybe your tools of measurement are insignificant. Do you believe there may be life form on other planets? Here we have an entity that cannot be quantified.
2007-05-17 18:29:45 · 13 answers · asked by Infinite Wisdom 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A lot of you are using the tooth fairy, pink unicorns, Zeus, the Easter bunny, etc. to back up or “prove” your point. I never said I do not believe in these entities. I cannot prove they are not real. Where they created in the minds of the imaginative? Maybe…but I cannot produce evidence denying the existence of any of the many listed entities. Theoretically, Even if I asked the person who, and I use this word carefully, “created” these entities whether the entities are real he could not give a solid answer. Maybe he received an revelation that he does not know/understand himself –theoretically.
Second when I state God, I am not limiting God to our present knowledge of a higher power. Could it be that God has not chosen to reveal God? One thing is sure, God must be greater and thus different from how we understand him and God is great and thus different then what we can understand according to the definition of God -Theoretically.
2007-05-17 18:35:14 · update #1
all I know is he LIVES within my heart.
2007-05-17 18:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah definite, the pink elephant canard. the hardship is that the God of a minimum of deist concept isn't any pink elephant, yet something philosophers and cosmologists have taken heavily for hundreds of years. There are some existential questions that the assumption of a god is a no longer unreasonable answer to. Why is there existence? case in point is responded probably with some approaches: - there is often been an existence of a few variety - existence replaced into extremely meant to be the case by using an intelligence able to inflicting it to. that's greater complicated than that needless to say, yet i don't have hours and pages to place in writing. there is the entire question of time's very own finiteness, that's variety of innovations boggling. yet - to be short - if we settle for that the deist concept of god is a no longer unreasonable conjecture as to why existence exists, the situation of disproof will become significant. whilst quite some forms of disproof are accessible, this actual one isn't. And right here is why - of the two thoughts I provided, the two place self belief in something unfalsifiable, on account that they're greater desirable-conventional. "there is often been an existence of a few variety" demands a multiverse of a few variety. besides the undeniable fact that, on account that we are in the universe and no longer able to visual exhibit unit phenomena previous it, the multiverse is neither provable nor falsifiable. Ditto God. so as that too is a minimum of a particular detrimental that isn't be able to be shown. As to disproof of the Christian God, that too is greater complicated than you likely think of that's. Christianity isn't a e book. that's a faith that sprung approximately as a community (that's what the be conscious "church" potential.) you may quite exhibit that categorical interpretations of Christianity can't be precise. i'm going to offer that. yet Christianity quite has an ephemeral and mystical edge, and that's probably quite disproof-information besides. (pun meant.)
2017-01-10 05:52:23 · answer #2 · answered by taggert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you get the reality of Jesus, you know he is real.
Look in the bible, has it ever been proved wrong, no.
Jesus has done so much for me and I know he is true. I look in the bible and see who Jesus is. He is a bridegroom judge and He is coming back to earth. If there was life on other planets then why are they not in the bible. All our answers are there. Jesus has chosen us, on planet earth. Why are we only seeing Jesus as a Church duty when he should be a friend. We don't have all the knowledge but He dose, he reveals his thoughts to us in the bible. Like it says in Psalms about his thoughts toward us, out-numbering the sands of the sea shore. We cant see the full picture, He can, if we ask Him then He will give us a gimps of his plans.
2007-05-17 18:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by gaze_on_beauty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
saying you can't prove a negative is used when people say, "you can't prove he DOESN'T exist." that is what is meant by not being able to prove a negative. now with that being said, there is as much evidence for a god as there is an easter bunny or santa clause. keep in mind i'm not equating jesus to god. i admit it's possible a man named jesus may have existed who did or did not claim to be god. however, his alleged claims do not make him a god. furthermore, i believe in the possibility that there may be life on other planets. i do not know there is life on other planets, so i won't say it's a fact that such life exists. however, in the vast expanse of the universe i would say that it is very likely that there is at least one other planet orbiting one of the billions of stars in the universe that has similar condtions to that of earth. and on that planet i would think it would be highly likely that life could exist on it.
2007-05-17 18:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah... this really doesn't make any sense.
When people say "you can't prove a negative" in reference to god/s, it doesn't mean that god/s are negative themselves. It means, that one cannot prove the negative assertion about god/s' existence. That is, I can't prove that leprechauns DON'T exist. The person who says that they do is the one who should have the evidence to provide.
2007-05-17 18:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by N 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't disprove a flying spaghetti monster either. His gospels are claimed to be older than bible itself.
That's why you must always believe things based on strong evidence, in order to prevent chimpanzee part of your brain take control.
2007-05-17 18:35:26 · answer #6 · answered by Real christian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're not implying that God is negative.
We are stating that God does not exist. It is impossible to prove that something does not exist, therefore it is not possible to prove a negative.
You said it yourself, "I cannot prove they are not real."
2007-05-17 18:42:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Logical impossibility to prove a negative." - It is impossible to prove that God doesn't exist, just as it's impossible to prove that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist.
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2007-05-17 18:33:38 · answer #8 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are an awful lot of kids up late tonight.
2007-05-17 18:39:39 · answer #9 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can you have something that cant be quantified? unless it's only in your mind.
2007-05-17 18:34:06 · answer #10 · answered by Pisces 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe your line of reasoning is non sequitur.
2007-05-17 18:33:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋