Christians - Jews- and Muslims contend God is a person. After all he has a name, he has a will, a plan, christians even celebrate his birthday. I believe the correct term is Anthrophoism applying human characteristics to God. This is ridiculos to say the least, he might as well be your next door neighboor. Which brings me back to my question, when Christians say I believe in God and Athesist say I dont are they actually arguing the existence of a being? Or their idea of the existence of a supernatural being? I believe in the ALL just in case your where wondering.
2007-07-02 12:48:07 · 14 answers · asked by Future 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I definitely am arguing the idea of what God is.
It is insane to think the existence of a being of ultimate powers as having such flawed(human) characteristics, or that would view us as anything more than bugs (straw dogs).
I disagree with the way these religions arrogantly place sacred value on human life, above all other creatures/life on the planet - their lack of respect for nature and the symbiotic relationship of ALL, condones the destruction of the planet & extinction of species. All this is of little importance when they believe the end times are near (as they've been saying since these religions were first conceived) and that God will soon swoop down and carry his faithful away to a perfect place .
It's beyond ridiculous to believe an omnipotent being who had the power to make all things good and make himself known to all mankind, would play such childish games as purported in the Bible and the irrational explanations of Christian, Jews, Muslims...
I also disagree with the possibility for goodness to exist without evil. For joy to exist without sorrow. Dark without light, etc.....
However I do believe in other planes of existence that most of us are unaware of or cannot perceive (life or consciousness beyond this physical state). In the existence of the spirit, of universal energy and collective thought. That thought is energy and, in it's own way, is as tangible as anything in our physical world (perhaps more tangible).
I can only vaguely conceive of spirits/ consciousness continually evolving through a series of lives/experiences and lessons.
2007-07-02 13:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The debate is on the actual existence of God, not on who’s got the best fantasy life.
Also if a chimp believed Jane Goodall was trying to act like a chimp, it wouldn’t be chimpomorphism, because Jane Goodall WAS trying to act like a chimp.
So one shouldn’t confuse the Christian belief, that God in the form of Christ was trying to connect with humanity, with the anthropomorphism of say, the ancient Greeks; i.e. God is a large attractive lusty man with a lighting bolt. . Judaism, Christianity & Islam all hold God to be a transcendent eternal spiritual being.
It’s curious though that Atheists and Theists share such a profound capacity to believe.
We don’t see angels on the 5 o’clock news, and yet the Christians believe.
No human has ever been farther than ¼ light-second from Earth, yet somehow Atheists KNOW in 15 billion light-years of universe, there is no God.
I’m not sure what the ‘All’ gets you though. If the universe has no ‘will’ than pan-theism is atheism.
2007-07-02 15:20:08 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheist= Without God or belief in God, in any sence of the word
They are arguing against the existence of a supernatural being, some that believes in a "God" or Deity, but does not commune with, prophesise, or have believe in any docterine estabelished by man would be a Deist like myself or some would say Agnostic.
A pure Atheist puts nothing down to the supernatural.
2007-07-02 13:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I don't believe God is a person.
I believe he is a spirit that lives in everyone, they just haven't tapped in to that yet. Some don't want to.
God is what I call that spirit and other people of other religions and cultures call it other things.
But it is really the same thing.
They are arguing about a spirit so I guess you would say it is supernatural.
2007-07-02 13:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They might be arguing about whether there is a divine plan, might be yearning for their lives to have the significance they would gain from being in the mind of a God, or they might just be afraid that their lives are meaningless and thus are searching for something that will refute that notion. I think you're on track in remembering that anthropomorphism colors our value systems and beliefs. None of us can know what God is really like -- he's probably beyond all our comprehensions -- so we're never going to know, and so finally what we believe is true for us and the rest is just argument. Good, deep question.
2007-07-02 12:54:43 · answer #5 · answered by David W 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is real. It depend on your belief if you want to argue or not. If He is not real to you, but I know He is real. Oh!!! yes, it night be an argument there, even it's not an argument about it.
1 Corinthians 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),
Jeremiah 2:28 Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?
Let them come if they can save you
when you are in trouble!
For you have as many gods
as you have towns, O Judah.
Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD,
"and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
Isaiah 43:10 I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
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You either believe in one God or all gods. If you believe in all gods then you couldn't belive in the Jahovah God because He said there is no the other God but Him. However, you might make your own gods the same you can believe your own gods.
2007-07-02 13:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Speaking as someone who has been both a theist and an atheist, I always discuss the spiritual entity, not the concept. Of course the concept of God/Gods/Goddesses exist, the ontological wordplay was never in doubt.
2007-07-02 13:08:46 · answer #7 · answered by ycats 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a classic catch 22
god is real thus in living it get your proof
[the living one live time [all the time]
or
you dont believe and say its caused by ''nature'' or physics'' , radom selection ,evilution, fluke , accident
all science makes its own logic ,but it begins with a theory theory then then either confirm or refute ,[either with works serving l;ove ./grace/life
or works that explain process [the way ] thinking the way is the destination] ,but in the end each becomes that faith we trust and accord credit upon
only one is the cause [all else is the fruit]
2007-07-02 13:04:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every atheist has his own version about god. I do not believe god exsists. I have no proof for that. Plus, if he existed he would help people. People die every day from aids,cancer,war,poverty..The whether has gone mad.. Where is god? The answer is simple.Even if he exists he's not here.
2007-07-02 13:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
people have been busy putting their very own spin on faith, amd God as long as people have been around. this is my opinion that we are all incorrect to a pair volume, and we are all perfect. i think of that as long as we believe in Him, honor Him for being Father to us all, all the little adjustments do no longer rely. we would desire to consistently attempt to stay as much as what we each think of, in our hearts, He needs us to do, we don't might desire to challenge approximately what human beings let us know to believe.
2016-10-03 10:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋