come down to basic truths that have withstood the test of time?
"God"
2007-09-03 05:30:27 · 9 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Truth is "Truth".
"God" is "God".
"There can be only One."
Everything else is an illusion, that is as vast as the ocean.
2007-09-03 06:23:10 · answer #1 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The problem is the basic truths you put so much faith in have NOT stood the test of time.
Before the scientific revolution began in 1590 because Galileo's physics proved the physical realm was real, every educated Western mind accepted Aristotle's Solipsism, which maintained that the basis of reality was each person's subjective experience. Jesus Christ and all of his followers were solipsists. The founders of the early Church were solipsists. The theologians, such as St. Augustine, who devised the Soul and Original Sin, were neo-Platonists who embraced solipsism. The idea that ones perceptions formed the basis of reality dominated Western civilization unchallenged for 2100 years. The Dark Ages were devoid of technological progress because people believed their own thoughts were real and that the physical realm was an illusion created by their mind.
After Galileo, Isaac Newton's mechanics confirmed beyond doubt that Aristotle's unsubstantiated philosophical speculations were completely false. The physical realm actually is the basis of objective reality. All the technological progress humanity has enjoyed in the last three-hundred years is due to the invention of science. Since Maxwell's equations were published in 1865, there has been a virtual explosion of progress -- all because a significant fraction of humanity has finally accepted that reality is physical and that subjective experience is merely a mental construction, based on our five senses and modulated by our own expectations.
The origin of all the gods, including Yahweh, is the persistent delusion that our own perceptions form the basis of reality. Science has proved time and again that the physical realm is completely real. The fundamental principle upon which faith was historically based -- solipsism -- has not stood the test of time and is demonstratably false. God's exsistence is impossible because Solipsism has proved false and there is simply no verifiable evidence to prove He is part of the physical realm. God is dead and the only way to resurrect Him is for someone to provide verifiable evidence of His existence in the physical realm. ...and that's the truth, in modern times.
2007-09-03 06:34:16 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, no matter how "smart" a group of people are a truth is a truth. Also life is not as complex as people make it to be.
2007-09-03 07:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi sweet lady.
It is my opinion that with each passing year it becomes more and more apparent that the bible is ludicrous.
I think it is the Christian monster that turns people away from God. They can't get past the man made hell-fire and brimstone garbage.
2007-09-03 05:40:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No. It does not. And I would challenge you to show what complexities require this rationalization.
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2007-09-03 05:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Belief in God is a bias as well, TTC.
2007-09-03 16:41:01 · answer #6 · answered by Jack B, sinistral 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God will stand when the world is on fire,nothing else will.
2007-09-03 05:40:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
What, you mean the sun? No, we figured that out a while ago.
2007-09-03 05:35:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
What did you just ask? Are you on drugs or something?
2007-09-03 05:39:43 · answer #9 · answered by fredanderssen 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋