i told you the evidence i need,
Have the clouds part, a big white haired, bearded guy picks me up with his 10 story hand, and places me on a cloud for a chat...
2007-11-02 08:19:18
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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It doesn't sound like you know what evidence is needed either. I think this is a pointless argument, really. The evidence you accept is subjective and is attributed by you and many others to God, but this evidence will never be good enough for an atheist who requires objective, scientific proof. The problem you have raised is a valid problem, but your answer denies the rational treatment of the problem. The paradox of the situation is that a subject such as a personal God cannot be treated rationally. There will never be an objectively repeatable experiment that will prove God, because a criterion must be defined and quantified before it can be tested. There is no such criteria that will be agreed upon by theists and atheists alike. God, by definition, must be subjective and must be accepted through faith, or it becomes a cosmic phenomenon or energy field or alien being, or what have you--something physical and definable.
And the idea you present as LOVE is merely attachment, not love. The feeling is comfort from having contact with a protective being (parents).
2007-11-02 08:31:57
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answered by Black Dog 6
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I can't help but think the experiment we are all sure to have done at school has some bearing on the question of the Biblical God. Thirty or so class members sit in a circle, the first whispers a short, clear sentence to the person sitting next to them. That person whispers it to the next, and so on. By the time it gets back to the original person, the sentence has very much changed, and there is the rub: any document, translated and passed on so many times through the ages, relying on second hand re-telling of tales and interpreting Dead Sea Scrolls in forgotten languages, cannot hope to be the 100% accurate representation of the original message. Perhaps there is a God, perhaps He is even a close representation to the Biblical God, but it defies all logic to expect everything reported in the Bible to be as it originally happened.
2007-11-04 00:19:36
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answered by =42 6
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"You have no idea what evidence is needed to Prove the GOD of the Bible exsists."
You are correct in that I don't know God.
If the evidence is in the Bible, why then can scientists not find archealogical proof that there was a flood. They've also proven that the water that God divided for Moses was less than 3 feet deep. There is certainly no scientific evidence that this world was created in 7 days.
Love is an emotion created by the human brain that involves endorphins and several chemical reactions.
2007-11-02 08:37:47
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answered by Allison P 4
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The first paragraph is 100% correct. It is really hard to define exactly what kind of evidence I would need to believe in something that just doesn't make sense to me. It's theoretically conceivable, but it's really hard to put into words the exact circumstances that would lead me to postulate such a metaphysical oddity.
The second is very funny... let's just leave it at that.
As to the third, I see, hear, feel the people I love. I don't know them because I love them, I love them because I know them. And I don't believe that love is an entity seperate from people, it is indeed a relationship between people. If god is just a feeling, then I probably have that feeling just as well as you do, I just call it happiness or awe or something like that.
2007-11-02 08:31:54
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answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6
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Girl, the human mind is a powerful thing. It can believe whatever it wants as long as you pump it with enough doctrines and mantras.
I'll tell you one thing though, I've been 'in love' before and it turns out it was refutable. I was just high. I guess that makes the concept of Love being 'real' somewhat falliable, huh? And besides, if the Holy Spirit is so 'tactile', why is it that the bushmen in Africa don't just start foaming at the mouth and praising Jesus without having been fed the information by Christian missionaries? Odd, I tell you.
P.S. Since when did 'scoffing' equal 'questioning'? Are we not allowed to question? Wouldn't the all-knowing, free-will-giving God WANT us to question rather than becoming blindly believeing automatons??
2007-11-02 08:31:06
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answered by buckfutt 1
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The bible is NOT proof of god existence, doing so is called circular reasoning.
Second get off your high horse that you are better than me merely because you believe in god and I do not.
Third I stated you many times what type of proof I want from god; that is IF he is real. After all he should be able to do anything since he is all-powerful according to you and other religious people right?
Forth: You are a great example of a close-minded person. An even greater example of a blind sheep that merely follows and does what religious people tell you to do and say.
Fifth: I like being a freethinker. I like to think for myself. I like having independent thoughts and religion want to take that away from me.
2007-11-02 08:30:22
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answered by Imagine No Religion 6
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Evidence of an all loving, all powerful (etc.) being is actually quite simple. weveryone on the planet should be able to say "this is God's message, told to me by god himself". If there is a hell, this is what a being defined as all loving would want (that everyone would know), and being all powerful, he could make it so. And none of this "that would violate free will", because information never forces a decision; people could still say they were not interested.
But this is not what we see, so if there is a deity, it is not all loving, or not all powerful, or both. The God of Christian theology does not exist. QED
2007-11-02 08:25:31
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answered by neil s 7
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Well LOVE or becoming fond of something can be explained by a biological series of events that tells the brain that "this is good and I want more." So yes LOVE is a feeling. Now comparing that to how you explain the existence of God through the "feeling" of the Holy Spirit....it can be explained the same way. Smoking crack gets the same feeling too. Crystal gives an even more intense feeling but it accompanied by visions of things no one else can see but you. Experiencing God can't be like getting high.
Your argument is weak. Try again please.
2007-11-02 08:32:25
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answered by Anonymous
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You look to take a scorched earth process to politics. It quite will get you nowhere. You fail to appreciate that liberals are simply as honest and good-intentioned of their movements as you're in yours. Your belief that handiest men and women at the correct are optimistic, at the same time the ones at the left are damaging is not sensible. You can't come to a decision that any individual who disagrees with you approximately politics is crazed. When you do, that offers them permission to name *YOU* loopy for arguing with them. What you have not discovered but is that none people see the arena the way in which it's. We all see the arena ***THE WAY WE ARE***. If you ever appreciate that, you can give up considering that every person who disagrees with you is a demon. Good good fortune.
2016-09-05 08:25:57
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answered by greenwell 4
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I have plenty of ideas about this and other matters, so do not try to force me into your narrow molds! Why do you people constantly try to force your dubious ideas upon everyone? That causes much trouble for you! I see much evidence in the Bible that its god does not exist, for it has contradictions and scientific errors galore. There is no way this disproof can be cancelled out. I most certainly DO know that. Magic does not exist. You accuse others of your flaws. I do not know that love exists. There is no real word for it in Chinese. 1/4 of the people on earth are chinese, and they do not know love is real. I know something about parents and my gals, since they really exist, but I do not know anything about imaginary gods. You are mindlessly repeating some stuff I have heard many times before. Try thinking for yourself.
2007-11-02 08:32:16
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answered by miyuki & kyojin 7
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