Is there is '0' evidence of love in your life?
In the Beginning is God. God is Love. So? In the beginning is Love.
2007-11-15 03:17:41 · 21 answers · asked by t a m i l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LEX, You can't prove love exists. You can say it does, but can you prove it?
2007-11-16 02:46:19 · update #1
Sorry to burst your pride bubbles. But if you realize love exists, then you aren't an athiest. If you love Love, then you love God.
2007-11-16 02:48:42 · update #2
I am not writing that people who aren't Christian don't have love in their life. I believe that when it is written that everyone born into this world has seen the True Light; that this true light is also 'love'. Have you ever heard of 'letting your love light shine'? Every child born has seen the love light. But our sins (rebellion) separate us from God (Love). Rebellion hardens our conscience where we are hard hearted & unloving. (Jesus said we needed to be born again spiritually). Born from above, cleansed by His blood. Then people are cleansed with His love. Sins washed away.
2007-11-16 03:00:57 · update #3
Love simply is.
2007-11-15 03:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by Blue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a brilliant question, as shown by the answers from atheists above. There are only two choices - love is a biochemical illusion or it exists ineffibly apart from biochemistry and beyond scientific explanation.
If it is a biochemical illusion and there's nothing more to the story, those people can't be listened to because everything they do is a strategic and deterministic product of a gazillion unsentient selfish genes concocting a survival strategy. This on top of the fact that they reduce "I love you" to meaning, "My genes want me to sense warmth and affection towards you to enhance the prospects of my offspring surviving and serving as a future vehicle for my genetic legacy." Which I think is self-eliminating; good luck reproducing with that on your heart.
On the other hand, most people simply confessed that love exists above and beyond a scientific, reductionist explanation. And if your subjective, personal experience is that love exists all of teh sudden the rational cage is broken and there is simply no way to conclude objectively that God doesn't exist - only that you don't experience God.
Further, the poster is pointing out that Love is God in a sense, part of that divine mystery in which we participate and in what theists experience. calling it love and keeping it separate from God is merely post-experience language construction that then serves to cage your ability to see this as God. WH Auden wrote, "One notices, if one will trust one's eyes, The shadow cast by language upon truth."
To go on maintaining that God MUST be rational but Love need not be is simply wearing an intentional veil of ignorance. Seems to me that would feel pretty hollow, especially when making that very charge against theists. How about a little humility and sincerity? Less brain, more heart.
Simone Weil said, "I know God exists in the same way I know my love is no mere illusion."
2007-11-15 11:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by ledbetter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, love can still exist. Even tho I believe in science, I still have love for my family. I realy don't see how love cannot exist without a god. A person who doesn't even know what 'god means still loves. If there was such a thing as god, however, love would still be around.
2007-11-16 03:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what does one have to do with the other. according to you, people of any other faith besides Christianity, Jewish, or Muslim (they all believe in "our" God or "your" God) have no love in their life. Hindu, Buddhist, etc live with out love. That is not only wrong, but indignant and without the so called "Christian ethic". you need to think before you preach (which is typical for your kind)
2007-11-15 11:26:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have love in my life, yet I have no God. You will (and let me be blunt here) **NEVER** understand this.
Your system of understanding the world simply does not allow you to comprehend my situation. Sorry about that - it's just the way you are. Don't feel bad. I don't.
2007-11-15 11:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Sly Phi AM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if God doesn't exist then God doesn't equal love but love is still there. The source you get your information from BELIEVES God exists and therefore BELIEVES that he is love. If that source is wrong about God then they could be wrong about love.
2007-11-15 11:22:53 · answer #6 · answered by Regalstrickland [KATSURA DA!] 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u give the preference to love than it means u r least considered about the creator of the world & if u doesn't believe in god iam sure that you do not have the ability to love anybody as the faith is considered as the foundation of love.
2007-11-15 11:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by starfire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's suppose, just for a second, that you found out for sure that no gods really exist. Would you stop loving the people you love? I think not. Therefore your question is meaningless.
2007-11-15 11:21:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
every day
My children loved me before they knew about the idea of God. The love is no longer unconditional - they are teanagers.
My cats love me - but I feed them.
My wife - for whatever reason - still loves me.
God's got nothing to do with it - I have to work at it now.
2007-11-15 11:21:26 · answer #9 · answered by Wayne ahrRg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seem to recall something about love being measured as biochemical reactions in the brain.
Here's a question for you, can love exist without people?
Hopefully you see where I'm going with this.
2007-11-15 11:21:21 · answer #10 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a concept, love is real. As a reality, love is merely a combination of certain human emotions, nothing more. Get over it.
2007-11-15 11:38:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋