I can see how wind changes and effects things. I can see how wind moves things even though I cant see it. If I close myself away from the wind, I no longer feel it but I know it is still there. Why is experiencing God and the way he changes, effects, moves and heals, even though you can not see him, not enough for some people to believe that he exists?
2007-11-19 04:56:39 · 20 answers · asked by Steve 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry for mispellings. oh, and people belived in God long before they could measure wind and gravity with scientific devices.
2007-11-19 05:01:16 · update #1
Some people don't know what to look for. They are stuck in their preconceptions of what God should be and how He should reveal Himself.
2007-11-19 04:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
You can measure the wind speed, block the wind, use the wind, quantify and examine the wind.
You can look at the weather and predict the wind. You can build models and imitate the wind. You can get a big fan and actually make the wind.
Your simile is incredibly weak, both in accuracy and in the thought process that produced it.
The problem is that there is nothing on this world that requires a supernatural expansion. When I see leaves flying around in the air, then I do not need to create a god to move them because I understand about solar heating and how it affects the Earth's atmosphere.
Thousands of years ago they did not understand this. But instead of trying to work it out they just created gods to explain it away. You are falling into the same weak thought patterns.
2007-11-19 05:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because two people standing in the wind feel exactly the same thing regardless of their belief in it.
When you say you 'feel' God it's more like an opinion or personal preference. The same way two people seeing the same painting can have completely different experiences. One can have a 'religious experience' while another sees it as something a 5 year old could do.
Neither is objectively right or wrong but neither can expect the other to feel the way they do.
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"people belived in God long before they could measure wind and gravity with scientific devices."
That depends on what you call a device. Throw a rock it comes down you've measured gravity. Let go of a feather in a breeze you've measured the wind.
And yet it isn't relevant at all. Wind is wind and gravity is still gravity regardless of whether a person believes in them or not.
It's not as though people floated off into the ether before they could measure gravity with modern devices.
2007-11-19 05:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
The wind can be measured with instruments, quantified and characterized. God cannot. Sorry, your example failed.
EDIT: Natural phenomena existed long before the concept of god was created by humans because they didn't have the instruments to understand them yet.
2007-11-19 05:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by Murazor 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"oh, and people believed in God long before they could measure wind and gravity with scientific devices." ???????
....erm....i don't really see how that adds strength to your point...people can measure loads of things through science. ironically, g*d is not one of them.
never mind, the wind analogy is kind of lame, anyway.
2007-11-19 05:12:20 · answer #5 · answered by PJ Morris 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hm, I was a Christian for 17 years. I tried to feel his presence, it wasn't there. I tried to feel him healing me. He didn't do it. I gave him a chance to prove his existence, and he didn't.
Ergo, while I can feel the wind, I know it's there. I could never feel God.
2007-11-19 05:00:10 · answer #6 · answered by Kemp the Mad African 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
OMG! You're right: the wind is God!
Please don't be silly. I've seen wind. Supersonic wind, even.
CD
2007-11-19 05:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Wind is empirical, god is not. you have conflated tactile feeling with emotive feeling.
2007-11-19 05:01:45 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You must remember, those those who do not see God, do not want to see God. For whatever reason, they make a choice not too. How anyone can look at this wonderful world we live in and say, 'it just is' blows my mind. And I am so thankful, that my God reviled himself to me.
2007-11-19 05:10:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The wind can be measured - God can't.
2007-11-19 04:59:21 · answer #10 · answered by Beletje_vos AM + VT 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋