What is it with these people where everything is answered by holy intervention but no brain power?
2007-12-15 09:58:29 · 16 answers · asked by Rio 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree with the first answer. It is easier to turn everything over to something perceived as "external" especially when you've been programmed your whole life to believe that.
Let's remember that beliefs are VERY STRONG OPINIONS and it's not a matter of right or wrong. Truth is relative. Until something is evidenced in your life as truth, then you're just making a choice to accept it as so. That doesn't make it absolute, the answer, the end-all be-all, the way, or the light.
It's not until you make an agreement with yourself to accept something as true, that it becomes that in your experience. Just understand that each person has that right to choose.
Ooohhhh......choosing.... that requires the brain!!! Oh yeah!!!
2007-12-15 10:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by Megan J 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All actual atheists would be as indignant by potential of "Oh God" as all actual Christians could be. it quite is between the excuses I argue that there particularly are very, very, very few atheists. they do no longer seem to be atheist, they're anti-theist. vast distinction. One would not have self assurance interior the theory of God/god/deity, the different is against the theory.
2016-11-27 03:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by rosenberger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, what did God give us a brain for anyway? There are cases though where God says something concerning knowledge that wasn't even discovered yet though....then again, humans could have figured those things out by trial and error (the hard way).
2007-12-15 10:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by Retard 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
maybe you're just not getting the sentiment. maybe you're relying too heavily on your gray matter... to the intellectual the spiritual things are hidden, because you're trying to understand by your own understanding.
how can you understand what God is saying to you when you're so arrogant to think your understanding is superior?
2007-12-15 10:05:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They're right! If you do not believe that G-d controls everything except man's freedom of choice, then what's the point of living except for some hedonistic existence.
2007-12-15 10:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most people don't use brain power.
They rely on an "expert" or a "holy book" or "scientist" or "politician" to give them answers.
And then they call themselves "freethinkers".
It cracks me up.
2007-12-15 10:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I'm a right-wing Christian, and so do I. I believe that God works through people and ourselves, and only truly intervenes when we can't help ourselves, which is also why there are much fewer miracles and why they seem to occur more often in third-world countries.
2007-12-15 10:08:06 · answer #7 · answered by KJLONG 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Ask for the evidence that god says so.
If you exercise your own brain power you will realise that there is no evidence for god at all.
Just like the unicorn, it's a product of our imagination.
2007-12-15 10:01:50 · answer #8 · answered by Tewks 2 · 3⤊ 5⤋
I totally agree, Pappy.
2007-12-15 10:07:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You should know this answer, seeing as how you're one of them.
"I'm not an atheist, BUT" types are the worst. It's like "I'm ALMOST a complete moron".
You want to have your dumb God and eat Him too. Nope, you can't have it both ways.
2007-12-15 10:01:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋