A Superior Mindset:?

Question

"Nothing new under the sun" - the disagreements between believers and Atheists has gone on for thousands of years.
We are born with a mindset including: priorotizing ourselves, what we want, doing things in our way and strength.
That is the first mindset.
There is a mindset where you come to God, do things his way and embrace his ways, and find a new, empowered life. A life where your life and God not separated but involved together. Where doing things in your strength and wisdom is possible, but it is understood as truly you alone, and is apart from all God has and will give you to bless your life.

Many will reject God, say he is not real, etc., in the first mindset, but isn't a life with God a greater life, a greater mindset?

Answer 1

I wouldn't disagree with you, but you don't say why a life with God is a greater mind set, just that it is. That's not enough to pursued someone to join you.

Answer 2

I'm assuming this Is some kind of a question, tho it doesn't look it. I'll just address all the points and hope you get an answer.


""Nothing new under the sun" - the disagreements between believers and Atheists has gone on for thousands of years."

-I still say atheists isn't capitalized... but you're correct, it's been going on. Thankfully we're no longer being burned or jailed for disagreeing.

"We are born with a mindset including: priorotizing ourselves, what we want, doing things in our way and strength."

-Prioritizing? Now, I'm not up to date on early life psychology or decision theory, but I'm pretty sure we're not. "Strength" seems too vague to be meaningful. Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but a mindset is basically external indoctrination? It's more peer pressure than genetic? We're not actually born with it, we learn it. So, it seems like your theory falls flat at hurdle one.

"That is the first mindset."

-If you say so, I disagree.

"There is a mindset where you come to God"

-Now, as a mindset, this is exactly what is meant. You learn to think in a certain way "internalize the mindset"... and it looks like in your case that is faith in a god. While I'm sure it's meaninful, I'd like to point out that different mindsets are not hierarchial, they're just diffrent prejudices people follow. And they're not inevitable, the thinking you're exposed, is not what others will encounter, so their mindset will be different.

"do things his way and embrace his ways, and find a new, empowered life. A life where your life and God not separated but involved together. Where doing things in your strength and wisdom is possible, but it is understood as truly you alone, and is apart from all God has and will give you to bless your life."

-Ummm... yes? It looks like you're describing your own god-mindset, which is nice. I wish you well with your chosen path.

"Many will reject God, say he is not real, etc., in the first mindset, but isn't a life with God a greater life, a greater mindset?"

-Here we go again with the hierachical thinking, There's really no first mindset, unless you look at it chronologically. There's no advancement in different mindsets, think of them as paradigm shifts. So, I'd have to say, that your god hypothesis is really no more valid than a "ufo abductee" mindset. And it's not a necessary developmental stage in a human.

In conclusion, no mindset is "greater" than another, not even yours, no matter how you want it to be.

Thanks for playing

Answer 3

The two most important days in a person's life are the day that they were born and the day that they realise why they were born.

Mindsets are used in determining the answer to the question.

Reading the bible will help to discover the answer. Forget the mindset and have an open mind.

Answer 4

Everyone is born Atheist. The existence of God and religion are taught. Kinda like the Santa Claus myth. Children will believe what adults teach them to believe, especially when those adults are their parents... people whom they love and trust. What a betrayal to fill their heads with such nonsense. But what better way to keep them in line, huh? Threaten them with a fiery pit.

That is not a greater mindset. It is a lesser mindset. And it is the stronger taking advantage of the weaker. Brainwashing is not a very nice thing.

Answer 5

why should it be a greater mindset?

I think it's greater to recognize that you have the strength to stand on your own without being "helped" by an invisible hand in the sky.

To say nothing of the fact that their is no evidence that the invisible hand in the sky actually even exists, so people that believe that God is helping them are really just demeaning their own abilities for no reason.

Answer 6

I used to be an evangelical, born-again christian.

Now I'm an atheist.

My life WITHOUT god is much better and infinitely more full.

I am MUCH more happy without the torturous burden of the bible and the myths of 2000 year old goat herders.

If - IF - there is a god he/she is much greater that the simplistic one that is written about in your self-contradictory bible. If there is a god, he/she would be much more satisfied with our using our god given intellect, then following the nonsensical ramblings found in the bible (or Koran).

Answer 7

A life with humanity is the greatest mindset of all.

Answer 8

If it's what you're used to, for for it.
For some people religion feels good, and they have an emotional need for it.

Whereas someone realizes there is no god, I doubt they can conjure up a religious faith just to feel good.

Answer 9

"but isn't a life with God a greater life, a greater mindset?"

Does that not depend entirely on which god you are referring to?

Answer 10

If gods exist, I want to know. If they don't, I want to know. I don't want to believe a falsehood either way.