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#3751 ZeroUrashima

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Posted 05 May 2006 - 01:59 AM

@ZeroUrashimaSuch weak arguements for not believing in god I mean a lowly creature to comand a god to show his face wow I never heard that one before XD well i answer kinda of topics before many times, and tell you see the truth it just because for our own safty, I mean Moses ask to see god and god said he'll die if he do so he send messengers or someother means to contact us Here a scripture to futher my point Impossible to see god.........Ex33:20, Joh 1:18, 1Joh 4:12 these are the popular stripure to state that god can't be seen by human eyes and live look them up yourself if you have the time but if not I'll give one hmm I really don't want to get any petty arguements about this so yeah this is notes

Using a Superior Being to explain everything unexplainable isn't exactly a strong argument either you know. Saying that I'll only believe He exists by showing up is in NO WAY an argument, it simply implies that the only way that I'll believe in him is when actual proof othan than texts written by humans comes up. Don't say things before understanding what I said, it never was meant to be argument, my whole reason for not believeing in him is only because there is no proof, I never provided any other arguments, I only disproved argument that didn't make sense or replied at msgs quoted from me. I do not believe in God nor do I believe in the Big Bang theory (though if I had to choose one, I would rather choose Big Bang), I don't give a damn about where we came from.

nononono. You've got it all wrong. In response to rewriting of texts, the modern Bible, i know at least NIV, the most popular version of the Bible, is translated almost directly off ancient Greek and Hebrew texts dating to a mere hundred years after Jesus's "cruxificion". And as for the existence of God, if what the Bible says is true, God exists whether or not we believe him or not. So, if he is what the Bible is saying he is, our insignificant desire to not believe is worthless because he exists apart from our own consciousness.

I honestly don't know much about the Bible so I try not to attack it but I do know one thing, many things of the current Bible is different from the Original. According to the thesis I've read in "Cannibals and Kings" from Marvin Harris, it clearly stated that the original Bible states that life came to this world 4000 years BC which was clearly refuted when the microscopes was invented and proved that life existed way before that, that was the start of of the end of Humans' superioty complex (they believed that all lifeforms were made by God for them) since an important element of the Bible was disproved and discredits the Bible.

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Posted 05 May 2006 - 04:32 AM

@ZeroUrashimaSuch weak arguements for not believing in god I mean a lowly creature to comand a god to show his face wow I never heard that one before XD well i answer kinda of topics before many times, and tell you see the truth it just because for our own safty, I mean Moses ask to see god and god said he'll die if he do so he send messengers or someother means to contact us Here a scripture to futher my point Impossible to see god.........Ex33:20, Joh 1:18, 1Joh 4:12 these are the popular stripure to state that god can't be seen by human eyes and live look them up yourself if you have the time but if not I'll give one hmm I really don't want to get any petty arguements about this so yeah this is notes

Using a Superior Being to explain everything unexplainable isn't exactly a strong argument either you know. Saying that I'll only believe He exists by showing up is in NO WAY an argument, it simply implies that the only way that I'll believe in him is when actual proof othan than texts written by humans comes up. Don't say things before understanding what I said, it never was meant to be argument, my whole reason for not believeing in him is only because there is no proof, I never provided any other arguments, I only disproved argument that didn't make sense or replied at msgs quoted from me. I do not believe in God nor do I believe in the Big Bang theory (though if I had to choose one, I would rather choose Big Bang), I don't give a damn about where we came from.

In that case I guess you'd should have mention it before because many times when people just don't post their true interntions it taken the wrong way. And as for you're needing proof other then writings that had be involed with man well all I can say is this. Take a look around you, look at nature it self, think of you're own human body, the world that we live in do you honestly believe such things could have been created by accendent by simple molecular combination, and sheer luck if you do then I guess you're intitle to you're belief and it would be wrong of me to try to defer you from it in this topic. But personally I really hyate the idea that all this we have seen created and experience was all resulted in a random chance of luck. I knoe you don't believe in god, the bible (when you say written text I just assumed) and the big bang theory, and you don't give a damned about how we're created I just wanted to give a little food for thought...
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Posted 05 May 2006 - 05:17 AM

In that case I guess you'd should have mention it before because many times when people just don't post their true interntions it taken the wrong way. And as for you're needing proof other then writings that had be involed with man well all I can say is this. Take a look around you, look at nature it self, think of you're own human body, the world that we live in do you honestly believe such things could have been created by accendent by simple molecular combination, and sheer luck if you do then I guess you're intitle to you're belief and it would be wrong of me to try to defer you from it in this topic. But personally I really hyate the idea that all this we have seen created and experience was all resulted in a random chance of luck. I knoe you don't believe in god, the bible (when you say written text I just assumed) and the big bang theory, and you don't give a damned about how we're created I just wanted to give a little food for thought...

For your "food for thought", if you went through Bio 101 I think it was called, you would know that Life does indeed come from non-Life. Experiences were made in an environment similar to the theorical Earth without life and molecules that were necessary for life was indeed created, to think that Non-Life created Living beings is in no way farfetched though where the non-life came from, the only scientific explanation for it is the Big Bang which is nothing more than a theory. I do not see the problem in believing that our existence is only the result of luck.
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Posted 05 May 2006 - 05:46 AM

Well I never said anything coming from non-living items or such (but the bible did state adam being created from dust hmmmm) And you lost me at the second sentence which make no sense to please clear that up \. And I'm unaware of any experiment that have involved some kind of non-living organism resulting in to a one so please show it with some actual proof that it real other wise I could just say the whole thing is just bull and third the reason I say I (notice I said "I") have a problem with the idea of luck is like a mother explain to a child that s?he was created out of some random chance and their was never some kinda of intention of him/her being born into this world . Well that the idea anyway, and lastly I don't believe USA have classes called bio101
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Posted 05 May 2006 - 07:00 AM

Well, you mentioned nature and nature naturally includes life. Here's a quote from "Life, The science of Biology, 7th Edition"

Early in the twentieth century, researchers proposed that there was little oxygen gas in Earth's atmosphere (unlike today where it constitutes 21 percent of our atmosphere). Oxygen is thougt to have accumulated in quantity about 2.5 billion of years ago as the by-product of the single metabolism of single-celled life forms. In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey set up an experimental "primitive" atmosphere containing hydrogen gas, ammonia, methane gas, and water vapor. Through these gases, they passed a spark to simulate lightning, then cooled the system so the gases would condense and collect in a watery solution, or "ocean". Within days, the system contained numerous complex molecules, including amino acids, purines, and pyrimdines --- some of the building blocks of life

The experience was carried out in a system where only those gases were present and it managed to forms compounds that are organic chemical compounds. Thus life (organic chemical compunds) came from non-life (gazes). The quote was quite long so I only took the part that was vital, you should be able to find more information if you search on the net.This is the second thoery of the origin of life called chemical evolution where parts of it can be proven (I never bothered looking it up completely since I'm not much of a biologist.

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Posted 05 May 2006 - 09:05 AM

Well, you mentioned nature and nature naturally includes life. Here's a quote from "Life, The science of Biology, 7th Edition"

Early in the twentieth century, researchers proposed that there was little oxygen gas in Earth's atmosphere (unlike today where it constitutes 21 percent of our atmosphere). Oxygen is thougt to have accumulated in quantity about 2.5 billion of years ago as the by-product of the single metabolism of single-celled life forms. In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey set up an experimental "primitive" atmosphere containing hydrogen gas, ammonia, methane gas, and water vapor. Through these gases, they passed a spark to simulate lightning, then cooled the system so the gases would condense and collect in a watery solution, or "ocean". Within days, the system contained numerous complex molecules, including amino acids, purines, and pyrimdines --- some of the building blocks of life

The experience was carried out in a system where only those gases were present and it managed to forms compounds that are organic chemical compounds. Thus life (organic chemical compunds) came from non-life (gazes). The quote was quite long so I only took the part that was vital, you should be able to find more information if you search on the net.This is the second thoery of the origin of life called chemical evolution where parts of it can be proven (I never bothered looking it up completely since I'm not much of a biologist.

Chemical Evolution has been disproven since the scientists cannot come up with an explanation whereby the amino acids come together to form the complex proteins that all organisms posess. Currently our DNA does the job of helping to form these complex molecules but how did all these amino acids form the necessary proteins before DNA existed????? that's a question the scientists can't answer.
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Posted 05 May 2006 - 10:46 AM

I won't say believing in existance of God is wrong or dumb, but in my personal opinion God is a existance people created for things that couldn't be explained in the past.
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Posted 06 May 2006 - 04:07 AM

All the major monotheistic religions are merely gigantic conspiracies by the Illuminati to subtly control our way of thinking on a massive scale. Imagine what they do with that sort of pow-*ssssssssss*They're on to me!! There's a weird yellow gas coming through my window, it's-Uurrrrrhh...*hits keyboard with thud*

isnt the illuminati like half human half alein hybreds i saw something like that on the discovery channel and they say george bush is one of them and the whole world is controlled by these beings....... seriosly who thinks of this stuff?
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Posted 06 May 2006 - 06:36 PM

No, there isn't a God, at least not the one in the Bible. He doesn't love us all, that's a fact. In the Bible it says that if you don't accept Jesus into your heart then you are going to hell, and there are countless Billions of people who are sodevoted to other religions that nothing could make them change, and they are going to hell, regardless of what kind of people they are. Some of these people have never even had the chance to try anything else. That's hardly right, and that's why the God of the Bible doesn't exist. I renounced Christianity with this realization, and you might too now.
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Posted 06 May 2006 - 08:16 PM

I won't say believing in existance of God is wrong or dumb, but in my personal opinion God is a existance people created for things that couldn't be explained in the past.

That's exactly it. It's an explanation for the creation of the world and things.btw, if ppl say God doesn't exist because He cannot be seen, than electrons doesn't exist as well.In fact, if you could see the electrons (maybe a supernatural vision), you still wouldn't see it.

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Posted 06 May 2006 - 08:19 PM

Did you know Einstein came close to proving God existed, before he died? Makes you sorta think..

Yeah sure and i'm the president of USA if you could revive Einstein then he could tell you that :P
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Posted 04 July 2006 - 08:14 AM

I don't beleive, but god seem's like a cruel person thing if you ask me.I mean if he REALLY loved us then he'd send us straight to heaven with out bothering to put us through life which is bad enough as it is.That's kinda my reason for not believing in god.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 05:10 AM

Ok one thing, just so you know, I do believe in God, before I start arguing.First of all, it makes perfect sense that God exists. I mean, it doesn't make sense for him not to exist. Just look around you. Look at yourself. How do you think you came into existence? Chance maybe? Ok let me just put things into perspective for you. First take all the pieces of a grandfather clock and throw them into the ocean. How long will it take the waves to put the clock together? A billion billion years maybe? Not even that. It's more likely never to happen. That's about the same chance of life being randomly created - never. Inteligent design is the only explination. Another thing, humans could never come up with on their own the concept of God. I mean, just think about eternity. Never a begining, never an end. We really can't even begin to understand or feel that sort of concept. So there you go that's what I believe hopefully some of you will open your eyes a little. If I hurt anyones feelings, sorry.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 10:21 AM

i believe that God is a the greater force that can't be measured by human nature and perception. like, God is this huge amazing and unfathomable thing, and then there's this funnel (like the one for cars and such and such) that represents what humanity does with what God really is. when it goes through the funnel, humanity can only squeeze out a tiny bit of what all that really is.in a way, i believe all religions are both wrong and right, in that each of them are just human perceptions of what the "immense" really is, like different paths or means to the same end, but no one can ever really understand or come up with the "big picture."no one
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 09:12 PM

If god wanted us to believe in him he'd prove his existance. He hasn't done that. God is supposed to bring miracles. When was the last miracle? God is supposed to bring love. Where did the love go?
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 09:31 PM

I'm pretty much atheist. Though I'd rather not close my mind to the subject. Who knows?
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 10:21 PM

I believe in god. I have no proof that he exists, but that IS what belief is about, no? We invented Santa-Claus, we invented the boogey man, the easter bunny, cupid, and a load of others before them. Why? Probably because we feal lonely. If someone could convince me that there is no god, well, i daresay i would kill myself. To evry theory, there are those who believe, and those who disbelieve. Extremists will unnavoidably occur in any case. Evangelists, fundamentalists, scientists, you name them, we got'em. Think about prayer, for instance. You spend half an hour or so in a church... a large room, with soft, relaxing music playing. You reflect on your life, on what you've done, what you will do...you are told that the greater power in the sky will forgive all your missdeads if you only admit them, if you only alow him to show you the way to the light. Is that such a bad idea? I know this thread is about the actual question, IS THERE A GOD? But what i am trying to say is, should we realy be asking that question? Real or not, i am inclined to say that God is a good idea.On an other note, some of you might say that religion brings about wars, cruelty and persecution. Well, if it does, so does evry other blasted thing on this planet.If you are unhappy with what i have to say, i dont care.If you see flaws in my grammar, big deal.If you think i should eat poo and die, you have a verry twisted mind.Dieu dans le ciel se rit de voir que les hommes ne croient pas en lui.Peace out.
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 04:08 AM

If god wanted us to believe in him he'd prove his existance. He hasn't done that. God is supposed to bring miracles. When was the last miracle? God is supposed to bring love. Where did the love go?

Ok godmars, are you everywhere at once or something? Do you absorb every single thing that goes on in the world? How do you know there arn't any miracles? There everywhere, man. Just read the news sometime. He has proved his existence multiple times and still does through the people who believe. Where did the love go? How about where did your eyes go? Just open them and look around. God's love is in his people.

there is no god, only people foolish enough to believe in it

There's nothing foolish about people believing in God. Maybe, one day, you'll find that out for yourself.

There is no God. Only takes common sense to know that.

More like it only takes common sense to realize that there is a God. Why don't you give a reason why? I don't want to hear, "well omg, babies DIE??? Why does he let that happen huh?" Well if you think about it, you have no idea what would become of that baby. Just because it's a baby, doesn't mean that it's not going to grow up to become some kind of serial killer or guy who invents a weapon that will take millions of peoples lives. Who knows? You sure don't, that's obvious.Ok I'm done for now.
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 04:27 AM

I don't believe in god, nor any greater form of life. But I respect everyone's beliefs. Thats why I hate when people don't respect my opinion and try to make me believe in him!
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Posted 07 July 2006 - 04:07 PM

Name one major miracle that effects all of us. prove me wrong.Besides, god is supposed to have given us free will. If you ask me, that would be a dumb move if you want people to believe in you. It's like putting a gun in a psycho's hand and telling him NOT to shoot you.Also, not to offend anyone just putting it out there, from the experiences i've had with christians the religion seems like a very closed minded one. Going to hell because we have our own thoughts and opinions against god. Christians can sin like mad but "repent" and go to heaven. The people who don't believe in god don't even have a chance of getting into heaven but the christians have practicaly no chance of NOT getting into heaven. The most horrible christian has a higher chance than a respectible, responsible atheist. My best friend's parents wouldn't let me hang out with him because I was atheist. And the worst part is that christians seem to justify it rather than accept that their religion might be kind of wrong.

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Posted 07 July 2006 - 07:35 PM

I believe in God, I believe in Jesus, I don't believe in forcing opinions on other people (if they don't believe it then that's up to them), and people trying to convince me otherwise won't work!
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Posted 07 July 2006 - 08:49 PM

Im catholic But im not sure about if God is real or not.. Since im supposed to believe in god i think i might as well But they're isn't any evidence so i think i don't want to believe in something that has a 50% 50% chance of being true.But im not a worshipping mad catholic. x_X

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Posted 07 July 2006 - 09:36 PM

There are reasons for either argument, good reasons at that. But me, I don't know if there is a G*d or not, If I did believe in G*d, then I would say that He created the Universe and let it go. I believe in Evolution and it's effect on us today as well as that there is someone out there watching.
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Posted 08 July 2006 - 04:41 AM

Name one major miracle that effects all of us. prove me wrong.Besides, god is supposed to have given us free will. If you ask me, that would be a dumb move if you want people to believe in you. It's like putting a gun in a psycho's hand and telling him NOT to shoot you.Also, not to offend anyone just putting it out there, from the experiences i've had with christians the religion seems like a very closed minded one. Going to hell because we have our own thoughts and opinions against god. Christians can sin like mad but "repent" and go to heaven. The people who don't believe in god don't even have a chance of getting into heaven but the christians have practicaly no chance of NOT getting into heaven. The most horrible christian has a higher chance than a respectible, responsible atheist. My best friend's parents wouldn't let me hang out with him because I was atheist. And the worst part is that christians seem to justify it rather than accept that their religion might be kind of wrong.

Well, the one major miracle that effects all of us would be the miracle of life.The reason God gave us free will is because he made us in his likeness. In other words, without free will we'd be mindless robots and God doesn't want that. He gave us a chance with Christ and it's up to you whether you reject that or not.I'm really sorry about your bad experiences with Christians because, yes, they are often narrow-minded. Although, anyone who "can sin like mad" is certainly not a Christian. Just because someone says they're a Christian doesn't mean they're not lying. Like me saying I'm a pro baseball player. Just becasue I said it, are you going to believe me? Plus, a true Christian is not "horrible." People lie all the time. You have to know how to sift out the good from the bad.Anyways, I'm really sorry about your friend situation. That kind of acting is what give the name "Christian" a bad name. One of my friends, though he believes in God and such, stoped calling himself Christian because of the bad rep that they tend to have with people. We're supose to respect and accept everyone, but like I said not everyone that claims Christianity exactly follows all the rules perfectly. It's really his parents' ideas that are wrong. Like I said, I respect your beliefs, it's just I personally tend to be stubborn, so I'm sorry if I've offended you or upset you in any sort of way.
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Posted 09 July 2006 - 05:11 AM

I believe in God. Not the God of your religions, which think in human terms. I believe in a God so alien that humans alone cannot comprehend such a thing in its entirety. This God is a thing/force that permeates all reality. It permeates us. We are all a part of this God, physically and spiritually.
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