@kevin-eleven saidJMHO - If you're looking for evidence of a creator, just look up on a clear night.
If so, what would be the implications of this from your micro POV in this vasty Cosmos?
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
- Psalm 19:1
@mchill saidThank you for completely disregarding my question.
JMHO - If you're looking for evidence of a creator, just look up on a clear night.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
- Psalm 19:1
Do you understand how much damage the ancient Jews and their offshoots have done re: whether it's okay to send the gays into the ovens?
@kevin-eleven saidYes, dive is; he is much loved by the Creator who laid down His life for dive.
If so, what would be the implications of this from your micro POV in this vasty Cosmos?
dive is made in the image of God; like it or not, we all are; what we do with that is
on us. Since we are all made in God's image since we are all ones that Christ laid
down His life for, there are no obscure people or unimportant ones, and they are all
immortal beings in a world that are cursed, living souls in corrupted bodies.
@mchill saidOf course, doesn't specifically evidence the Christian God. I'm sure Hindus look up to the same heavens and see it as evidence of Brahma.
JMHO - If you're looking for evidence of a creator, just look up on a clear night.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
- Psalm 19:1
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWe can stand looking at a police line up to identify the one we saw, having more choices does not mean there isn’t someone specific in a lineup.
Of course, doesn't specifically evidence the Christian God. I'm sure Hindus look up to the same heavens and see it as evidence of Brahma.
@kellyjay saidIt seems rather parochial of you to assume that a creator entity is so utterly anthropomorphized that you imagine it can be analogized as waiting for you and other humans in a "police line-up". It's very retail religionist of you.
We can stand looking at a police line up to identify the one we saw, having more choices does not mean there isn’t someone specific in a lineup.
@fmf saidThe point many choices doesn’t mean all or few will do if there is but one answer. If there are a million ways to get to God and God only accepts one that then becomes the only valid choice.
It seems rather parochial of you to assume that a creator entity is so utterly anthropomorphized that you imagine it can be analogized as waiting for you and other humans in a "police line-up". It's very retail religionist of you.
@kellyjay saidSo you have picked out your anthropomorphized God figure ~ and "the only valid choice", no less ~ from your proverbial police line-up. If it gives you consolation and purpose in life, and keeps you from harming your neighbour, then good for you [and good for them].
I take Jesus at His Word; being God, He would know. Jesus is the only way to God!
@fmf saidJesus' word or yours, the reality God created, or the one between your ears, I choose
So you have picked out your anthropomorphized God figure ~ and "the only valid choice", no less ~ from your proverbial police line-up. If it gives you consolation and purpose in life, and keeps you from harming your neighbour, then good for you [and good for them].
God.
@fmf saidYour reality versus God, you are always going off saying no one can know the Lord,
Don't be such a silly billy, Kellyjay. I am not asking you to "choose" me. As I said, if your religion gives you consolation and purpose in life, so be it.
so that is your reality, the one between YOUR ears. The universe doesn't reside due
to your permission, and it is what it is with or without your consent or acceptance.
@kellyjay saidYour faith is a function of your cognition i.e it is between your ears, just as my Muslim neighbours' faith is between their ears.
Your reality versus God, you are always going off saying no one can know the Lord,
so that is your reality, the one between YOUR ears. The universe doesn't reside due
to your permission, and it is what it is with or without your consent or acceptance.
I haven't claimed that "the universe resides due to [my] permission". Stop pouting.
I haven't said you should choose me rather than Jesus.
And you don't need my "consent or acceptance" to be the religionist that you are and no one has claimed you do.
Don't be so disingenuous.