Human behavior doesn't prove or disprove god, however, since there are so many religions but there can be only one truth, it's statistically unlikely the particular one you adhere to is true.
I'm sure that it's not completely true, since a lot of religion is interpreted by humans and we are fallible. But there is no reason to believe that the tenets are chosen randomly. In fact, most major religions share dogma.
Ifb.......you didn't ruin my stereotype at all. So please don't flatter yourself. I stand by my post and beliefs, if there were a "God" those who follow him would not be all I mentioned before. After all, didn't "God"create man in his image?
What exactly do you think I'm claiming? Other than I'm a) Christian and b) not full of hate, not judging non-believers harshly, and not full of hypocrisy. And this is self aggrandizement?
@Ifb, you were the one to demean my position (which was respectful) by saying I had "set a low standard" now you are offended by my reply? Do a self check
Well, assuming that God exists, God would be all powerful, all knowing, the creator of the world and the sustainer of life. That's where I would start for why you would worship God, assuming He exists.
Why would he need, let alone demand worship? If god exists, I imagine It to be the deist kind, more or less an abstract entity that, being all knowing and all powerful, couldn't care less whether It is worshipped, and doesn't judge.
A timeless entity that is all knowing, all powerful, created the whole universe from the farthest planet to the smallest atom....and now sits on its hands doing nothing?
steelcity....for all you know our entire universe could be the size of a spec of dust in the "god realm", or god could simply be a programmer who designed our universe on a computer and we are in a simulation...
I think it's idle speculation for us limited beings to muse about God's motive and whether he does or doesn't do something. We couldn't comprehend any more than a body cell could grasp how the human brain works.
Yes (50.00000000001% certainty). But not one that intervenes in our lives. And I don't think that's a contradiction. Evil exists to give context (and value) to good.
Let's assume God exists. Even if He does, we CANNOT know of evidence that He exists. Clearly evidence is a terrible tool for verifying existence if we fundamentally cannot perceive it.
Using empirical evidence as the requisite proof of the metaphysical makes no sense. There is no overlap between those two. They are completely independent.
There is no reproducible empirical evidence of God's existence, or a lot of things for that matter. Surely there are strong reasons to believe things apart from reproducible empirical evidence? Otherwise most (probably all) knowledge is doomed.
I would like to think that there was because of how accordingly living beings, the world, and our solar system works but ultimately I do not believe and sometimes disbelieve something until there is some sort of evidence.
The only way to believe that would be to accept that what humans recognize as fair and compassionate is not the God version of those words.
Which is silly, IMO.
I recommend C.S. Lewis' "The Problem if Pain". Just because I don't give my children everything that they want does not mean that I don't love them, or that I'm incapable of giving it to them.
...world ended. He is our heaven Father and knows best. And best is sometimes no and sometimes tough love. And I know first hand that being the parent who says no can be very painful for the parent.
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