And, just to be clear, this isn't about atheism or religious. This is about the capacity for critical thought and abstract thinking. Galileo was considered a heretic by the church.
God inspired me to think that and share it.
I regard human life as precious. But, I'm not as indoctrinated by a single belief system, like you.
If this is even remotely true? Then, religion has ruined you as an intellectual human being. You portray a robot for the church in this entire thread. Either that, or whatever you claim you read as never truly understood!
Reading it is only half the process. You're like someone who memorizes dates in history. You're not fully digesting and empathizing with the subject matter.
And, you believe you DO know "anything" about philosophy???
LOL... it's amazing. Me writing a list of philosophers is proof I've "read them" to you? Or, even better... YOU writing a list of philosophers is somehow proof that YOU'VE read them?
Reading this:
Reading this:
... doesn't count.
Whatever you claim you've read, none of it stuck. I think you're a liar, but there's always confession for a good Catholic.
Your "enemy" is atheists. That much is clear.
Keep in mind, the more you hang around here, the more atheists you create!
Because I choose to believe the Bible was inspired and choose to live by its moral code that makes me unaware? Lol ok well here’s where you are - choosing to believe a bunch of omnipresent God is everywhere beliefs is just as crazy to me you believing my belief in the BIble is! You can be as vague as you want because you really don’t have any valid points, nothing to base your beliefs on . Just your own inner self and a bunch of human philosophy which doesn’t mean squat. You’re just pulling stuff out of books or lectures and throwing them against the wall with a bunch of big fancy words trying to prove it makes you somehow an expert on spirituality. Well you can be as vague as you want but I choose to believe the Bible. I believe it is the divinely inspired word of God and I’m proud to defend it! And no I don’t believe God is in the bumblebees I saw this morning. It’s fine if you want to throw the insults out there. Noah was considered crazy too before the flood came …I’m totally used to the bias against Jehovahs witnesses ..Jesus himself said his true followers would be hated without cause.
Monty Python's Flying Circus... incredible philosophers!
It has... many, many times. That's why I'm not crystallized in my understanding of existence and consciousness.
LOLOLOL
I don’t think God needs validation. I actually think it’s the other way around . You’re too intent on disproving the Bible’s being inspired. So again it comes down to what you choose to put your faith in . You choose to believe human philosophy and lean on your own understanding.
I have 30 credit hours in the religion and philosophy department at Iowa. Does that count? I mostly read old testament related materials. How do you resolve God's behavior in the Old and New Testaments are drastically different?
I have NEVER tried to disprove that the Bible was inspired... not once. I have no doubt it was "inspired by God." Just like I have no doubt that these words I am typing, right here, are also "inspired by God." Everything is "inspired" by God.
See that’s where we disagree . I don’t think me writing this sentence is inspired by God. God is not IN the sunset I will see tonight , or the thunderstorm that I’ll likely see tomorrow ..these are of course evidence of creation by God and the natural forces he put in place . I believe He has a dwelling place in the heavens or spirit realm far above us . The Bible DOES support that belief. But to say God is IN everything and everyone is just not supported with any real facts. That’s a human based philosophy.
I'm sure you do. He has a throne and everything, right?
The better question to ask is why does it take the Univ of Iowa College of Liberal Arts 30 credit hours to teach you the same thing that your area Sunday School can in literally 1 hour (for free nonetheless)?
Where is the official scale that lists all living things in order of their importance.
The “far above us” is more of an Old Testament notion. Jesus seems to dispel that. In some sense maybe it doesn’t matter, the kingdom of God could be in your bathroom closet and unless you are spiritually reborn you won’t see it.
I’m not sure it has to be resolved. Some Old Testament stories were believed to have been passed down verbally for generations before even being written down. There were multiple authors, like 40 or more, over hundreds of years or millennia. There are like 20 versions of each verse. Some of it was probably misinterpreted or altered or who knows what along the way. You don’t have to believe the whole Bible is Divinely inspired to believe parts are. I don’t think you can point to some obscure passages and determine the whole must be untrue. In practice, the good parts (people intuitively know I believe) are the moral fabric of western civilization and the obscure parts have been disregarded.
