For Atheist.

[Theland]

You wanted a one to one dialogue.
Great.
You have always been respectful. Thank you.
So to begin, I believe in God.
Your response?

[nailit]

//Why do you not believe in God?//
define '' GOD''

[Atheist]

Theland. My answer is, I don't. That's my honest opinion based on many years of living and observing the world and reading and listening to other views.

[nailit]

Theland, I once begged and pleaded with god to show himself...he didn't!

[nailit]

And he hasn't, nor does he.

[Rockrose]

Sheeesh I am no more of an expert than you are but I would have answered a direct question not run away and hide

[Atheist]

I once became aware of god, but I believe it was an illusion arising from extreme emotional disturbance. I still don't believe that there is a god. Certainly not a 'father' who punishes or rewards - it wouldn't be in or of our time or space and would not relate to us in a personal way. In my opinion.

[Atheist]

Rockrose, you are addressing who?

[spathiphyllum]

Theland i have a question


How does christianity help or benefit or aid you in day to day life?

[spathiphyllum]

"20:51 Wed 20th Mar 2019"

Ew no one likes a begg Nailit ;)

[Atheist]

And here I was hoping to have a one-to-one with Theland! Mano a mano!

[andy-hughes]

Theland - // So to begin, I believe in God.
Your response? //

Good for you.

I don't.

[nailit]

Unless Theland can answer, I am left to suffer the horrors of hell for eternity. Gnashing of teeth, wailing, pain suffered in the eternal lake of fire, eternal tears and regret, my body rotting as it is ate by worms etc.
But if I love God then all is OK :-)
Stockholm Syndrome anyone?

[mibn2cweus]

My understanding of consciousness, mind and creativity as emergent qualities arising from processes taking place by means of an evolving universe preclude the possibility of a preexisting mindful purposeful creator being.

That said, in seeking to understand the intentions of those who propose a 'God', I've found an ever more compelling respect for reality.

[Theland]

Mibs - A bit confusing.
Go further back.
13.7 billion years.
The universe had a beginning.
It is a creation.
What created it?
A Creator?
I think so.
God.
What is your reasoning?

[Rockrose]

What is your evidence that there was a ‘thing’ called god who created earth instead of the Big Bang theory?

[mibn2cweus]

Theland, Question Author wrote -

Mibs - A bit confusing.
Go further back.
13.7 billion years.
The universe had a beginning.
It is a creation.
What created it?
A Creator?
I think so.
God.
What is your reasoning? 00:27 Thu 21st Mar 2019

Reason is another emergent quality arising from that which makes it possible, a highly developed and evolved consciousness. Mindful purposeful creation implies the existence of the means and process which makes it possible. Since creation requires a mind and a mind requires a highly evolved living functioning organism, it is not reasonable to suggest that the universe in which it came to be was itself the product of a creative process.

I would not presume the universe had a beginning until I had acquired a fundamental understanding of the means and process by which it (or an alleged creator) came into existence. We are only now beginning to develop the tools required to understand the nature of the universe we find ourselves in let alone how it came into existence in the first place. The better we understand the means and process of creation the less likely it appears it was simply wished into existence.

[david small]

Mibs when you overthink a thing, it becomes unthinkable.