Well that’s a really big question to answer for me, BryanAshley.
I can’t prove to you anything or really even go on about my weird life of situations that deemed (to me) the reality of things much more than me.
This, I feel, is a personal journey of your own to take buddy.
For one thing, it’s not really known who actually even wrote the four gospels, which makes it difficult to know how credible their accounts are.
And if we are going to count scripture as evidence, why should we only count the four gospels in the Bible, when there are far more than four gospels that were written? But then we get the problem that many of them contradict each other, which limits their value as evidence (having said that, the four gospels in the Bible already contain contradictions as it is).
In some of the gospels, Jesus is seen more as a teacher than as any kind of divine ‘Messiah’. Why should we ignore these gospels and choose only the ones in the New Testament to pay any attention to? The fact that, centuries after Jesus’ time, some religious figures chose the four specific gospels that best fitted the doctrines and beliefs that they held, and said that only these four are true, doesn’t in any way make those gospels more reliable as evidence than the others.
They really do a lot for God, just imagine how many people died making just this one cathedral.
I believe I’m coming to some conclusions. My God is very different from the traditional god. I don’t think its conscious. Energy itself.
That is what makes it so stupid. People are willing to die for their beliefs or in servitude.
I’m thinking about studying theology along with my counselling and I think it could be fun so I should know more about it then bc its really interesting to me
That is true I find belief systems fascinating. Where they come from, what makes people believe.
I think that’s a good idea. I think even for non-religious people it’s worth studying religion, history of religions, theology etc to some degree because of how important a role religion plays in the world. That and in general it’s really interesting (in my opinion at least)
the bible is evidence of a really sweet fairytale.
I’m glad to live in such an enlightened age. Very fortunate time to be alive.
why not believe you are your own god
That’s verge on delusional I’m not a fan.
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So far no one has put forth any good efforts for the existence of god. I will say the universe seems like a well crafted machine. I’d say it if it was designed it was largely meant to operate without direction. Time and chaos forming order. However the experience of life is so fully perfect and eerily established that it sometimes seems it would have to be the product of conscious creation. Of course that just escalates the the scale of the question. If there is a god where did it come from? The real question is whether consciousness precede inanimacy? I am more drawn to the concept of infinite chaos. In this infinite time and space and dimension we stand as one example of how things can be put together. It is purely by chance that things are so perfect somewhere in the infinitorium. Science cuts the path to our future. It shapes it. Science is definitely important, specifically physics. Perhaps dimensions isn’t the right word. Infinite realms.
You’re asking a question that you’re the only one who can answer to your own satisfaction, methinks.
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I guess I just wanted to hear an arguement, but there is plenty of that on other sites. I’m done with this topic now. It seems most everybody else is also.
The simple fact maybe is just the admittance that there are truly (greater powers than ourselves). I believe in a higher power I guess I dunno.