Evolution

To believe in God or not does not have to depend on sight. Just ask questions like how did the universe come into existence? Are moral law absolute or relative? If they are absolute who gave them? Are mathematical laws absolute or are they relative, depending on whims and moods of a person? I think when we consider these questions, besides others, the answers point to the someone outside of us. And that I would as God. Dragons are tangible, but we can't see or touch or feel etc. There is no clue that they exists, and there is no way how we can even come up with clues to support beliefs about dragon. That is why intellectuals don't believe in dragons, but there are so many intellectuals who believe in God. In fact, more intellectuals believe in God than otherwise.

sometimes I feel the same way, there is too many questions that cant be answered, unless you die and come back.

Its not just sight its also other questions that cant be answered, like why didnt create the perferct world the first time,... thats a mistake, and they say god doesnt make mistakes. And another question is why did create an animal (humans) that is so wreckless Why did he give us free will when he knows that we will eventually destroy the world. we could be living in a perfect world right now!

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Could you explain to me how something imperfect (us) can come from something perfect? A perfect being can't create imperfect things, therefore if there was a god who created us, you would be forced to assume he/she/it isn't perfect. This "we screwed it all up" is all a scam, a con job. A guilt trip of the highest order, made up by religious leaders to scare people into doing what they want (and calling it "God's will"). "He sent His son to die on the cross for each and everyone of us. That was His plan to save His children." Well, now it's even more obvious that such a god isn't perfect. What a convoluted plan, after all. God's going to incarnate himself, so that he can sacrifice himself to himself, for humans? A perfect god wouldn't be so inefficient. "God is the most wonderful, powerful, and loving person" God is less loving than the average human parent. I'll prove it to you: If the average human parent had a child who was really bad, a liar, criminal, thief, murderer, whatever, and just in general a terrible person, BUT, the parent was omnipotent like God is supposed to be, and was given these two choices: 1) Perfectly rehabilitate the child so that they no longer do bad things 2) Sentence the child to unimaginably horrible pain and torture for ETERNITY with no chance of atonement What do you think a parent would choose? Any parent who loves his child would rather choose choice #1, and obviously an all-powerful God has that option for his "children" (as Christians like to call humans) as well. And yet, he chooses eternal punishment, even though most of us don't even live to 100 measly years. And even if we spent every single moment of 100 years constantly sinning, do you think ETERNAL punishment is fair for a measly 100 years of sin? Do you know how long ETERNITY is compared to a century? Any god who would do that is a monster, not loving. And even if I thought such a being existed, I wouldn't worship him.

Okay I can explain all of the things you asked.....let's start with God creating the Heavens and the Earth and creating man. He made man perfect in his image and made woman to fulfill man. Satan, used to be the most beautiful angel in Heaven and had the highest power of the angels...so, instead of using it for good he took it upon himself to try and overthrow God. Stupid him, because God cannot be overthrown or killed or anything. God has been, is now, and will always be. So, Satan was cast out of Heaven. Shortly after this, Satan came in the form of a snake to Eve and she choose to sin because everything Satan told her sounded so good. Up until this point, Adam and Eve were perfect human beings. It was satan that tempted her and it was her that sinned. She realized that sin though and was later forgiven for this, but consequences came with it. Thus, sin was born into the world. God knew this would happen though which is why He sent His son to die for each and everyone of us. He knew that the only way to save His people was by showing them in the physical form that He loves us so much He would send His one and only son to die on the cross. As far as your parent scenerio....you have to understand that is not God that wants to send us to hell. People that choose not to believe in Him and love him choose that one on their own. He would love nothing more than to have every single person on this earth in Heaven with Him, but Heaven is a sinless place full of nothing but joy, happiness, singing, etc...why would He allow someone into that beautiful place that sinned their whole lives and never accepted Him. It's not His doing, it's the world's doing. You either choose to follow God or you choose to follow Satan. If you follow satan your entire life, where does God's Heaven fit into the picture...it doesn't. But those that choose Christ and live in His Word and His presence will have everlasting life with Him throughout eternity. And yes, eternity is a long time to be in hell, but if you choose to follow hell while living on earth, then you follow hell throughout eternity. It's your choice though. God gives you a chance to follow Him, but the decision is totally up to you. God bless

I have added you as a friend. So you want to know, out of all the religions that follow the Bible, which one you should choose? Do you know what the problem with religion is? The root word of this word means bondage and Jesus did not come so that we will be in bondage. Look at it as a relationship with the creator, because that is why He created us anyways. Since you don't know what religion you should be, does that also mean you have no church or congregation that you meet with?

I beleive in the god thats in the holy bible, but there is more than one religion that follows that book. add me as a friend.

Making "god did it" the default answer for everything we don't know is foolish. If everyone thought like you, we'd never learn anything; we'd just sit around declaring everything around us was god, god, god, and we'd never actually figure out how anything works.

The Big Bang was a rapid expansion of space AND time. It is distinctly possible that the universe always existed in some form or another--and compared to "God", an entity that's literally made up, it's infinitely more likely, because of Occam's Razor. "God" is just an unnecessary variable, therefore any explanation without God is more likely. Think of it this way. If you stumble while you're walking, what's more likely? That there was a rock or something in your path, or that a supernatural agent tripped you? The former is exponentially more likely. Why? Because the "agent" ("God" is an example of a supernatural agent) is an extra variable. Same thing. Any explanation for anything involving "God", therefore, will always necessarily be considered the least likely scenario, because of that.

Ok... So God is a variable? Hmm.. Well explain to me then how this expansion of time and space created the perfect conditions for life? And of course out of nothing life began? Have you ever seen the research that says that if the earth tipped on its axis minutely in either direction the earth would be ice or fire? What about the scientific fact that the human body regenerates cells every 7 years, alluding that possibly if not for pollutants and disease we would indeed live forever? The bible says that creation itself testifies to the creator, the absolutes in this world tell me that there is an absolute truth about how it all began. That being said I hope you realize I respect the comments I am responding to and am not trying to sound hmm.. like a know it all or anything. These are honestly questions I have asked myself. It is hard for me to think that this is all an accident it defies rational thought in my opinion. But I think we are all still learning and we do not have all the answers no matter which belief you have.

you should have responded because you have the best response

Well, it's called "natural selection" in the scientific community because it is "nature" (in other words, the environment) that "selects" which mutations survive and which do not. Your mention about how humans may have never existed reminds me of an article I read a little while back that proposed the idea that reality as we know it is nothing more than an advanced simulation created by either an alien race, or us, being actually much further along than this reality makes it seem. They estimed the odds of this are about 60%. It was an interesting article; too bad I've lost it. But I digress. Thanks for the positive response. :)

I wouldn't call it natural selection, I would call it Natural Development. I beleive that its a possible chance that humans could have never existed! I like the way you think, you think like a genius. Only a genius would look at a situation like this and consider other possibilities other than 'god'! Me and you think alike, I go against it in so many ways. I'm just scared to tell my family!