Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9164 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,906 Year: 4,163/9,624 Month: 1,034/974 Week: 361/286 Day: 4/13 Hour: 1/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   What if you have never heard of God, Jesus, or the Holy Bible?
DBlevins
Member (Idle past 3805 days)
Posts: 652
From: Puyallup, WA.
Joined: 02-04-2003


Message 62 of 90 (44747)
07-01-2003 6:17 AM
Reply to: Message 41 by crashfrog
06-26-2003 4:40 AM


Re: Stories
deleted because I was dazed and confused.....whooosh
[This message has been edited by DBlevins, 07-01-2003]
re-edited because my confusion was just a temporary lapse. Faith has nothing to do with evidence, Spud. Having faith that something does or doesn't exist doesn't make it so. Faith in love is an individual state of mind and proving love would be just an exercise in futility or narcissism
[This message has been edited by DBlevins, 07-01-2003]

This message is a reply to:
 Message 41 by crashfrog, posted 06-26-2003 4:40 AM crashfrog has not replied

  
DBlevins
Member (Idle past 3805 days)
Posts: 652
From: Puyallup, WA.
Joined: 02-04-2003


Message 63 of 90 (44751)
07-01-2003 6:47 AM
Reply to: Message 55 by Spud
06-28-2003 5:31 AM


So when I refer to love I liken it to faith (and God to a point) as in it is something not provable by physical evidence but none the less, still exists.
But that is where your logic fails. Loving somone or having faith in somone loving you doesn't prove their existence. I could tell you I love my friend Harry the Rabbit and that I believe he loves me but that doesn't make Harry real. Sorry Harry
On another point that just confounds me. I can't understand how people can not see that the belief or religion they hold to be true is on a large basis based on where they were born and live. If you lived in Bombay, India or Cairo Egypt it'd be a likely prospect that you'd likely be arguing the Hindi or Muslim religion and how perfect they were, and how other religions were false.
Science is presented in a manner that allows itself to be tested and proven. We correct or disregard that which is proven to be false. It is testable. Faith isn't and that is where it fails from a scientific standpoint. Faith is not evidence. While proscribing to any faith is your right, it doesn't make God or any other supreme being or supernatural power testable or evidential.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 55 by Spud, posted 06-28-2003 5:31 AM Spud has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 64 by Souljah1, posted 07-07-2003 11:14 PM DBlevins has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024