A question for Athiests/Evolutionists. (re: How can one not belive in something greater than himself? et all)

Some things are a matter of choice. However, why do you think that belief is a matter of choice? This is off topic so I started a new topic here: http://EvC Forum: Belief...a choice?If you have some views on this, I'd like to hear them.

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We're apathetic anarchists...we don't care who we blow up!

Even though we as humans cannot understand God,(meaning that we can't second guess Him) He can impart wisdom into us. In my Belief.

How would you tell the difference between someone who had wisdom of something they couldn't know naturally implanted in them and someone who didn't have that wisdom, but thought they did?

How? How do you know when someone has intuitive knowledge vs when someone is full of themselves? Good question. Many people claim to know, yet many have been duped by charlatans throughout history. You may add the Christian message to the list of charlatans, but I have chosen not to. We each decide what our belief will be. Sometimes, logic has nothing to do with it. Logic and reason can explain as much as you choose to allow. I prefer not to lift up human wisdom as my source of truth. (Not always, at least)

Heh, I disagree because even when we have a great deal of evedence for something people STILL choose to disbelive it.An obvious example is evoulution. We have volumes and volumes of evedence to support this theory but people still refuse to accept it. Just look at the numbers in the U.S. of people who beleve that the earth was created several thousand years ago.

How true. I am Christian, but I think that the earth was created along the same time lines as those who are evolutionists. God's six days may have been six million earth years.

Humans are different. We love most of the people we love because we can identify with them to some extent, we share the bond of species and usually, mentality. People earn our love through physical expressions, usually. Parents feed us and raise us, friends share with us and help us. God does these things, but in ways that we can't see very obviously. "Proof" of our parents' existance adds to the reasons we love them, I guess. Proof of God comes from within. The way my family sees it is this: from the moment we're born on earth, we have a longing to go Home. Home is Heaven, being with God. We may not know it conciously, but we know it in our souls.

Er...I guess that's interesting. As for the paranormal, I belive in some kinds, I guess. Mostly because I have had first hand experiance with it. Ghosts, for example. Occasionally, my great grandfather will sit in his favortie chair and rock. I belive that he does that just to let us know that he's still around. As for telepathy, all of the women in my family experiance it pretty regulary. Basicly, some things seem to be only belivable when a person experiances them. I have never really experianced Gods directly, but I belive in Him with all my heart. Even if man kind cane never prove His existance, I belive in Him.

As for my Christian background, just two years ago, we really got into our religion. My family had been...pew warmers, I guess, and just recently, we went more indepth and know understand just what we belive in. As for demons, one(as a Christian who belives in such things) can't go through life ignoring them. If you spread out your arms, you touch angels and demons fighting. They are unseen, but there none the less, so one must understand and be aware of demons in order to protect yourself against them.

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I don't really know if we would count. We can finish each others' sentences, and we tend to share physical feelings. Would this be telepathy? Well, we can't do it on command, either...

No, not really. It's culture and familiarity. No more.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Is there a word for people who can transmit physical symptoms and emotions to people miles away?

Coincidence.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I don't think so, because it happens quite often amoung the women of my family. It's like we just know what another of us is feeling, and sometimes its two of us picking up on one person.