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GDR Member Posts: 5052 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.8 |
![]() He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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GDR Member Posts: 5052 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.8 |
He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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Tangle Member Posts: 7202 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Conscience. Your 'still small voice of god.'
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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GDR Member Posts: 5052 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.8 |
However, I accept that as a weak answer, but it is the same question that we have gone over before. The most difficult thing that we Christians have to get our head around is why there is such a thing as mental illness, cancer, tsunamis etc in the world. The best I can do is that natural illnesses and disasters are a necessary by-product of a world subject to entropy and decay. Our role as humans is to do all that we can to mitigate the suffering that results. He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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Tangle Member Posts: 7202 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
I was going to explain why that was wrong but then you acknowledged it
And the problem you have is that it's unanwerable so what happens is that it's pushed into the background and rots gently in the to-do pile.
Correct, but it doesn't seem to matter - it never gets an answer because it can't answered, so it becomes the most important thing that is no longer important, it becomes a moral shrug and you get along nicely never-the-less.
Which of course is just avoiding the question. It's THE most important evidence against a loving god, yet it's shunned as just inexplicable. Nope, it explains why god is absent. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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GDR Member Posts: 5052 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.8 |
Of course there is still the question of why there is such a thing as goodness in the world without God. I know that you have provided answers but I don't see those answers as being any stronger than the answers I have given to your question. He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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Faith Member Posts: 33886 From: Nevada, USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
Good grief orthodox Christianty has the answers
Death and disease and suffering: The Fall How any good at all? Made in the image of God
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jar Member Posts: 31771 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 2.6 |
But there is no Fall in the Bible. That's yet another carny midway sideshow.
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Tangle Member Posts: 7202 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Which is not an answer to why there is illness in this world. Nor is it an answer to why this world is necessary to exist at all. Is your god carrying out a wicked experiment on people? Nor is it an answer to why your god would allow a situation where a percentage of his flock could not hear his 'still small voice'. He's denying them access. Why would a loving god do that? Does it make any sense at all to you?
The answer is that both 'good' and 'bad' exist, not just good. You can't escape the fact that God must be responsible for both. And of course we know why they exist, they're a perfectly natural consequence of evolution. Edited by Tangle, : No reason given. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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Thugpreacha Member Posts: 13375 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Edited by Thugpreacha, : No reason given. Edited by Thugpreacha, : No reason given. Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction . "~Thugpreacha You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
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Tangle Member Posts: 7202 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.3
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Because you tell us that he loves us. Quite obviously he either couldn't give a rat's arse about us or is a torturer.
See above.
The problem you have is that apparently we're made in his image and he loves us. Our existence and the short difficult and painful lives we lead tell us he doesn't.
Of course it's a cop out, it essentially says that your theology can't explain it but you then go on to totally ignore it as though it doesn't contradict your core beliefs about your god. Just pretend it's not a devastating problem for your religion.
My conclusion is that your understanding of who and what god is contradicted by who and what his creation is. Your god either doesn't give a shit about us or is evil. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 4785 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
You can endow your gods with any attributes you may desire as long as you are logically consistent in their application. Any gods that would purposefully create *this* world of morbid depravity in which to place their “greatest” creation with the prospect of a large percentage of that flock being denied the “still small voice” and thus are to be tortured for all eternity, are not ones to be revered as infinitely loving, caring, forgiving, but are ones to be reviled as hateful, blood thirsty and evil. We do not insist your gods act in accord with our moral views. You can make them as evil or loving as you so desire. But, if you insist your gods are responsible for this world and all that’s in it then we will judge them according to the realities we find in this world. If you insist that *your* gods created this world in these terms then you must accept that your gods are the greatest evil in the universe. Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Thugpreacha Member Posts: 13375 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction . "~Thugpreacha You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
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jar Member Posts: 31771 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 2.6
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Exactly. Humans understand that it is a fable and the whole point has nothing to do with creation or god. It is a creation fable, one of two mutually exclusive and contradictory creation fables found in Genesis.
The authors were certainly smart enough to know they were writing Fables. The purpose of Genesis 1 is to establish the sacred week and the Sabbath just as Genesis 2&3 is a fable to explain the transition from the older carefree hunter gatherer society to the later agrarian society, why we fear snakes, why unlike the other animals we make and wear clothes, why child birth seems more difficult and painful for humans than for the other animals and most importantly, why the man takes precedent of the woman. All these are patently obvious yet what you call mainstream Christianity does not bother to educate believers about what is actually written. AbE: Or if the Bible is God Breathed then it seems that God was just not very bright. Edited by jar, : hit wrong key Edited by jar, : see AbE:
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Thugpreacha Member Posts: 13375 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
You say that the story has nothing to do with God, but what good would it do to establish a sacred week was God not the source of the sacredness?
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction . "~Thugpreacha You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
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