Does God Exist?

Theland | 05:31 Sun 15th Oct 2017 | Society & Culture

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YouTube - William Lane Craig - Five Reasons You Can Believe God Exists.

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jordyboy14

I find it difficult to discuss politics and religion as I don't know much about either of them you can go round in circles getting nowhere and loose friends so I am asking if God exists why is there so much death an destruction in his or the other Gods name

maggiebee

Sorry you find my attitude condescending Nailit, it's certainly not meant to be. I pray for all my family and friends every week and, as I consider that I have some friends on here, I ask for health and happiness for all AB members.

douglas9401

Well Maggie, the health and happiness must be getting through in mysterious ways judging by some of the tales that appear.

Old_Geezer

Why wouldn't there be death and destruction, and why wouldn't various groups blame the deity of their choice ?

Theland

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Maggie-good to know I am not alone. X

naomi24

Theland, //Maggie-good to know I am not alone. X//

Why are you grateful for such tenuous endorsement when you’re convinced you have an almighty God on your side?

Deskdiary

No, god (I refuse to use a capital G) does not exist, and the very premise that there is a god is just so fantastically absurd that you have to question the sanity of those that do believe.

There is an equal amount of evidence in the existence of leprechauns as there is in the existence of god, and yet if I swore blind faith in the existence of them I would be a laughing stock and probably carted off to the looney bin, and yet those that believe in god demand that we respect their faith.

Am I the only one that finds this odd?

Don't even get me started on schools teaching the existence of god as though it is fact rather than as merely a faith........

MallyJ

A human invention to explain things they didn't understand and to keep people in the lower orders content with their lot with the promise of heaven or the threat of hell. Really rather like fairy tales designed to frighten children into good behaviour....

Theland

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Any good scientist should follow the evidence and disregard their own biased opinions. Try it. It won't lead you to atheism and evolution. The high priests of atheism, de Grasse Tyson, Hawking, Dawkins, Krause, and company, do not stand up to objective scrutiny.
Your eternal life depends on the truth. Find it.

jourdain2

Well, I believe in God (do not try to suck me into your branch of religion, Theland). It is a good way to live my life - and I'll find out if I were right or not eventually. I don't need reasons. You know - or you don't.

Theland

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I have nothing to prove.

nailit

Theland, ive viewed dozens of WLC youtube vids/debates. The mans a looney tune and easily refuted every time. I saw one some months ago where he actually stated that animals don't feel pain. Now THAT made me realise what a nut case he really is. Id take Dawkins over him anytime.

Mamyalynne

Does God Exist?

There's a simple response to that :

To some, yes - to others,no.

Believe as you will and be content.

andy-hughes

Theland and Goodlife may not be the same person, but their approach to the Answerbank is exactly the same.

They post a question, and then, after a few answers, they respond, always in the same way every single time.

People like T and G ask questions, but they don't actually want any answers.

Answers offer a point of view, a belief, an argument, a debate, a choice, and they don't actually want any of those things.

What they want is a chance to tell everyone why they are right, and we are wrong.

The revel in their arrogance, pitying anyone who thinks differently, and ladling on their pseudo-compassion for our stupidity, and they wring their hands with the hope that we will join them in their potty fantasies of afterlife and redemption.

So when, as they do regularly, one or other of them ask if God exists (don't they know?) the best answer is one of these -

A. Yes.

B. No.

C. Oranges and lemons.

D. Wibble.

It matters not what you say they don't listen and they don't care.

All you have to do is work out how much time you are willing to waste posting on their pointless threads, and offer that up, and then get on with your life.

nailit

That sounds about right A-H ;-)
With that in mind I'm going to go for D). WIBBLE every time from now on...

naomi24

andy-hughes said //What they [Theland and Goodlife] want is a chance to tell everyone why they are right, and we are wrong.//

… but that’s incorrect. They don’t tell us ‘why’ – they simply tell us they are right and we are wrong.

As for Theland’s video, the five reasons given there are:

1. God is the best explanation of the origin of the universe.
2. God is the best explanation of the fine tuning of the universe for intelligent life.
3. God is the best explanation for the existence of objective moral values and duties.
4. God is the best explanation of historical facts concerning Jesus of Nazareth.
5. God can be personally known and experienced.

There is no ‘why’ there – simply a list of statements founded on the assumption that the creator was the God of Abraham, an impotent, controlling, spiteful creature whose virtuous reputation among the faithful far surpasses the evidence offered by the bible. In short, we’re being told, quite irrationally, that since there is no definitive explanation for the origin of the universe, of the thousands of Gods of the ancients, and of the many, many, varying accounts of creation, that specific ‘God’ was responsible. By the way, with regard to number 4 on that list, there are no historical facts. If there were, the argument relating to the existence or otherwise of Jesus would have been resolved.