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originally posted by: GetHyped
originally posted by: UB2120
How does any of that list disprove the existence of God?
Which one? They can't all be real.
Any argument you make for your god I can make for any of the many other gods people have invented. Any argument you make against any of these other gods I can equally make against yours.
originally posted by: UB2120
There is only one God.
originally posted by: GetHyped
originally posted by: UB2120
There is only one God.
So says you.
I Posit that there are many gods. Who are you to suggest otherwise? Every argument you use to validate your personal god can equally validate my many gods. Who are you to denounce the polytheistic belief of others?
originally posted by: Fingle
a reply to: UB2120
Apollo, Athena, Dionysus, and Zeus many one god. Or just one Judaism, Christianity, and Islam more polythéisme or one monotheistic but many or none ever absolute…………..
(Otto), the Form of the Good (Plato), the Mystery, the Ultimate, the Ground or Urground ("Original Ground"), is the concept of an unconditional reality which transcends limited, conditional, everyday existence. The manifestation, creation, of the Absolute has been described as the Logos or Word or World, the Ṛta or Ratio.
It is sometimes used as an alternate term for the more commonly used God of the Universe, the Divine or the Supreme Being ("Utmost Being"), especially, but by no means exclusively, to express it in less personal and more impersonal representations. The concept of the Absolute may or may not (depending on one's specific doctrine) possess discrete will, intelligence, awareness, or a personal nature. It is sometimes conceived of as the source through which all being emanates. It contrasts with finite things, considered individually, and known collectively as the relative. This is reflected in the name's Latin etymology absolūtus which means "loosened from" or "unattached" (from a subject-object dualism).
en.wikipedia.org...(philosophy)
Acutely, belief is the core of existence the solid form of matter surround, be it religious or other, only the belief in... construct yearning... forms the consolation to bring into form...... be-little or be-large is dogma, only form, is the question of how you wish to form I you is pole of stimulation reality scope of immersion within to output stimuli for furtherance of all absolute.
originally posted by: SuperFrog
a reply to: UB2120
Your view of God is not different then any other religious folks view - you have idea - belief - nothing more.
In the end, you might hope, just like rest of religious world - that you are correct - and in the end that would make everyone else wrong - just like all other religions.
Nah, as far as science, world we live in today and our future and past are concerned - there is no need for a God. (unless you believe in Thor of course, like my 5 year old )
originally posted by: UB2120
It is more than just an idea or belief, it is an experience. Religion lives and prospers, then, not by sight and feeling, but rather by faith and insight. It consists not in the discovery of new facts or in the finding of a unique experience, but rather in the discovery of new and spiritual meanings in facts already well known to mankind. The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and purely mystical emotions. It is, rather, a profoundly deep and actual experience of spiritual communion with the spirit influences resident within the human mind, and as far as such an experience is definable in terms of psychology, it is simply the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God as the reality of such a purely personal experience.
originally posted by: UB2120
To the unbelieving materialist, man is simply an evolutionary accident. His hopes of survival are strung on a figment of mortal imagination; his fears, loves, longings, and beliefs are but the reaction of the incidental juxtaposition of certain lifeless atoms of matter. No display of energy nor expression of trust can carry him beyond the grave. The devotional labors and inspirational genius of the best of men are doomed to be extinguished by death, the long and lonely night of eternal oblivion and soul extinction. Nameless despair is man’s only reward for living and toiling under the temporal sun of mortal existence. Each day of life slowly and surely tightens the grasp of a pitiless doom which a hostile and relentless universe of matter has decreed shall be the crowning insult to everything in human desire which is beautiful, noble, lofty, and good.
originally posted by: UB2120
But such is not man’s end and eternal destiny; such a vision is but the cry of despair uttered by some wandering soul who has become lost in spiritual darkness, and who bravely struggles on in the face of the mechanistic sophistries of a material philosophy, blinded by the confusion and distortion of a complex learning. And all this doom of darkness and all this destiny of despair are forever dispelled by one brave stretch of faith on the part of the most humble and unlearned of God’s children on earth.
originally posted by: UB2120
This saving faith has its birth in the human heart when the moral consciousness of man realizes that human values may be translated in mortal experience from the material to the spiritual, from the human to the divine, from time to eternity.
originally posted by: UB2120
There must be perfection hunger in man’s heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment. If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.” But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay in the progressive journey toward perfection attainment. Childlike trust secures man’s entrance into the kingdom of heavenly ascent, but progress is wholly dependent on the vigorous exercise of the robust and confident faith of the full-grown man.
originally posted by: UB2120
The reason of science is based on the observable facts of time; the faith of religion argues from the spirit program of eternity. What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation.
originally posted by: SuperFrog
Wait a second, while trying to separate your religious belief from Christianity, you still like to hold on God's sun - Jesus?!
Jesus teaching, yet we really have no idea if he even existed, nor if he did, how many of those stories were facts. Turning river into wine, walk on water... etc...
Not to mention that whole story seems plagiarized from Krishna story from Hinduism.