Question for Atheists

[batnkevlar]

so how do you discern the "facts" in your mind from the fictions?
do you use rationality or other historical evidence, or is it just a feeling?

It's not what I discern as facts, i use the stories, which is what i believe them to be, to teach lessons. I don't use the bible as evidence, i do use it as a manual to be a good person...

 

[squeekness]

I can understand your confusion. Yes those things did happen in to Old Testement, and in the New Testement they don't. The reason for this is simple. God didn't change. Yes these things happened but not because he wanted them too. They happened because of leaders at the time twisting the word of God. There was a time when the average man wasn't even aloud to read the word of God for the leaders at the time said it was sinful to do so. The people relied on their leaders (religous and political) to tell them how to live. So these things happened. But once Jesus came here to tell us all we were doing it wrong things changed for all religons. Even if you were not a follower of Christ at the time you knew he was right. He came and basicly told the world that this was not his father's (his) way. It was one big slap upside the head from God saying "what were you thinking?" And the whole world changed after that. So what i am saying is God doesn't change, we do.

I can agree with this.

 

[Ring Deacon]

I can agree with this.

Thank you.

 

[Superhobo]

I don't see where you're getting that idea, and it sounds like another groping, illogical justification. Sorry.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

umm, someone that misspells "Testament"is going to tell me about the bible?

I'm sorry, but no.

 

[Dark Phantom]

Listen. I'm forced to go to church weekly. My father says "You need to have faith in your life" because he thinks I'm lost. He thinks believing in God and Jesus' teachings will give me guidance. While I respect that to any believer of christianity or other religions, I feel that i don't need to go to church in order to be a better person. It's not because I'm afraid of being accountable of my actions, but because everything that is taught in church is the basic teaching of manners that we've learned since first day at school. There is nothing that the church teaches that I haven't figured out already. And my dad's kind of a hypocrite because although he believes in having faith in god and all that, he's not any better as a person. He might believe in the teachings, but dosn't exactly follow them. But heck, we all sin because we're human. So let me just get to the point..

I don't believe in christianity but I do believe there is a God persay. I think the over exaggeration of God's almighty power over us quoted in the bible is a bunch of nonsense. I believe in the Force . You heard me. I believe in George Lucas' mythological religon of the Star Wars series. You know why? because it gives a better understanding about the world around me. We alone are capable of our actions, but there is a living force around us (while we may not see it) that binds us all together. This force is what keeps exsistence...existing! It's not an almighty god that watches over us and gives us our strength by praying to it and obeying it. It's just a force that gives life in this universe. It's what keeps rivers flowing, our bodies functioning and the world just active at work with whatever it does.

 

[SCORPINOK116]

ok, im sorry but if u cant say wats on ur mind instead of posting a freaking picture to express wat u want to say..i have no choice but to ignore it...i mean...that picture could mean any number of things...and for all i know..u mistook wat i said...wat i was basicly trying to get at is...i believe there is a god..but who is to say that he actually exists the way everyone thinks he does..i mean..who is to say that any of the bible is true...it obviously wasnt written by an actual witness of wat it claims to happend...because if it was..we wouldnt be able t read it...it would be written in some dead arkaic language that nobody has written in let alone been able to read in thousands of years..lol...i mean..i still question what the point of life is let alone wether there is a god..i mean..i believe there is a god but i still question it..because really i mean..me believing there is a god isnt technacly a belief..its an opinion..i have no actual beliefs at all..because to believe that something is true..u have to have had some kind of proof of that belief..and i have not a single bit of physical evidence that god exists other than the fact that i exist...there ya go..black and white..i exist..thats it..thats the only reason anyone believes anything about god..because if there is not god..how do we exist..wat made us...who put the first man here..why do ppl who believe so strongly in the bible judge others for not believing when the whole bible thing says that god is the only judge...the answer...ppl are hipocrits by nature..u say u believe in the bible so strongly and follow everything it says to the best of ur ability but yes u break one of the biggest rules...u judge...and god is the only judge according to the bible..so if u can sit here and bag on me for wat i say because thats not wat u believe in then u must not believe in it all that strongly...

 

[Superhobo]

There will come a day when crack gets old, you know. Just saying.

 

[Diamondhead]

God started the evolution process after Adam and eve was betrayed by they’re favorite pet in the Garden of Eden.

It was some kind of marsupial spying on them and whom reported to God that they had been eaten the forbidden fruit for quite some times (which also induced sexual intercourse as well)
And for that God rewarded it by turning him into a creature that resemble almost a human
Yes indeed, it was turned into a monkey
As God decreed that it evolution processed has started as of now
And eventually it and all of his descendent will turn into an even better human species who will eventually dominate Adam and eve’s children

And the fact that the other animals lost the Garden of Eden because of Adam and Eve’s sin
God decided to reward them as well by putting an evolution process on each and every one of them

How do I know this!?
God told me!
LOL

I’m just kidding!
Or am I!?
Really!

 

[JinnSato]

God coulda told ya this I can believe.
Or ya coulda read it somewhere.