Does God exist

Yeah i mean most of the serial killers aren't even discovered lol. Incarnation doesn't exist if it actually did then it would have been common. I mean what will be after death for them nothing just like you guys believe that no god exist. You can't prove something where we don't have the knowledge. What happened before big bang? What happens after death if don't believe in god? Nothing?

 

Yes, but "God may have done it" is also a good answer. "God didn't do it", or "There is not God" is not.

 

I do not believe you have that evidence. I am glad you are not on my jury. Regardless, it is your journey.

 

You miss my point. I'm not asking you to believe. You've admitted that there are a ton of unknowns. To me, that means it's silly to conclude.

And besides, I do believe in Santa Claus. I really do. Probably not the same way you are thinking, but Santa is most definitely real.

 

So you watch porn and wear a sex toy but proselytize the virtues of god. That's not backwards or hypocritical at all

 

You assume that "exists" means something exists in the physical world and not in some spiritual and emotional space. You are pretty limited with that way of thinking. So much good has been done in the spirit of Christmas. Although Christmas marks the birth of the Christian "son of God", in the secular world, Christmas is a time of joy, forgiveness, hope, love, and a ton of other things. Santa delivers those messages to a vast number of people every year. Santa can and does bring me to tears. You can mock, but that mocking illuminates a very lonely place.

 

I didn't bring up the word "reality". The word was "exists". Which the Cambridge Dictionary defines as:

So, when I say Santa "exists", I'm correct. Santa has the ability to be known, recognized, and understood.

 

Have fun.

 

I agree with all those thoughts (apart from there being an afterlife, that's so improbable I disregard it as a possibility). I also believe that there absolutely no need to believe in a god or follow a religion to lead a good life. So, I live life that way.

 

The bbc whom I'm legally obliged to fund for having my ps5 screen is supposed to be asking questions on my behalf.
1. Did you you vote for them?
2. What did you expect to happen?
They're open questions and I would appreciate open answers to them.

 

Delete open answers. I would never put conditions on a question I asked.

 

One thing that is often not considered is to remember that while God is in charge he’s not in control. If he was there would be no murder, suffering, or free choice.

 

You still miss the point. God gave us free will. He may be omnipotent but not every text claims that. It is more that he is the creator. The clock maker per se.

God put the tree there and he gave us the ability to discern good from evil. With that discernment is the right to make bad choices. There are also so many examples in the bible, too numerous to bother disputing your statements. We've got Moses, Noah, Jonah, New Testament, Old Testament. No where in any of it is ever the statement that God will stop evil in its tracks. God is there to help. But evil exists. It always has. Using the fact that evil exists therefore God doesn't is just a leap too far.

 

I agree, if there is evil it is only there because a god created it, therefore the existence of evil in this universe is proof that god exists.

God created man in his image, and man can be evil, so god created evil in his image. All evil exists because god created it. Therefore god must evil. Further, if evil exists then then god must enjoy it, since he has the power to change it.

God told us how to worship him and what to do and not to do, god only exists because people continue to do what he said, how he said it. If everyone just forgot about god and stopped being such little bitches, then god cease to exist.

 

Well, I think you would have to show studies rather than throw something like that out there with no backup. I highly doubt there is a negative correlation. What you are probably seeing is that western societies have high crime rates. Maybe there are indigenous tribes that are not theistic, and have low crime, but that is not scientific. There are a million of other factors at work than whether the society is based on religious principals or not.

But let's play with your hypothesis a bit. Say societies that believe in God exhibit more crime. What that may be saying is that the devil likes to play in the same sphere that God does. You may say, that proves your point. But does it. In this simple exercise, you are measuring crime (or evil), you are not measuring good. You might rejoin, well, what good is good if it invites evil. That's a totally different discussion.

My point is, it's not as simple as you state.