lightray said:
Did you have any response to my other post? .. about punishment?
Been thinking about that, all I can say is that it seems to happen with more than just coincidental regularity.
lightray said:
On what do you base this idea? Given that each religious sect, in most cases, has pretty much created their God, what's not to understand?
When you say that God is created by the religion you are by your very words deciding that you will not have an open mind about the possibility of God existing.
Or at least that’s the impression.
Hence the reason I started this thread. Non believers seem to always use language designed to denigrate the act of believing.
Why do you suppose it is, that the most rigorous thinkers in history contemplated the existence of God; without the preconceived notion that IT could not exist.
If you approach it from that perspective, requiring explanation to conform to your sensibilities, than why discuss it at all?
Why not instead focus on, Economics, Physics, Biology, or something else, equally complicated?
Why religion?
I said earlier I am not religious, but I have no doubt that the power of God is an influence in my life. So why don’t I demand that people prove that I am mistaken.
Long before the discovery of oscillating magnetic fields, people would have said it was illogical to look at a picture of something a thousand miles away. Before Einstein proved that light was bent by gravitational fields, his contemporaries said bunk.
If for some reason I an able to connect to the power of God why should it be my responsibility to make it understandable to anyone else. I might as well be describing light to blind person.
I will tell you that it is easy to discover the power.
Just seek.