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If GOD wants belief in him based on faith...

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  • #32
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Did you have a quick gander at the forum prior to posting?


  • #33
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Since when is answering the same questions asked three times a week religiously for the past however many years allowed to be classed as any kind of masturbation?

    Ahh I'm just bored... shoulda went out tonight.

    Think I'll just watch some Sam Harris instead.


  • #34
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Dave! wrote: »
    Ahh I'm just bored... shoulda went out tonight.

    Think I'll just watch some Sam Harris instead.

    who that?

    mind you it's bedtime for me.


  • #35
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Dave! wrote: »
    Ahh I'm just bored... shoulda went out tonight.

    Think I'll just watch some Sam Harris instead.

    Ah no, it's just the time put into replies which are ignored that bugs me - tho ye can't go wrong with a watch of SH.

    In lieu of the OP starting a similarly brilliant thread here, maybe we could start a discussion to decipher what race adam & ever were? :pac:


  • #36
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Ah no, it's just the time put into replies which are ignored that bugs me - tho ye can't go wrong with a watch of SH.

    In lieu of the OP starting a similarly brilliant thread here, maybe we could start a discussion to decipher what race adam & ever were? :pac:
    werent they Edenites?

    (though Eve came from a loin of ribbities)


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  • #37
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    who that?

    mind you it's bedtime for me.

    Writer/scientist/atheist

    Very articulate public speaker

    Looks like Ben Stiller

    All around great chap

    Fire his name into YouTube some time


  • #38
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Ah no, it's just the time put into replies which are ignored that bugs me - tho ye can't go wrong with a watch of SH.

    In lieu of the OP starting a similarly brilliant thread here, maybe we could start a discussion to decipher what race adam & ever were? :pac:

    sorry meant to say adam and eve, adam and ever sound like a gay couple, that surely wouldn't have worked out great for us.


  • #39
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    sorry meant to say adam and eve, adam and ever sound like a gay couple, that surely wouldn't have worked out great for us.
    i dunno. most gays dont like apples...so....


  • #40
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Its cool to be gay these days


  • #41
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    well, i hear the wife snoring, so its safe to go to bed*.

    nite all.


    * a joke, honest (she never snores)


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  • #42
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    werent they Edenites?

    Is that a race or a reptilian tempter's herbaceous border?


  • #43
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Since when is answering the same questions asked three times a week religiously for the past however many years allowed to be classed as any kind of masturbation?

    lake_activities.jpg


  • #44
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    Is that a race or a reptilian tempter's herbaceous border?
    it's actually a race of reptilian tempter's herbaceous boarders. though some were day students


  • #45
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    I see what you did there. :pac:


  • #46
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Am I the only one that is in awe of how cool the OP's username is? I mean...'shadowcomplex'? C'mon...that's a cool username. He sounds like a baddy out of that old Megadrive computer game 'Revenge of Shinobi'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64OP7e5JdE


    Just try and get that tune out of your head.....I dare you!


  • #47
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    then isn't it logical to asume he would make it seem from a scientific point of view he doesn't exist

    Yes. But then if God wants us to believe in him it is illogical to suppose he wants that to be based on faith, so it is some what of a moot point.

    God made us bad at personal assessment and good at empirical study. It is therefore some what oxymoronic to suppose he would choose to reveal himself in the very manner he made us bad at, since that supposes God would work against his own standards of creation.


  • #48
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    then isn't it logical to asume he would make it seem from a scientific point of view he doesn't exist
    God has created science to strengthen the faith of believers. So scientific point of view is showing his existence. Exploring science opens the door to an understanding of God that compliment scientific truth.


  • #49
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    then isn't it logical to asume he would make it seem from a scientific point of view he doesn't exist

    This makes perfect sense if God is completely insane.

    Not joking. Why would a God that exists treasure faith?


  • #50
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,595 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Zillah wrote: »
    This makes perfect sense if God is completely insane.

    Not joking. Why would a God that exists treasure faith?

    Have you never played Black and White?


  • #51
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    Pointless thread.............I fail to see how else he would achieve belief in him apart from faith??
    I'm not a christian or bible basher myself but this is a silly topic.


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  • #52
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    omen80 wrote: »
    I fail to see how else he would achieve belief in him apart from faith??

    The same way any of us make others believe we exist.


  • #53
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    Zillah wrote: »
    The same way any of us make others believe we exist.

    Didn't he do that though appparently through some guy called Jesus?


  • #54
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    omen80 wrote: »
    Didn't he do that though appparently through some guy called Jesus?

    Er, no?


  • #55
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Er, no?

    Please elaborate??


  • #56
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    omen80 wrote: »
    Please elaborate??

    What forum do you think this is?


  • #57
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    AhSureTisGrand wrote: »
    What forum do you think this is?

    I know what forum this is and I've already stated that I'm no christian. Read back to my original point...


  • #58
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    strobe wrote: »
    Am I the only one that is in awe of how cool the OP's username is? I mean...'shadowcomplex'? C'mon...that's a cool username. He sounds like a baddy out of that old Megadrive computer game 'Revenge of Shinobi'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64OP7e5JdE


    Just try and get that tune out of your head.....I dare you!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8tRQdSwLxU


  • #59
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    omen80 wrote: »
    Didn't he do that though appparently through some guy called Jesus?

    No, God appearing in the skies and announcing in every language that he is the creator of the universe would count. It would also be nice if he could, I dunno, violate the laws of thermodynamics, spell out Yaweh with blackholes or alter the universal constants as a demonstration of his omnipotence.

    The whole Jesus thing was a little ambiguous at best, y'know?


  • #60
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    Zillah wrote: »
    No, God appearing in the skies and announcing in every language that he is the creator of the universe would count. It would also be nice if he could, I dunno, violate the laws of thermodynamics, spell out Yaweh with blackholes or alter the universal constants as a demonstration of his omnipotence.

    The whole Jesus thing was a little ambiguous at best, y'know?

    I agree but you have to remember that there are people that claim to have seen him appear in the skies etc. In order to believe those people you would need to have a bit of faith first no? They would claim that just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen....


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  • #61
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    omen80 wrote: »
    I agree but you have to remember that there are people that claim to have seen him appear in the skies etc. In order to believe those people you would need to have a bit of faith first no? They would claim that just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen....
    Those people are mental.


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