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I think it is coherent in a way. But not to us.
Firstly, no it doesn't. Matter isn't the same as energy, nor is space or time. Energy has many forms but to say that everything is energy is firstly physically false because 'field theory' hasn't been proven yet.
Matter isn't the same as energy
Even if you proved field theory true, your latter statement is false as consciousness has nothing to do with whether or not the brain is made out of energy.
Are you saying that all forms of energy have consciousness as a result of them or are you saying the opposite?
If not, I don't understand how this sentence flows. How did consciousness make electricity in a cable?
How did consciousness make kinetic energy from movement?
How did everything come from nothing?
How did your god come from nothing?
If it didn't come from nothing, what is logically coherent about an entity that never didn't exist prior to its existence?
You keep saying you have absolute proof of god and souls but what is the proof? It's about educated guesses on either side. We are estimating and gambling, not directly knowing.
If you truly deeply know that God is real and if your basis is that it is simply logical, then what is logical about it?
At least explain. How are you conscious of yourself?
Why isn't your body just a puppet of the god?
What is perfect?
Just wanted to add It's always nice to see you here
First off, I appreciate that you are here to have proper conversation, and reciprocate this respect. You seem articulate, eager for a productive discussion and civil. I don't wish to turn this thread into a battlefield.
My biggest problem with God can be categorised as the "problem of evil", but it's not quite simple. If we posit the existence of a supernatural God who is bothand omnipotent,
then we must conclude that there is no unnecessary suffering at all. Take note of the term unnecessary suffering, synonymous to gratuitous evils. Unnecessary suffering is tautologically unjustified -
it cannot be explained away by a "greater good"
"free will", as that would render them justified suffering.
With these definitions, it can be concluded that, in the thiets world view, all the suffering we see around can be justified, and that, as God is all loving, every bit of seemingly "unjust" act is actually just. This is where it becomes difficult, as I can very easily point out unnecessary suffering in the world. Take a deer as an example. What good could possibly come out of a deer being squashed by a falling tree, resulting in hours of agonising pain? Why did the suffering go on for exactly as long as it did? Why didn't God shorten it for 10 seconds? Why didn't God marginally shorten the suffering? This too me seems unanswerable.
Yes.I speak to him multiple times daily, to the extent that its gone beyond knowing him as a father; he's Dad. The communication is not one-way. Not that I always have response, because I don't, sometimes. But I have had a frequency that assures me I am being heard, understood, and answered. Often, the answer is no, not now, or occasionally no, not at all, stop asking. But often enough, the answer is yes, and that agreement has often been a challenge to do more myself to serve him. And I never approach without being grateful for what I've already received. More often than not, all such communications are nothing but being grateful. I've learned to ask for nothing, and that, alone, has brought abundant blessing.
My no is as certain as the no which I give to people asking me whether there are invisible naked men dancing my room right now.
Yes. I had personal experiences that make me absolutely certain.I'd accept anyone accusing me of being an agnostic but I'm not a soft atheist, instead I'm a deist.The god I believe/know to be real is, in human psyche terms, sociopathic and apathetic. She is also rather feminine, we are here to impress and entertain her.You can think I'm insane, I accept that. I can't make you go through what I did, including clinicial depression where you screamed in your head at god to give you a reason to live and then the reasons came the next day, indisputably. You don't know my life or story, I'm telling you there's something out there and it's apathetic and sadistic but not without redeeming features. The god doesn't want us all to suffer, that's not entertaining to watch, it's more fun if pleasure and characters to root for are mixed in.Everything in reality actually fits this type of god, the rest falls into place after you first reach out and get your own answers (won't be the same as mine).
Whose GOD/GODESS/GENDER NEUTRAL DEITY?Which GOD/GODESS/GENDER NEUTRAL DEITY?What GOD/GODESS/GENDER NEUTRAL DEITY?GOD/GODESS/GENDER NEUTRAL DEITY in what format?1. An eternal floaty about, supernatural bloke/woman/gender neutral, as mentioned in archaic legends.....Is just as much the impossibility of something from nothing as everything else is.2. Alien ancestor/s....Alien ancestors are a possibility, but logistically unlikely....And are also, ultimately subject to the above limitations of 1.3. Or simply, the principle that gives material evolution purpose.....I tend to loosely run with this option.....An ongoing sequence of events, though nonetheless still subject to the ultimate limitations of 1. and 2.The fact is, no one is actually able to know or explain, how anything can exist.(We are all constrained by what we have been to conditioned to think. relative to ongoing data input, but defined to a greater extent by formative data input).And the opposite of something, is just as bewildering a thought.And personal experiences are exactly that.....Self contained, data processed responses....One thinks, therefore one is.So one thinks a GOD is, therefore a GOD is only a thought.
I DON'T KNOW:I joined this site as a traditional Christian, but, after my humiliating loss to Bones (my first debate), well, I started to doubt myself. I had never actually questioned God before, but the points against it make sense.However, there is a reason I don't personally identify with Atheism either.Death.Where do we go?There is no scientific evidence anywhere which proves where our spirits go, so the only option I can see is a deity. Or deities.So, agnostic. And until someone proves where we go when we die, I'm staying this way.
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
I have met many atheists who have disgarded atheism because of an argument
Death by the way proves evolution WRONG
Who decides what is perfect and cant be improved?
To say that God speaks by frequency of an assurance is also unhelpful. It reveals that God is unable to speak to me in my language.
Evil and suffering are not a "problem" for God- even though they appear as unfavorable conditions they are required as a means of learning from mistakes and learning about the deepest parts of our character and being.
What does the one, approaching God frequently, and having response, have to do with, and necessarily imply that God cannot speak in any language he chooses to do so.
Humans do not approach God/Universe except in a conceptual { Meta-space/Spirit-1 } way;1} concept of non-sensical mythical something { occupied space } that created itself,2} concepts of how Universe/God operates i.e. to find the physical laws/cosmic principles and the collective operational, coor-dinate system { math ergo inclusive of geoemtrty }.
Heart is that of feeling emotion...and has nothing to do with Universe/God.
Ex which if any of following to you consider perfection;
Humans do not approach God/Universe except in a conceptual { Meta-space/Spirit-1 } way;