no choice in the matter. Would that be better than a slight doubt of not existing like it is now? Oops, I mean the absolute knowledge of it like you have. My bad.
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If he lived on Earth there would be evidence. Evidence is all we ask. Falsifiable evidence that is.
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If a god was to present itself so that there was no doubt in the matter, I would believe it, nut I might not worship it. If you say I was not given a choice, well then I would fight this god with everything I had. Just because something was a god, it would not mean I would necessarily go along with it or do as it said. I have enough knowledge and wisdom to decide for myself.
I would fight any forced going along with anything like that.
And no the situation you try to present is not better. We have no evidence at all for any gods or god existing and people do real harm because of their superstitious and ridiculous beliefs. People behaving like their books are true or religious beliefs are true is responsible for wars, deaths, failure to seek medical help, prejudice.
Its hardly without severe consequences.
The idea is to not believe or act like any god or any book is true until enough evidence shows that it is. That has not happened and is very very unlikely to ever occur.
Given what we do know about the universe we do know that supernatural forces do not and can not exist.
SO what you are saying is not better, its the cause of much human misery and enormous harm, and impedes progress into things that really do help.
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I would rather have him live on Earth. That way I would KNOW for sure he actually existed. But you Christians are all the same. You believe even if I believe your "God" existed that I would worship him. I WOULD NOT. If your "God" is real, then I view him as being EVIL! Anyone who DEMANDS my LOVE and worship is not a good God. That's a tyrant. Anyone who gives me an ULTIMATIUM, where I either have to accept him or suffer. That's a terrorist. Try to think for a second. Who do we know on Earth, who uses these, JOIN ME OR DIE mentalities? Hmmm? Dictators, GANG MEMBERS, TERRORISTS!!! Giving in to your God is the same as giving in to them.. sorry but I'm too STRONG for that.
Anonymous
My Jesus did just that:
the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:
“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
Col 2:9 (NIV)
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Would such a 'God' actually fit your definition fo God? is that what a God is? a physical sentient deity, and you think he is somewhere in the heavens rather than on earth?
Quite simply, i think if you merely try to define exactly what you think god is, you will see the word just disintegrate in front of you.