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Theists - What would it take to convince you that there is no god?

What would it take for you to change your beliefs? Or are your beliefs so strong that no amount of science, no personal experiences or world events would ever change them?

Update:

This isn't meant to offend. It's an honest question. I could just as easily ask the same to atheists. What would it take for you to believe in a god?

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  • Nous
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    Sadly their conditioning makes them seek to deny, run from and hide from the truth that is never going to go away whatever they try to do!

    Academia states that in the absence of proof of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable proof is found - thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.

    The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

    There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

    There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

    He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

    Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

    Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

    At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

    The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!

    Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

    What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!

    The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!! Ain't happened yet and it never will!

    So how does this primitive belief survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth

    Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

    They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!

    Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!

    Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

    Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

    Source(s): University of Missouri-Columbia. Arizona State University
  • cubelo
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    The Bible has historic, archaeological, and prophetical witnesses, to not point out the historicity of the existence, loss of existence, and autopsy appearances of Christ. The limitless gods in history may be attributed to the actual undeniable fact that guy intuitively knows that there is a God. He knows deep in his heart that there could desire to be a God. The introduction insists that this is so (Romans a million:20, 2:15; Psalm 19). So, the persons this modern day invent this god, and the persons over in this united states create this god, and the persons in a remote tribe trend this faith. What separates those gods from the Bible's God is that the Bible is supported by using many evidences, which different religions and meant holy books have not got.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I believe in both science and the Goddess and God. I incorporate my beliefs into what's happening around me, as well as science. This is a pretty arrogant question.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    If the universe started changing at random, or even disappearing and reappearing. Or if the universe ended in heat death and that was the end of it. Or if we discovered a new kind of impersonal matter that had the property of being necessary rather than contingent.

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  • 10 years ago

    There is nothing that could convince me that God doesn't exist. God does exist whether you want to agree with that or not. Sorry but the facts are facts.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    why does what other people believe in bother you so much? you shouldn't let stuff like that get to you. the majority of them could care less about what you think of them so to be quite honest, you're only hurting yourself when you dwell on what other people do or think.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    God would have to personally come down here and say, "Nah, just foolin'!" or something to that effect.

  • 10 years ago

    the same thing it would take for you to believe in god.. evidence.

  • 10 years ago

    Answer a simple question..

    Why humans believed in God in very first instance..Is not it part of our nature. If it is part of our nature, how can it be wrong?

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