Below is an excerpt from a debate I was participating in with a Protestant Christian.Prot: God created the universe from nothing. Thats what Ive been saying.
Sin: Why does the universe need a creator when God doesn't?
Prot: Because the universe was CREATED by God.
Sin: If God can exists without a creator then why can't the universe?
Prot: Because the universe was CREATED.
Sin: ...
Prot: The universe needs a creator because it was created. How hard is that? The universe can't exist without a creator because it was created.
You have to admire the circular logic.
One can only swallow it so many times before falling victim to asphyxiation.
What is good? What is bad? What is right? What is wrong?
Trifles best left to theologians and philosophers to discuss.
...to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.
One has trouble imagining anything more dishonest, not to mention despicable, than this promise.
The Bible shows God engaging in acts, that, if a man were to engage in, would be considered at minimum, sinful in nature.
Yet -- The Bible then states to emulate, and, "..Be perfect, as the Father in heaven is perfect."
Clearly, that doesn't make any sense.
Question:
How can one be perfect as God is and manage to avoid sin at the same time -- Since, by mimicking Gods acts, one would, ipso-facto, condemn oneself based on Gods own laws?
I have made the conscience choice not to marry because I have never met a woman that I could have meaningful conversation with for the rest of my life.
a·the·ist /ˈeɪθiɪst/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ey-thee-ist] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
ag·nos·tic /ægˈnɒstɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ag-nos-tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
4. asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
Definitively, I'm an agnostic. Since I'm neither convinced by A-Priori or synthetic metaphysical arguments for the existence of God, nor by the evidence educed from the physical world around us, nor by the claims made by various positive religions -- I cannot affirm the proposition, "There Is A God." This in no way implies an affirmation of the proposition, "There is no God." The means of verification seem to be unavailable to the human mind for either proposition. Therefore, I stand in a state of suspended judgement on the matter.
