No problem, apology accepted. Now please re-read my post and see if you can't find my answer...
If there is a God, (defined as the Supreme Being, Creator of all things), then there can only be One God. If there were two beings, who always existed and were equally as powerful and equally created all things, then those two beings would be the same thing. The druids were worshipping the same God, they just knew/believed different things about Him. There are 6 billion people on this earth now and approximately 100 billion have existed over the course of time. I don't find it hard to understand that all of those 100 billion people would have different beliefs/knowledge about God. But all of those 100 billion people have asked that same question that Harrington's son is grappling with right now...is there a God? Carpe Diem, Harrington...use your son's statement of disbelief in God as an opportunity to explore this most universal of questions, does God exist? He may choose to not believe in God, but he will never be able to prove that God does not exist. That quest, the search for meaning in our lives, is what life is all about. Oh, and Harrington, pray....that's what having children is all about. You probably have screwed up by not taking your son to church or discussing religion with him, but all is not lost, hell, he's only 16! And even if you had read the Bible to him daily, taken him to church everyday, and enrolled him in religious school, he still would someday probably ask the same questions he's asking now. Carpe Diem, and good luck!<!-- / message -->
I read that as you saying if there is a God there can only be one God, but nowhere do you answer the question as to why that one God is YOUR God.
For the sake of discussion I will accept the premise that there is a God and only one God, now the question again. How do you know it is your God and not any of the Gods I noted above, or Buddha, or Hindu Gods or whatever God(s) Taoists and Shintos believe in?
For the sake of discussion I will accept the premise that there is a God and only one God, now the question again. How do you know it is your God and not any of the Gods I noted above, or Buddha, or Hindu Gods or whatever God(s) Taoists and Shintos believe in?
i dont press my beliefs on no one and i do agree its wrong to do so. But at the same time how can alot of u guys say having faith in something like God is wrong. If we on this forum im assuming most of us lay bets and if thats the case u have faith that your bet would win right. Nobody knows who is going to win a game but u research make your choice and hav faith u made the right one. Am im way off on that.
I don't think anyone said that believing in 'x' is wrong, I can asure you that on the other side of the planet there is people that believes that because we dont worship 'x' we are 'bad'
however many could argue that believing in something without evidence/proof is wrong (that whole sentence can totally be manipulated by what you think its 'evidence' but I hope you know what I am talking about)
looking at history what I see wrong is what happens to people that do not agree with what the majority believe (which happens quite often)
Like I said in my original answer to you, it is the SAME God. As a Christian, I believe different things about God than a Jew or a Muslim believes, but God is the same. This little prayer from St. Teresa of Avila from the 16th century puts it quite nicely...
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are changing.
God alone is changeless.
Patience attains the good.
He who has God lacks nothing.
God alone fills all our needs.
Bescause like he said if u believe or have faith in God and believe in the meaning of God. It can only be one by definition but if im not mistaking u are asking how do he now the god he praises or believe in is that one God. The answer to that for me would be cause i believe it is but i wouldnt tell somebody who worship buddha is wrong just would say they believe something different
boy I am really counting the seconds before this thread too ends in the Polics etc room
I am going to ask something
if we were to accept that there is one god........regardless of what the polytheist religions say/believe (all those billions that believed in that for instance)
wouldnt the same message be releaved in all monotheist religions? call me crazy but there are MAJOR discrepancies among them all
Ok, you're crazy....you're also just borderline literate so I'm having trouble deciphering your question. But let me try....first of all, there is only one GOD, as opposed to one god, see punctuation makes a BIG difference! I have no idea what the rest of your sentence means, (wouldnt the same message be releaved in all monotheist religions?) But just for the sake of discussion, let's assume there are MAJOR discrepancies among all religions. What difference does that make? God has no discrepancies. Or perhaps you didn't read St. Teresa's prayer? I suggest you do!
It's wrong because you are not thinking in reality and you're taking away your focus on what you need on this earth to survive.
What if aliens came down to earth today and acted friendly. They know humans obsession with dying and their obsession with a GOD that will keep them alive somehow after they clearly have died.
Using religion as a WEAPON they simply act all nice and tell the sheep that they indeed know where GOD is and will take anyone there who wants to go. As millions apon millions go into the spaceship it's obvious that none are coming out at all. But the brainwashed humans still keep going inside to meet GOD.
Well you can see how deadly this obsession with a GOD could infact end our race completely! They could use this WEAKNESS to take our world from us without a fight.
Believing in GOD could be the humans biggest mistake because I know how screwed up the religious freaks are and they would infact kill themselves through STUPIDITY just to meet him.
And I truly expect some religious backers to tell me that could never happen. I'm pretty sure an alien race could eliminate humans with just the knowledge that we are screwed up enough to believe in things that don't exists.
Yes religion could go down as the biggest mistake humans ever made.
