I'm incompatible with the concept of faith. People can have faith there's a teddy-bear suction-cupped to the dark side of one of Jupitor's moons... Doesn't meant there is. So clearly one can have faith in things not true so using it a some reliable mechanism to determine truth is faulty.
That's the thing... Existence is tyranny. I exist, therefore I must play this ridiculous game, I can't just live my life free of judgement of some deity with questionable creation practices.
Free will, huh? You mean that rope God allegedly gives to everyone, including the ones he knows will hang themselves with it for all of eternity? Great guy! Does he give children loaded guns too?
Again, not worthy of my endorsement. I think the Bible is right about some things, but it's not THE TRUTH... I think it has elements of it. Terrible right? For thinking such a thing I should be punished for all eternity.
Every single one of us deserves death for our sins. Jesus Christ died for us so we could live.
I can't make the blind see. Only you can choose to open your heart to the truth. You clearly live with some deep hatred/disdain toward God, based on what the world has led you to believe in life, rather than who and what He actually is. If you do choose to have faith there are very real and apparent effects. And there's nothing to lose choosing to have faith in something greater than yourself or what can be proven completely and absolutely. If you're wrong you'll die and there will be nothing so it won't matter. If you're right you get eternity with your loving creator.
The last thing I'll say is there's way more evidence for God than there is for a teddy bear on one of Jupiter's moons. I came to faith through evidence I deemed enough to make that faith a valid position to hold. Though I already had a strong, spiritual I guess, draw even before I believed so my standard for "convincing enough" evidence may have been lower. It was certainly much higher than some nonsense, random, baseless claim about a teddy bear on the moon, simply reading a book and going "yea alright", or going to a church all my life and never questioning what they say.
Edit: I'd also add that the idea you take nothing on faith and are incompatible with the entire idea itself is, forgive me, but frankly laughable. Everybody has faith in something, it's part of being human. Some are better than others at managing it in the face of concrete evidence. This is true in a completely naturalistic world or in one created by God.
I'm incompatible with the concept of faith. People can have faith there's a teddy-bear suction-cupped to the dark side of one of Jupitor's moons... Doesn't meant there is. So clearly one can have faith in things not true so using it a some reliable mechanism to determine truth is faulty.
That's the thing... Existence is tyranny. I exist, therefore I must play this ridiculous game, I can't just live my life free of judgement of some deity with questionable creation practices.
Free will, huh? You mean that rope God allegedly gives to everyone, including the ones he knows will hang themselves with it for all of eternity? Great guy! Does he give children loaded guns too?
Again, not worthy of my endorsement. I think the Bible is right about some things, but it's not THE TRUTH... I think it has elements of it. Terrible right? For thinking such a thing I should be punished for all eternity.
Every single one of us deserves death for our sins. Jesus Christ died for us so we could live.
I can't make the blind see. Only you can choose to open your heart to the truth. You clearly live with some deep hatred/disdain toward God, based on what the world has led you to believe in life, rather than who and what He actually is. If you do choose to have faith there are very real and apparent effects. And there's nothing to lose choosing to have faith in something greater than yourself or what can be proven completely and absolutely. If you're wrong you'll die and there will be nothing so it won't matter. If you're right you get eternity with your loving creator.
The last thing I'll say is there's way more evidence for God than there is for a teddy bear on one of Jupiter's moons. I came to faith through evidence I deemed enough to make that faith a valid position to hold. Though I already had a strong, spiritual I guess, draw even before I believed so my standard for "convincing enough" evidence may have been lower. It was certainly much higher than some nonsense, random, baseless claim about a teddy bear on the moon, simply reading a book and going "yea alright", or going to a church all my life and never questioning what they say.
Edit: I'd also add that the idea you take nothing on faith and are incompatible with the entire idea itself is, forgive me, but frankly laughable. Everybody has faith in something, it's part of being human. Some are better than others at managing it in the face of concrete evidence. This is true in a completely naturalistic world or in one created by God.