The church itself doesn’t worry me. There is value to some religious practices as they have the structures to grow people spiritually through teachings and community. The BIG problem with most churches and religions today is the corruption within them and the watered down scriptures. You are lucky to find one that is true to God and won’t lead you astray. You’d have much better luck if you try and find God on your own.
That's why we're better off being atheists. Dismiss everything. Then, when God comes along wanting to know why we dismissed him, show him the clusterfuck of belief systems, each more bizarre than the last. If he was a reasonable God, then he would understand.
How will you recognize God as an atheist if you do not believe in him? God could be standing right in front of you and you would reject him because the atheist belief system in your mind does not accept his existence. First step to meeting Chris is to believe he is real. We may be better off or not worse off as atheist than being religious - but only for a short time to experience life outside Gods real while we still remember what it was like with him. Sadly most don’t get to experience both sides and are only served one extreme. I grew up with an atheist mindset myself and always felt “blank”. Only since I’ve found Jesus do I feel whole and as if I finally understand what I was looking for all along. With Him I feel at peace within myself. We absolutely need Jesus. But we don’t necessarily need religion to find him was my points
That's actually a very good question. What would it take to convince an atheist that something is God as opposed to some other explanation? I don't think it's possible to get that answer. There is always an alternate explanation in simulation theory. The holy spirit could just be a drug trip. There is always some alternate explanation, and so it's futile to even attempt to know whether or not God exists. That doesn't mean we should stop looking. Maybe we can know whether or not it's the alternate explanation.
Do you think that atheists have to actively reject some belief in a god/gods? That the human brain is automatically pre-set to believe in a God (we'll obviously go with Christianity here) and atheists are just being contrary?
Every atheist I know (and I know many) wouldn't have any trouble in believing in a god if they met them in the afterlife. If there was clear evidence that a god exists, such as being in their actual, physical presence (even if it's in the afterlife).
I'm curious to know how many atheists you know personally. What are you using as a basis for what you believe atheists think and what they would do in those situations? Have you sat and talked with them about their opinions on the matter?
I absolutely believe that some atheist will have such a closed mindset that it doesn’t allow for the existence of God. I was not talking about the afterlife - when your soul is freed from the mind prison. I’m talking about here and now. Would an atheist recognize the presence of God? I don’t believe they all would. Perhaps some if they have know ln God before becoming atheist but for those who never have I don’t believe they would. As I’ve mentioned I myself grew up with an atheist mindset. I had a remarkable spiritual experience in my 20s which sparked the beginning of a very long awakening. It wasn’t until another 20 years later once I accepted Jesus as my savior that I finally realized it was God who had stood before me in my 20s trying his very hardest to wake me up and guide me on the right path. He had looked with his eyes straight into mine and yet I did not understand who he was. 20 years it took me because of my small closed mindset. Had I only known Jesus was real I could have believed it then but it apparently took me two decades, a pandemic and an election steal (2020) to bring me to my knees and surrender to Jesus Christ. I also had never before then heard the Gospel and once I did it unlocked my mind. The Great Awakening truly is biblical.
The church itself doesn’t worry me. There is value to some religious practices as they have the structures to grow people spiritually through teachings and community. The BIG problem with most churches and religions today is the corruption within them and the watered down scriptures. You are lucky to find one that is true to God and won’t lead you astray. You’d have much better luck if you try and find God on your own.
That's why we're better off being atheists. Dismiss everything. Then, when God comes along wanting to know why we dismissed him, show him the clusterfuck of belief systems, each more bizarre than the last. If he was a reasonable God, then he would understand.
How will you recognize God as an atheist if you do not believe in him? God could be standing right in front of you and you would reject him because the atheist belief system in your mind does not accept his existence. First step to meeting Chris is to believe he is real. We may be better off or not worse off as atheist than being religious - but only for a short time to experience life outside Gods real while we still remember what it was like with him. Sadly most don’t get to experience both sides and are only served one extreme. I grew up with an atheist mindset myself and always felt “blank”. Only since I’ve found Jesus do I feel whole and as if I finally understand what I was looking for all along. With Him I feel at peace within myself. We absolutely need Jesus. But we don’t necessarily need religion to find him was my points
That's actually a very good question. What would it take to convince an atheist that something is God as opposed to some other explanation? I don't think it's possible to get that answer. There is always an alternate explanation in simulation theory. The holy spirit could just be a drug trip. There is always some alternate explanation, and so it's futile to even attempt to know whether or not God exists. That doesn't mean we should stop looking. Maybe we can know whether or not it's the alternate explanation.
Do you think that atheists have to actively reject some belief in a god/gods? That the human brain is automatically pre-set to believe in a God (we'll obviously go with Christianity here) and atheists are just being contrary?
Every atheist I know (and I know many) wouldn't have any trouble in believing in a god if they met them in the afterlife. If there was clear evidence that a god exists, such as being in their actual, physical presence (even if it's in the afterlife).
I'm curious to know how many atheists you know personally. What are you using as a basis for what you believe atheists think and what they would do in those situations? Have you sat and talked with them about their opinions on the matter?
I absolutely believe that some atheist will have such a closed mindset that it doesn’t allow for the existence of God. I was not talking about the afterlife - when your soul is freed from the mind prison. I’m talking about here and now. Would an atheist recognize the presence of God? I don’t believe they all would. Perhaps some if they have know ln God before becoming atheist but for those who never have I don’t believe they would. As I’ve mentioned I myself grew up with an atheist mindset. I had a remarkable spiritual experience in my 20s which sparked the beginning of a very long awakening. It wasn’t until another 20 years later once I accepted Jesus as my savior that I finally realized it was God who had stood before me in my 20s trying his very hardest to wake me up and guide me on the right path. He had looked with his eyes straight into mine and yet I did not understand who he was. 20 years it took me because of my small closed mindset. Had I only known Jesus was real I could have believed it then but it apparently took me two decades, a pandemic and an election steal (2020) to bring me to my knees and surrender to Jesus Christ. I also had never before then heard the Gospel and once I did it unlocked my mind. The Great Awakening truly is biblical.
Source; “I was once an atheist”.