Does God exist?

[striker]

Now I understand why you need god.

You can't understand what I was talking about.

no. do you? please explain.

 

[striker]

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."?

right

So, when your heart stops and your brain dies a few seconds later, god lets you have 42 virgins?

Or have I got that a bit wrong?

don't know you'll have to ask a muslim about that.

 

[Jaded]

good question. Jaded seemed to think that the primordial mess that the universe was created from was a butterfly that evolved from a caterpillar.

"How about the primordial mess is a bit like a butterfly.

Before the mess it was a caterpillar. Then it all got mashed up and made into a butterfly."

Now i kind of find that hard to believe.

Yes. You are right.

It is actually easier to believe that there is a god(s) that makes us go to war and kill people, burn others at the stake, cut foreskins off, blow ourselves up, tax everyone to penury so we can build lovely houses for bishops and big stone columned god houses to bend down in, lock the swings up on a Sunday, divide Ireland into two.

I agree. Caterpillars are quite mad compared with the total, absolute and complete sense of religion.

 

[Jaded]

right

don't know you'll have to ask a muslim about that.

So - is their god your god? And if not, why not. Did their god make the world, or was it yours? How did you decide which god made the world?

Did they arm wrestle?

Sniff each other's farts?

 

[Noodley]

So - is their god your god? And if not, why not. Did their god make the world, or was it yours? How did you decide which god made the world?

Did they arm wrestle?

Sniff each other's farts?

d'ya want that bacardi breezer yet...

 

[spandex]

good question. Jaded seemed to think that the primordial mess that the universe was created from was a butterfly that evolved from a caterpillar.

"How about the primordial mess is a bit like a butterfly.

Before the mess it was a caterpillar. Then it all got mashed up and made into a butterfly."

Now i kind of find that hard to believe.

Ok????? I still think that my mum went to the shop to buy me from my dad??

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."?

So, when your heart stops and your brain dies a few seconds later, god lets you have 42 virgins?

Or have I got that a bit wrong?

No No your right

So let me get this right.......





When I die I get free beer and 42 virgins I cant wate its going to be grate fun.

 

[striker]

Yes. You are right.

It is actually easier to believe that there is a god(s) that makes us go to war and kill people, burn others at the stake, cut foreskins off, blow ourselves up, tax everyone to penury so we can build lovely houses for bishops and big stone columned god houses to bend down in, lock the swings up on a Sunday, divide Ireland into two.

I agree. Caterpillars are quite mad compared with the total, absolute and complete sense of religion.

As posted earlier

"It’s when we don’t know something that we create something else to combat our blatant misunderstandings. Atheists look to organized religion and say, what a bunch of bull. I look at organized religion and for the most part completely agree with the atheist. The God I serve is not about religion, rather He is about true relationship and utter dependence upon Him."

 

[striker]

So - is their god your god? And if not, why not. Did their god make the world, or was it yours? How did you decide which god made the world?

Did they arm wrestle?

Sniff each other's farts?

a touch disrespectful i feel.

i am not in any position to judge other faiths beliefs. personally, yes I think it was the same God. Muslims and Jews and Christian all share the same orignal God. The question, as I see it, is the way we should react to the person of Jesus.

 

[Jaded]

As posted earlier

"It’s when we don’t know something that we create something else to combat our blatant misunderstandings. Atheists look to organized religion and say, what a bunch of bull. I look at organized religion and for the most part completely agree with the atheist. The God I serve is not about religion, rather He is about true relationship and utter dependence upon Him."

However, you cut 'n pasted that.

Too many 'z's.

 

[striker]

However, you cut 'n pasted that.

Too many 'z's.

i know. i referenced it on page 3. and said it wasn't my words. doesn't mean i don't agree with it.

 

[Jaded]

a touch disrespectful i feel.

i am not in any position to judge other faiths beliefs. personally, yes I think it was the same God. Muslims and Jews and Christian all share the same orignal God. The question, as I see it, is the way we should react to the person of Jesus.

How can you not judge other faiths when they are so different?

If the Muslims share your God, why is their religion so different? Surely they should also have dull church services with a choice of

a) big throbbing organs
sandals and a guitar

?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

what was there before the beginning of everything?

Nothing, obviously. Or to put it another way ... if god created the world and everything in it, who created god?

 

[striker]

How can you not judge other faiths when they are so different?

If the Muslims share your God, why is their religion so different? Surely they should also have dull church services with a choice of

a) big throbbing organs
sandals and a guitar

?

i see you've been to my church

 

[Jaded]

 

[striker]

Nothing, obviously. Or to put it another way ... if god created the world and everything in it, who created god?

that is a question. i have no idea. but how did nothing become something? that is the bigger question.