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To: kosta50

As for atheists and agnostics, who cares!


God does.


46 posted on 01/23/2005 8:07:57 PM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
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To: Valin
God does (care about atheists and gnostics)

He does, but he will not force them to accept faith. And without faith there is no salvation. It is not God Who condmens us but we who condmen ourselves.

53 posted on 01/23/2005 9:51:41 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Valin; kosta50

As for atheists and agnostics, who cares!

God does.
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If God is undefined/unknowable etc..., as many people in this thread seem to agree, then how can we believe those who deny a belief in God if they don't know what it is they don't believe in? This is another excerpt:

But perhaps 'the Universe', as undefined by the Buddhists is 'God', as undefined by the Christian/Jewish/Islamic faiths? How can really we know? Both sides don't define what 'God' or the 'Universe' is besides to say they are indefinable!

Continuing this line of thinking, how can even atheists rationally deny a belief in God? Let's say an atheist states he only believes in Good, not in God. Well, does God come from Good or does good come from God? If Good comes from God then this can only mean that there is no such thing as an objective Good, it's merely defined by God's whim. If God comes from Good then it lowers the power of God because Good can exist without Him. Spending too long on this puzzle can soon result in brain rot, as there seems to be no solution available that satisfies the appetite of reason. The unknown nature of God, and perhaps to a lesser extent the unknown nature of Good, combine to artificially create a fallacious intellectual quagmire.


63 posted on 01/24/2005 7:28:06 AM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/blackconservatism.htm)
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