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How would you respond to this argument: "Since science cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, then it's possible he exists"?
Quora.com ^ | Updated 12-10-23 | Daniel Hamilton

Posted on 12/10/2023 12:53:16 PM PST by daniel1212

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To: Sacajaweau
Your post exposes the serious limitations of human capabilities in a nutshell.

Instead of ordering your life around the rising and setting of the sun, you simply beg others to establish a totally haphazard definition of “time” to meet your needs.

And when did farmers and cows ever care what the clock was showing at any given time?

41 posted on 12/10/2023 1:36:28 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: steve in DC
Not the atheist. Nope! He has a certainty that, arguably, exceeds the belief structure of the theist!

Wouldn't be much of an atheist if he didn't.

42 posted on 12/10/2023 1:37:19 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: daniel1212

The fact the earth falls in the small ring of life distance from the sun, and the moon is the perfect size to eclipse the sun, shows the artistry to the creator.


43 posted on 12/10/2023 1:37:56 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: daniel1212

You cannot prove a negative.

Try it on any topic.


44 posted on 12/10/2023 1:38:13 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: Big Red Badger

The atheist believes in the Big Bang...
That Everything came from Nothing.


45 posted on 12/10/2023 1:38:18 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: steve in DC
The most doctrinaire is the atheist. His is the most tightly held belief. The agnostic allows for both the existence and non-existance of God. Not the atheist. Nope! He has a certainty that, arguably, exceeds the belief structure of the theist!

Indeed, that seems to be the norm, though they assert that atheism is "simply a rejection of the assertion that there are gods," in my limited experience they argue against god even as a possibility, that they could be wrong.

46 posted on 12/10/2023 1:41:58 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: MotorCityBuck; ought-six

Th only reason people claim not to believe in God is they don’t want to follow his rules.

I don’t mean it’s one of the reasons. It’s the only one. Many of these people don’t consider their own mind carefully enough to know this.


47 posted on 12/10/2023 1:42:37 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: daniel1212

There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.


48 posted on 12/10/2023 1:46:35 PM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: equaviator

Believing God is “the universe” is how people license themselves to do whatever they please. A universe-god won’t hold them accountable.

The problem with that idea is: God is not the universe. He created it.


49 posted on 12/10/2023 1:59:03 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Chode

🔝🔝🔝


50 posted on 12/10/2023 2:04:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: daniel1212

It’s easy to explain it scientifically, but much more difficult to guide people to experience God. The experience is far more important than intellectual theory.

The first step is to define, “What is God?”

I define God as any level of consciousness that exists above the level I am currently at.

My Fathers Mansion has many rooms, and each room is a different level of consciousness.

While Jesus is returning to earth, it is a lot more profound than that. Heaven is coming to earth. Just as the Lord’s Prayer states, “On earth as it is in Heaven.”

But first we will have a short period of darkness on earth. This is mentioned several times in the Bible. It is real. It’s the layer between earth and Heaven that one must go through when they die to reach Heaven.

The tunnel people speak of when they die is the portal through this layer of darkness to Heaven. The light at the end of the tunnel is the Light of Heaven shining down through the portal. The darkness preceeds Heaven arriving.

I have passed through this and entered Heaven many times, most recently in October during surgery when I left my body. I’ve also gone there many times guiding people when they die.

I call this lower level of Heaven the recycling level for souls that are growing but have not grown to transcend self or the physical body.

Death is not graduation, it is merely a semester break. Transcendence is graduation as it allows a person to move above the lower level of Heaven. Paul spoke of this Higher Heaven in Acts. It is very real.

Once you transcend your physical body with your consciousness, you become One with Jesus and Our Father. Your soul actually expands to where the entire earth exists within you. This is what Jesus experienced when He came out of the wilderness and dtsted “My Father and I are One.”

Remember what Jesus says in John 14 (My favorite chapter in the Bible,) when He say that if I am in you, (which is what communion is all about), then My Father that is in Me is also in you. These are very profound scriptures and must be understood to experience God.

I can explain the neuroscience of this process, but understanding consciousness and the anatomy and physiology of the human soul is far more important. When you raise up in consciousness and realize that Jesus is already here, the consciousness of others and the content of thrir soul becomes physical. This is how I read people’s stored memories in their soul without them saying one word.

About a month ago I had a vision where the layer of darkness came to earth, and then Heaven came to earth. I knew I was in Heaven due to both the feeling of Love and the bright Light. Everything looked brighter. All the colors were more brilliant and actually glowed. This is how they appear when you perceive with your expanded consciousness beyond your physical body.

Prayer and meditation, including inviting the Holy Spirit into yourself daily, is most important in transcending this earthly realm and experiencing God.

The Bible is very accurate. Even to the point of mentioning the weeds in Matthew 13, and the anti-messiah or false peacemaker that will soon arrive. The weeds are here now and the anti-messiah will soon be evident.

The Kingdom of God is within you.

🙏🙏🙏


51 posted on 12/10/2023 2:06:29 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: daniel1212
Properly speaking, although science can help define the issue, in current understanding, the existence of God is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. Nevertheless, current science can offer some useful insights.

Most notably, physics, the hardest and most rigorous branch of science, now contradicts the view that material existence is all that there is. Indeed, consciousness is woven into quantum mechanics, the fundamental explanation of matter and energy.

Quantum entanglement, which arises from the wave-particle duality of energy and matter, is well-recognized and firmly established. Recently, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists whose decades of work refuted the so-called hidden variable explanation for quantum entanglement. This tacitly confirms that consciousness is real.

On that basis, scrupulous atheists now have to take consciousness seriously. Like matter, it seems plausible that the realm of consciousness is organized in some manner. For humans at least, this implies the existence of a soul as well as the existence of other conscious entities -- perhaps even God as a Supreme Being.

52 posted on 12/10/2023 2:08:16 PM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: MotorCityBuck

“Anyone that tells you they “Know” is full of Sh*t.”

___________

What a stupid comment. You may believe they are, but that’s your problem not their. Keep your feces to yourself.


53 posted on 12/10/2023 2:10:51 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: FamiliarFace

St. Augustine said the same thing with his FIRST THINGS in the 4th Century, basically that “nothing can come from nothing”


54 posted on 12/10/2023 2:14:54 PM PST by Doche2X2
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To: daniel1212
If a God exists, why has He manifested himself in so may other religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism?

And why do Christians believe that their religion is the one and only and takes precedence over all the others?

55 posted on 12/10/2023 2:20:24 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (This Is The Way)
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To: null and void

But highly improbable.


56 posted on 12/10/2023 2:21:04 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: daniel1212

I have also observed that the laws of physics apply to the human soul as well.

The soul needs to take on higher consciousness to expand. Fear, anger and guilt shrink the soul.

Love is most important as it holds the two aspects of consciousness together so they can reach higher frequencies. Without Love, the human soul cannot grow.

I define “sin” as any obstacle to Love in a person’s soul. If I reach out and take hold of a person’s sin in their soul, it physically moves their body even though I am several feet away.

By the way, the soul enters at conception, as the stored memories at the edge of the new soul are the mother’s memories of her experience with the father at conception.

🙏


57 posted on 12/10/2023 2:21:23 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: daniel1212

I can’t see oxygen or clean air in general but I know it exists. I can feel it.


58 posted on 12/10/2023 2:22:29 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: jacknhoo

Such people belong to the “Flat Consciousness Society” and think the limited reality they perceive is all that exists. Most people are in this category.


59 posted on 12/10/2023 2:23:35 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Boomer

A person’s perception of reality is a function of the frequency of consciousness from which they view it.

Prayer, meditation, and the Holy Spirit raises our consciousness frequency. It must reach 40 Hz just to perceive beyond the physical body. I’ve jammed FM reveivers in meditation that are in the Mega Hz. I really don’t think their is an upper limit.

Look up Gamma frequencies of consciousness in EEG studies.


60 posted on 12/10/2023 2:27:44 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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