Antares 531 wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:53:26 +0100, "Bill M" <wmech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >It is amazing how people can believe in so many different gods when
there is
> >NO objective verifiable evidence that any of the gods are real. The
logial
> >evidence is that NO REAL gods actually exist except in the imaginations
of
> >the believers.
> >
> It is amazing that you or anyone else could believe that! Your belief
> is just as unfounded as any other belief.
.....anmd WHAT belief might that be?
bob
Humanist
Atheist
Sentimentalist
> >
> >If there was a REAL god he certainly would not permit all these false
gods
> >to misled his creations. There are hundreds of different god beliefs.
Which
> >one, if ant, is real? If he acually existed he could quite easely
> >communicat, directly from his heaven, that he is the real god and point
out
> >that all the others are fakes. He could easely smite all the false gods
and
> >prevent his creations from being misled. If man can communicate via
Radio,
> >TV, Cell phones etc. with the whole world, certainly real god should
have no
> >difficutly directly communicating with his creations.
> >
> Or, God could be "allowing" us to exercise our sovereign wills and
> test all those things that we would be curious about were we not given
> this period of "hands on" learning.
>
> Had God pre-programmed us such that we would never go against His will
> and become engrossed in the things that we are now learning about, we
> would have been nothing but a bunch of puppets. Absolute sovereign
> will and immortality make it necessary that we learn by our own
> experiences, not by some pre-arranged programming of our minds.
> >
> >No real god has ever announced directly from his heaven that he is the
real
> >god and all the others are fakes or even that the numerous variations
of
> >beliefs within his own religion are false. There are is a wealth of
> >different religious do***ents that proclaim the validity of various
Gods.
> >Which, if any, are correct?
> >
> Yes, God HAS announced to the prophets and to most of us, that he is
> there and that His program is running just as He expects it to run.
>
> The other gods you mention are indeed figments of human imagination,
> but these spates of imagination have served and still do serve a
> useful purpose in our "school of hard knocks" learning process.
>
> Just as you have learned to reject these imaginary gods, all humans
> have or will learn to reject them and embrace only the real God.
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