Does God Exist

[locust]

atheists have their own Theory .Which is their god .But he does not give any good explanation about their Theory.
Why do many people think the Many Bible is amiss or just a book of stories.
Many people believe in a Supreme being but they can't believe in a god.???
Belief in a Creator Because Bible prophecies have been so exact, critics have branded them as deceptions, that is, history written after the fact and disguised as prophecy. But how can one rationally assert that Jewish priests would dare to invent a prophecy? And why would they invent prophecies that contained the hardest diatribes imaginable against themselves? (Isaiah 56:10, 11; Jeremiah 8:10; Zephaniah 3:4) In addition, how could an entire literate nation, trained and educated with the Bible as its sacred text, be taken in by such a hoax?​—Deuteronomy 6:4-9.

[Atheist]

Khandro;
"For example the 'law of Gravity' is contingent because it depends on physical mass, remove that & there is no gravity, (that's why astronauts in space float about)."
Astronauts in space do have mass and they don't float around because there is no gravity. Wherever you are in the universe you are affected by gravity. Can you explain your sentence a bit more? I masy be misunderstanding you.

[Khandro]

OK, the gravitational pull gets weaker the further away from earth you go, as you get closer to Mars its gravitational pull increases, but really everything is attracted to everything else to a greater & lesser degree.

In fact, it supports my point that in the material word everything is contingent, it was the first example I could think of, - & not very well explained.

[Atheist]

Khandro; Does contingent mean that there is a cause for something. Are you using the argument for God from first cause?

[Khandro]

One of the basic tenets of Buddhism is the concept of interdependence which says that all things exist only in relationship to others, and that nothing can have an independent and autonomous existence, everything is contingent on something else.

I was simply emphasising this in relationship to the material world, but what we have to ask is, to what end and for what reason are we part of it. That is where for me materialism ends & all religions start.

[Zacs-Master]

'for what reason are we part of it'

maybe there isn't a reason, Maybe it's just chance.

[naomi24]

Khandro, why assume there is a ‘reason’ we’re part of it? Perhaps we just ‘are’ because nature just ‘is’.

[Khandro]

If you are content with seeing yourself as a complete accident in a meaningless universe, who am I to stop you ?

[Zacs-Master]

Quite content with that.

[naomi24]

Why do you regard yourself as something special, khandro?

[Khandro]

We're all special naomi, but we have dissimilar outlooks.

[Atheist]

Khandro; Can you imagine for just a few seconds that it is possible that there really is no creator? Would that make you feel that your life is meaningless, and that you are worthless and that there is no point in living? Or would you carry on acting and feeling as you feel now?

[naomi24]

Why do you think we’re special, khandro?

[archibaldy]

Atheist: //imagine … there really is no creator? Would that make you feel that your life is meaningless, and that you are worthless and that there is no point in living? //

A lot of religious people would feel that way to some degree I think. It’s tied in with a feeling of self importance and worth, that the master of the universe cares about them specifically. It’s an alluring hook to be fair.

[Khandro]

Atheist; I don't know what you mean by "creator".

[Zacs-Master]

You know, Khandro, the one who makes you feel less like an accident and part of a more meaningful universe.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - You are one of any number of people who need and take comfort from the notion that you are created by a superior being, and are beholden to him for your life here, and beyond.

I accept that about you, and have for a very long time.

All you need to do is have the respect to accept that I, and a number of others on here, have no need of that comfort, and do not share your need, or your desire to share it.

Maybe something for you to think about.

Experience tells me that I am not going to be successful in that notion.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //Atheist; I don't know what you mean by "creator". //

You know very well what he means. You're being deliberately awkward again.

[archibaldy]

// I don't know what you mean by "creator //

Genesis 1:1

[Khandro]

n. 'Creator' isn't part of my vocabulary, either in this context or any other. In over 20,000 AB posts, I haven't used it once.

[naomi24]

You know what Atheist means, khandro.