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Mario Chat / Re: SMB2 glitch
« on: May 31, 2010, 08:50:19 AM »
Everybody in the club is bumpin', bumpin'.*
*I hope someone catches the Destiny's Child reference.
*I hope someone catches the Destiny's Child reference.
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I imagine it would have a consciousness altering effect similar to when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Why There Can Never Be Conclusive Scientific Evidence of God's Existence
There can never be undeniable proof towards the existence of God (specifically the monotheistic Abrahamic God). The reason lies in the nature of free will and the story of Adam and Eve.
Also the question of "Why is there evil in the world, why does God allow it?" "Why do bad things happen to good people" etc., etc. is answered.
When God made the perfect land of Eden for his first humans to live in he inexplicably put in the middle of it all an evil, forbidden tree. Why? To instate free will into his humans.
God didn't want robots that loved him undeniably. If you create a creature that has no choice but to love you, does it really love you? The only way to truly love someone is it have the free will to choose to do so, otherwise it isn't a conscious choice, but just a robot following its programming.
So, God placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil into Eden so Adam and Eve wouldn't be ceaselessly loving automatons. God gave them the opportunity to screw up so they could make a conscious, free decision to obey and love him.
This is the nature of our world. God exists, but he let's injustice and evil to exist as well. He has put animalistic, tyrannical, sinful urges in us. God has done this so we can choose to hate him. So when we choose to love him it is a choice made by free will.
What does this have to do with there never being scientific proof of God?
If it were possible to prove God existed, we would all become automatons. If we saw or heard some kind of undeniable proof of God's existence we would love God without a choice. The mere knowledge of his for certain existence would strip us of our free will to either hate or love God.
Discuss.
You're saying that religion distorts the concept of heaven. I'm saying that religion makes us believe in the concept of heaven.
Also, belief is not always truth.
You appear to have plunged into philosophy bull[dukar]-speak, by the way.
The concept of the soul, self-awareness, and consciousness are valid terms for describing aspects of how it feels to be an organism and what drives organisms, but they don't exist through metaphysical or magical means.
Opium can make us perceive something that isn't really there. Religion is very similar in that it makes us perceive something that may not exist.