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Originally Posted by Polybius  Agnostic or Atheist...or maybe theist. Which to choose..I'm probably the most neutral you can get. It's hard to decide what to really believe in since i must admit i don't know. I used to believe in a God but i lost my faith. I became an agnostic and realized no one really knows. Then i contemplated..Why is there a God? Why did people come to realize there has to be something more out there?
Firstly how do you define 'God'? The omnipotent. Most merciful.
What really is a God? He is not an infinite being who created the Earth or Adam and Eve. He does not reside in his kingdom in heaven. So what is God? God is merely a thought. A part of culture. Knowledge. Language. Information. God was created by Man and God's birth date is the day Humans invented the word God. Before our time, millions of years ago, there were dinosaurs. Did the dinosaurs believe in God? Very doubtful. God literally did not exist in those times, not until Humans invented such an idea. There was no need for a God so such a being did not exist. For 13,7 billion years the concept of God did not exist. Not until very recently.
So the fact is that we created God. Does this not prove that he is just a part of our wild imagination? |
Thanks Polybius,and welcome to the forum,I remember an argument years ago when some professor "proved" that we are really not here! God is a reality thats exists whether
we know about it or not,that we are here or not here is by its nature irrelevent.
regards michael.