Thread: Atheists

Originally Posted by yrogerg123

If that's the case, why should we worship that god or even care that he exists? For a while I took God to mean the force that created the universe and designed it with the physical attributes such that life could exist. I don't necessarily discount the possibility, but ultimately I fail to see how that is different than no God at all, with the universe being created spontaneously and randomly.

I don't know. You're narrowly defining what God means, then rejecting the definition as unsatisfactory. How did you come to this conclusion?

Also, have you considered that maybe you cannot possibly comprehend what God really is? That it is quite literally beyond the scope of your mind, or the most educated, wisest minds on the planet?

This is the fundamental problem. In order to disprove God, we must quantify him, but if that's going to happen, what kind of measure are you going to use? What gives your measure, either original or borrowed, the power to have any conclusive say about this? I'm going to italicize this, how do you know what God is?

The image of God you presented wouldn't have me worshipping him either, for the record.

edit: oh, this is the question

Originally Posted by yrogerg123

What does god mean to a person who doesn't believe in the biblical god? Will the idea of a biblical god persist even if much of the bible is rejected?

I don't expect anybody to have those answers, just something to think about.

Well, I mean, I grew up believing in God, but I wasn't raised christian. My religious background is a hodgepodge of Native American spirituality and the Baha'i Faith. God, from what I learned, is pretty simple: un-fucking-knowable. This isn't just a "God works in mysterious ways" hand-wave, it's a definite fact - there's is something about God that exists beyond human comprehension. Maybe it's only in this phase of history, who knows.

Instead of looking at the Bible to define God utterly, look at it as a stone in a mosaic.