
Originally Posted by
Darius
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Now that your responding fallacy is out of the way: I encourage belief in a personal God. It is not my place to argue against a personal God, for such matters of faith are none of my concern; for they do not affect me. I feel it my duty, however, to inform you were you're being illogical. Just because you have a personal God does not mean you must abandon intelligence to follow it.
1) Why assume God made things perfect? Perhaps, rather, he made things imperfect as a way to challenge his creation to rise above it.
I did not assume perfection from God. I recognized it. In fact my reading and thinking previous to that was that things were definitely not perfect.
He left enough ambiguity here to challenge us. Evil and sin and woes. They can and do fit within perfection.
2) Why trust your senses? It should be long proved by now that human senses are incredibly prone to self deception. Rather than assume God led you to him, you should trust in your own wisdom. If you were created by such a deity, why would he demand you rely on him for such a thing? Furthermore, why would he use such an error prone mechanism as human
feeling? Find your God in thought, not in "spirit".
Thoughts are what I used to find God. I used the word challenged above. No feeling of love involved in a challenge. I did not indicate that I believed in a creator God. He does not demand anything of me??? Did you read the above? whare did I indicate demands?
3) Why did you find God through an emotion that's very deceptive? Love is the most deceptive of all emotions.
See above. No love.
Who can say. Try anything that you would not want done to you.
5) Is it not more believable that God has remained out of human affairs, and current religions are simply attempts to find him (however flawed)? That, and through these attempts, is it not proved that they're all wrong? Christian religion, in particular, has proved bloodthirsty throughout history.
They have.
Yes , God does not interfere in the affairs of man. He does communicate with those who seek Him. He does not to my knowledge seek us.
6) Why must there be perfection at all?
It is there. Could it be otherwise, I do not know.
7) Why use the bible as a basis for your beliefs? Why not Buddhist texts? Zen? Taoism? You've simply stumbled upon your own shortcoming: The desire to believe in something.
All Bibles are good for thought. It is a matter of chance that I live in the west where Christianity is the norm.
8.) Since you claim you do not wish to debate, are you not suffering the same contradictory nature as other believers? You have clung to your belief, and will refuse to let it improve. Do you think an intelligent deity would like his creation to be bullheaded?