Hi Uncle J
Anyway, I don't want to appear to be proselytizing in my discussions with you. So I'll just say that yes, it does take a certain amount of faith to believe that there is a God. That's also what God tells us.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."
And you don't believe that.
God bless,
Ted
But maybe you saw it wrong. Maybe God doesn't let things be one way for thousands of years then changes His mind. Maybe God created this realm of existence for the life of man and what He's doing is culling out those among us who would humble ourselves before Him and believe. Then God is going make a different eternal existence for the two groups. The believers and the unbelievers. Maybe that's how God wants you to see it, and is how He explains it.That's similar to how I saw the Biblical timeline. God lets things be one way for thousands of years, then changes his mind so then it's a different way for thousands of years, only to then (thousands of years later) finally fix it all. Makes no sense.
Again, based on what really is the truth about these things. I would agree that religious beliefs don't enter into scientific studies. But I also posit then, that for the things of God, they would have no understanding.That's kind of the thing about science....religious beliefs don't enter into the equation, so if scientific conclusions conflict with someone's religious beliefs, oh well, that's their problem.
Ok.Making things one way, but doing so in a manner that makes it look like they came about another way is inherently deceitful.
If we believe the Scripture account of sin, then we know that God warned Adam and Eve not to mess with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Would that also be a turn off for you that God doesn't want you to test the flavor and pleasing aroma of that fruit?That sort of mindset is an instant turnoff for me. Any faith that says "God didn't want us to study that" isn't for me.
Anyway, I don't want to appear to be proselytizing in my discussions with you. So I'll just say that yes, it does take a certain amount of faith to believe that there is a God. That's also what God tells us.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."
And you don't believe that.
God bless,
Ted