Dear Christian friends,
Do a word study on ‘hell’ and try to determine why Sheol / hades / Gehenna / Lake of fire have all become synonyms for “hell”
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And you will never get one.
Atheism can object to this or that argument for God, but it still has to explain why anything exists at all, why reality is intelligible, why reason is trustworthy, why moral obligation is real, and why consciousness exists. It doesn’t explain those things. It borrows them, then pretends God is unnecessary. Atheism isn’t a hardheaded view of reality. It’s the oldest lie dressed up as sophistication.
A mystery is just something we don’t correctly understand and we posit mysteries to explain things all the time. That’s what dark matter and dark energy are. Countless scientific theories had to posit a mystery because current understanding was inadequate to explain the phenomenon.
So the question isn’t “how mysterious is God,” the question is, can naturalism explain the phenomenon we see in the world? And the answer to that question is: absolutely not.
@UgoCannon Wild.
Atheist doesn't like heaven because they think they might have to play the harp forever and apparently aren't allowed to do whatever they want.
When we say "the atheist worldview" we know that atheists widely disagree on pretty much every question... except one. That one question will necessarily lead to only ONE string of entailments, not multiple. In other words, atheists are constructing their worldview without God, and without God either morality will be objective, or it will be subjective. Either determinism will be true, or libertarian free will. Either materialism or not materialism will be true, etc.
The string of correct answers to what atheism entails is what's relevant, not that atheists disagree. This string of correct answers is THE atheist worldview.
@atheistkush The premise is flawed, but unfortunately much of religion uses it as a base.
God doesn't create us and put us on earth to be punished.
We are here to experience and learn. All will be reconciled later.
If people did an honest deep dive into learning about the human body eg. Organs, muscles, ligaments, cells, DNA.....
They would abandon the idea of evolution completely and at least start asking questions like is there actually a God/Devine creator!