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Old 07-06-2012, 11:29 PM   #1
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Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

Zeus, Mohammad, Jesus...what's the difference? They're all man made. Why is it so difficult for Christians to understand this simple logic?
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Old 07-06-2012, 11:52 PM   #2
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Re: Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

Zeus is a god. Mohammad is not. Jesus? That's been debated for millenia. I'm not sure you even know what a god is.
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Old 07-06-2012, 11:57 PM   #3
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Re: Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

Does it matter? They're all man-made. Just take a step back away from your own religion for just a second. How is this complicated? Zeus was a God created by the Greeks. There are literally thousands of man-made Gods...so why does yours have any validity when all these others don't? Simple logic should dictate that all Gods must be discarded.
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Re: Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

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Does it matter? They're all man-made. Just take a step back away from your own religion for just a second. How is this complicated? Zeus was a God created by the Greeks. There are literally thousands of man-made Gods...so why does yours have any validity when all these others don't? Simple logic should dictate that all Gods must be discarded.
There is another way to look at this. Man's understanding of God is imperfect. Thus all of his depictions of God have imperfections. That does not mean there is no God.

After all, there have been many different descriptions of the electron over the years. Does that mean there is no electron?
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They're all man-made.
How can you say that with such certainty? Sounds like a belief to me, unless you can prove it.
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:33 AM   #6
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Re: Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

We have greater proof of the electron than we do of God.
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:37 AM   #7
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The electron can be seen under the microscope. Can God?
You are changing the argument of course. Your point was that the existence of numerous depictions of God was an argument against the existence of God. I assume you are now abandoning that argument.

Now we are discussing electrons. I suppose this belongs in SMP now and I am not arguing against the existence of electrons, but you actually cannot see an electron under a microscope. But of course that does not mean there are no electrons.
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:38 AM   #8
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The electron can be seen under the microscope. Can God?
Hashem ( "G-d" ) can be seen in His Creation as Shaul writes in the first chapter of his epistle to the Romans, but this "seeing" is not with eyes, but with the mind and the "Spirit of Truth".
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:40 AM   #9
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We have greater proof of the electron than we do of God.
You changed your post. I guess you realized that microscope thing was a blind alley.

You also seem to have abandoned your argument raised in the OP. Why don't you gather your thoughts and start again with a new thread? This one is not going well.
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:42 AM   #10
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Not only do you not know what a god is, you are obviously just as clueless about electrons.

You really shouldn't start a thread in which you have no knowledge of the subject matter, or knowledge of anything, obviously.
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Old 07-07-2012, 12:49 AM   #11
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Not only do you not know what a god is, you are obviously just as clueless about electrons.

You really shouldn't start a thread in which you have no knowledge of the subject matter, or knowledge of anything, obviously.
Are you a practicing theist? A physicist or someone studying physics would know something about electrons and a mathematician or someone studying mathematics something about e, but surely, a theist knows something about Hashem ( "G-d" ).
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Are you a practicing theist?
I'm an Agnostic Deist. I know a few things about belief in God.

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A physicist or someone studying physics would know something about electrons and a mathematician or someone studying mathematics something about e, but surely, a theist knows something about Hashem ( "G-d" ).
My goal is to know something about everything. The OP, to this point, seems to know nothing about anything.
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Old 07-07-2012, 01:05 AM   #13
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I'm an Agnostic Deist. I know a few things about belief in God.



My goal is to know something about everything. The OP, to this point, seems to know nothing about anything.
At least you appear to be intellectually honest.

Yes, human beings can't really see electrons and if we could, then we would see something like a probability distribution spread throughout the cosmos.
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Old 07-07-2012, 01:07 AM   #14
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At least you appear to be intellectually honest.

Yes, human beings can't really see electrons and if we could, then we would see something like a probability distribution spread throughout the cosmos.
I told him the same last night. I just hope he doesn't lose his AC
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Old 07-07-2012, 01:15 AM   #15
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Re: Why believe in one God when there are clearly many other Gods created by man?

It was only a simple question that I asked which has been completely avoided thus far.
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