It is my considered belief that God doesn’t exist. You are free to believe what you will, as am I. I am content to know that when I die, I will wink out of existence — as will everyone else, whether they believe that or not. I find that comforting, strange as it may seem.
“It is my considered belief that God doesn’t exist.”
What considerations?
“It is my considered belief that God doesn’t exist. You are free to believe what you will, as am I. I am content to know that when I die, I will wink out of existence — as will everyone else, whether they believe that or not. I find that comforting, strange as it may seem.”
I happen to strongly believe in God and Jesus and that a glorious heaven awaits. Now, lets think this out: If I am wrong, what have I lost? If you are wrong, what have you lost?
I have to disagree with you on one point. I don’t think we are as “free to believe” as you suggest. I don’t think, at this moment, for example, that you could, if you wanted to, decide to believe in God. And those who believe cannot just decide to no longer believe.
I think belief is a process, and that we owe ourselves a self-examination about what and why we believe what we do. What do you think?
Thus not only is good and evil determined by the objectively baseless s (no transcendent material standard) moral reasoning of atheism, but according to its like jurisprudence, reward and punishment only occurs in this life, without an eternity to rectify the injustice that occurs therein (even if you disagree with that which is revealed in Scripture). Thus Hitler receives not recompense for his deeds, nor those who dies saving others from his atrocities.
I find atheists justify their rejection of the God of the Bible by arguing from a platform of superior morality, yet while not complaining about God wiping about the poor Canaanites or not wiping about modern day Canaanites today, their own moral universe is hardly comforting.
I would be curious to know how you know something that not only you haven't experienced yet, but how you obtained universal knowledge.
Cordially,
While you might say that, introspectively I believe you harbor some doubts. Every atheist does. Just as every atheist has some sort of moral code for which they have no explanation of why they feel something is right or wrong. Or something is good while something else is evil. Otherwise Gandhi was no different than Hitler. And being "content" to know you'll wink out of existence is meaningless since no one would care, least of all you.
Morality is written on our hearts and is evidence of the nature that God endowed in us. And, yes, you do have a purpose in this existence-for good or for evil.
that is actually easy to believe, therefore you have no responsibility for anything. What is more difficult to believe is what you see around you. Look into space with your eyes or through the Hubble telesope, look at the zillions of things that you see there, look at a drop of water through a microscope, look at the face of a baby, look at an earthworm, .........and all these things just happened to appear all by themselves......one day there was nothingness and "poof" the next day there is all that there is.....I couldn't even begin to imagine having that much faith....you are something special to believe that strongly.