What's So Good About Worshipping God?

Praying gives you hope, and in that, strength. Hell is far worse than Earth and many people who like not believing in God will someday know that.

[QUOTE="Zeviander"][QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"]That's your opinion, mayne.ShadowsDemon

No it's not. You can't say "In my opinion he thinks this" that doesn't make any sense.

It's not a matter of opinions it's observation.

[QUOTE="lx_theo"]And I never disputed any of those uncontested facts. I contested the fact that you know nothing of their motivations of people who can act in any way they which to be perceived. You acted as you knew one way or the other. Facts are that no one really has any idea if even Jesus wasn't just a conman who went all in. All I'm saying is that the rambling you inserted into this conversation (anything having to do with killing and reasons for being founded) are silly and largely based on nothing. Philokalia

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="Zeviander"] Sure, it's my opinion about what people have been observed discussing about their outlooks on life.toast_burner

No it's not. You can't say "In my opinion he thinks this" that doesn't make any sense.

It's not a matter of opinions it's observation.

It's times like this that I like to say "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

It gives people a sense of security and well being and comfort even within a negative situation and it provides hope. Whether that is just false hope or not remains to be seen and most probably will never be answered. I think sometimes it's better to be a nice and naive follower than a cynical, bitter Atheist. I'm generalizing of course and I suppose I fall under the agnostic/Don't care middle ground movement.

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you. Only God can judge your soul, so it is not up to me to say where you will go in the after life. But I do believe atheists and agnostics will be in the resurrection.

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you. Only God can judge your soul, so it is not up to me to say where you will go in the after life. But I do believe atheists and agnostics will be in the resurrection.

ShadowMoses900

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you.

ShadowMoses900

thank you God, for all the: rapist, paedophiles, serial murderers, drug dealers, gangsters and mafiosos etc.
that plague, HIV, cancer, lupus, the flu, lou gehrig's disease, the ebola virus, etc.
and those earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and other destructive forces of nature.

thank you for giving us the best of all possible worlds, I'm pretty sure you racked your brain pretty hard in designing this damnable existence.

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you.

SirWander

thank you God, for all the: rapist, paedophiles, serial murderers, drug dealers, gangsters and mafiosos etc.
that plague, HIV, cancer, lupus, the flu, lou gehrig's disease, the ebola virus, etc.
and those earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and other destructive forces of nature.

thank you for giving us the best of all possible worlds, I'm pretty sure you racked your brain pretty hard in designing this damnable existence.

We live in a broken world, it is hard. However because of God he gives us the strength to survive it and the free will to choose to be a good person. Many problems are a result of humans choosing to do bad and the results that come from it.

[QUOTE="SirWander"]

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you.

ShadowMoses900

thank you God, for all the: rapist, paedophiles, serial murderers, drug dealers, gangsters and mafiosos etc.
that plague, HIV, cancer, lupus, the flu, lou gehrig's disease, the ebola virus, etc.
and those earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and other destructive forces of nature.

thank you for giving us the best of all possible worlds, I'm pretty sure you racked your brain pretty hard in designing this damnable existence.

We live in a broken world, it is hard. However because of God he gives us the strength to survive it and the free will to choose to be a good person. Many problems are a result of humans choosing to do bad and the results that come from it.

We live in a broken world, it is hard. However because of God he gives us the strength to survive it and the free will to choose to be a good person. Many problems are a result of humans choosing to do bad and the results that come from it.

ShadowMoses900

If believing so helps you to live with yourself, then by all means I do not object.

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you.ShadowMoses900

I'd rather thank my parents, teachers and friends for giving me life and purpose. Not some invisible sky wizard that demands animal sacrifices because he enjoys the smell of burning flesh.Zeviander

[QUOTE="SirWander"]

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

God gives us life, He gives our lives meaning and purpose. If you do not worship God you are choosing to not thank Him for what he has given you.

ShadowMoses900

thank you God, for all the: rapist, paedophiles, serial murderers, drug dealers, gangsters and mafiosos etc.
that plague, HIV, cancer, lupus, the flu, lou gehrig's disease, the ebola virus, etc.
and those earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and other destructive forces of nature.

thank you for giving us the best of all possible worlds, I'm pretty sure you racked your brain pretty hard in designing this damnable existence.

We live in a broken world, it is hard. However because of God he gives us the strength to survive it and the free will to choose to be a good person. Many problems are a result of humans choosing to do bad and the results that come from it.

Answer me this: Is your God Omnipotent and Omniscient?

I remember studying the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses and they told me that Satan is the ruler of this world and Earth is as close to Hell as you can possibly get (pretty much is Hell). This makes sense to me since so many evil people are in power.

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"] If someone else disagrees, then it is an opinion. Simple as that. It's not science or math.wis3boi

No it's not. You can't say "In my opinion he thinks this" that doesn't make any sense.

It's not a matter of opinions it's observation.

It's times like this that I like to say "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

I remember studying the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses and they told me that Satan is the ruler of this world and Earth is as close to Hell as you can possibly get (pretty much is Hell). This makes sense to me since so many evil people are in power.

JLCrogue

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]

No it's not. You can't say "In my opinion he thinks this" that doesn't make any sense.

It's not a matter of opinions it's observation.

ShadowsDemon

It's times like this that I like to say "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

[QUOTE="Brosephus_Rex"]

I am not sure that I agree with any of the red statements w/o further elaboration - which happens to be everything that you think is my position. I do not oppose killing under all circumstances. I am not entirely certain that I am convinced that God himself necessarily killed anyone a la Sodom et Gomorrah (as I am also not convinced that the entire Israeli population was enslaved by Egyptians, for instance). I do not believe that God is immoral.

Your move.

Philokalia

Then lets suppose the bible is right, that God at certain times has killed a number of People, what is wrong with God doing so?

Provided they were, you know, murders that would make him bad by his own standards and cause a number of problems WRT divine moral authority and fvck over any notion of objective morality and such.

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

It's times like this that I like to say "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

toast_burner

well renegade you won't be able to be your own god because you are just a creature. And worshipping God in Heaven isn't as servile or dreary as you make it seem.