Woodruff wrote:zimmah wrote:funny how an old book, written by dozens of different writers in a timespan of hunderds of years, thousand of years before modern science, has never been disproven by any science, old documents or anything at all, and you still believe it's just a book written by random humans.
Do you believe that the universe is only approximately 6,000 years old?
zimmah wrote:get real.
Indeed.
zimmah wrote:i mean all lifeforms found on earth appeared 'suddenly' and not over a span of millions of years like natty said. it's not like first it started with small single cells and then more complex life evolved out of it. complex and less complex lifeforms appeared at roughly the same time.
Um...no. This is really very basic stuff that you're missing here.
zimmah wrote:if there is a god, wouldn't you want to know him?
If there is a god that refuses to show me his physical presence, why would I want to bother knowing him? If he's not demonstrably interested, why should I be?
zimmah wrote:2) you believe in god, and there is no god -> you're still happy with your life, so noone gets hurt. you may only be disappointed that there is no god, but at least you have a good life in your way.
I am living my life in a good way, regardless of whether a god exists or not. The presence/absence of religion has no affect on how I conduct myself.
zimmah wrote:3) there is a god, but you don't believe there is -> may bea very bad thing, you hurt god's feelings
Worshipping someone out of fear isn't worship. It's just fear.
zimmah wrote:so wouldn't it be at the very least be a good thing to really investigate if there is a god that cares? (if there is a god, but he doesn't care, then you shouldn't have to care either).
Investigate? If it were possible to investigate it, then I would absolutely be interested. Of course, investigation requires evidence...
zimmah wrote:Woodruff wrote:Science is VERY CLOSE to creating life, you realize...right?
that would only prove that life could not have been created without outside help, unless the scientist do absolutely nothing to help create life. otherwise they would only proof that some kind of (possibly human-like) deity would have need to existed before life, in order to start the chain of events that created life. i mean, if a scientist is needed to create life out of nothing, then the scientist
HAS A ROLE in the experiment. the only thing they can prove with their experiments, is that intelligent life is required to create life. (thus, that there MUST BE a god).
Wow...you put a lot of effort into that excuse.
zimmah wrote:it would amaze me more if they found life suddenly appearing somewhere in the universe, without human interference. (good luck with that)
That shouldn't amaze you, for several reasons. For one, it's almost a certainty that there IS life elsewhere in the universe. Secondly, are you saying that a god would be limited to only working on Earth?
no, i don't believe the universe is approximately 6000 years old, that would be stupid to believe. i also don't believe god created the earth in 6 real days, the 6 days in the bible are symbolic, in fact, there wasn't even a solar system, so there couldn't have been days until the solar system was created. so those days are nothing more then symbolic.
god does not refuse to show his physical presence, god isn't a physical being in the first place, he's a spirit, a being of dynamic energy. also, we humans are probably not even capable of seeing god without dying, he's far to divine for us mere humans. but isn't being created by him reason enough to at least listen to him? your parents earn your respect too just for the fact they are your parents, don't you agree? yet god did far more then that, he basically gave us everything we have. and he s in fact interested, why else would he sacrifice his first born to die as a human on earth, murdered as a criminal, with a corrupted lawsuit against him, if he wouldn't care for us? also, we humans are nothing compared to the entire universe, and yet god himself, and all angels, including the bad ones and the devil, care for us humans. in fact, there's a war in heavens going on, just because of humans, and you think god doesn't care? you're just closing your eyes to the truth, god does care.
living your life in a good way is always good, i don't doubt that you do, but with all due respect, if you don't understand the higher meaning of life, no matter how much good you do, you're basically nothing more then an animal, you eat, sleep, reproduce and seek shelter, just like all other species on earth. i don't mean that in an offensive way, but we humans are designed to 'need' god, unlike animals. spirituality is a concept only humans can understand, we should be grateful of that.
i don't worship out of fear either, i worship because i love god and what he done for us, and because i want to chose his side in this divine war. there's no in between, it's either you're on gods side or on the devils side. i know what side i want to be on.
the bible doesn't speak about the existence or non-existence of extraterritorial life because it doesn't matter for us at this moment of time, the earth has enough problems already anyways. and the war that is going on in heavens is about humankind, maybe god planned to make more lifeforms in the universe, but wanted to get this battle over with before continuing his work, or maybe there are lifeforms created so far away we can't get near them with our current technology, or maybe they're in another dimension we can't (yet) reach or even notice. it doesn't matter though.
also i'd like to see what science ever proved the bible wrong, as you said it did multiple times. i'm quite curious what you mean by that.
and god isn't 'just' a lifeform, he's a being of dynamic energy.