If there is a God why didn't he sign our DNA

by scotoma 153 Replies latest jw friends

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  Qcmbr

  All the gods who have ever owned the hearts and enslaved the minds of billions have asked for that which they do not need , revealed nothing beyond the science of the day, made their most important message identical to the stories of children, chosen an elect voice hearing, vision seeing, faith feeling elite to lead and have faded with the culture that created them.

  History , in this regard, teaches nothing to the dupes who fall for it time and again. A real god who was interested in humans would act differently to all human imagined gods, it would - as all rational beings do - teach the futility and danger of faith. No all powerful god wishing to communicate with another race would send fragmented babblings in dreams and telepathic Chinese whispers allowing that message to be further sophisticated by the prophets and mystics who play power games with everyone else. A real god's existence would not be in doubt and certainly wouldn't need to be proven or testified of on Internet forums or street corner soap boxes.
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  return of parakeet

  "Of course, they will say they don't believe in God at all... but it simply isn't rational, IMHO, to be angry with something... or someone... that/who doesn't exist... or to ask "why"... or opine."

  I know this is an exercise in futility ... but ...

  It's perfectly possible to discuss the idea of God and how one might react to such a concept if it were real. Dragons don't exist, but I can imagine being frightened in an theoretical encounter with one.

  Sigh.
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  Qcmbr

  As AG shows above its a power game. Visions and revelations are all about creating a pretend teacher / student relationship with them as knowledge giver. The formula is simple. Point out how some nebulous concept is understood only be the chosen few ( lets say 'love') and then point out how everyone else is in some way deficient and in need of the product being sold. As a side task frame the whole story as a them v us scenario where dark forces influence the thinking of anyone refusing to accept the false power game. Great object lesson.
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  Yan Bibiyan

  No, he didn't arise from nothing, he is from time indefinate to time indefinate, he has no beginning and no end, he is the cause of everything and nothing caused him, he just is.

  Wrong!

  Eastern religious teachings claim otherwise.

  Teachings that predate Christianity by a millenia, at least.

  Why should we believe a book of ideas that came into existence thousands of years later is the correct one?

  Here is a thought. Scientology came into existence in the deluded mind of L.R. Hubbert thousands of years after Christianity.

  Shouldn't we believe him?
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  cantleave

  God is such a tease........Sheeesh!
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  nancy drew

  I have some serious issues with the loving caring god idea right now. people often say look at this beautiful planet it's evidence of god's loving nature but is it really? This is a hungry planet everything on it is trying to kill something for dinner. We have all kinds of questions and no real answers just vivid imaginations running wild. I don't like the idea that this being craves worship and can do whatever it likes because it's god and we have to like it and beg it to not kill us.
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  Tater-T

  “Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? That the universe was designed just for us, or that we see the universe as having been designed just for us?”
  ? Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
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  still thinking

  All the gods are hard to find aren't they? None of the 30,000 or so gods (and godesses) that humans have worshipped throughout history seem to want to show themselves and say.."here I am"

  But have faith...LOL
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  Qcmbr

  What's interesting is how we chose to communicate with possible alien species. We engraved cosmological information, scientific knowledge about atoms, anatomy and shared cultural items like music. At no stage did we demand worship, give a set of commandments, pretend to be the source of emotions or thoughts , we didn't threaten, call names, tell spooky stories or anything else.

  Intelligent life talks science it doesn't talk faith.
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  still thinking

  A real god's existence would not be in doubt and certainly wouldn't need to be proven or testified of on Internet forums or street corner soap boxes.

  Amen