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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

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  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  besty

  I can only conclude what the Bible allows me to conclude

  Once you get past that the rest becomes obvious. Good luck.
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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  besty

  @kate

  Einstein was abiguous and vague, but he denied being an atheist that we know.

  You are still overlaying your own interpretation. Rather, it is factual to say "It seems to me that Einstein appears to be x,y,z" rather than your definitive "Einstein was x,y,z"

  As to denying being an atheist, I suggest you Google "Einstein, atheist, Jesuit" :-) From what I have read it seems to me that Einstein was clearly pantheist.

  Although it is tempting to say Einstein was this that or the other it is exactly the same as an atheist bringing "Richard Dawkins is an atheist. So there." to the table. Interesting, but ultimately meaningless.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  besty

  atheists hope that reason will triumph over superstition
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  besty

  do you seriously believe all that stuff you just wrote on the last page?
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  besty

  God probably doesn't exist, so best just to crack on with things.

  Thanks for the link though - its all BS in case you need a 2nd opinion.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  besty

  @Edenone - pls tell me you are just making this up as you go along and you haven't actually thought it through?
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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  besty

  “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”

  Albert Einstein 1929.
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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  besty

  Cofty stated Einstein was an atheist, was that disingenuous of cofty?

  No, just inaccurate. Disingenuous means revealing less about something than you actually know. You know (or should know by now) that "Einstein did not believe in a mono-theistic personal God" and was in fact agnostic and pantheistic.

  but in future I will point out although he believed in God it was not a personal one

  Even better - stop using the appeal to authority. It doesn't help.
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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  besty

  I'm curious why it matters what Einstein believed about god?

  It matters because people throw that 'fact' around as an appeal to authority in an attempt to make their argument appear stronger than it is.
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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  besty

  @kate

  Einstein used many labels to describe his religious views, including

  "agnostic" - holding the belief that the truth values of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, as well as other religious and metaphysicalclaims—are unknown

  "pantheistic" - holding the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing,immanent God

  "believer in "Spinoza's God" - see above - defined as a singular self-subsistent substance, with both matter and thought being attributes of such

  To simply state that 'Einstein believed in God' without any definition or qualification is disingenuous. Period.

  Please do not become guilty of trying to bolster a weak argument with deliberate half-truths.