^^^^^ However, proof that God exists gives you a firm foundation for your faith.
Imagine that you want a new car. Is your faith strong enough that, poof, the car will exist, right in your driveway, out of thin air? Probably not. But which would be easier to have faith for?:
1. a Ford Mustang just like the one down at the dealer?;
2. a new type of car, that you can't even envision because it has never been made, and nobody knows what it looks like, not even you?
While we could debate the car thing a bit, the point is that when you know that God exists, you have a firm foundation for
believing what He says. You have a firm foundation for your faith in what He says. Your foundation is God, Himself, and the knowledge that He exists.
If there would ever be proof of God, you would not need faith anymore, it would be fact. But your car example is absolutely delicious, regarding the fact that number one is science and number two is God. However, the sad truth is that most people choose number two. What I also observed is the subtle propaganda: 'Is your faith strong enough that, poof, the car will exist, right in your driveway, out of thin air?' - Why did you specifically ask this? Is there anyone who can make cars appear using his faith? Is it possible for people to do this? Could faith ever get strong enough to make things appear out of nothing? If yes, can you prove it?
Okay. One more time. Does
Horacewoodwood exist? Since the only things that we know about
Horacewoodwood are things that show up in this forum, we have to say, "YES." Whatever
Horacewoodwood is outside and off this forum, who knows? But because he responds in this forum, we know for a fact that he exists. It is a fact, and the evidence is the forum and his posts.
The next thing we have to ask is, do we believe in
Horacewoodwood? The answer is maybe. Why maybe? Because some of the things that
Horacewoodwood says match reality (at least as we know it), and some don't. Because of this, we can't say that we believe for sure in
Horacewoodwood, even though we know for a fact that he exists.
I'm sorry, my dog said you are a retard and he claims your place in this world since he is far more intelligent than you are. How did you get to the 'thing' you replied with from my questions? It is not even merely connected yet, somehow, you got there. Boy, when the whole world tells you that you are drunk, go home and rest, because that means you are drunk. Are you not a rational human being? Are you not intelligent enough to see how much shit you spew with every post and how less sense and logic you make with every word that comes off that keyboard? Is reality that harsh for you? If it is, fine, go pray to your gods, believe in whatever the fuck you want to believe, it's not my duty to change your sick beliefs. But let the propaganda out, you moron. Don't tell your kid, if you by mistake have one, that God made the universe, it took him six days, evolution is not real and scientists are just jealous of your work, because you'll ruin his fucking morality. Let him choose, let him study, you fucktard, let him confront both the stories and decide which one is the truth, the evidence based working thing. Damn, son, you like to waste people's time with your same shit, the same shit in every post, getting worse and worse. Claim it as you wish, if logical, reasonable, evidence based rebuttal to your bullshit did not even grab your attention, nothing will ever change your shitty set of values. Only know this: just because you believe it and repeat it, it desn;t make it true. That's not how our reality works. Medicine works through research, based on the very laws you imbecile deny. Same with technology, same with physics, chemistry, biochemistry, etc. They work and they are based on proof, evidence, not on assumptions. You won't be able to change that and your delusional 'truth' will remain an unproven claim. Do the right thing and at least have the balls to at least not 'preach' this shit to children or people who are easy to fool. Keep it for yourself.
My bad.
Horacewoodwood doesn't exist. It's his dog that has been posting all this while.
It's fine, son, I wasn't expecting you to admit how dumb you are. I don't even think you can realize. However, truth stays the same. There are no Gods and there are few people I have seen or heard about in this world that are as dumb as you.
P.S. That would still make my dog more intelligent than you.
Why wouldn't I admit how "dumb" I am? Nobody can contain enough knowledge within himself to do the things that God does, or even know about all but a little of it. It's a fact, so why not admit it? Continue to walk around thinking that you are smart, and you will only be showing that you are "dumb."
The first, important thing is believing that God exists. Next is having faith that He will fulfill the things that He says. We are so blessed that we have SEEN that God exists... we have scientific knowledge that He exists. Yet, He says through His Son, Jesus, "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed."
Having faith in God might seem a long way off for you. But, really. It is an easy transformation. And it is easier still, now that we have the scientific knowledge that He exists:
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We don't have scientific knowledge he exists, you believe you do, but it's wrong. I am not walking around showing that I am smart, I am telling you that you are an idiot who does not make sense, can not logically have a conversation without making false assumptions. I am not the only one telling you this and I am also not the only one dismantling your so called 'proof'. What I was saying, and it was pretty understandable, is that instead of admitting that you are wrong, you go ahead and act as a smart guy. That makes you dumb, so maybe you should admit to yourself that you are dumb and try to rethink your position. Not because you believe God exists, but because at the moment you are acting as dumb as fuck. Not to mention the fact you denied religion and now you start your babble about Jesus and how God will fulfill the things that he says. But let's suppose you are not dumb and ask a set of questions to at least validate your scientific proof as being about 'something'.
1. Do you mind answering me what he will fulfill? What are the things God says he fulfills and he will?
2. How can you determine Jesus was the son of God? What evidence do you base your claim on?
3. Do you admit that you believe in a biblical God? If you do, how can you claim scientific proof of something that is 90% scientifically wrong from the start?
4. Also, why did you try to leave out religion since that's where the God thing started from all along?
5. Why should I believe that your God is the real one and not the one from Islam, or from classical Greece, or any other God that ever existed?
6. Why do you believe in specifically that God? Why don't you believe in all of the other Gods?
7. If your God is the biblical one, why was it necessary for him to kill, to sustain slavery, to interact with free will, etc?
8. Why did he have an apple tree in the Garden of Eden since they needed no food because there was no death, they were immortals?
9. How come a God with such a complex programming skill, all knowing, all powerful got to fuck up things so bad in the beginning?
10. Do you believe in the writings in the bible? If no, then how can you believe in that God?
Can you answer these? Scientifically, we first need to establish if the God that influenced your view on life is a fraud or not. To do that, we trace things back to the revelation, to where God 'revealed' himself to the people so guys like you today could claim proof of him. Why do we do that? Well, in order to see if there was a revelation or not. If there was no revelation, if the whole book is a lie, a simple explanation for what people did not understand in those days, if it is just a work of literature and bears actually no truth whatsoever, than your premise that God may exist are false from the beginning. That means that you are trying to prove that something that started as a lie is in fact truth because you were raised believing in that lie, because the whole community around you believed in the same lie and your mind can only report itself to that lie in order to explain things that are already explained or things that are not explained but you think you can explain just by tagging them with that lie, God.