Topic: Why I'm an atheist - page 34. (Read 89184 times)

Actually I was born a catholic, my whole family is, my whole family is totally opposed to my beliefs and my acts. I chose to do what was right instead of what was the tradition.

I serve God, not because of fear of hell but because of his kindness and on how he has protected my parents from several near death situations.

The Lord is my master, I'm his servant, he is my ruler, I'm his soldier.

You state we repeat ourselves as parrots, however you don't realize the many times you repeat the same argument about being an atheist because you don't know who the right god is, instead of forgetting fanaticism to tradition for a second and looking for the answer. No god Has done what the God of the Bible has.  He is the King of kings, that's why he is Lord. Just do your search man and you will realize no god has done what he has done. It takes more faith to believe on some statements from modern science. I'm not asking you to have faith but to look for facts. Even other religions reference him as you can read in the book of islam ""The most awful (meanest) name in Allah's sight is (that of) a man calling himself king of kings.""

When they can't disprove a point they make jokes, they can run away as much as they want from the truth however every knee will bow and confess Jesus is Lord.

You're getting to sound more and more like Satan all the time. Matthew 4:5-7:

Where in the map is Tyre? Didn't Alexander destroy it in 332 BC? When you see these people with over human strength is it a psychiatric disorder? When you see them doing the supernatural? When you see Doctors diagnose a person with cancer and minutes after a prayer cancer is gone and can't be seen anywhere in the persons body? When you see a car in flames, when you see it completely burnt and a guy (the driver) who is a Christian without a scratch, no burns and all pages of the Bible intact? What's your answer for this? Look it up on Youtube then tell me.

Tyre is still standing, too, which should be a good disproof of the Bible, which repeatedly prophesied its destruction.

If you're seeing demons, you should consult a psychiatrist. They have pills for that.

Israel is still standing throughout the ages that should be a good proof about the veracity of the Bible, you have the right to be an atheist, God gives you that right, also the miracles and people with demons you see out there should be also proof, science is the way, not today's science though, full of theories and claiming they have it all proven. Stephen Hawking one of the most popular atheists at the end of his days acknowledged the existence of God.

It is not surprising that atheists are the freedom of everyone. Religion should not be kidnapped or forced. Faith is the freedom of everyone. In fact, many atheists have their own beliefs, which is not stupid. There are many views in history that are wrong, and religion needs progress.

Sigmund Freud was talking religiously when he said: "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

Sigmund Freud said: "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

I suspect that the word "atheist" itself contains or remains a stumbling block far out of proportion to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves.

Jonathan Swift: ‘It Is Useless To Attempt To Reason A Man Out Of A Thing He Was Never Reasoned Into’

BADecker is like... "hmmm... yeah I guess I got no rebuttal for all those quoted bible contradictions....
Oh I know.... I'll just post  'You are using it out of context' a million times in blue...    I win debate!"

The Bible is not fake news. It is a faithful written record of things that happened. When scientifically examined from every angle, the Bible is proven true.

Bible verses that talk about evil and wicked things are far better aesthetically than many of the things written in our court records, being promoted by politics, and being done all over the world today.

You simply don't realize that you are infected by your own religion, even if it is a religion of non-religiosity.

I would agree that there is no real common evidence for a sky fairy.

Everything is faith, because nobody knows for a fact that anything even one second into the future is what will happen. All that happens is that God has ordered the universe in such a way that we can guess right about many of the things that happen. But we don't know they will for a fact happen the way we guess. And often they don't, exactly. The point is that we ALL live by faith, all the time.

In other news, God made the water wet, the sky blue, and graciously gave us the ability to recognize this.

so.... not a chance that nonsense written by goat herders 2000 years ago the bible is fake news, eh?  

Quote from: BADecker on November 09, 2018, 11:55:39 AM

It doesn't lessen the strength and purity of the Bible at all. It is simply a touch that shows the real battle that is going on between righteousness and wickedness.

https://www.news24.com/MyNews24/The-14-Most-Abominable-Bible-Verses-20121224

Quote from: BADecker on November 09, 2018, 03:26:42 PM

... shows that you are religiously (NOT) minded. (FTFY)

yes ,I'm indeed religiously minded in the sense that I think all religion is a virus of the mind and thank goodness I'm not infected...

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Let's agree to disagree.

BTW, your 'proof' does not prove that God exists.  You simply say that he exists.  That is your 'proof'.

there is no proof that a magic sky fairy exists.
its all faith ...nothing more.
and in other news...the sky is blue ...water is wet...

That is correct. However, the fact that you as an atheist are making such a point of it, shows that you are religiously minded.

When you Internet search on fake news, you can find it all over the place. Certainly Muslims and others might attempt to fight Christianity by adding something similar to fake news to things like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

But to subtly introduce the idea that the DSCs are false, is simply a subtle form of fake news. It doesn't lessen the strength and purity of the Bible at all. It is simply a touch that shows the real battle that is going on between righteousness and wickedness.

The Bible has not changed over the millennia since it was written.

Touché

The Dead Sea Scrolls have been verified to be authentic. They are as much as 2,400 years old. They contain the Book of Isaiah and other books from the Bible. These are the same as they are in the hand the Hebrew Bible of today, except for one change.

One change where the whole Hebrew Bible has changed slightly over the hundreds of years, is that you will not find the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to be formed exactly as they were. So, the Hebrew originals are slightly different just like people can be identified because their hand writing is slightly different.

Also, over the years, there have been some grammatical changes that have been noted. They have been noted so that everyone can see that there is no change to the originals other than to make easier reading, grammatically. It's like English, when you add or remove a comma from a writing here and there, or when you join two words in English to make smoother reading. It doesn't change the meaning. It simply makes it easier to read.

But if you are talking  translations... Translations are going to be different, because of the way people think in different languages. The words of one language often don't fit the words of another language exactly. So, there have to be changes, and there is often disagreement among scholars about which translations say it the best. But the original Hebrew Bible has not changed over the hundreds of years, copy to copy.

Since the Hebrew people have held it together for all this time when they did not have their own nation, why would anyone think that they did not hold it together in the times when they DID have their own nation? These people are stinking stubborn. They are so stubborn that here they are back again, since 1948/49, with something like 1800 to 1900 hundred years of having no nation. So why would you think that they aren't stubborn enough to hold the Bible together accurately? And when you throw in the idea of God doing it, the whole thing becomes much stronger.

I could go on and on. And I have all over this thread and others that talk about God and Israel, the Hebrew nation. And, you can get out there and investigate about Israel yourself. But you are talking against the Guy Who holds your life in His hand when you bad-mouth His people - rotten though they may be at times. And that is dangerous.

Most important to this post is that the Bible has not changed except cosmetically over the years.

We didn't have robots back then, right?  Each hand-copied version contained errors. 

You have no idea what parts of the bible are simply lies.

The "earth" flooded was probably a local flood that got misquoted in a copy.