re: Do you Believe In An Afterlife?

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Genesis chapter one debunks the big bang theory.

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I don’t know if there’s an afterlife. I’ve had a great experience herein.

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The entire New Testament is eye witness testimony.

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No it’s not.

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Formulas are made by man.

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Just like the countless deities that have been worshipped through the millennia.

You rely on the writings of fallible humans who lived thousands of years ago and knew very little about the world.

The people who wrote the Genesis Flood didn’t even know North America exists, much less that there are trees here that are older than the story and somehow survived being submerged miles deep beneath the ocean. They didn’t know kangaroos would have to hop across an ocean from Australia to reach the Ark. They didn’t know Mt. Everest is an absurd 29,000+ feet above sea level and there’s not enough water to cover it.

This world is insane. It takes very little to set people off when it comes to religion and all that jazz. Even in 1997, a few dozen people committed suicide thinking they were going to teleport to an alien spaceship following a comet.

Who would ever question elaborate stories from 2,000+ years ago about miracles and virgin births and walking on water and the Sun standing still, etc.?

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Not trolling at all, but why does God let innocent children die?

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Sin is your answer

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Incorrect. Death has existed on this planet far longer than anything that could be considered “sin.” Ancient species suffered and died for millions of years before the first humans evolved.

Man did not inherit a paradise like Eden. Our ancestors survived nightmarish conditions for tens of thousands of years before anyone conjured Adam and Eve.

Death is not the fault of Man. Therefore, the sacrifice of Christ does not make sense theologically.

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You haven’t provided any explanation for the fine tuning of the universe, which is a scientific observation.

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“Fine-tuned” in what way? Gravity, inertia, and nuclear fusion is the explanation for most of the workings of the Universe.

Technology has deceived people into thinking that Earth is “fine-tuned” and perfect for life. Nonsense. Nearly everything in this Universe is trying to kill us. If you were dropped alone naked with no tools onto a random place on Earth, you would likely die soon. 90% of Earth (oceans, hot deserts, high latitudes and elevations) would kill you with the quickness. The rest you’re going to have to bust your tail to survive.

We wouldn’t even be here if the Solar System hadn’t thrown an asteroid at the dinosaurs and caused their extinction.

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That’s a “science of the gaps” argument. The same type of argument you criticized earlier in your post.

Just because many things have been explained by science isn’t evidence that god doesn’t exist.

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“Science of the Gaps”? Naturalism explains something new every single day that is true across all cultures. There’s not one thing about this world universally credited to a deity. Not one. Zero.

So if there’s something we don’t currently know, it’s best to assume a natural explanation.

People know this outside of their religion. No one blames a gremlin if their engine won’t start or a poltergeist if they can’t find their keys in the house. No one is going to get out of a murder conviction by saying they were framed by a demon.

But if something infringes on religious beliefs instilled since the cradle, common sense goes out the window.

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Just because science figured out that thunder wasn’t caused by God doesn’t mean it will eventually determine God doesn’t exist. That’s illogical. Science is just as likely to determine God does exist.

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This is like saying a race between Noah Lyles and a paraplegic should be an even money bet.

Let me repeat it. There is not one single indisputable fact about the workings of the Universe that is universally attributed to a deity. Not one. Zero. Nada.

And the “big questions” are fundamentally no different from the little ones. People only throw God in there when they have theistic motivations.

I like to believe so, but I take comfort in knowing that if I’m wrong it won’t make a lot of difference to me. Hard to get emotional when you’re dead.

There's no way there was ever "nothing"

If there was ever "nothing," there would still be "nothing"


"something" cannot pop into existence from "nothing"

matter cannot be eternal, so the only thing that was eternal in the beginning, was an Eternal Mind

period. There's no way around it. The Creator exists. God exists. Period.

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"the big bang" is a childish narrative

there was "nothing"

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Before you criticize it, maybe you should try to understand what it actually says.

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You don’t understand the fundamental issue.

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I believe I do.

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You can have faith in science or faith in God. I chose God.

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Science isn’t a faith issue. A Christian doesn’t think a scientist testing his theory on changing salanity levels in the Arctic Ocean is a faith issue. And that’s no different from another scientist studying the origins of the Universe.

Christians only call science faith when it encroaches on their theology.

But I will say it again:

1. There are zero facts about the Universe that are indisputably linked to deities. Zero. Not one. No phenomena is attributed to God, Thor, Zeus, Osiris, or any other deity. Deities have zero confirmed interaction in the natural world.

2. The history of science has clearly shown us that attributing phenomena to deities is a poor approach.

3. You keep talking about faith in God. You don’t have faith in God. You have faith in what fallible humans from thousands of years ago have said about God, and you believe that because of what your family and/or culture has told you. You would have a very different view if you were from Mumbai or Baghdad.

4. You are free to believe what you want, but I have pointed out two errors in the Bible. The concept of no death before humans sinned and the occurrence of a global flood a few thousand years ago are in conflict with the geological record.

My number would be a guess like everyone else.