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Post by blondie on May 18, 2007 15:39:17 GMT -5
I'm curious how people define God.
What's a God? In just a sentence or two.
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Post by kevin on May 18, 2007 18:10:30 GMT -5
Theos ein agape
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Post by blondie on May 18, 2007 22:46:48 GMT -5
Thanks for responding. So God's an emotion? Is anger a God too? Maybe you mean God is "the love feast accompanied by Eucharistic celebration." www.answers.com/topic/agapeActually I kid. Love (agape) is an even vaguer and more nebulous term than God. I believe emotions are produced by brain chemistry. Speaking of chemistry. If you have a masters degree in chemistry can I assume you believe in evolution?
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Post by lawman on May 18, 2007 22:49:23 GMT -5
Thanks for responding. So God's an emotion? Is anger a God too? Maybe you mean God is "the love feast accompanied by Eucharistic celebration." www.answers.com/topic/agapeActually I kid. Love (agape) is an even vaguer and more nebulous term than God. I believe emotions are produced by brain chemistry. Speaking of chemistry. If you have a masters degree in chemistry can I assume you believe in evolution? No blondie....if that's the case....you can assume he's a nerd! ;D
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Post by kevin on May 19, 2007 3:05:35 GMT -5
Thanks for responding. So God's an emotion? Is anger a God too? Maybe you mean God is "the love feast accompanied by Eucharistic celebration." www.answers.com/topic/agapeActually I kid. Love (agape) is an even vaguer and more nebulous term than God. I believe emotions are produced by brain chemistry. Speaking of chemistry. If you have a masters degree in chemistry can I assume you believe in evolution? No blondie....if that's the case....you can assume he's a nerd! ;D Assumption ended. I AM a nerd.
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Post by kevin on May 19, 2007 3:47:21 GMT -5
I already knew you'd come back with the emotion thing. Just wanted to give you the biblical, straightforward definition of God, the one that God's people believe in. Is God an emotion? Some people can make Him into one in their lives and leave it at that, but that doesn't mean its so. Basically, the simple statement by John was straightforward and to the point: God is the perfect embodiment of love. Selfless, without condition. God is spirit (and no, not the alcoholic version, I will preempt that one). And yeah, you have to believe in spirit too, so don't bring that up. You know, you just brought up something unusual but enlightening. I've often wondered where emotions fit into natural selection and evolution. After all, why in the world would a species need this attribute to survive, to continue on? After all, emotions cause all sorts of negative -- and positive -- actions. It can easily be said that emotions are a byproduct of higher intellect and explain them away in that fashion, but really, why do we have them? You say you believe that emotions are caused by brain chemistry. It is certainly true that chemical reactions can at least influence emotions in people, but is this the whole explanation? Please do expound, I'm not convinced. It is up to you to provide the burden of proof of your belief. Is God anger? he has never been defined as that, but God has displayed anger on several occasions. And since God's people believe we are created in His image, therefore we have the capacity to express anger. Just like perfect love though -- something humans aren't able to embody fully -- our anger is often unjustified. His is not. You can sit back and dispute this, but I say, who are you to dispute God? Whatever you think or believe, I don't hold you as an authority in my life over and above any other human being. So, getting back to an earlier concept I've brought up, it is not up to me to persuade you that God is real. That is something that you have to figure out for yourself. You don't believe -- so be it. That's what atheists and many Christians don't get. The atheists say we must provide the burden of proof. Why? What is to be gained by us proving to you that God is real? Like I mentioned in an another thread, if you have such an attitude, than you must do the same with all aspects of your live. As you grew up, did you question your parents love and concern for you? I can surmise you likely did -- that would fit the mentality of an atheist. But for every atheist who did not -- or at least those who just gave up and accepted it -- why did they do so? Was there anything the parents could do to prove their love and concern? Did they provide scientific, documented evidence? After all, that's the only way to truly know and believe in something, right? I'm glad I don't have to prove God is real. I'm glad I don't have to prove my love for my family is real either. They just accept it as real because they have experienced that love in action. I accept the reality of God because I have experienced Him action. 'nuff said. God is real to me and that is what counts in my life. I like the words of a secular song, it says alot You don't need no friends get back your faith again you have the power to believe another dissident take back your evidence it has no power to deceive
I'll believe it when I see it, for myself
I don't need no one to tell me about heaven I look at my daughter, and I believe. I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth I can see the sunset and I perceive
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Post by kevin on May 19, 2007 4:02:34 GMT -5
Oh, forgot your question. I believe in evolution after creation. That is, I believe that God created organisms that have the ability to evolve. Plain and simple, no continuous arguments about apes and men, etc. The environment is constantly changing, why would God leave the organisms of the world without a way to adapt? He'd really be busy if He had to babysit us in our survivability. Hey, I'd do that if I were God . Name for me one thing man has created with the ability to adapt like species do. After all, if God is not real, it would be feasible to believe that man can do just as well, since we are the highest life form on earth.
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Post by richbrout on May 19, 2007 9:06:52 GMT -5
ANNA KOURNIKOVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kevin on May 19, 2007 9:44:34 GMT -5
ANNA KOURNIKOVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you saying she is a god, or that she is the reason you believe in God ?
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Post by richbrout on May 19, 2007 15:26:32 GMT -5
both
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Post by solinvictus on May 19, 2007 16:07:24 GMT -5
God is our big monkey. What do I mean? In primates, if a lesser ape (or monkey) in a group faces something that it fears or it doesn't understand, it runs to a bigger, more senior, tribe member for help. Well, in the human race, even the highest tribe member faces such, so that's our abstract construct: a god.
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Post by kevin on May 19, 2007 17:25:07 GMT -5
God is our big monkey. What do I mean? In primates, if a lesser ape (or monkey) in a group faces something that it fears or it doesn't understand, it runs to a bigger, more senior, tribe member for help. Well, in the human race, even the highest tribe member faces such, so that's our abstract construct: a god. Well, at least we have more insight into who solinvictus is. solinvictussolinvictus' godDo we really want to know?!?Sorry, couldn't resist ;D.
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Post by solinvictus on May 20, 2007 5:35:50 GMT -5
"Let go of me, you damn dirty ape!!" Love the original.
Was it Diogenes who said, in paraphrase, that if horses created a god, their god would look like a horse?
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