tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post7925657060388129866..comments2023-12-31T15:59:24.408-08:00Comments on Biblical Musing: Is God Real?Don Camphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01548343755775488295noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post-5633948557354376532019-04-15T01:51:35.558-07:002019-04-15T01:51:35.558-07:00You're right; humans have, since the beginning...You're right; humans have, since the beginning, believed in gods. Your particular one is, however, a relatively late arrival on the scene. <br /><br />Using your logic, shouldn't we all be worshipping the older gods who made themselves known first? Or did human beings smply imagine them? And if they did, didn't they also simply imagine YHWH? <br /><br />If you're going to us the argument, Don, that humans have always believed in gods, you need to explain why all the gods they've believed in since time immemorial don't actually exist, whereas, 'self-evidently', yours does. The imaginative creations of human beings do not have counterparts in reality.<br /><br />As for you final comment: can we surmise from the fact you 'spend time' on atheist blogs that you are interested in giving up belief in your non-existent deity? No? Then please don't be so facile as to make a similar assertion about me.<br />Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180672737516644222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post-15425972413521071712019-04-08T12:12:14.522-07:002019-04-08T12:12:14.522-07:00Human beings from as far back as we have artifact ...Human beings from as far back as we have artifact evidence have been religious. Gobekli tepe, the earliest structure we know of built by a society or cultural group was a temple. That is evidence that people have had an awareness of God for a very long time - without any apologists arguing for God's existence. <br /><br />Across the world today, with the exceptions those nations for which atheism is the required and reinforced philosophy, a very large percentage of people are religious - without any apologists arguing for God. <br /><br />Why is religion so universal? The best answer is that there is something in human experience and in the evidence of the creation that argue for God. <br /><br />Apologists do not convince people of a God who isn't already evident; that would be as pointless as arguing for Leprechauns. They simply answer question interested people have about God. <br /><br />If I were to venture a guess it would be that you too are interested. Otherwise why spend time on blogs like this one? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post-68150562914783503322019-04-06T02:23:34.831-07:002019-04-06T02:23:34.831-07:00That it is not and your own efforts are testimony ...That it is not and your own efforts are testimony to this fact. If God were self-evident you and numerous other apologists wouldn't need to spend your time arguing for his existence. Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180672737516644222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post-33799257191077758722019-03-31T19:34:13.300-07:002019-03-31T19:34:13.300-07:00I don't for most people; it is self-evident.I don't for most people; it is self-evident. Don Camphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750350900693364554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021109788074443248.post-24640314750367308002019-03-31T10:25:08.196-07:002019-03-31T10:25:08.196-07:00if God was real, you wouldn't have to prove it...if God was real, you wouldn't have to prove it.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180672737516644222noreply@blogger.com