Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do You Believe In God ?

You’ve got some really big gaps in your knowledge.

"It is no secrete what God can do".

To 'believe' is to be convinced that what you believe is true and factual. Aside from social conditioning where the religion you grew up with, be it Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, what some folks consider to be evidence or find convincing is the stickler.

Evidence supports a claim that all can agree concurs with reality - it's not subjective. Belief in a god has no evidence and is divorced from reality, and is entirely subjective - thousands of Christian denominations are evidence of this fact and reality. Here endeth this lesson.

How many of you have "seen" co2? You believe it is real, you believe that plants need it, You believe that it causes "global warming". So here we have a man telling us that something invisible is real, Is this guy a scientist or a Pastor?

Wow a real dummy post on Good Friday. Lotsa grist for the mill here.

Ther is no doubt that there is-was a creator. There is no way to explain thoughts, consciences, feelings etc. Who, what the creator is, dont know, call it God if you want. Religion is what we use to reconcile with our thoughts, conscience, etc.

"What A friend we have In Jesus."

Your first sentence there is merely an interpretation of the term "belief". That interpretation does not apply universally. Individual people believe, and their definitions of belief vary.

Your first statement there is quite faulty. Your use of "all" is a gross assumption based on zero evidence of that factor. What is evidence to you may not be evidence to another, etc.. Please cite a claim about God on which ALL agree.

Further, there need not be any such "claim" in order for one to experience evidence. Claims seem to be the action of those who wish to prove some point of view or secure a corner on some claimed reality. Objectivity is not created by such claims, or by your sentence.

The evidence shows: that a tiny band of followers of a rabbi who was crucified survived BOTH the Jewish Temple AND the mighty Roman Empire, BOTH of whom were intent on stamping them out. Not only did this new movement survive, but it thrived. It spread like an airborne disease, in an environment that was tremendously hostile to it. Something extraordinary happened to drive all of that.

The evidence shows: that the once cowardly followers of Jesus stood up to the VERY people in the Jewish Temple that had Him crucified. And despite being beaten to within an inch of their lives many times, and being tortured in other ways and eventually killed, they ALL went to their graves still professing the extraordinary event that they’d seen with their own eyes which motivated them.

The evidence shows: that from a few followers in ancient Judea when Christianity began, by the year 100 AD it had grown to over 10,000 Christians. And by the year 200 AD Christianity had grown to over 200,000 followers of Jesus. And then to almost 2 million by 250 AD, well before Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 AD. Even Bart Ehrman concedes that something extraordinary happened in the first century to drive all of this growth, especially against such overwhelming odds.

Sad as it is, "Many are called, but few are chosen."

The Greek word for ‘believe’ in the New Testament manuscripts is pisteuo.

pisteuo (Greek - πιστεύω) - to place confidence in, conviction and trust in, acknowledgment of a fact or event.

Um, Yeah I've seen CO2. It's called dry ice in its solid form and easily visible. If you Christers had paid attention in 9th grade science class you wouldn't be saying such silly things.

I believe that, I just have an issue with folks that tell me what he really was and what he really meant.

Things he never claimed.

That started as soon as he was gone.

You ‘also’ have an issue with what Jesus Himself claimed, and when what Jesus Himself claimed doesn’t jive with your already established beliefs and agenda, you simply disregard it.

He clearly claimed, “I and the Father are one” in John’s Gospel, and His claim was not lost on the Jewish people who were there at the time, who responded, “You, a mere man, claim to be God”. In His teachings, Jesus consistently claimed and demonstrated authority over the Law of Moses.You simply don’t believe the truth, especially if it doesn’t jive with your already established beliefs and agenda. You want the truth to be what you believe.

You can't see CO either. Let's do an experiment, you go seal up your garage, start your vehicle while you're in it, stay in it with the vehicle running all night and report back to us tomorrow morning.

Since you can't see CO, and by your reasoning, that make it not real, you believe this is perfectly safe.

Let us know how this works out for you.

LOL, I posted that on Thursday. I'll let you in on a little secret. When one posts something on one day, it is also still there the next day. Just because you happened across it on a certain day doesn't mean it didn't exist before that day. The evidence (yeah, I know evidence is for non-believers) is that up in the upper right corner of the post is a date. That is the date it was posted. But you go ahead and believe it was posted on Friday, because that is all that matters; what you believe.

There's plenty of doubt.

"I don't know there for god(s)" is not an explanation, it's a lazy cop out.