Re: Is There Hope for "Can Man Live Without God"
by DragonFly on July 21st, 2014, 6:18 pm
Preaching ‘God’ as truth and fact is not honest, for it isn’t known to be correct.
Having ‘faith’ is another matter, for ‘faith’ is a belief/wish/hope in what can’t be known, much less shown. “Faith’ is much less than ‘trust’, for we can trust what has happened before to likely happen again.
In either case, one comes away without anything to work with; the case is not established—far from it even.
We can still look at the unestablished notion for what it claims, realizing all the while that humans made these claims, which, needless to say, doesn’t add any veracity to the supernatural declarations. In fact, the fiats don’t hold together at all.
‘God’, it is proclaimed, thought up, planned, designed, and created human mammals as is, immutable, in a perfect garden, exactly the way he wanted; however, he is angered, surprised, and quite amazed that they touched what they were told not to touch, and so he throws them out of paradise into a harsh land where they and their even blamed descendants can toil and die.
So, we have that ‘God’ has an emotional system, that he as the designer is not moral, for he blames the design instead, which, by the way, bore his chosen recipe.
Perhaps his craftsmanship is poor, or he couldn’t see the future, but he’s said to be all-knowing and perfect; yet even if we let these slide, the creator is still responsible for how the design expresses itself.
So, perhaps he is vindictive to exile the sinners. Not a good role model for neighborly love.
HIs design fails and flunks terribly again, so he resumes being a poor role model by killing everyone on Earth in a deluge, but for Noah and family. When the genocide is complete, it is said that ‘God’ made a mistake and thus invented the rainbow to show “never again”, although there will be a judgment day, but we can suppose that water will not be used.
Now he has broken two of the great commandments that he proposes for his humans, which, due again to a total design failure of humanity from Noah’s descendants, ten commandments are caused to be brought down by Moses from a mountain to those adoring a golden calf.
Nevertheless, the implementation failed again, bring ing us to the time of a human said to be Divine. The bio construction failed yet again. Did we mention that even before Eden the creation of the angels forms backfired, some of them going bad and rebelling? Now, who is it again to blame for all these design failures?
Perhaps a heavy dose of global warming will do the trick, those people leftover achieving good results, that is, if they accept and get ‘saved’. ‘Saved’ from what? You really don’t want to know—it’s too horrible. Enjoy the ‘will’ that must agree with the big Will, or else.
If not, then it’s back to the drawing board.
Now, about things more realistic. Suppose the ABC’s of the Bible on Page 1 can be shown to be false—then what of the xyz’s thereafter.
The Earth is not just as old as the first human mammals.
Human mammals were not made as is, but were mutable, as shown by evolutions’s triple confirmation (fossils, DNA, and embryonic stages, which match).
The sky is not a fixed dome, with Earth at the center.
Etc.
This information's available. The new Cosmos TV series went through all this, and more.
Human nature tells us that preachers/believers will try to neglect and/or deny what is a threat to their dogma, and, on top of that will still say that they have all the answers, their answers being true for sure. Well, we can always turn the channel if we don’t want a philosophy with all the questions left out.