Come on, even most Christians can't think that God actually listens when you pray? Seriously?
Proofs that God is imaginary
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Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
As Stolen Rutters pointed out, there's no problem with God listening to and answering every prayer as long as you don't require the answer to be "yes". At which point you're doing magic, which Christianity quite explicitly bans.
warpus
In pork I trust
Does God ever answer, though?
Or does stuff you pray for just end up happening.. and sometimes it doesn't?
Cause that's not an answer, really. I can pray to something that obviously doesn't exist (ie. a 20 year old Hulk Hogan with a pink tail), and things I pray for will come true from time to time.
An answer is more like.. well, you know.. "Hey. Yeah, I'm listening."
If you don't know God is answering, and it may be no, then what reason have we to suppose that he is listening? I put Ockam into the ring.
When I was a kid, I used to pray for a new bike. And then I figured out how God worked, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
Plagarism! I can't remember who said it, but it's in The Atheist Bible.
When I was a kid, I used to plagarise the Bible, but then I realised how the Bible works and now I plagarise the whole internet, and pray for forgiveness.
eastsidebagel
Deity
You were right though. I meant to say, that if every person on the earth would be part of just one religion, many reasons to wage war with each other would be nullified.
So, you don't know much people, right? Actually, I'm a sad, self-loathing sack!Aright, I must say, eastsidebagel, that you are the most funny person I have ever met!
And I'm just stating my opinions about the Bible to let some try to open their eyes. If I actually have success with that is a different issue.
Pray the prayer in OP then.
Not for millions of species, their food and their places of rest though.
On the opposite, I'm so very much secure about my own belief system that I'm even able to defend it against people who try to tell me otherwise. But I'm still open for constructive discussion, so bring it on.
flyingchicken
Deity
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The ultimate justification for anything is chemicals in the brain and its structure.
I like it: It's not my fault, blame the chemical!
Thats not how it works. If I prayed that I would just be asking "God, answer this prayer so that I can shove it in ESB's face".
You know how big the boat was then? you were there?
If I were God, I'd be terribly offended that hundred of millions of people thought I wiped out masses of life a few thousand years ago ... and then claim to love me!
"What!?!" I'd say "You love a being that you think caused massive genocides? Really?" I'd be especially offended, because there's masses of evidence that I didn't commit those genocides. But, no, for some reason they'd prefer I was a mass-murdering god, and then love me for it.
"What!?!" I'd say "You love a being that you think caused massive genocides? Really?" I'd be especially offended, because there's masses of evidence that I didn't commit those genocides. But, no, for some reason they'd prefer I was a mass-murdering god, and then love me for it.
eastsidebagel
Deity
If this little addition at the end would really guarantee that the prayer is answered, I'd be very grateful about it...
So answer me, Jesus explicitly stated that even a prayer where you request that a mountain might move away from its original position would be answered, if you'd pray expressly in the name of himself. So why doesn't God answer a totally selfless and beneficial prayer where you wish for the global remedy from cancer?
Mowque
Hypermodernist
Actually, aren't the dimensions in the Bible? Cubits, I believe?
Edit- @damnation, thanks for sharing your views, I've never met someone who has believed the OT literally before.
eastsidebagel
Deity
The measurements are clearly cescribed in the Bible. It was approximately as big as a football stadion when we count a biblical cubit as 0.52 m (I have no idea how many feet those are for you Americans). And I have no reason to doubt that even at the building instructions about the Ark which God transmitted to Noah, a cubit wasn't something more or less than that, because everywhere in the Bible where a cubit is mentioned, it talks about the same length.
Lord Emsworth
Emperor
It is not our software's fault, blame the bugs.
eastsidebagel
Deity
What did he tell what I haven't heard?Edit- @damnation, thanks for sharing your views, I've never met someone who has believed the OT literally before.
Also, I know (read: knew) also some people who take the Bible serious word by word. According to my experience with them, they're pretty touchy when the conversation takes an unexpected direction though...
Edit- @damnation, thanks for sharing your views, I've never met someone who has believed the OT literally before.
I tweak it a little bit in places.
Maybe it was deep then. like really deep. idk
What did he tell what I haven't heard?
Also, I know (read: knew) also some people who take the Bible serious word by word. According to my experience with them, they're pretty touchy when the conversation takes an unexpected direction though...
How DARE you take an unexpected turn in the conversation!
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eastsidebagel
Deity
Sir, please ponder thoroughly about what you just said.Maybe it was deep then. like really deep. idk
The lenght, the depth, the width and the seperation of the boat's inner rooms into different cabins are all fully described in the Bible, and when you take that information and make a sketch about how the boat must have looked like accordingly to the report in the Bible, you'd come to the conclusion that there's no way, that millions of species times two could have been packed into the Ark!
Do prevent me doing it!How DARE you take an unexpected turn in the conversation!
RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE
Fair enough, possibly, but I don't like the idea of blaming your biology for your actions. It's like getting off hitting someone because you're an angry person.
