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Old 03-11-2010, 09:52 PM
 
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Isn't it true? Why worship something like that?
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Old 03-12-2010, 12:17 AM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Man is a made-up figure by God.

Just trying to see it from His point of view. It's only fair.
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:55 AM
 
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Man is a made-up figure by God.

Just trying to see it from His point of view. It's only fair.
I don't think so.

Man's existence is testable/verifiable; God's existence is not testable/verifiable.

Man is known to make up lies for monetary and political control reasons.
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:59 AM
 
Location: An absurd world.
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I don't think so.

Man's existence is testable/verifiable; God's existence is not testable/verifiable.

Man is known to make up lies for monetary and political control reasons.


Everybody wants to point a finger at L. Ron Hubbard and call him a charlatan. He didn't do anything that hasn't been done for centuries.
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Old 03-12-2010, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Isn't it true? Why worship something like that?
Put yourself in the position of an omniscient Creator. Would you really feel obligated to "prove" yourself to your creations?
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:18 AM
 
Location: An absurd world.
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Put yourself in the position of an omniscient Creator. Would you really feel obligated to "prove" yourself to your creations?
If you want credibility, then yes. And I bet if this was any other incident (aliens, etc), you'd want empirical evidence. Double standard.
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:39 AM
 
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Then there would be no test of faith...
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:49 AM
 
Location: missouri
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Everything is a made up figure by man. Man is trapped in his mind and constructs reality-all of it (unless some think they are meta-human and have an "essential" connection to the world (this would be an embarrassment in relation to fecal matter-I perfer the idea myself). So I believe in anything? Well one can pick and choose and then think those people over there are deluding themselves, but saying to one's I, "in my great connection to reality that by passes even my own fantastic mentality-I know the true.
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:51 AM
 
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What and essential embarrassment with my non-mental connection to this font of absolute truth-the above should be, "So why believe......
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Old 03-12-2010, 11:25 AM
 
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Put yourself in the position of an omniscient Creator. Would you really feel obligated to "prove" yourself to your creations?
Well in the case of the one that is said to have revealed himself to Abraham, he does have a penchant for being melodramatic from time to prove just that.
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