Regarding no.2: This god you are referring to is only available at your death. Surely a god (loving creator) would be availble in your life? A belief such as no.2 is a fear-based belief and not very encouraging. If you do have god in your life in the here and now and it isn't a fear based belief about the hereafter, I and others would love to hear it.
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Originally Posted by Chinese Dragon  My reasons for believing in God are simple:
1) I define God as the entity that created the universe. The concept that that energy cannot be created yet the universe had a beginning it contridictory. That's why I think some outside force had to start the process. Which is by I believe science is flawed, so my belief system is Catholcism mixed with Subjective Reality.
2) If you believe in God and God exists, you gain eternal life. If it turns out God doesn't exist, you lose nothing. On the other hand, if you don't believe in God and God exists you have to stay in purgatory for awhile, and if it turns out he doesn't you'll win nothing. Would you rather have a might win or a might lose?
3) I have found that me being a Catholic is more empowering than being an atheist.
lol, you obviously have faith that the figure "2" means to other people what you think of as the number two and "4" means what you think of as the number four. If I were to teach my kid that the numbers go like:
1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8,
then in their number system:
3 + 3 = 4
And they could become a brilliant mathematican as long as they don't talk to other people about math. There's no law that says you can't swap "2" and "3" and have the math still work.
Food for thought |