http://www.eiriks.net/2005/01/13/discussions-discussions/ to whom it may concern... Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.eiriks.net/2005/01/13/discussions-discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-530 Eirik Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:55:42 +0000 http://www.eiriks.net/blog/?p=158#comment-530 This has been a long-running internal \"over-lunch-discussion\" mostly between people who believe and have faith, and \"fence-sitting atheists\" such as myself (great description btw) :)\r\n\r\nI completely agree that with a bit of faith and maybe some hope, the smallest bit of evidence will be enough to convince some people that God does or does not exist.\r\n\r\nI\'m not so sure I agree that the same is true the other way around though, especially for \"fence-sitting atheists\". In my case, through my Physics major, I have seen \"evidence\" that the big bang most likely happened, and that Darwin\'s theories of evolution are more than likely to be true. That\'s why I classify myself as a weak or fence-sitting atheist; if someone could convince me with equally strong evidence that God created earth and the Universe, I would be happy to admit that my image of the Universe and its origin is wrong :) This has been a long-running internal \”over-lunch-discussion\” mostly between people who believe and have faith, and \”fence-sitting atheists\” such as myself (great description btw) \r\n\r\nI completely agree that with a bit of faith and maybe some hope, the smallest bit of evidence will be enough to convince some people that God does or does not exist.\r\n\r\nI\’m not so sure I agree that the same is true the other way around though, especially for \”fence-sitting atheists\”. In my case, through my Physics major, I have seen \”evidence\” that the big bang most likely happened, and that Darwin\’s theories of evolution are more than likely to be true. That\’s why I classify myself as a weak or fence-sitting atheist; if someone could convince me with equally strong evidence that God created earth and the Universe, I would be happy to admit that my image of the Universe and its origin is wrong

]]> http://www.eiriks.net/2005/01/13/discussions-discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-529 TreeGo Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:35:53 +0000 http://www.eiriks.net/blog/?p=158#comment-529 You must have been reading some threads in the Opera Forums. :-)\r\n\r\nSome things are not provable.\r\n\r\nI cannot prove God to you.\r\n\r\nI can point you to Him, however.\r\n\r\nI can show Him by my life.\r\n\r\nThe desire to know something will make or break whether or not we know something.\r\n\r\nIn other words, if I don\'t want to know God --- I will do my level best to avoid acknowledging Him. In fact, I will be inclined to look at all the hypocrisy I might detect in believers of God and use that as an excuse to not want to know Him.\r\n\r\nAnd if I and hungering to know God, I will come to know Him.\r\n\r\nThere is a higher truth than human reasoning and philosophizing about these things.\r\n\r\nMatthew 5:6 --> Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, \r\n for they will be filled.\r\n\r\nThis scripture merely means that those who are hungering for truth will find it.\r\n\r\nI encourage all fence-sitting atheists who want to know for sure about these things to take a look at the book called \"I Don\'t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.\" It has multiple authors and discusses how Christianity actually requires the least amount of \"faith\" in light of evidence that is available in examining the matter of what religion or lack of religion, if you will, one should believe in. You must have been reading some threads in the Opera Forums. \r\n\r\nSome things are not provable.\r\n\r\nI cannot prove God to you.\r\n\r\nI can point you to Him, however.\r\n\r\nI can show Him by my life.\r\n\r\nThe desire to know something will make or break whether or not we know something.\r\n\r\nIn other words, if I don\’t want to know God — I will do my level best to avoid acknowledging Him. In fact, I will be inclined to look at all the hypocrisy I might detect in believers of God and use that as an excuse to not want to know Him.\r\n\r\nAnd if I and hungering to know God, I will come to know Him.\r\n\r\nThere is a higher truth than human reasoning and philosophizing about these things.\r\n\r\nMatthew 5:6 –> Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, \r\n for they will be filled.\r\n\r\nThis scripture merely means that those who are hungering for truth will find it.\r\n\r\nI encourage all fence-sitting atheists who want to know for sure about these things to take a look at the book called \”I Don\’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.\” It has multiple authors and discusses how Christianity actually requires the least amount of \”faith\” in light of evidence that is available in examining the matter of what religion or lack of religion, if you will, one should believe in.

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