Thank you for praying for Jim – He caught three bluefish, and someone came by and gave him some that they caught, so he is happy. I appreciate your prayers.
I think God likes you best, dear friend! Matthew 7:7-11 You are loved. Old Hat
I saw Beth Moore on Christian TV for the first time today and I can see why you like her teaching so much, she is real and captivating. A lot of seasoning she’s been through for sure.
Awesome! What a mighty God we serve~~who cares for each detail of our lives! In HIS amazing love, Paula
Your comment gives me another side to think about reality. A damaged camera distorts images as similar to a damaged brain distorts sensations. Correspond to this, you talk about truth. I have a question regarding it. What is objective truth? Objective truth cannot be your interpretation. It has to exist outside of your preference whether you like it or not. While we keep this in mind, you’re impling that God is truth. God can relinquish all of my frustration, anxiety, confusion, etc. What makes you say that God, to which our sensations cannot grapse him, is truth? We cannot see, hear, touch, smell, or taste God. Why are you making something that does not exist into something that exixts? We cannot prove his existence. Therefore, God has to function as a concept. You might say that his existence is not in this world (space-time) but in a different world without proof. You can also say that Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother exists where God is. If the existence of God is true, the existence of Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother is true because whatever can be said is true. But if you regard God’s existence is true and not Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother is true then what can I say about this. I can say that the concept of God, Santa Claus, and the fairy-god mother are learned from childhood. Whatever is taught, you take it into consideration. In regards to truth, what is considered true is learned: what ever can be said within that learning state is true. This assertion explains for the variety of beliefs whether it is scientific or religious. Objective truth has to stand for what it really is (whether you like it or not), and that, you have to be able to sense it. If it takes to step outside of what we have learned then we must do it. But if one is unwilling, that person is what you called brainwashed. A brainwashed person does not have objecitve truth. If you can give a good argument, I am willing to believe that God is objective truth or truth. I do not want to be brainwashed in my beliefs because of my willingness to believe your beliefs.
P.S. Your comment is always welcome.
Objective/absolute truth IS NOT subject to interpretation. The Law of Gravity will work whether or not we believe in gravity. God is God whether or not we choose to believe in Him or not.
We cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste gravity – but gravity exists. We cannot see, hear, taste, touch, smell mathematical principles like infinity, but they exist. Yes, we cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste God, but we have evidence of God through His creation.
It seems that you are saying “God does not exist?” How can you know for sure? You cannot prove a negative.
Years ago people learned that the earth was flat. That was proved wrong. Years ago people learned that the sun revolved around the earth, that was proved wrong. Learning through our senses is not always reliable.
Why must we sense objective truth? Our senses are very unreliable. Try this experiment – take one container of hot water, one of lukewarm water, one of ice cold water. Put hand in hot water and leave for one minute, take hand and put in lukewarm water – the water will feel cool. Then put hand in ice cold water, leave for one minute, and put hand into lukewarm water – the water will feel hot. The lukewarm water is the same temperature, the only thing different is what we are sensing with – our hand in hot/cold water.
In order to have an objective truth – you have to have an objective truth maker – God is that truth maker. In order to have a creation, you have to have a creator. Look at the computer on your desk – it had to have a creator – if I stated that random molecules over time came together and through trial and error they formed a microchip, then electrical molecules randomly came together and powered the mircochip – you would laugh me out of the room. We all know someone invented the computer, thought it out and produced it, it was not created from random molecules by chance. Our brains are far more complex than any computer, and no computer today can parallel all that our brain takes in and does. For all of scientist’s work, they have yet to create life from random elements in a laboratory – oh, and by the way, they use elements already provided by earth – they haven’t created something from nothing.
Something cannot be created from nothing – so who is the creator – it is logical that if there is a creation, there is a creator, and God is that creator.
For me it takes more faith and subjective thinking to believe that there is not God. It is far more logical to believe in God, our creator.
And yet, our creator, God, allows us the liberty to choose to believe Him or not – that is His love for us, that He does not want to force us to believe Him – and He could if He wanted to. It is our choice to believe or not to believe – and trust me, that choice has eternal consequences.
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I think God likes you best, dear friend! Matthew 7:7-11 You are loved. Old Hat
I saw Beth Moore on Christian TV for the first time today and I can see why you like her teaching so much, she is real and captivating. A lot of seasoning she’s been through for sure.
Awesome! What a mighty God we serve~~who cares for each detail of our lives! In HIS amazing love, Paula
Your comment gives me another side to think about reality. A damaged camera distorts images as similar to a damaged brain distorts sensations. Correspond to this, you talk about truth. I have a question regarding it. What is objective truth? Objective truth cannot be your interpretation. It has to exist outside of your preference whether you like it or not. While we keep this in mind, you’re impling that God is truth. God can relinquish all of my frustration, anxiety, confusion, etc. What makes you say that God, to which our sensations cannot grapse him, is truth? We cannot see, hear, touch, smell, or taste God. Why are you making something that does not exist into something that exixts? We cannot prove his existence. Therefore, God has to function as a concept. You might say that his existence is not in this world (space-time) but in a different world without proof. You can also say that Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother exists where God is. If the existence of God is true, the existence of Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother is true because whatever can be said is true. But if you regard God’s existence is true and not Santa Claus and the fairy-god mother is true then what can I say about this. I can say that the concept of God, Santa Claus, and the fairy-god mother are learned from childhood. Whatever is taught, you take it into consideration. In regards to truth, what is considered true is learned: what ever can be said within that learning state is true. This assertion explains for the variety of beliefs whether it is scientific or religious. Objective truth has to stand for what it really is (whether you like it or not), and that, you have to be able to sense it. If it takes to step outside of what we have learned then we must do it. But if one is unwilling, that person is what you called brainwashed. A brainwashed person does not have objecitve truth. If you can give a good argument, I am willing to believe that God is objective truth or truth. I do not want to be brainwashed in my beliefs because of my willingness to believe your beliefs.
P.S. Your comment is always welcome.
Objective/absolute truth IS NOT subject to interpretation. The Law of Gravity will work whether or not we believe in gravity. God is God whether or not we choose to believe in Him or not.
We cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste gravity – but gravity exists. We cannot see, hear, taste, touch, smell mathematical principles like infinity, but they exist. Yes, we cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste God, but we have evidence of God through His creation.
It seems that you are saying “God does not exist?” How can you know for sure? You cannot prove a negative.
Years ago people learned that the earth was flat. That was proved wrong. Years ago people learned that the sun revolved around the earth, that was proved wrong. Learning through our senses is not always reliable.
Why must we sense objective truth? Our senses are very unreliable. Try this experiment – take one container of hot water, one of lukewarm water, one of ice cold water. Put hand in hot water and leave for one minute, take hand and put in lukewarm water – the water will feel cool. Then put hand in ice cold water, leave for one minute, and put hand into lukewarm water – the water will feel hot. The lukewarm water is the same temperature, the only thing different is what we are sensing with – our hand in hot/cold water.
In order to have an objective truth – you have to have an objective truth maker – God is that truth maker. In order to have a creation, you have to have a creator. Look at the computer on your desk – it had to have a creator – if I stated that random molecules over time came together and through trial and error they formed a microchip, then electrical molecules randomly came together and powered the mircochip – you would laugh me out of the room. We all know someone invented the computer, thought it out and produced it, it was not created from random molecules by chance. Our brains are far more complex than any computer, and no computer today can parallel all that our brain takes in and does. For all of scientist’s work, they have yet to create life from random elements in a laboratory – oh, and by the way, they use elements already provided by earth – they haven’t created something from nothing.
Something cannot be created from nothing – so who is the creator – it is logical that if there is a creation, there is a creator, and God is that creator.
For me it takes more faith and subjective thinking to believe that there is not God. It is far more logical to believe in God, our creator.
And yet, our creator, God, allows us the liberty to choose to believe Him or not – that is His love for us, that He does not want to force us to believe Him – and He could if He wanted to. It is our choice to believe or not to believe – and trust me, that choice has eternal consequences.
Heather