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Phillnb25

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  • Birthday 09/29/1993

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  1. Hey fam! I'm sure everybody is tired of seeing my posts popping up all over this forum lol but I have decided that its time I get into the root of my issues. I "accepted" Christ at the prime age of 6-8 years old. I don't think I was old enough to truly understand what I was doing but they made it easy enough. I just repeated a prayer and got dunked in water and I was good, forgiven for everything I would ever do. So I put God on the back burner and continued on with my life. I did the whole church thing, was in choir, participated in the youth group, etc... did everything a good old southern boy was expected to do. The issue is I had no desire to, I cussed, lusted, sinned and didn't even care because "I was good, I said the little prayer"..well years went on and I got worse and worse eventually getting into paganism...Asatru heathenism to be exact. So I did the whole pagan thing for a while, I didn't really get anything out of it so I just moved on with my life and continued to not care about anything. So eventually summer turned to winter and Visa versa and my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 renal cancer. After 5 years he finally succumbed and it rocked my world, my apathy turned to anger towards any "god" so I continued to live my life as I wanted, I continued to be unfulfilled when I felt a strange realization that if I died, I would go to Hell....so I went back to the beginning and began to study the word of God. I was on fire for the Lord, I repented of my past and began to live the life I professed that went on for a year or two when suddenly i noticed my faith was gone, vanished as quickly as it came. I began to realize that i didn't believe the bible anymore, i didn't believe in an afterlife, I even began to question if God ever existed. Which led me on the path to study the sciences and figure out the truth. I studied philosophy, such as Pascals Wager, the Kalaam comoslogical argument, Thomas Aquius's 5 ways, etc... but could not retrigger my faith. Which leads us to the present, my life feels dark and meaningless, I have a hard time getting motivated to do anything, I want so bad to believe in God, the bible, and everything but in physically cant. Prayer seems like a wasted one way conversation and I begin to feel as if I've been cut off from the light. The bible warns of reprobation and such and I feel as if that's where I am. Has anyone had any similar experiences or maybe some advice?
  2. TL;DR Possiblity of humans being able to live forever, moral or not? Hello all! I found this sub forum and got super excited because it is right up my alley ok I wanna purpose a semi hypothetical situation.....for those who may not be familiar Trans humanism s defined as "the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology" from here on out it will be referred as H+. So H+ proponents believe that they could either reverse or completely eliminate human cell aging by the year 2050. They believe that an event known as the singularity is coming and could be here by the 2030ish. From there H+ believe that humans could either A) implant themselves into machines (aka cyborgs), B) create procedures to reverse human cell aging, C) create digital copies of the human consciousness and upload it to a "cloud" storage system. Now this could be cool for many reasons, such as scientific development could be massively extended if scientists could live for extended periods of time. People with terminal illnesses could simply switch bodies. Stuff like that. However with all things morality and ethics should be examined. Could a person be transferred into a new body and still be the original person? How would the soul figure into the equation? If we could would it be a sin? Would that be flying in the face of God's plan? The bible never specifically answers questions such as the given the situation and personally I feel as if moral gray areas should be avoided like the plague. Though I would be excited about the potential to live forever. What are your thoughts? Should H+ be pursuing these ideas or could this be a demonic trap?
  3. So let me see if I understand your post a little more! you're saying that a person may have a spiritual revelation but they are too spiritually blind to either see or accept it?
  4. Thanks for the detailed response! No idea why my text is red now....lol but anyways. That's is a great break down 9f the argument. I think its human nature to try to apply physical aspects to a non physical being. Anyways this helps me with my some of my issues and definitely will give me food for thought! Thanks again and hope to see you in another thread soon!
  5. That's true! It just makes it hard, especially in today's society where everybody wants everything now haha
  6. I wouldn't say number 4 is false right out of the gate. It's not saying that God would force everyone into a relationship with him, just that anyone seeking a relationship with him would find one. People still have their free will to choose to want that relationship.
  7. Thanks for that thread! I'll definitely check it out today. The argument from non belief isn't necessarily about miracles, its more about someone seeking God and not being able to find him. I can agree that we shouldn't doubt that God still intervenes today, but if someone is honestly trying to find him why wouldn't he help and just reveal himself to said person?
  8. TL;DR Why doesn't God reveal himself to humanity in a stronger, more conclusive way? Hey fam! So I think it's time to do my first post so I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong spot. I wanna discuss with everyone the whole idea of argument from non-belief (a.k.a "divine hiddeness".) So this can be simplified as: 1. If God exists (the greatest possible being), then God is all-good. 2. If God is all-good, then God is perfectly loving. 3. So if God exists, then God is perfectly loving. 4. But a perfectly loving God would ensure everyone is always able to be in relationship with God just by trying. 5. And that ability requires belief that God exists. 6. So, if God exists, then God would ensure all believe. 7. So, if God exists, all persons believe God exists. 8. But not everyone believes that. 9. So no God has ensured everyone believes it. 10. So no God has ensured everyone is able to be in such relationship just by trying. 11. So no perfectly loving God exists. 12. So no all-good God exists. 13. So God does not exist. This has always been troubling to me because growing up I've always read stories of people like Moses, Elijah, and even John the Baptist...etc that had first hand experiences and/or conversations with God. God seemed to make himself very evident between 1500 bce to the mid first century ad. After that God seemed in directly interact with humans less and less until today where human/God interaction seems almost non existent. I understand the counter argument of free will but if someone is actively seeking God, why does he seem so elusive? Let's start here and see if we can reason through this together ??
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