Atheists

[artsylady]

The Bible speaks a lot about 'hard heartedness" which makes people blind to the truth.

What do you think that means and do you believe that you are hard hearted?

[Ateam]

Just because someone tells you that there is a ghost under your bed, and you dont believe it, dosent necessarily make you hard heartedness.

God created Genesis for God to exist. Man created god through genesis. Without man - god would never exist. God is reliant on man to keep him going. When man stops believing, that's when god ceases to exist. This is 2008 not year 8000bc. When will we evolve already? Its really that simple.

[Richard_yaash]

God created Genesis for God to exist. Man created god through genesis. Without man - god would never exist. God is reliant on man to keep him going. When man stops believing, that's when god ceases to exist. This is 2008 not year 8000bc. When will we evolve already? Its really that simple.

Welcome to Worthy Ateam.

Thanks for the warning, I almost did look under my bed

Your first two statements seem contradictory to me. Perhaps it is just my comprehensive abilities though.

OTOH: It could also be said that when God ceases to believe in man, that man also will cease to exist.

Last time I tried to evolve, I ended up stuck in a revolving door.

[caughtinside]

I'm not exactly atheist, but hopefully close enough to respond.

Hard-heartedness--maybe this is pride, or anger? I can imagine a person's pride or anger interfering with their ability to look at things in new ways, and to see things accurately. But I doubt it is the sole factor. It's kind of slippery, because within Christianity there are plenty of opposing views on things, and proponents of the various views could all play the hard-heart card when dealing with other 'camps'. I know in my Mormon past life it was often used as an explanation.

caughtinside

[patricia1]

hard heartedness comes from a seared mind and sometimes from a word out of season. There are other reasons too.

There is a area in the old testament that God sends a lie cause that is what the people wanted to hear they did not want truth.

[Richard_yaash]

Hard-heartedness--maybe this is pride, or anger? I can imagine a person's pride or anger interfering with their ability to look at things in new ways, and to see things accurately. But I doubt it is the sole factor.

I'll concur and also agree that it is more than that.

It's kind of slippery, because within Christianity there are plenty of opposing views on things, and proponents of the various views could all play the hard-heart card when dealing with other 'camps'. I know in my Mormon past life it was often used as an explanation.

Point understood and taken.

[OneLight]

I'm not exactly atheist, but hopefully close enough to respond.

Hard-heartedness--maybe this is pride, or anger? I can imagine a person's pride or anger interfering with their ability to look at things in new ways, and to see things accurately. But I doubt it is the sole factor. It's kind of slippery, because within Christianity there are plenty of opposing views on things, and proponents of the various views could all play the hard-heart card when dealing with other 'camps'. I know in my Mormon past life it was often used as an explanation.

caughtinside

I think you are onto something here. Pride stops us from giving up control of our lives. Pride says that we can do it all by ourselves, that we are right no matter what anyone else tells us. Well, arrogance can also play it's part, by arrogance starts with a prideful heart. With this attitude, nothing sounds right and our heart hardens because we refuse to believe.

We can be angry, but that passes. Pride only grows stronger.

In His Love,

OneLight

[OneLight]

Just because someone tells you that there is a ghost under your bed, and you dont believe it, dosent necessarily make you hard heartedness.

God created Genesis for God to exist. Man created god through genesis. Without man - god would never exist. God is reliant on man to keep him going. When man stops believing, that's when god ceases to exist. This is 2008 not year 8000bc. When will we evolve already? Its really that simple.

Welcome to Worthy, Ateam! Your words make me believe you are answering as an Athiest ... do you think your heart is hardened?

[stan4257]

The Bible speaks a lot about 'hard heartedness" which makes people blind to the truth.

What do you think that means and do you believe that you are hard hearted?

A good question. Thank you.

The heart of a human, as a warm blooded creation of God's love, beats faster and slower in tune with emotional thoughts and needs. The heart that doesn't do so might be considered as being hard, unresponsive and unloving. The antithesis of a hard heart is a soft heart or a soft hearted loving person.

And love is truth. Without a loving response to a need in our neighbour the truth is not in us. We then become, as you said, blind to the need, and hard hearted.

Am I hard hearted? No. At least I believe that mostly I am not.

[Ddavid from NC]

The Bible speaks a lot about 'hard heartedness" which makes people blind to the truth.

What do you think that means and do you believe that you are hard hearted?

It is a mindset that my personal philosophy, life decisions, and behavior should revolve around my own comfort, pleasure, desire, & preference of opinion. I believe what I want to believe (relativism). I heard one man express it repeatedly, "don't confuse me with the facts". According to Romans, often God will choose to let some individuals go unchecked and their hearts get harder and the result is a self-destructive & depraved mind.

While I have been there, and there is probably pockets of this resistance to truth in my life, my eyes have been opened!