The most rational way for a believer to view God and the afterlife

Aren’t they marsupials? I guess God is real then.

Go ahead, show that it’s possible. Since it is so clear, you shouldn’t have any problem showing that the existence of God (including all the baggage that this form of the word carries with it) is possible. Ball’s in your court.

No fear here. Nothing to fear. Realizing that there are no gods is the single most freeing thought imaginable.

Great, then you know how to reach him. Tell him I’m still waiting for the $100 million in cash that I prayed for (and so he owes me) back when I was still stupid enough to have faith.

Maybe the “existential force” liberates 2ManyTacos from distress over the complexity and perversity of his brute physical world. Perhaps he creates a plate glass of existentialism to shield him from a breakdown in his drive toward spiritual understanding.
But I also wish for 2ManyTacos to share more information on this “existential force”.

Koalas aren’t bears.

Nope, bears. :slight_smile:

The universe is in existence,if it were not in existence it wouldn’t exist.

Oh, how convenient, a way of looking for God that doesn’t require looking through a telescope. Get back to work!

Are you defining “existence” as a condition, or as a location? For the purposes of this discussion, can we just pick one and stick to it?

It would be a place, one needs a place to be, before they can exist. Perhaps a condition is just the way one exists?

If something exists, it is a place?

Where else would it exist if there was no place? Existence must exist, or it wouldn’t be existence. If something doesn’t exist it is nothing.

It’s said that part of the Homo-Sapien brain is solely for religious experiences. It’s to help one accept death. You are looking at this the wrong way, matter is one as a whole solely defined by it’s chemical makeup. When you die you will decompose back into these simple structures and make life possible for others. Do tree’s have an afterlife, do dogs, how about fungus, or possible cancer cells? You are looking at this in an arbitrary way and claiming that Humans are more superior than all living life.

All things change back to the atoms etc. as they were before coming into earthly existence). If you burn a piece of paper (as I understand it) it becomes carbon or what ever atoms were in it. There is no way of knowing if a human has an after life, anymore than an animal, or plant. Just the hope that there is!

Giant pandas are bears, red pandas are not.