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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That doesn't really make sense though. If you need God to exist to create the inverse out of nothing,[b] what created God?
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I grew up catholic too, even married someone else who grew up catholic, baptized our kids, but we are actually agnostic. Religion seems like a belief system created out of fear and certainty, because people didn't really understand science or the laws of physics or astronomy at the time. And people will always look for something to add meaning and deep dad to their lives. But it just seems like a lot of very wishful thinking when the simplest, most logical answer is that the universe (not some mysterious superpower) created itself, and that dead people are just dead and don't go to a special sky farm with angels and clouds. [/quote]

God (at least the God of Christianity) always was and always will be. That cannot be understood but has to be accepted. That's what makes Him God.

Part of your problem, OP, is that you are trying to understand this with the limitations of the human mind in place. [b]That is why I find Christianity so appealing. It is literally God coming to earth, with historical evidence that it happened.[/b]  He came to us, in a form that we can understand.

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How do you square that with the knowledge that there are billions and billions of stars and planets and surely other life on planets?  When I became aware of that, it really made me think that our ideas of religion are very "me-centric" or "earth-centric" -- which just seems too convenient given the vastness of space and time.  What are the chances that God just happened to come to THIS planet a few short years ago (short in the history of time)?  And came here to save US! -- how lucky are we? Or maybe it's all just something we made up to make ourselves  feel better along the way.... which seems more likely.

Religion seems so comforting and personal -- it naturally is going to arise in a population.  But, given the science, I just can't go with the "we're special" ideas anymore.  [/quote]

And how do you know that God/ Jesus did not visit other planets, assuming that there is life there?[/quote]

The evidence is pretty compelling that God / Jesus did visit other planets. Or at least as compelling as the evidence he / they visited the Earth.

Well, okay, no evidence.[/quote]

There is much evidence that God did come to earth in the person of Jesus Christ.

I'm going to stop there, because I have a strong sense that this is the same tired, bitter atheist who makes his/ her way to this topic every time it appears on DCUM. We've heard from you before, we know your views and that you are not interested in changing them. Until you open your mind, you really should find a new hobby.[/quote]

not just one

There are MANY of us.  lol

There is NO scientific evidence that Jesus came down to Earth in the form of a human.  There are no accounts (at least those approved by historians) that Jesus was in fact - Jesus.  The name was common back in the day.

It's so simplistic to think that some supreme being created us and then chose a "few good men" to spread his word.  And if you didn't see the light, you'd be condemned to a Dante's Inferno.

really?

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