Quote Originally Posted by BlueBlazer
My point is that god could remove any ambiguity by simply revealing his/her/it's existence in a way that is totally beyond question.

As it is, the scientific and rational exploration of the Bible, Torah, and Koran reveal books that are basically fairy tales.

You say you are of the opinion that god exists, however, all religions have it wrong. If this being exists, but chooses to remain hidden to us then what practical purpose in believing in god?

Some people just simply will not accept that there is no directing intelligent life form, no matter what type of evidence is given.


Your first point is a good one, but then again just because someone does not pick up their phone does not take them out of existence. You are asking a fellow man, if I were God I bet I could answer that but since I am a man, it's not really for me to say why it doesn't reveal itself to us all just for us to know, my personal opinion though would be that I am able to comprehend everything around me and at least notice that I am alive, a living thing and not just some minerals and gasses that by chance came together to form me. Life is driven by intelligence, if it were not, then humans would cease to exist.

Your second point I also agree with 110%, people/men created those - therefore cannot be trusted. Just because religions are false does not mean that we did not come from an intelligent creator.


Some things in life simply cannot be explained or answered by religion. I have kids so to me, God has already answered me. For some people I guess it is different.



Also:

Albert Einstein is on record as saying that he did not believe in a personal God. They keyword is personal. Einstein did not believe that god knows or cares about you on a personal level, that he hears your prayers or interferes in anyway in response to prayers. Instead, he believed that there was a God that maintained and created the harmony of the universe.

"I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what that is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the most intelligent human toward God."

That deeply emotional conviction of a presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."