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Apr 7 2012 09:52pm
Quote (xfrodobagginsx @ Apr 7 2012 11:21pm)
God CAN violate these laws since He created them and everything that exists.  No one else can because ALL else in this physical world exists within these laws.  God does not.

Matter and Energy cannot exist on their own because it is impossible to create or destroy matter.  That's why.  It's pretty easy to figure out. They CANNOT exist because they CANNOT be created. They couldn't be self existent.  They MUST have a cause.  God is that cause.


Logical fallacy, your premises don't logically lead to your conclusion.

Something does not require a cause to exist, it requires a cause to BEGIN to exist.
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Apr 7 2012 11:56pm
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God CAN violate these laws since He created them and everything that exists.  No one else can because ALL else in this physical world exists within these laws.  God does not.

Matter and Energy cannot exist on their own because it is impossible to create or destroy matter.  That's why.  It's pretty easy to figure out.  They CANNOT exist because they CANNOT be created.  They couldn't be self existent.  They MUST have a cause.  God is that cause.


Your arguments are clearly nonsensical, and many others have already pointed out that the mere existence of matter does not imply its creation out of nothing any more than the mere existence of god implies god's creation out of nothing.
If god can exist forever, why can't matter? There are no laws of science to be broken by allowing for eternal existence of the universe, in one way or another, without a starting point. Perhaps the Big Bang singularity has existed always, or was at one point in a different state. Perhaps the universe goes through some sort of cycles, where it expands and then contracts again, only to explode outward, forever and ever for reasons we just haven't figured out and possibly never will.

Besides, our "laws" of science are descriptive, not prescriptive. Matter doesn't obey our laws, our laws just describe what we see the best way we can. Maybe matter can be created or destroyed under circumstances we simply never encountered before. As we learn more about antimatter and quantum physics, maybe these laws will follow the path of Newton's gravity - "good enough" for most situations, but not all. At one point people used god to explain the existence of lightning and wind, now you are using god to explain the existence of matter and energy. It's an argument from ignorance, and it's a sad, sad thing.

But even all of that aside, what exactly makes you think that this "creator" is the Christian god? Why not Allah? Pretty sure he has always existed and created the universe too. How about Zeus? Ra? Vishnu? FSM?
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Apr 8 2012 02:09am

there is no heaven/hell

but there is a continuation of life after the body death.

nn religion or to believing in it, it is simply that way.
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Apr 8 2012 04:22pm
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Logical fallacy, your premises don't logically lead to your conclusion.

Something does not require a cause to exist, it requires a cause to BEGIN to exist.


Logically, IF matter and energy requires a cause to BEGIN to exist, it requires a cause to exist in the first place, therefore, it is impossible for matter and energy to exist, yet they do.

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Apr 8 2012 04:32pm
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Your arguments are clearly nonsensical, and many others have already pointed out that the mere existence of matter does not imply its creation out of nothing any more than the mere existence of god implies god's creation out of nothing.
If god can exist forever, why can't matter?

Because if Matter could exist without a cause, then we would see it coming into existence on it's own all of the time.  The laws of science would have to be re-written.  Science is not on your side. 


There are no laws of science to be broken by allowing for eternal existence of the universe, in one way or another, without a starting point.

Yes, there are. Logically, IF matter and energy requires a cause to BEGIN to exist, it requires a cause to exist in the first place, therefore, it is impossible for matter and energy to exist, yet they do.


Perhaps the Big Bang singularity has existed always, or was at one point in a different state. Perhaps the universe goes through some sort of cycles, where it expands and then contracts again, only to explode outward, forever and ever for reasons we just haven't figured out and possibly never will

Maybe there was no Big Bang.

Besides, our "laws" of science are descriptive, not prescriptive. Matter doesn't obey our laws, our laws just describe what we see the best way we can. Maybe matter can be created or destroyed under circumstances we simply never encountered before. As we learn more about antimatter and quantum physics, maybe these laws will follow the path of Newton's gravity - "good enough" for most situations, but not all. At one point people used god to explain the existence of lightning and wind, now you are using god to explain the existence of matter and energy. It's an argument from ignorance, and it's a sad, sad thing.

What you are expousing here isn't science.  It's faith.  What you are saying is that you have FAITH that as we learn more about the universe that we will learn that matter and energy can be created.  That isn't science.  According to science as we know it, matter cannot be created nor destroyed. 


But even all of that aside, what exactly makes you think that this "creator" is the Christian god? Why not Allah? Pretty sure he has always existed and created the universe too. How about Zeus? Ra? Vishnu? FSM?


Ahh, now we are making progress right?  Let's explore why this Creator must be the Christian God shall we?





This video explains why the Christian God is the One and Only True and Living God and not Islam:


http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J9CF9FNU


Islam is easily disprovable. Islam is based upon the Koran. The Bible was written hundreds of years before the Koran and by the eyewitnesses to the events. The Bible is supported by secular history, church history, science and othewise. The Koran contradicts secular history and the bible (eyewitness testimony). It was written by one man, mohammad who twisted up the biblical stories to make his own religion. He murdered thousands of Christians and forced thousands to convert or die.
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Apr 8 2012 04:38pm
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Logically, IF matter and energy requires a cause to BEGIN to exist, it requires a cause to exist in the first place, therefore, it is impossible for matter and energy to exist, yet they do.


No dude, this is not true! I just said that, my God.


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This video explains why the Christian God is the One and Only True and Living God and not Islam:


http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J9CF9FNU


Islam is easily disprovable.  Islam is based upon the Koran.  The Bible was written hundreds of years before the Koran and by the eyewitnesses to the events.  The Bible is supported by secular history, church history, science and othewise.  The Koran contradicts secular history and the bible (eyewitness testimony).  It was written by one man, mohammad who twisted up the biblical stories to make his own religion.  He murdered thousands of Christians and forced thousands to convert or die.

It's people like you who make Christians look bad.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Apr 8 2012 04:39pm
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Apr 8 2012 09:03pm
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No dude, this is not true! I just said that, my God.

Look, basically, your left with 2 choices, either the matter always was, which I believe science disproves, you have a right to disagree on this, or an all powerful God who stands outside of the laws of science created the matter and energy.  I believe that it was God, you seem to believe that the matter always existed.  So let's explore that.  Even if the matter always existed, life could have never came into existence on it's own. 



It's people like you who make Christians look bad.

So, if I disagree with you, I make Christians look bad?  Did you even watch the video?  I also started with Islam and gave you good reasons why Islam cannot be true, but start at the video.





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Apr 8 2012 11:31pm
IMO, religion was just made up by people who can't fathom their own existence. The "bible" was simply made up and written by one or more of these people. There is presicely no proof that an all-mighty being exists. If this "god" did exist, then we would all be perfect beings, and what a terrible existence that would be. Science, on the other, hand, we can see happening right in front of us. There is no such thing as a "perfect" being because, if there is, how did something created by this "god" turn into everything that embodies what makes us so imperfect, in this case, the "devil"? Put simply, there is much more proof of our laws of physics then there is that an all-mighty being actually exists.
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Apr 8 2012 11:36pm
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there is no heaven/hell

but there is a continuation of life after the body death.

nn religion or to believing in it, it is simply that way.


Now that is settled....
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Apr 9 2012 10:54am
The Cosmological Argument for the existence of God:

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=D776LWNX


The Design Argument for the existence of God:

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J99CMCNU


The Moral Argument for the existence of God:

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=D7K7WPNX
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