Religious people, do you consider #Bitcoin to be a manifestation of God's will? #asknostr
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No more or less than any other human creation.
No more than fiat?
The will of God and the things that God delights in are not always one in the same. It was his will that fiat currency should be allowed to arise, but that is not to say he delights in the ponzi. In his infinite wisdom he has seen fit to allow it and use it for his purposes.
Is there any way to prove gods existence? Ane is there any way to disprove that what is happening is done by god?
What do you mean by *prove*?
That there is no logical way for it to be different then specified.
Trying to understand but not sure I follow.
If you mean a way to logically conclude that there is a creator God than yes. If you mean a way to logically conclude that this creator God is the God of the Bible, than also yes. Whether we accept the logic or not is the question.
It is also logically impossible that there are other explanations or conclusions?
Sure, yeah it is not impossible because facts and logic can be employed to come to any number of conclusions.
It is important to point out that we are not creatures of pure reason. There are numerous other factors and faculties that inform the conclusions we come to and the logic we accept.
In other words, there are plenty of logical arguments that can be made and have been made for the existence and lordship of the God of the Bible, but in our sin and in our pomp we also can employ our God-given powers of reason to draw our own, incorrect, conclusions that no such God exists.
Just because something may seem logical to us doesn't mean it is true. Truth is the real heart of the matter.
With logical proof I mean things like how a ball falls to the ground, or how encryption utilizes information theory etc.
I'll affirm that what you are asking is reasonable because if the Bible chronicles things that happened in real space and time then it follows that we can apply the kind of measurable logic to confirm the truth of the matter (to a degree. Many of these things happened very long ago).
But I will also add that logic exists beyond the bounds of that which can be scientifically measured. To limit logic only to scientifically measurable proofs of physical reality is too narrow a view of logic. People believe a great many things scientific study can only poatulate about at best. I encourage you to think bigger and deeper.
Why should we believe that future experiences of things falling will be like the past? How exactly is it that we can measure anything and why should we trust that our measurements are in accord with reality? What must be true for anything to exist in reality? These are pre-scientifically measurable questions.
You might be interested in the following books:
Pushing the Antithesis by Greg Bahnsen
Why Should I believe in Christianity? By James N. Anderson
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Also the book C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea by Victor Reppert
Something created everything. That something is what the religious call God.
Well, the thing is we have free will. So any human creation is due to that. Some may honor God's will, others, such fiat, violate it. But I personally dont believe in 'Gods will' in the sense that something was made so or done by God directly.
Yeah I get you. I was referring to God's will in the sense of 'doing good'. Ofc people interpret it in their own way
Gotcha. And to that degree, yes I agree. Jesus flipped some tables in part due to debasing the shekel by the Money Changers so there's that too.
Well that was quite interesting😂
Its was through God's gift of human ingenuity that it was created though and its liberating to the human condition.
All things are a manifestation of God's will.
I consider bitcoin an act of common grace, providentially arising when it did and under the circumstances in which it did.
It is under his lordship and is to be used for his glory.
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
Abraham Kuyper
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