You're very welcome. Wouldn't you say, though, that your belief system is also circular? Based on the presupposition that there is no God? If you ask anyone what they believe, then ask why? And keep asking why? All the way to the topmost, ultimate thing-they -believe that leads to everything else, that topmost rung of the ladder is always "well, because believe this to be true." Every worldview's topmost truth claim is ultimately circular...
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Sure, but to be clear I’m not saying definitively that there is no God. I simply live my life and try to be a good person, which if you’ve read this whole thread, you know is actually not exclusive with the lessons from the stories of Jesus. I have no idea what might be beyond the physical reality we experience. I don’t think anyone else does either.
Ultimately i refuse to live my life in fear, that’s what it boils down to. Doesn’t mean i’m gonna go around stealing and raping or anything
But there is no judgmental intentional creator to blame our ignorance on, however, the revolution is that deviance hiding behind false cored constructs of ignorance and faith, there is no tolerance for.
Well, consider this. Say a guy comes along whose birth fulfills hundreds of thousand-year-old prophecies (which he obviously couldn't have a hand in). Then, say this guy starts healing people miraculously just as other ancient prophecies said he would. Say, also, that this fellow says "I am God, and here's how you'll know I am who I say I am: they're going to kill me, but three days later I will rise again. I am telling you before it happens so that you'll know I am [who I say I am]." And then he does just that: tomb is empty. And, say there are at least 500 witnesses to this resurrection. And then suppose the entire world bases their measure of time on the birth of this one guy (what year is it?).
If this guy really is who he says he is, then wouldn't you accept that what he said was true about "the beyond" was true? How else could we know what's true about "the beyond" unless someone came from there to tell us about it? Neither you nor I can ever live long enough or travel far enough to experience every fact of reality to the point where we can say something true about "everything." We must rely, then, on someone beyond--someone who transcends our limitations. Say this someone was trying to figure out how he could prove to us convincingly that he was telling us the truth - "I know: I'll defeat the one enemy that none of them can: death itself. Surely, that will convince them." Think about it. What else could he have said or done that he didn't already do?
And if all that is acceptable, then we can know what's true about 'the beyond' simply because he has told us.
"The secret things belong to the Lord; but what he has told us belongs to us, and to our children, forever."