Posted by:
melissa3839
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Date: March 25, 2011 03:24PM
I DO NOT believe the LDS church is true. But I do believe in god. I really don't think one has anything to do with the other.
Here is a great video I found on YouTube, which better explains what I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwq4BtjVG7U&feature=channel_video_titleI know a lot of people don't believe in God, simply because he doesn't jump in and "save" everyone and everything, every time something bad happens. But I don't consider that a very good reason. And I just want to know why everyone assumes that only the belief in God is totally impossible? Atheism can be equally impossible, which I will explain below.
As for why "God" doesn't interfere, you have to understand something called "free will" and "fairness". Every human being has to have free will in order to be accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, free will also includes the freedom to do bad things. If there were no free will, there would be no way to distinguish between good people and bad people. Murder wouldn't be such a horrible sin, such a profound sign of an evil heart, if it didn't have devastating effects on a person and their family.
Then there is the "fairness" I mentioned. True, murder, theft, kidnapping, sexual assault-- those are all the result of an evil person's free will, which again, everyone must have.
But what about things that are not a result of free will? Things like cancer, or other random deadly illnesses? Or natural disasters?
Well... Again, he has to be fair. And it wouldn't be fair to save someone from cancer, but not save a child from being kidnapped through someone's free will. So in order to be completely fair, its best to just not interfere at all.
That doesn't mean there is no god, or that he hates us all. It just means that everything will be straightened out in the afterlife. Death is only a horrible, awful, unfair thing to people who don't believe in an afterlife. To religious people, its like taking you kid to get a shot-- they will hate you, and think you don't care about their feelings. But YOU know its necessary, and why.
And as for atheism being equally impossible-- its true. The belief that an entire universe can suddenly "burst" into being, with all its mass-- from absolute nothingness... Its just as supernatural and far-fetched as the idea of a God. Nothingness cannot produce something. It can only produce more nothingness. So where did all this "something" come from?
And actually, according to science and the law that "something cannot come from nothing", and "there can be no effect without a cause"-- what the scientists/atheists believe should by all means be completely impossible! Yet they believe it, just like religious people believe in God.
Sure, some of them have plenty of theories and explanations... But when you really examine them, they are just as fantastic, miraculous, and far-fetched as the idea of a God too!
Point: Both sides believe in something we cannot prove, and which could by all means be impossible. So what's the difference?
Personally, I think its nothing more than a matter of preference, because its certainly NOT a matter of "provable facts".
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2011 03:58PM by melissa3839.