“No but since you want to judge God perhaps you think you are even greater than Him?”–nick

I only think that if I knew you were going to be killed by Cain, I would have prevented that if it was in my power.

God would have let you die Nick.

I guess it depends how you define morality, and perhaps you should define it for me, but if person 1…[Read more]

Hi nick.

I’m not god.  I would have prevented Abel from being murdered if I could have.  And if you were Abel,  I presume you would be happy about that.

“Hi david,

The world was full of illness, blindness and demonic behaviours when Jesus arrived.

Did Jesus blame God or do something about it?

Should we not follow the Son?”

And which illnesses did Jesus choose to act a miracle on?  And which did he do nothing?  Were not “all” healed who were brought to him.  I am not here saying anything of…[Read more]

Nick

sometimes on the news you hear stories of a man being beaten up or a girl attacked or some thing and there is a large crowd of bystanders around who do nothing.

This is because of the bystander effect.  The plurality of ignorance and the diffusion of responsibility create this effect.  Individuals might step in but in a crowd, not as e…[Read more]

I would call that empathy.  A feeling of empathy?

Nick,

I will infer that you would just watch the girl being endlessly raped despite it being easy to end that disgusting pain and suffering and despite her plea’s to you.

Immoral and disgusting.  What are your thoughts on the golden rule or the good Samaritan principle?

The main point I was originally making is:

People tend to be self serving…[Read more]

MIIA, you were in prison for 18 years???

and you suddenly got out? I don’t really know how people get out of prison or how that works but isn’t there a process? What specifically makes you believe that after 18 years it was God who opened the doors for you, like in the bible?

Im glad you are now out.

MIIA, you were in prison for 18 years???

and you suddenly got out?  I don’t really know how people get out of prison or how that works but isn’t there a process?  What specifically makes you believe that after 18 years it was God who opened the doors for you, like in the bible?

Im glad you are now out.

I’m not sure just because a Christian invents or discovers something that this means it comes from God.

If God wanted to give us vaccines he would have told us the benefits of moldy bread long ago.   Or mental illness.  He could have told us about mental illness.

It it seems remarkable that mental illness sort of arose just right around the t…[Read more]

“some miracles are in your face. God has given people knowledge. example, look how far we have come with modern medicine. we can bring the dead back. we can give sight to the blind, and heal people without them feeling a thing (‘greater things than these will you do’).”

Most of of this hasn’t come from God.   Men researching and doing rest…[Read more]

“this man walked angry, acted angry, appeared angry in public. he no longer does, he appears like anyone else. i have no desire to inquire if he had an experience with God around the time i prayed for him because, i know he did. i felt the power of God working and i just know.”

Well this seems to say it all.   MIIA, you want to believe, as does…[Read more]

“””””David,

Then the answer is God has mercy on whom he has mercy and compassion on whom he has compassion.

I have kidney disease and I certainly pray for healing but many others have kidney disease as well and God does not heal a significant number of them. He has never been one to do a whole lot of miracles, Jesus commented on that.

The best…[Read more]

Man cannot be more moral than God.

Imagine you had a gun and were immortal, and you saw your daughter being raped, or any child being raped, and they called out specifically to you for help, they called out over and over again in tears for your help, believing and hoping you would help, but you just watched.  You watched her being raped.

What…[Read more]

What education?  As far as this thread goes, lack of credible evidence after 3 decades of study and searching slowly eroded my ability to cling to the desired belief in miracles today.

Nick

having studied quite a bit,  I know that belief (or faith) is the default for the human brain.

It takes almost no effort to believe.

It takes great effort and anguish and frustration not to believe.

Bit I have no desire for either–only truth.

In answer to your question, yes.

T8,

I believe you have higher amount of dopamine in your brain than average. I’m not saying this is bad, but I believe if you saw a specialist, this could be confirmed.

Hi kerwin
My question is not “why does God allow evil,” and if I gave that impression, I’m sorry.

My question is:
Doesn’t it seem odd to believe for instance that God is answering your prayer about your leg that hurts when he doesn’t seem to answer the prayer of this girl who was raped for 24 years for example?

And when your leg gets better…[Read more]

Hi kerwin

I’m just focing on today.

Something else miia about the type of miracle you suggest. I’m not sure these are miracles as much as answers to prayers. But something else:

A woman (froline frisa) in Austria was held by her father who for 24 years raped her every day.  Every day, her father raped her. She bore children and he raped them as well.  It was only by accident t…[Read more]

Nick

me not seeing a miracle isn’t why I don’t think miracles aren’t happening today.  Besides what the Bible says, it’s my study of self deception,  bias, perceprual illusion, mental comfort, congnitive illusions, and how evidence works and where the burden of proof lies that make me wonder.

It’s not that I have not seen a MiraclE. I’ve seen f…[Read more]