Religiously speaking: Isn't it arrogant to think life just popped up out of nothing with no Creator?
That's just a straw-man. Have fun burning straw-men if you can't deal with the arguments as they are actually presented. Natural explanations don't claim life just "popped just up out of nothing", nor is the motivation behind natural explanations arrogance but evidence. Life is complex, that is true, and we do have to have an explanation for it. And the argument about arrogance could just easily be reversed to say that it's arrogance to think everything in the Universe was specifically created for humans.
RELIGIOUSLY SPEAKINg:...?!?!?
Candles. Funny you should mention that, though -- I just finished the chapter of "The God Delusion" where Richard Dawkins likens religion to the misfiring instinct that causes the moth to incinerate itself...
Religiously speaking, Big Bang vs God?
Big Bang Posit: The universe began as a very tight and small sphere of super composition (a combination of all matter and energy in condensed form) that became unstable and exploded. Challenge: Where did the super sphere come from? Possible answer to challenge: (my own theory) What is under the hood? Take away the energy, the darkness, the light and the mass. What is left. Nothing. - The absolute ZERO. - If you look at how the universe FITS into the ZERO dimensions, it fits in spheres. Atomic, leptrons and smallest part of particles tend to twist from strings that have an energetic dimensional fabric that spread to fit this ZERO zone. The CUP is the dimension ZERO. It holds the universe like how a ice cube tray holds water/ice. - This holder dimension is the fabric of existence. It's full of grooves that everything fits in, our universe just molds into it. It is a passive dimension that our universe moves through. It shapes us and the universe. - What this mold sits on is, nothing - zero - nada - When you have absolutely nothing, what is lacking is laws. One of these laws is that for something to exist, it has to come from something else. In Nothing zone, not the mold zone, something can exist without being created. Because there are no laws to govern existence. God: Created everything including himself
Religiously speaking. 10 p for best argument.
There are at least two answers to your first question. First, the entire universe functions as a single entity to produce life. So the structure of the universe is predicated on the generation of life. There are no superfluous parts. Further, you assume that the Creator’s intent was only to develop life on Earth. For all we know there is life elsewhere in the universe. Or that life would develop or spread from Earth to fill the cosmos. Obviously this is hypothetical. But the universe does support life as we know it. That much, at least, is fact. As a theist, I believe this is intentional. 2. Humans and primates inhabit the same ecosystems. Why should it surprise us that our physiology is similar? Our bodies were designed for the world we inhabit, just like the apes. Similar environments mean similar bodies. If I were designing species, that’s the way it would work. It seems perfectly rational and consistent for God to have done so. He may have other reasons. But even I can see why it would be the way it is. 3 The book is a record of direct contact. So saying He hasn’t done so doesn’t jive. Beyond that, we were created to bear His image. One offshoot of this is that humanity is in partnership with the Creator here on earth. He has chosen to work through people to get His message across. Again, this is perfectly consistent with the way information is disseminated by us, and theologically consistent with what is revealed (through men and women) in sacred scripture. Demanding that He reveal Himself directly to each member of every generation does not take seriously our responsibility as image bearers to do this work under His supervision and guidance. We insist that He do it all. He says no. He created us to carry part of the load. There are other, deeper, theological reasons for God’s choosing to work through humanity, but this one is enough to answer your question. One can say a lot of things about Christianity. It may be delusion, or deception. But it is self-consistent. Indeed, much of its power to gain and hold the hearts of people lies in this this very fact. Peace
Religiously speaking, would a child/human clone grown in a Petri dish have a soul?
There are only three possible options when you apply simple logic, even metaphysical logic :-(1) therefore there is no God as far as the clone is concerned for God is not his or her creator(2) and since it is presumed that there can only be one creator or one God, then either there is no God or anyone can become a God if he or she creates life, which in turn means that there can be more than one God, which means the earlier presumption is false, which then leads to whether all these Gods, if several, are all equal in omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence?(3) the existing only one God has the capacity to adopt what is not his making to be deemed to be his making and all is happy in this feigned hypocritical expediency.Vincent Cheok
Religiously speaking; Who brews the coffee in your house?
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, 'You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee. The husband said, 'You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.' Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.' Husband replies, 'I can't believe that, show me.' So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says .. 'HEBREWS'
Non-religiously and logically speaking, since eventually, we all die, why don’t we just end our life now and not go through the human suffering?
You speak without due reflection. Very reductionistic eh? Why assume so much? You are all about logic eh? A barren world view, to me.And just perchance, and it turns out you are dead wrong? What if, what if all the worlds religions got at least one thing right… there is an afterlife- our behavior here has significant influence over fate… and suicide ( btw considered by many many fine men and women over the centuries ) turns out to be an awful idea bringing untold suffering to the suicidee. I hope you sense my playfulness here… I do Not want you or anyone taking their life. But I am serious too.Religions warn againstt the desperate act.Dante wrote extensively about it. Specifically categorizing suicides in an especially unfortanate situation when they succumb.Wisest of humanity say do not do it, it is not your life to give away. You are making a grave misjudgment… because hello… there is no death.. in the first place… just a dropping of the physical body, Baby. The Mind /soul endure.. Suicide adds more “karma” to yout life- make that lifetimes.what if your materialistic notion is dead wrong?i wish you the best and may a drop of wisdom enter your consciousnessBuddha is correct when he says life IS suffering for certain. But but but that is not the whole story… there is nuch more to life- see the Shakespeare quote below.there is much much more for the doubt ridden being than ONLY SUFFERING. Eg Christ said in this life ye shall have suffering BUT be ye of good cheer for I have overcome the world… that ought be our goal… to learn what overcoming the world means.Shakespeare's words come to mind from wiki“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. your philosophy ] i.e., philosophy (or learning) in general. The emphasis here should be on "dreamt of", as Hamlet is pointing out how little even the most educated people can explain.Don’t do it…. ( I know you merely asked , but it is not unreasonable to think a step abead ) Instead study the worlds great thinkers saints sages philosophies - but dont be duped or glib…I do not know if you are a mere clown or a person who is suffering with deadly nihilismsuicide is a major spiritual blunder , from what my instinct suggests as well as what religions suggest.We see the world not as it is but as we are. Spend time learning about the complex and yet simple truths of Life. Please!
Religiously speaking, can I ask you a question about Uranus?
I believe William Herschel discovered the planet in 1781. Of course, according to the atheist argument that absence of evidence can disprove the existence of something, the planet Uranus didn't exist until Mr. Herschel found it. How's THAT for being illogical?
Religiously speaking, do you find it disrespectful and offending when I ask a question about Uranus?
The Urantia Book or Uranus planet. Sorry, I don't read, I'm brazilian. After Christ after the 2nd Council of Constantinople, now Istanbul, Turkey (556 a.C.), by order of Emperor Justinian East of Rome (at the request of Theodora, his wife), the papacy Vigilio I, is inconsistent to accept that one body may come by the resurrection (exception made to Jesus, Lazarus and a few other Cataleptics). This event, little studied by theologians and lay officials, who may be interested in the subject, prevents the Spiritist Doctrine supplant the lie ventilated religions abstract, ie it is the Achilles heel of an entire institution and its derivatives (Catholicism, Protestantism, etc. ..) A simple admission that we are spiritual beings in search of eternal learning through reincarnation, would join a stroke Faith and Reason, decrying those who doubt the fact, the simple argument that there is no religion higher than truth (see, Helena Petrovna Blavastky ) in Treatise on Theosophy. I have contributed to good debate, despite my own passions that still respond instinctively. Axé Umbanda, Peace and Light always.
Religiously Speaking, In actuality, isn't the only thing which REQUIRES belief (faith) referred to as Deceit?
It depends if you are looking at "faith" from a "natural man's" perspective (I Corinthians 2:11;14) or a "spiritual man's" perspective (I Corinthians 2:10)! Without "THE SPIRIT" of GOD "guiding" one (John 16:13), a person can have "faith" in the wrong doctrine and will be "deceived!" With "THE SPIRIT" of GOD, it is "...the Holy Ghost that teacheth; comparing spiritual things to spiritual" and there is "NO DECEIT" (I Corinthians 2:13)! MOST have been TAUGHT to DENY "THE SPIRIT" of GOD by NOT going through "THE EVENT" of receiving Holy Spirit baptism! Due to DENIAL of "THE SPIRIT" the Holy Spirit is not "IN" them, and they have been easily "DECEIVED" (Ephesians 4:14)!