EVERY species on this earth is reliant on being taught. We are no different. To think other wise is human ignorance displaying its self once again.
Where did you think we came from? did god sit down and teach the earliest cave men about the principles and applications of fire? That circular objects can retain a maximal force of pressure and it's uses are limitless? NOBODY taught us any of this, WE'VE learned this all by ourselves. How about people discovering new things in general? like the first nuclear physicists for example, if there weren't any before them, then how did they become to be nuclear physicists? can you PLEASE help me with any or all of this? and please do not side-step teh argument again and come up with something new to argue about. let's stay on this same argument please. Either refute it with an explanation or acknowledge it, which one are you going to choose?
and please do not use "I dont have to answer anything to you", or any other girly remarks of the sort. Thank you
OK. I never said my beliefs were the first or the last. You assuming did that. I said I believe the bible is the word of God and that Jesus is our lord and savior. My only goal is to live right and help others get to where I want to go because I really do care for you all. What exactly did I side step again?
When I said made I mean the universe just having a random event out of NOWHERE that leads to everything we see and know now. Yes it took God 7 days.
Look bro, no one is side stepping your arguments. Stop with that. Believe me the last thing I fear to debate is someone over the net. Now on to what you said. If you knew what I believe then you would already have your answer for what I believe. When slaves arrived here they knew NOTHING about America. But they were taught over time. Self discover can only come if you know basic knowledge. Like I said before, I'm pretty much done trying to debate with you all. That's why I said to end this, lets wait and see what pops off or what doesn't.
One last question. So what happens if prophecies from the bible or another holy book come true? Then what will you believe? Will you remain atheist or will you change your direction in life? How do you feel about the predictions from thousands of years ago? The rise of sin and the state of the world getting worse and worse. How about the talk of a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT? I heard a couple months ago China and a few other countries brought it up. How about physical currency being eliminated? Saw a video on Yahoo talking about the flaws of pennies. How about "the mark"? All of our information and currency on a micro chip that I'm sure we won't be able to do basic living without.
Better yet don't answer any of that. Just do you, fall back and pay attention. I guess a woman's cycle also is a random thing. Hilarious.
So you're telling me to not reply and fall back? what would that do? This is a thread for debate, if I "fell back" then what wouldthe point of this be.
Well that's the thing, I don't know the things that you know, that's what I'm trying to figure out here.Why don't you tell us so we can not have mindless arguments and toss all that irrelevancy aside. So let's say cave people explored fire, where did theyget the basic knowledge of that? Well you prob don't believe in cave people, where do you believe fire camefrom? And what exactly are you waiting for to "pop off?"
Can you tell me where it says in the bible about physical currency being eliminated or everything being in a microchip?What if the prophecies in another holy book were coming true? would you immediately convert to that religion? As for me, I will remain an atheist until clearevidence shows up and convinces me without a doubt that one religion is the "true" religion. All that prophecy is nonsense, every religion that has aprophecy is based on chance. An author of so and so will make a thousand predictions and a hundred will be right, that does not contribute to a religionsworth. There's this lady (there was a thread about her somewhere on NT) who made a hundred predictions for 2009, some are obvious, some not so, but chancesare, she'll have some of them right. Does that mean that she's psychic?
Who said it was? Well, based on what you believe, a woman was created from a pair of ribs
. In all seriousness, what do youbelieve of the many different drafts of the bible (rewrites based on who conquered who at the time), why jesus' teen years are missing from the bible, the"whitification of power" (phrase I just made up where everyone who had power was shown as white or light skinned [egyptians, jesus, etc.]). And basedon an earlier response, you said you thought of the bible as literal. Does this also imply that the story of goliath, adam and eve, soddom and gomorrah areliteral representations based on your views?