Did you choose your God or inherit him?

[Greatest I am]

Did you choose your God or inherit him?

1 Thess4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Statistics on religious knowledge are dismal for theists when compared with non theists. This indicates that their own religion is not important to theists and they only follow their God out of tradition and do not feel a need to actually know the theology behind their God. So much for a personal God that theists speak of.

This link shows how most Gods are blindly inherited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYigmGyN2RQ&feature=youtu.be

Religion is primarily an external conscience for those who don't trust their own judgment. They say they do not judge God but only follow him as an external conscience and support any atrocities he perpetrates. These non judging people have judged their God to be good. They do not recognize their own contradiction.

Should theists not be comparing all religions to seek the best external conscience they can find?
Unless of course they have all found a better external conscience in secular government.
If so, why have a religion or tradition to hang on to?

Their religions have thus become without value as theist have already given Caesar everything and have left nothing for God except perhaps, lip service.

You and I wake up and follow natural law. We then proceed to follow secular law till we go to sleep. What laws of God do theists even consider at all during the day?

None that I can see.

Can theists, as users of God or the word as an external conscience, be actually called Christians when the laws they live by are pure secular in nature?

Should Christians call themselves Secularist, as that is the law they live by and not the laws of bible God?

Theists then seem to be hypocrites and this is good. Let’s thank the stars that theists are not foolish enough to follow their God and his laws. We could not afford to jail that many fools.

I submit that if you follow a religion that you did not actively choose, you are likely not a true believer in any sense of the word.
As others see this hypocrisy, they learn what it is like to be as you are and you are actively helping to kill your own religion.

Thanks for helping those against your own to reduce your numbers.
Like Noah and the God you follow, if you belong to one of the myriad Abrahamic sects, you are a traitor to your own kind by your poor example.

Regards
DL

 

[kx000]

I always questioned going to church, but I have always claimed to have faith in God.

 

[420Joey]

Jesus was a god that is a fact.

 

[Dywyddyr]

Jesus was a god that is a fact.

No it's not. It's a claim.

 

[Greatest I am]

I always questioned going to church, but I have always claimed to have faith in God.

You have always claimed to have discarded logic and reason then.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Martin Luther

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPAC_cGVnUg&feature=related

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Jesus was a god that is a fact.

And yet this imortal God is said to have died. How droll.

Can you get past your prejudice and think about Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-91mSkxaXs

Regards
DL

 

[NMSquirrel]

i think you are in essence comparing believers with religico's.
religico's are more interested in following the religion than God.

 

[wellwisher]

Let us apply some basic Darwinism to answer that question. Say religion was in charge, like it was for millenia. Believer will have the selective advantage under those conditions. Thse who are not believers would be at risk.

Genetically, centuries of selective advantage would shift the genetic pool toward the direction of behavior with selective advantage.

Say we did this with cats, so there is less emotion. We will first define a preference of a given look and behavior within the ideal cat we hope to create. This will give selective advantage to certain specimens who will get special care. This preference and selective advantage will cause the genetic pool to move in that direction. Unless Darwin is wrong, religious selective advantage and manmade selection led to a genetic shft in the direction of behavior connected to God.

Many religion were cruel during the past. Often the unwanted behavior and its genes were terminated. This speeded up natural selection. it is not pretty but we have demonstrated this with cats and dogs.

 

[Dywyddyr]

Let us apply some basic Darwinism to answer that question.

Nothing to do with the OP.

 

[Greatest I am]

i think you are in essence comparing believers with religico's.
religico's are more interested in following the religion than God.

Sure.
That would be most church or mosque goers who follow tribal traditions unthinkingly.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Let us apply some basic Darwinism to answer that question. Say religion was in charge, like it was for millenia. Believer will have the selective advantage under those conditions. Thse who are not believers would be at risk.

Genetically, centuries of selective advantage would shift the genetic pool toward the direction of behavior with selective advantage.

Say we did this with cats, so there is less emotion. We will first define a preference of a given look and behavior within the ideal cat we hope to create. This will give selective advantage to certain specimens who will get special care. This preference and selective advantage will cause the genetic pool to move in that direction. Unless Darwin is wrong, religious selective advantage and manmade selection led to a genetic shft in the direction of behavior connected to God.

Many religion were cruel during the past. Often the unwanted behavior and its genes were terminated. This speeded up natural selection. it is not pretty but we have demonstrated this with cats and dogs.

You might have a very distant point but the wrong focus.
The ancients theists killing off the competition kills those who will not follow blindly. It does not cause belief.
It causes hypocrisy, a survival trait in this case, that was later discarded for Gnosticism.
Then again, Christians tried to kill them of and burned the bulk of their scriptures but like any evolutionary advantage, it continues to rear it's ugly head.
Ugly to theists that is, and we all know what their incompetent judgments are like.

Regards
DL

 

[Me-Ki-Gal]

And yet this imortal God is said to have died. How droll.

Can you get past your prejudice and think about Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-91mSkxaXs

Regards
DL

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