Once free of belief in God, everything that follows collapses.
No God means –
No divinely inspired scripture, no sin, no salvation, no need of salvation, no repentance or divine forgiveness (and no need of these things either), no grace.
No supernatural, no heaven or hell, no Satan, angels or demons, no Holy Spirit, no effective prayer, no miracles, no judgement, no eternal life.
No Son of God, no God Incarnate, no prophecy, no atonement, and, most significantly, no resurrection.
According to the Bible, God resurrected Jesus (Romans 6:4; Galatians 1:1; Acts 2:22 etc). Therefore, no God = no resurrection.
So, where did all these ideas that, once God ceases to exist, fall like dominoes? Answer: the only place ideas ever come from: the human mind. Everything ever associated with gods, and with YHWH (Old and New versions) is entirely human invention. This is the only logical, rational conclusion.
Paul’s vision of what he took to be the Risen Christ and his consequent theology: the product of a tortured imagination.
The resurrection appearances supposedly experienced by Cephas and others: within their own heads (grief-induced hallucinations, dreams, trances, emotional agitation). Or: an emotional response to some natural phenomenon such as bright lights.
The stories of Jesus that these visions inspired: invented by creative writers imaginatively applying ‘prophecy’ imagined by earlier writers.
If he existed, Jesus’ Messiah complex: worked up entirely within his own religion-soaked brain.
His conclusion that the end of the age was nigh and that he would be king of the new order (assuming he really did think this): the result of wishful thinking, all in his imagination.
Subsequent additions to the Christian experience: the Trinity, guesswork about the Messiah’s delayed return, the panoply of saints, heresy, blasphemy, ‘God’s standards’, the inerrancy of scripture, apologetics and, coming full circle, conversion experiences. All creations of the human imagination and emotions.
With no actual God, this is the only viable explanation of the phenomenon that is religion. Human beings did it.
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Or… To paraphrase Life of Brian.
They made it up as they went along.
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They sure did. And still do.
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In one article, you ask people to let you know why they became Christians but there doesn’t appear to be any way to contact you, e.g. an email address.
Perhaps you would let people know?
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You’re at it. Post away, preferably with something like a real name. C’mon now, don’t be shy.
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There’s no question that “god” in a human construct, created entirely for the need to explain; anything, everything they couldn’t understand or explain. And, yes, they continued to make this nonsense up continously and edit it in real time.
If you take the entire mythology back BEFORE the Bible, you will find all the very same “players”, including Yahweh and El, both playing their role in the same “Council of the Divine” all the other polytheistic players came from; no difference at all. The Israelites explicated themselves from the rest of the Canaanite peoples from which they originated, developed a whole new myth around their “special relationship” with their all-Male deity and off they went from there.
It’s all the same bullshit. Period.
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It still rather baffles me that people can believe in Satan. Belief in a god, okay sure, I guess I can see that. Belief in a good and providential god who allows some powerful supernatural entity to run around messing everything up and doing nothing about it? Ludicrous and self-defeating. If your god controls everything, or has a plan, or cares about human freedom, he has no place for an adversary.
Unless the guy works for him and has all along, I suppose. But that raises ethical issues.
Also, angels and demons are just silly in concept. God needs neither, so why think they exist even if a god does? Yet I don’t recall any denomination that thinks Satan is a metaphor or something. Hmm.
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