Drumming up some debate on here was exactly what I was hoping to do with the questions. So thank you for replying, especially you cddm95ace since you actually hold these beliefs.
Do you acknowledge that there are some things unexplainable by science? If you do, then this can explain why we believe this.
I acknowledge that there are things that are currently unexplained. However this doesn't explain to me why you believe something that is unverified. This also doesn't explain why things that do have explanations get dismissed. If I don't know something I say "I don't know". For instance I don't know exactly how every part of my car works. Since I don't know how these parts work I don't say "it must be magic pixies because I don't have a better explanation" I say "I don't know".
Take for instance, if someone instantly appeared in front of you and predicted what would happen in an hour, disappeared, and was right.
314d1 posed one possible explanation for such an event if it took place. We often search for patterns even when there are non.
Then, when you told someone, they gave you scientific evidence of why that was impossible.
You can only prove something. So in this sense the scientific evidence would have to be proving something contradictory to what I saw. I wouldn't dismiss such evidence based solely on an unverifiable experience. I would then have to either verify what I saw was accurate, perhaps by finding this guy again and seeing if he can make predictions under controlled conditions.
Would you believe that you were hallucinating, or that the impossible did happen?
I wouldn't discount the possibility that I imagined the whole thing.
I choose faith because i know that this life is not all it is,
This is exactly what I mean. Your just asserting that you know something that you don't actually know. Yes I'm sure you have a feeling indicating this but that's not verifiable and feelings can often be wrong.
For those who have truly found it, and rediscovered it, it is God.
Again this is an assertion, you don't actually know this.
I have watch many of you who say that you feel lonely after leaving God for atheism. This feeling they say is quenched with earthly pleasures and friendships. If this truly works, why have many of you confessed it occasionally comes back? This is your soul longing for God, and God reaching out to try to bring you back.
So your saying you've never felt lonely in your life? I also said I felt loney before I stopped believing in a god as well. In fact I feel better as an atheist then I ever did holding any theistic belief.
How do I know it's my soul longing for God and not because I am a social animal not receiving the level of social interaction I require? The difference is instead of coming up with a social situation in my head that I convince myself is real, I actually go and find real social situations to take part in.
Meet one, Christianity was a lot warmer; more friendly. Alas, I came across the truth and I cannot return although I wish I could.
Didn't you also say you felt freer?
I suppose the saying is correct, ignorance is bliss.
And knowledge is power.
You can't believe me, because you don't know me, and visa-versa.
It doesn't take personally knowing someone to believe them when they back up what they are saying with verifiable facts.
If we are to believe in God, the only way to do this is to go outside science and earthly systems. If you are not willing to believe that the impossible might be possible, you CANNOT believe in God.
the impossible being possible is a contradiction in terms.
Your statement basically asks that we ignore what is verifiable in favor of what is not verifiable, which get's right back to my original questioning as to why this is better. Also with the Christian God he supposedly has cause physical phenomena that if had happened would be scientifically verifiable.
