Why rich smart attractive males avoid marriage? Why religions teach you to get married? Why feminazis prevent consenting females from accepting high paying jobs and escaping patriarchal oppression? Why force and deceit are often more politically correct than consent in getting a mate? What should you do to help your self?
My idea is if it’s possible, I want to be able to believe in God without needing faith. Are there evidences?
For example, the story of Sadrach Mesach and Abednego is a major story. Are there Babylonian records corroborating that stories? Why God wants us to have faith anyway? I know political leaders want us to have faith so they can trick us more easily. But why would God? Can’t the almighty convince humans of his existence in a more convincing way?
My family has been worshiping the same God with what jews worship for at least 3 generations. In fact, missionaries actually say that “above emperor”/heaven emperor, the supreme God that really really ancient Chinese worship, is actually the same God with Christian God, and hence jewish ones.
My understanding of game theory and evolutionary psychology shows that most of religious dogma has much more to do with humans’ political interests rather than any god. This is not very surprising. Even monotheists like us that believe in a God do not actually believe that zeus, amaterasu omikami, brahma, shiva, and the rest are God too.
To me, whether most religious dogma is God’s will or humans’ made, is no longer an open question. I am a co author of an e-book http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/38264. Well, perhaps if I were jewish I would think differently.
I am not surprised that we all have different doctrines and often kill each other for those doctrines. Yap, that include jews and Samaritan that fought over whether God should be worshipped in mount gerishim or sion. The doctrines where people would kill each other will also be politically significant such as who should be king.
However most Christian main doctrines can be easily explained away by normal game theory and evolutionary psychology pattern. And that’s the issue. Perhaps jews see something different. Something others do not see.
The question is, are all religious doctrines human made?
We, the “faithful” believe that 99% of “gods” are human made. Atheists believe that 100% of “gods” are human made. Which one is correct?
Atheists believe that 100% of religious dogma are made by humans. What about if there are 5 % divine origins out of those religions? What about if there is some secret truth that does lead us or even the whole human race to better outcomes? Actually that’s a topic of my next book.
Christians answers are often very narrow. You know the controversy of whether Isaiah talked about virgin or young girls? I’ve heard how jews have tried to point out the problem to Christian leaders but goes nowhere.
Then I’ve heard about jews. I’ve heard how you won nobel prizes after nobel prizes. Only the azkenazis ones are smart, the rest are “normal”. Still, smart is smart. Smarter than I am definitely. So maybe I should ask around jews what they know about God. After all, they are closer to the source. The result is even more confusing.
Some jews are effectively atheist. Reconstructionist jews are atheists right?
Some jews believe that baal actually have power too. One told me that God stop sending prophets but in return cancel out power of other gods too. That jew told me that the baal priests used to be able to truly bring fire but somehow God shut down their power. I thought there were no other gods at all?
Atheists of course point holes in Judaism as much as they point holes in Christianity. There is this issue that the original Judaism is henotheists rather than monotheists. I read http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A17%2CJudges+5%3A8&version=NIV and see, aha, actual claim of monotheism in the torah.
They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
But then other translation use the word Shedim (=demons) rather than false gods. http://bible.cc/deuteronomy/32-17.htm
This fits atheistic theory again. Religions evolved. At first God make threats and promises based on what’s verifiable. When people verify that the threats and claims are false, namely that those evil get prosper and those good died anyway, then claims become outside scientific realms. At first, jewish God is just like any other God. He can be seen, has feet and stuff. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ex%2024:9-10&version=ESV;
Then, due to lots of defeat Israel suffer, somehow God becomes invisible.
In fact, a chinese yin yang expert taught that the reason why Christians’ god is so popular is because he is invisible. I can destroy Zeus’s statue and that would disprove Zeus’ godhood. However, I can’t destroy Christians’ god because he can’t be seen.
C’mon. Adam. Is that all? Is the atheist correct? Is there a reason to believe otherwise? You’re a rabbi. You know.