You might call yourself a skeptic but you really aren't. If you are a skeptic you must at least come to the conclusion that believing in the existence of a God is unjustified and philosophical agnosticism is the only rational position to take. As for the Christian God, you seem to be suggesting that you can take bits of the bible & bits of what others believe & then construct your own idea about the "Christian" God you want to believe in. This is not skeptical thinking. A skeptic questions the validity & authenticity of everything and only accepts something as likely to be true if it can be demonstrated to be true beyond any reasonable doubt. None of the supernatural claims in the bible, or any other religious text, have been demonstrated to be true so any acceptance of them as true is not being skeptical.
There is no rational explanation for the existence of anything without God. otherwise youre saying stuff is either eternal and infinitely regressive (which makes no sense) or stuff made itself out of nothing (which also makes no sense). Atheism is illogical. Next you're going to appeal to nature as being irrational and I shouldnt use logic to figure it out at all. Go ahead.
@forsaken841 Is it possible for nothing to exist? No. So something has to exist. We know the universe exists. We don't know that anything outside the universe exists. The law of conservation of energy/matter is consistent with the universe having always existed. Imagining something with an unknown power to create energy & matter doesn't make that thing actually exist.
@dobromirgoodpeace23 No. Time and space had a beginning, the energy of the universe exists at that moment. There is no before that moment for our universe. If our universe is part of a larger reality then time might have existed there but we can never know.
You might call yourself a skeptic but you really aren't. If you are a skeptic you must at least come to the conclusion that believing in the existence of a God is unjustified and philosophical agnosticism is the only rational position to take.
As for the Christian God, you seem to be suggesting that you can take bits of the bible & bits of what others believe & then construct your own idea about the "Christian" God you want to believe in. This is not skeptical thinking. A skeptic questions the validity & authenticity of everything and only accepts something as likely to be true if it can be demonstrated to be true beyond any reasonable doubt. None of the supernatural claims in the bible, or any other religious text, have been demonstrated to be true so any acceptance of them as true is not being skeptical.
There is no rational explanation for the existence of anything without God. otherwise youre saying stuff is either eternal and infinitely regressive (which makes no sense) or stuff made itself out of nothing (which also makes no sense). Atheism is illogical. Next you're going to appeal to nature as being irrational and I shouldnt use logic to figure it out at all. Go ahead.
@forsaken841 Is it possible for nothing to exist? No. So something has to exist. We know the universe exists. We don't know that anything outside the universe exists. The law of conservation of energy/matter is consistent with the universe having always existed. Imagining something with an unknown power to create energy & matter doesn't make that thing actually exist.
@@MilesDavisKDABisn’t the current scientific consensus that universe has a beginning?
@dobromirgoodpeace23 No. Time and space had a beginning, the energy of the universe exists at that moment. There is no before that moment for our universe. If our universe is part of a larger reality then time might have existed there but we can never know.
@@MilesDavisKDAB if there was “no before that moment” that sounds like that would be what we call a “beginning” for the lack of the better word, no?