You have a better definiton of God? I think this one is perfect I mean of course there are other ideas of other God's like roman Gods or hinduistic Gods,
There are many definitions available on the internet. They are universal definitions of God/s
but this is the perfect definition of the one absolute being,
Absolute being is one who is combination of present, past and future. Devil can be absolute one as well.
that fits also the christian God, the origin of all.
Allah says he is the origin of all things, Brahma says he is the ultimate creator. Who is true ?
You have missed the point. Just because one island is bigger than the other does not mean it exists.
The point is not which island is bigger. The point is how many trees can be found in both islands. I can think of an island which has a great number of trees, but I can think of another island which has more trees than previous one. I can count how exactly they are in numbers. Can’t I ? B an island has greater number of trees than that of island A. Island C has more trees than that of island B. And so on. Take the example of bigger island now. I can measure the exact length of island with kms, then i can conceive one more island which is bigger than previous one. There might be more more more island and none of them would really exist.
Just because someone who exists is more evil than someone who doesn't, does not mean he exists.
‘Greatness’ or 'perfectness' or 'absolute one' is just a property and property cannot be reduced to existence. There has been a lot of debate among philosophers on this subject. Kant really won this debate. ‘Evilness’ is also a property. This argument has been refuted by Hume and Kant together.
This argument works only with the God of above definition, and with nothing and noone else.
This is not true. The argument was given by Anselm and he himself said about ‘being’. Check this argument from internet. Kant compared two beings A and B. It is plausible to suppose that a sufficient condition for entity A being greater than entity B is that A has all and only the properties that B has except that A has, in addition, a property P that makes A more valued or prized than B. On this account, a judgment that A is a greater entity than B, given that A is exactly the same as B, except that A exists and B does not, assumes that existence is a property of A. However, the assumption that existence is a property of objects is a very controversial one; and insofar as the ontological argument makes this assumption, it is not a dearly sound argument. Kant's point still has force:
By whatever and by however many predicates we may think a thing-even if we completely determine it-we do not make the least addition to the thing when we further declare that this thing is. Otherwise, it would not be exactly the same thing that exists. but something more than we had thought in the concept; and we could not, therefore, say that the exact object of my concept exists.
But other than that the argument is sound, and it does not work for Satan, because Satan is not that "above which nothing greater can be thought".
Again, ‘greater’ is just a property like ‘more evil'. Satan is one “above which nothing more evil can be thought”. Existence of devil is perfect than that of non-existence.
There are lots of believers and theologians who both accept that God exists and the devil, for the devil is not defined as that below which nothing more evil can be thought.
This argument was based on old testament and it itself said, “the fool has said in his heart, that there is no God”.
You just need to use the reductio ad absurdum technique: I can define “Ultimate Underwear” as the greatest underwear that can be conceived (e.g. it washes itself, it doesn’t stink, it fits all waists, etc). By Anselm’s logic this underwear must exist. Similarly, the greatest possible potato chip, dog, cricket bat, and so on, must exist. This is false.
The devil is defined as simply a created being, like you or me, who has completely decided against God.
Evolved being only if we consider ourselves*. Hinduism and Islam are agree with ‘absence of god is devil and absence of devil is God. And perhaps, OT of bible was also agree with it (the source where the argument was derived).
This is like with light (this comparison is an anecdote from Albert Einstein btw.), you can measure light, because it is something, it is real. You cannot measure darkness. Darkness is simply the absence of light.
Subjective vs objective, science is objective and is not subjective like people thoughts about devil-god. For atheist philosophers, human is the god/(s).
It is also based on axioms, improvable assumptions based on... well nothing but the fact,
Non-empirical assumptions are based on empirical knowledge. Anselm's argument was flawed with circular logic. However, you've chosen less flawed version.
I think above things do not matter because I just noticed someone else has answered better than mine on this same thread.
But immorality requires you to either think that God does not care, to make up an unjustified concept of God that allows you to be immoral, or – the easiest – to think that God does not exist.
You forgot about the most peaceful religion of this whole effing universe is atheist - Jainism. They do not even kill insects, nor they kill crops-worms. The Jains preach a doctrine of utter nonviolence. While the Jains believe many improbable things about the universe, they do not believe the sorts of things that lit the fires of the Inquisition. You probably think the Inquisition was a perversion of the "true" spirit of Christianity. Perhaps it was. The problem, however, is that the teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries.
It is not surprising that people statistically assume that atheists are more readily doing evil than believers.
I see, you bring communism vs Nazism in every conversation. Why don’t you check pornhub and try to insert a word a ‘priest’ or ‘church’ in search ? My friend told to me a day before yesterday that he was enjoying some gangbang porns of christian priests. As you know I am an atheist, I do not believe in anything very quickly. After-all, I do not watch porns (watching porns may decrease brain's grey matter) so I tried to look for internet data instead. https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/stories/hidden-wounds-christians-say-rape-is-common-persecution-method-against-women/
History is the victim of the statistics- 30 percent fights for the name of religion
Rest 70 percent- not for the name of atheism but they were fought for resources, land acquisition and border disputes.
Communism did not fight for the name of atheism, Nazism did fight for the name of religion. Communism fight for their doctrine and atheism does not have a doctrine. Communism has a dogma so as christianism has. Communism has heroes marx, stalin, mao, lenin and they were founders of marxism, maosim, leninism etc. Athe is not a guy like christ, mao or marx. Christian communism is also a branch of marxist communism. Communism is said to be a political religion. They should read Jainism books and follow it first rather than believing in any thing else. It’s true that the tyrannical communist regimes of Mao and Stalin were opposed to religion, with religious belief discouraged and punished under their rule. This had less to do with atheism and more to do with the threat of religion as competition with their own tyrannical plans. Totalitarian regimes are built on dogma and fear, not freedom of speech and inquiry. In this way, they greatly resemble religion. In effect, these leaders essentially created religions and inserted themselves at the top as new deities. The problem with communism, however, is not that it is too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions.” This cult of personality are not derived from atheism, and it is hard to see how one could argue that its activities were representative of atheists as a whole.Indeed, many free, irreligious nations, such as Denmark and Sweden, are among the most peaceful and prosperous countries in the world. The point, however, is not to say that atheism necessarily causes people to be happier or more prosperous. What is clear, however, is that atheism does not lead to violence, tyranny or genocide any more than religiosity guarantees a peaceful and prosperous nation. The world’s religions have rules and holy books that tell their followers what’s wrong or right and how to behave. Thus, it is reasonable to hold a religion accountable for the message that it preaches. There are no holy atheist scriptures, no atheist pope and no atheist rituals, tenets, creeds, code or authority. Atheism cannot be held accountable for the activities of atheists in the same way that religion can be judged by its doctrine because atheism has no doctrines.
But you are right, even many christians fear God. But that is just a result of not trusting Him. Of course God is just and against sin, because without justice there would not be mercy, only tolerance. And God is all merciful, for He loves us more than you could ever imagine. He will forgive you all the evil you do, and bring you back to Him if you just let Him. Therefore it is wrong to fear Him, for He only wants happiness and peace for you for all eternity. If you really trusted Him you would see, that He's ever so gentle, lovingly intervening, when you stray. The problem is just, that many people do not wake up, if they are not shocked. So sometimes He can put things rather strongly. But that too is just to bring people back to Him, who is only Love
Worse still is the concept of hell, where non-believers suffer in eternal torment simply for disbelieving in God. Indeed, this torture is supposedly granted even to theists who believe in the wrong gods. If the Christian religion is the “right” one, every Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jew would burn in hell for eternity (John 3:18-36, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 and Revelation 21:8), and this rule is the same for other religions that believe in the concept of hell, such as Islam:
Lo! Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment. (Quran 4:56)
So, do not fear God, only adore Him (the "fear of God" in the bible does not mean being scared, it means to know that God is Holy and to lower your head in front of Him, so He can lift you.)
An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
@Sha-WARM-a said in Fact check with Pet: Can you prove God's existence? Part I:
@pe7erpark3r GOD will exist if you want him/her to exist. This is the essence of faith.
I couldn't understand what you were trying to say but here is a quote. Did you mean it is your will for wanting him to exist ?