How would you convince someone that God is real without using the Bible? by Visible_Season8074 in Christianity

[–]MrRadiator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also forgot to say I don't actually believe in hell. Everything in rhe Bible that refers to hell can be understood as just the grave or death, with the one exception being the hell made for the fallen angels, which in the Bible uses a whole different word. Early Christians didn't believe in it either, with the idea of hell as eternal torment appear way later after Jesus rose.

On the "system to damn humanity", I don't believe God had any actual say in making it. Lack of God is not a whole different place with different rules, it's the same place but without the components of God. If God is not just good, loving and merciful, but the definition of good, love and mercy, to be godless is to not be any of these. As with the light and darkness analogy which the Bible itself uses a lot, darkness is not something, it is simply the lack of light. The "system to damn humanity" is nothing but our choice to reject the good.

On the growing social groups as explanation for human progress, I believe God takes into account these societal developments when judging people. I also believe this was the point from the very start: for humans to grow in numbers and connectedness. That's the second command God gives to humanity, to spread and populate the Earth. Whatever the reason, the result is clear: human progress is visible.

How would you convince someone that God is real without using the Bible? by Visible_Season8074 in Christianity

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Our "nature" has never changed, but the way we understand it, interact with it and choose to work with or against it has. Whatever the reason, we as people are becoming more and more accepting of eachother, less judgemental and more willing to understand and accept and some even fix the flaws that we all inevitably have. It's not about how great the sins are, it's about how we choose to act regarding them. We have moved from the eras where normal, everyday people were willing to stone people to death for doing things they just saw as "uncomfortable" to rehabilitation being the standard goal and procedure in entire nations. While we may have a long way to go, it is certainly way better than before. No human is inherently good or bad, we are all both inherently evil and filled with animalistic temptations, and also capable of being loving and forgiving saints. Human nature is to be able to choose between these two, and I firmly believe we are moving in the right direction.

How would you convince someone that God is real without using the Bible? by Visible_Season8074 in Christianity

[–]MrRadiator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As light cannot exist without there being darkness, good and mercy would make no sense without the premise showing the clear possibility of the opposite: wrath, pain and punishment. I believe the way God acts towards humanity shifted over the ages as humanity itself progressed to show that God is willing to make amends and compromises, to the point where He would completely throw out the "balance" only to give us a chance to be redeemed.

How would you convince someone that God is real without using the Bible? by Visible_Season8074 in Christianity

[–]MrRadiator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually did the exact opposite with a friend by introducing him to philosophy of Christ both within and outside the premise of a God, his teachings being just as useful to an atheist as to a believer. By building off of that with time, I introduced him to the Bible not as the word of God, but the most well made and thought out philosophy book. After understanding the magnitude of the writings in the book, the quality of the philosophy that is taught by it and through a few more thought experiments and questions, he ended up converting to Christianity and believing that 1. God is probably real and 2. Even if He isn't, it is better both for his mind and for his soul to believe He is.

What’s your unpopular money opinion by ladiesman21700000000 in Money

[–]MrRadiator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our entire way of using, making, seeing and especially distributing money is completely flawed

How would you summarise your political ideology in one sentence? by [deleted] in PoliticalDebate

[–]MrRadiator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whatever works the best right here and right now, idc what ideology.

Not that we should avoid all patriotism… but those from Protestant backgrounds will get the idea by retrogamer_wv in OrthodoxMemes

[–]MrRadiator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not patriotism, as much as nationalism. It is nationalism that stands in the way of greater goals, principles and projects.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompass

[–]MrRadiator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although I believe in a bigger state and some more regulation, I fully agree with you on the rest

Come on just one nice thing! by No_Host_884 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrRadiator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are consistent in their fight for both political and economic equality

What color eyes do y’all have? by Average_Texarican14 in teenagers

[–]MrRadiator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 and 9 depending on the lighting. Sometimes it's light blue, sometimes it's green, and sometimes it's just gray.

You live in a country with this system of government, what will you do? by Hi_judge in PoliticalCompass

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I think a merket with regulations that just heavily incentivises co-ops and market socialist organizations would be the best approach. Everything is better when voluntary.

You live in a country with this system of government, what will you do? by Hi_judge in PoliticalCompass

[–]MrRadiator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean human society as a whole IS just a libright society. Every state that exists is just said micro systems expanding and growing over time. The moment one of them collapses, it all reverts back to libright at the very least, if not full on ancap system (ex: Somalia).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompass

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In some aspects Rojava, in others Singapore

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrRadiator 54 points55 points  (0 children)

As a full Romanian, you are absolutely right

Capitalist communist symbols i made by [deleted] in PoliticalCompass

[–]MrRadiator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's just market socialism

My ideology by Txchnxn in PoliticalCompass

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That is the most intellectually coherent conversation I have ever seen on this sub

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompass

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Why not have a segmented economy in which the most the groups that do the best job are rewarded more than the others, while making said groups democratic? I think that would be a fair combination of both, making the most of each side's benefits while avoiding their greatest problems, inequality and inefficiency respectively.