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To me the biggest variable in this ask is not what but WHO is answering the question. With 7.5 billion people in the world to me there is likely a lot of difference in opinion on something as basic as life. Being alive is a very physical thing, what we learn, believe, do and teach are much different and different for all of us.
Bryce
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#7399560 11/08/2107:37 AM11/08/2107:37 AM
The most basic question then leads to the three major world views on how it's answered, and on from there all the "ologists" go. This question has been the basis for the science in our lives and it's the question the Enlightenment sought to answer some centuries ago and we are its progeny.
Atheism: There is no god and this is all there is. Pantheism: God is everything and everything is god: souls where created in time past and are continuously reincarnating. The best one can be is to transcend yourself from your body in bliss called nirvana. Theism: There is a God who designed something from nothing.
This is the age of scientism after all. Science is the major religion of our time, and I must confess I really like GPS, air conditioning, and the older I get, the more I want my truck to do
Blessings, Mark
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#7399574 11/08/2108:15 AM11/08/2108:15 AM
To me the biggest variable in this ask is not what but WHO is answering the question. With 7.5 billion people in the world to me there is likely a lot of difference in opinion on something as basic as life. Being alive is a very physical thing, what we learn, believe, do and teach are much different and different for all of us.
Bryce
Bryce, You might really enjoy the writings and theology of John Locke. He wrote extensively about what you outline, and his Lockeans are still alive and well.
Blessings, Mark
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#7399905 11/08/2104:14 PM11/08/2104:14 PM
The most basic question then leads to the three major world views on how it's answered, and on from there all the "ologists" go. This question has been the basis for the science in our lives and it's the question the Enlightenment sought to answer some centuries ago and we are its progeny.
Atheism: There is no god and this is all there is. Pantheism: God is everything and everything is god: souls where created in time past and are continuously reincarnating. The best one can be is to transcend yourself from your body in bliss called nirvana. Theism: There is a God who designed something from nothing.
This is the age of scientism after all. Science is the major religion of our time, and I must confess I really like GPS, air conditioning, and the older I get, the more I want my truck to do
Blessings, Mark
You left out the agnostic: A person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
If someone tears down the American flag and puts another flag in its place, that person should get a free, mandatory one way trip to that country.
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#7399922 11/08/2104:32 PM11/08/2104:32 PM
Agnostics are typically lumped together with atheists as a worldview (and all are labeled as "secularists") as most major agnostic apologists are not neutral, but rather land on "no god."
Worldwide
Secularists: 835 M. 11% Atheists 137 M Agnostics 700 M
Pantheists 27% 2B
Monotheists 58% 4.4 B Christians 1.2 B Muslim 1.8B Judaism 14M
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#7399944 11/08/2104:54 PM11/08/2104:54 PM
I read somewhere that life itself is the true miricle, the fact we live at all. So why is it so difficult to comprehend living again. I'm not sure I have an example of lifes most basic question. But I believe one of life's most basic purposes is to learn Heaven while were here, to practice it and become better at it.
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#7400081 11/08/2107:03 PM11/08/2107:03 PM
The precision needed to create an expanse 15 billion light years across all the way down to a immensely small particle known as a quark, is calculated as being infinite. The Big Bang theory has been challenged and discredited by noted scientists, as science discovers the precision and complexity necessary to produce what I wrote in the 1st sentence.
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#7400136 11/08/2108:01 PM11/08/2108:01 PM