Parture
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The cosmos doesn't have consciousness.Dear sealybobo RE: your cited quote about sticking to what is natural and "rejecting" anything spiritual beyond that
Jesus even said there would be a great many things we accomplish. But He died for your sins, and since you don't want forgiveness you will go to Hell. The proof being you can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles in various group settings.
And Parture about not being able to prove things naturalistically
I disagree with both of you.
We CAN demonstrate spiritual processes in a natural way using medical and scientific study.
Scott Peck wrote about his observations of demonic exorcism and cure of two schizophrenic patients.
This changed his mind about science and that it could be used to show a consistent pattern of
stages, just like other diseases treatments and cures, both the diagnosis and the testing if the person is healed.
I suggest you look into his writings and suggestions on this field of therapy as scientifically quantifiable and measurable/predictable
so you do not argue back and forth.
So Sealybobo you can have naturalistic focus that INCLUDES and does not false reject spiritual processes.
Like love is a spiritual energy, life is spiritual and these are natural too. they are not mutually exclusive.
And Parture yes we can use science to show the natural patterns and process
of healing by casting out demons using the Christian prayer. We can even develop
the technology to measure the energy, so we can show it is true the negative energies
of demons and occult that is on the side of hell is destructive like radioactive energy and dangerous,
while the positive energy in healing prayers is life giving and helps the mind/body to heal naturally.
God is not against nature because God created the laws of the universe.
Or if you are like sealybobo and other nontheists,
God is nature or is the creation and the body of truth or laws
with no begining or no end but always self-existent and eternal.
either way God's laws include natural laws
and natural laws are not in conflict with spiritual laws either.
The cosmos/universe itself seems to be a living thing. Our planet and everything on it is made from star stuff. If you are going to worship something, make it the stars. Everything else is speculation. What made the stars? Well we even know that. What made that big bang happen? We have no idea. Must be god? No it does not have to be a god. And until you know just admit you don't know. Want to talk about right and wrong? Sure. Mention Jesus or Allah and the conversation is over. Then you've just gone off on an unnecessary tangent.
Have you seen the Cosmos? They show you that when they look at the human body on a molecular level or when they see a mini world inside one drop of water, it looks like a mini universe within our universe. We very well may be inside somethings belly and that living thing lives in a world that is only inside another world. Does a god care about the Tardigrades inside a drop of water? There are more of them on this earth than us. Does god care about them? Oh yea, god put the animals on earth for us. I forgot.
This God talk all boils down to good and bad. Why do you insist that god is necessary? Must be a god? I think you understand the human condition enough to understand how, when and why we created the idea, right? The Ancient Greeks long before the old testament thought that without the fear of Zeus, society would go to shit. That basically man needs a big brother in the sky watching over them, ruling them. Without a god, men would be bad. Do you believe that? I think we haven't even begun to use our brains. I think in 1000 years men then will look back at how primitive we were just like we do to men 1000 years before us. They were uncivilized and ignorant. Yet you want me to believe men 2000 or 5000 years ago? Yea right!
Just look at the stories of the Jews/Christians. Adam and Eve disappointed God. The people of Noah's day offended God. The people of Soddom & Gamora offended god. The people of Jesus' day killed God. And god is coming back one day because society is falling apart. The end times are near. Religion says men are instinctively bad. I disagree. We are animals that can be taught right and wrong.