There is no evidence for God

You could not be more wrong.

Plenty of animal species are known to engage in homosexual acts. Plenty of human civilizations did, too - look at the Greek for starters.

".....only those who do the will of my father in heaven." The only command that I can think of would be Love God and love your neighbor. Aren't all the commands summed up in that one command?

Jesus said no man will enter heaven except through him. How can you say Jews won't enter thru him? Or Muslims, We are told we have Gods commands written on our hearts and it is our hearts that convict us.

The reason why Jesus explained what the two most important commandments were, was to demonstrate to the people that they were sinners. It wasn't just a meaningless "Golden Rule". You have to understand that within the context, he was speaking to Jews. The Jews were waiting for "the Chosen One" or "the Messiah", as prophesied in their scriptures, written at least centuries before. He was the one they were waiting for.

The Messiah would come and save them from their sins, through faith in him. Not by adherence to the law of God - nobody could do that perfectly.

But science can't yet explain the exact origins of the universe.

And you must be one the naivest people ever. Or just a theist...

Science does explain many things, such as evolution, and many religious people and many leading religious institutions now accept it as true, and have in one way or another incorporated it their mantra somehow reconciling it with their scripture.

And yet you will find plenty of people in say America's Bible Belt that teach their kids creationism. How a country like America can let scores of its children be brought up brainwashed at school like that...now that, that doesn't make sense.

"God" does not even qualify as a hypothesis, as a hypothesis is "Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation."

For "god" to be a null hypothesis, it would have to be considered a possible explanation: a "god", as a supernatural entity, cannot qualify because a supernatural phenomenon is necessarily an oxymoron.

We can safely say that so-called "supernatural phenomena" such as gods have no observable effect on the natural world whatsoever, and never will.

The most important commandments were written with the finger of God on two tablets of stone. Jews were not waiting somebody who denies the Laws of God.

how might one observe what they would not know how to observe nor notice that which needs to be observed?

if one may consider God, how would one be able to conjure or imagine possible ways God would/could influence the world we can observe?

What? Sounds like universalism...



Well regardless of the sin, you need Jesus. Without him, you "stand condemned already", as John 3:18 says.

in other words, we deserve to die because we have sinned. Without Jesus, you will get the punishment for your sin, which is death. What's death? Well we aren't sure about the details, but it involves hell, and it's a punishment.



Nope, that's not true. God didn't send his son to die on the cross solely to give us the chance to be with him. He did it to demonstrate his attributes. He did it to bring glory to himself. (Isaiah 11:9, Jeremiah 31:33-34). The gospel demonstrates his mercy, his love, his power, his wrath, his justice, lots of different attributes all in one gospel. He also did it to carry out his will through people.

Yes, God does care about us. He came to give those who are weary rest, he came to heal the sick, to wipe away all tears etc. But the world does not revolve around mankind. It revolves around God (obviously not literally, before someone makes the joke)..



So because you wouldn't punish people eternally, God wouldn't...? You are also suggesting that people aren't to blame for their sins. On what basis can you assert that?

Are you suggesting that you don't deserve eternal suffering? Please explain how.



To answer that question, let me quote Jesus:
"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."
"I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins."
"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

The two most important commandments were quoted from the Torah itself - Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 6.

He did not deny the Law. Jesus said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets [the Torah and the Nevi'im]; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

I would ask you this. How do you know the ten commandments are the most important commandments?

Do all ten of them hold the same weight on that list? If not, how would you know how to rank them in terms of importance/seriousness if disobeyed?

We certainly have different views on man and his importance to God.
The mind of man, I believe, is the only reason for the creation. Of all the living things on the planet only man's mind can appreciate it. Of course he did it for his glory, but only man can give him glory.

I certainly don't think i deserve eternal punishment for my sins. I've done nothing here on Earth to deserve anything close to death and I'm sure God is more just than man.

There is no evidence to disprove his existence. The notion of God is not a posteriori right or wrong, but rather a priori right or wrong. That is to say, one cannot prove or disprove the existence of God by use of empirical evidence (the evidence which I presume you are referring to). Instead, this must be concluded by rationalist induction and/or deduction. The nature of God is that we, in the human condition, do not have the ability to witness God, thus making any physical evidence to prove his existence impossible to retrieve.Also, to answer your question more directly, there is a reason it is called "faith". The believers have faith that they are right.

The burden of proof rests on the individual making the extraordinary claim, therefore it's the responsibility of those claiming God exists to provide the evidence, not on the sceptics to disprove it. If they are unable to produce proof then there is no reason whatsoever to take their claim seriously.

And so what if it's called faith? I don't get people who use this line as some sort of justification because there is nothing noble, intelligent or rational about believing in something for which there is no evidence.

The answer is, you don't. A supernatural phenomenon is an oxymoron. As soon as something has been observed (i.e. a phenomenon), it is necessarily a natural event.

The supernatural does not affect the natural world. If you imagine such a being, then your imagination is an aspect of the natural world, in line with the laws of nature: however, imagining a supernatural being having an effect on the natural world would be a logical impossibility. You would be giving a property (that of being supernatural) to a figment of your imagination that you supposed to be happening in the natural world, which would be absurd.

The burden of proof rests on the individual making the extraordinary claim, therefore it's the responsibility of those claiming God exists to provide the evidence, not on the sceptics to disprove it. If they are unable to produce proof then there is no reason whatsoever to take their claim seriously.

And so what if it's called faith? I don't get people who use this line as some sort of justification because there is nothing noble, intelligent or rational about believing in something for which there is no evidence.

But that is exactly what many people believe in. It is exactly why people pray. Heck there is even the entire Bible Belt in the US that teaches creationism.

And all those concepts you talk about, energy, formlessness. Those have just been interpreted into scripture by people that have realized claiming anything else would be wholly foolish. Very typical of theists. Always changing the playing field the interpretation in order to adapt to criticism. Every time we discovered more of the world, people read the Bible again and said, oh no, yes yes guys this is exactly what this passage really meant.