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I would say about 85% Deist and 15% agnostic.

I feel the best evidence for a God-like entity is found in Near Death Experience. I believe this far more than the Bible for several reasons.

It is not a religion.

The entity is called The Light. It is pure love, or so that's what those who have encountered it say. It is nothing like the God of the Bible.

There are no rules. The closest thing to a rule is the Golden Rule, which is pretty much universal among all religions. It is not unique to Christianity.

You are not judged by The Light but you judge yourself.

People who have had encounters with The Light say they have no fear of death and no fear of The Light, unlike Christianity which talk of a God-fearing God. One never has to fear love and love does not set conditions.

I have never had a NDE but I have read several books on the subject. I'm not saying this is the way it is but it is the most common sense thing I have come across. I suspect we will all find out when our time come to pass on.

As for me I cannot believe in a deity that can't live up to the rules he claims to have set for us. That's hypocrisy and hypocrisy is not a virtue.

xingu wrote:

I would say about 85% Deist and 15% agnostic.

I feel the best evidence for a God-like entity is found in Near Death Experience. I believe this far more than the Bible for several reasons.

It is not a religion.

The entity is called The Light. It is pure love, or so that's what those who have encountered it say. It is nothing like the God of the Bible.

There are no rules. The closest thing to a rule is the Golden Rule, which is pretty much universal among all religions. It is not unique to Christianity.

You are not judged by The Light but you judge yourself.

People who have had encounters with The Light say they have no fear of death and no fear of The Light, unlike Christianity which talk of a God-fearing God. One never has to fear love and love does not set conditions.

I have never had a NDE but I have read several books on the subject. I'm not saying this is the way it is but it is the most common sense thing I have come across. I suspect we will all find out when our time come to pass on.

As for me I cannot believe in a deity that can't live up to the rules he claims to have set for us. That's hypocrisy and hypocrisy is not a virtue.

What makes the personal experience of those who have written books about their NDE (and profited from writing about such) more credible than people who wrote books about their experience with God and gave their lives as the price for living out their belief?

your problem is that God doesn't fit into the prescribed box you have created. do you not realize how egocentrical that sounds.

your problem is that God doesn't fit into the prescribed box you have created. do you not realize how egocentrical that sounds.

Good people will always do good things, and bad people will always do bad things, but only religion makes good people to bad things.

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kate4christ03 wrote:

your problem is that God doesn't fit into the prescribed box you have created. do you not realize how egocentrical that sounds.

The problem with the Bible is that it is sufficiently shapeless that it can be fit into whatever box the believer needs/wants.

mesquite wrote:

kate4christ03 wrote:

your problem is that God doesn't fit into the prescribed box you have created. do you not realize how egocentrical that sounds.

The problem with the Bible is that it is sufficiently shapeless that it can be fit into whatever box the believer needs/wants.

It seems that the same can be said for disbelievers.

real life wrote:

xingu wrote:

I would say about 85% Deist and 15% agnostic.

I feel the best evidence for a God-like entity is found in Near Death Experience. I believe this far more than the Bible for several reasons.

It is not a religion.

The entity is called The Light. It is pure love, or so that's what those who have encountered it say. It is nothing like the God of the Bible.

There are no rules. The closest thing to a rule is the Golden Rule, which is pretty much universal among all religions. It is not unique to Christianity.

You are not judged by The Light but you judge yourself.

People who have had encounters with The Light say they have no fear of death and no fear of The Light, unlike Christianity which talk of a God-fearing God. One never has to fear love and love does not set conditions.

I have never had a NDE but I have read several books on the subject. I'm not saying this is the way it is but it is the most common sense thing I have come across. I suspect we will all find out when our time come to pass on.

As for me I cannot believe in a deity that can't live up to the rules he claims to have set for us. That's hypocrisy and hypocrisy is not a virtue.

What makes the personal experience of those who have written books about their NDE (and profited from writing about such) more credible than people who wrote books about their experience with God and gave their lives as the price for living out their belief?

Most people who have NDE don't write books for profit. Most are reluctant to speak of it because they think people may label them as crazy.

The ones who do write books profit as much from them as those who write about the Christian religion, perhaps even less as their audience is far smaller than the Christian audience.

People who have NDE are honest about what they experience.

They're not selling a religious dogma.

Many Christians lie to promote their religious dogma.

One can easily see that at any Creationist website.

real life, with all due respect, I think people see me as an intelligent and thoughtful person, whereas people see you as a fundamentalist, ignorant and willfully blind person.

Good people will always do good things, and bad people will always do bad things, but only religion makes good people to bad things.