[quote]forlife wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]forlife wrote:
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Every actual and possible object of knowledge whatsoever conclusively establishes not only that God is, but what He’s like and we are accountable to Him. Nobody can “find out” that the ultimate seminal fact upon which all else depends doesn’t exist. Even their “finding out” is itself blinding evidence that He is there. I can’t even intelligibly address this question phrased this way. I know what I’d do if I weren’t a Christian and didn’t believe if that’s what you’re asking, because I did it already.[/quote]
It’s a hypothetical question. I realize you are convinced there is a god and an afterlife, but can you answer the question as if there wasn’t?[/quote]
You are asking him what he’d do if he weren’t himself. No, he can not reasonably answer.[/quote]
Why not? People work through hypotheticals all the time. I can tell you how my life would change if I suddenly knew that there was a god and an afterlife, so why can’t you do the same in the reverse?[/quote]
Because for a believer god is who you are.
If you were an angry badger with a donkey brain, what would you do? Well, in that case, there would be an angry badger with a donkey brain, not me.
Your use of you is inappropriate in the context of your own hypothetical. You cannot ask what I would do without god and out a belief in god, because without god I am not. Or at least who I think of as self would be fundamentally erased.
That’s why there isn’t really an answer.