He doesn’t need, quite literally, anything.
I’m not sure your second question makes sense in light of my answer to your first. And I’m not sure how one goes about seeking His Kingdom without giving Him credit…and we’re back to what I said about non-believers seeing that as being a meany face.
Can you clarify “evil” with context? I can already see you setting up a point based purely on semantics and that doesn’t sound fun or productive.
Please define evil, with context if necessary. I’ll be happy to answer if I believe whatever that is exists.
I have posted elsewhere here about my personal supernatural experience. There are enough stories and evidence to suggest existence outside of how we currently view it. Ghost stories and other supernatural things have been recorded through human history.
What exactly they are I don’t know.
There is no conversion to Christianity without the intervention of the Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit converts.
Christians are called to spread the word of God. Romans 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
We are not to “lead” by example. Jesus is the Head of the Church. The Church is to follow the Head.
By the father caring for his family, it the first example a child sees as a model of God.
I’ve heard and read stories, and i won’t suggest you’re lying but I’m not bought in. Does whatever it was you experienced legitimize splitting an ocean with a stick, talking bushes and all the other comic book stuff? Are bumps in the night possibly explained by something other than our imaginations filling in an unknown knowledge void?
So you’re saying you don’t know if there is good and evil, or you’re saying that you need me to give you the distinction? Like it’s a simple question. You don’t have to answer it.
Which is within each and every one of us (the word).
And I rest my case.
No, I’ll play intentionally ignorant and go down the path you’re engineering.
Sometimes people do things harmful to others and it can be construed as evil, or a number of synonyms. But as a principle bad things happen, sure.
Bro, I am not that smart.
I’m just wondering if you believe in “good” and “evil” and possibly what the distinction might be, and you think for some reason that I’m trying to get one over on you so you won’t give a good faith answer.
But if the father of the family is a very wicked man, then he is not leading by an example of Jesus.
The family is a parallel to the Church. People understand how a father treats his family when he loves and cares for them. That analogy is used to help explain the relationship between Jesus and His espoused wife, the Church.
My point is that “good” has multiple definitions and applications. Evil is a little more limited but similar.
The context you’re asking me in is a religious discussion and specifically responding to a comment on belief in the supernatural so I assume you are asking if I believe in a supernatural force, or forces, of good and evil (which would have to be defined by…something….).
And no. I don’t.
Yeah I agree all the way. I mean you made my point.
Should a father merely be an example of a non-bleach-drinker for his children?
“Don’t criticize drinking bleach, or point out what could happen to someone who drinks it; just don’t drink it.”
Superstition, which is related to the supernatural, does have an evolutionary explanation. A case could be made that belief has been as necessary, if not more necessary, as knowing when it comes to our survival as a species.
What is the case? Creating consequence to enforce order?
Wtf are you talking about? Don’t drink bleach dude.
Isn’t your conscience evidence of the supernatural?
Is it?
I would say my existence is pretty natural.
Christians are said to be hateful for telling people they need to believe to be saved. Saying they’re hateful for doing that is the same as calling a father hateful for telling his child not to drink bleach.
I’d say that as sentient beings we have to have something to believe in to prevent paralysis due to either the fear of knowing what we don’t know, or the futility of a nihlistic existence.
The great something is just over that next mountain. This plague is caused by an evil beyond our comprehension, etc.
Otheerwise people would lose their will to live and literally sit there and die.
Belief acts as a buffer or even an antidote to that kind of stuff.
At least thats what I think I think.
A mistake atheists often make is to confuse someone’s faith with a lack of comprehension about the world around them. The folly of dismissing the supernatural and those who believe in it is evident in societies across all of world history.
When non-religious people finally manage to build a society that doesn’t quickly descend into dysfunction and suffering, I might start believing them to be more thoughtful than the religious.