What is the point of God today?

@kingdavid403 said
You would not see me starting a thread titled "There is God, so why not believe in Him?" I would find that somewhat rude and unnecessary.

I wouldn't find it rude but it's quite interesting that you think it is.

@fmf said
I don't find it condescending. The issues surrounding the nature of faith are interesting.

Okay, well, please start a thread titled "There is God, so why not believe in Him?" and we can have an interesting discussion. 🙂 I'll give it a go. 🙂

@kevin-eleven said
It's a weird to have some posts at the top of a list without explanation.

It's a weird
Welcome. 🙂

@kingdavid403 said
Okay, well, please start a thread titled "There is God, so why not believe in Him?" and we can have an interesting discussion. 🙂 I'll give it a go. 🙂

I think I will pass. Christians have been starting discussions offering variations of "There is God, so why not believe in Him?" for as long as I have been here. 

@fmf said
I think I will pass. Christians have been starting discussions offering variations of "There is God, so why not believe in Him?" for as long as I have been here. 

Okay.

@fmf said
Make of it what you will.

You seem to be saying God cannot have an opinion without us.

@pianoman1 said
I don’t want to get into a discussion of the existence of God because positions are so entrenched by both sides that it would be pointless.
No, my question is: What is the point of God now?
Thousands of years ago early man quite reasonably assumed that gods must have made the world. They had to be appeased. Today with our knowledge of evolution, Big Bang theory etc a cre ...[text shortened]... n gods. Today we are armed with the science to explain everything.
So what is the point of God now?

<<Today we are armed with the science to explain everything.>>

Really?

How did life come from non-life?

How did consciousness come from mindlessness?

How did something come from nothing?

Science can answer those questions?

Science can’t even explain the Cambrian explosion.

@pb1022 said
<<Today we are armed with the science to explain everything.>>

Really?

How did life come from non-life?

How did consciousness come from mindlessness?

How did something come from nothing?

Science can answer those questions?

Science can’t even explain the Cambrian explosion.

You're asking the wrong questions.

Your questions boil down to, why didn't God create in such a way that I, in my limited knowledge, can understand it?

Don't purport to handicap God.

@suzianne said
You're asking the wrong questions.

Your questions boil down to, why didn't God create in such a way that I, in my limited knowledge, can understand it?

Don't purport to handicap God.

Actually, my questions were in direct response to another poster who said science can explain everything.

That’s not true by a long shot.

@divegeester said
Are you asking why some people enjoy having hope for and faith in there being life after death?

No

@FMF

I missed this aspect from my answer to Pianoman1's question.

The personal and private solace and aspiration that faith provides are important, regardless of whether the God in question is real.

Your "hope and belief" are not, for you, the "point of God"; instead, they are the effect of believing in God.

Granted.

@pb1022 said
<<Today we are armed with the science to explain everything.>>

Really?

How did life come from non-life?

How did consciousness come from mindlessness?

How did something come from nothing?

Science can answer those questions?

Science can’t even explain the Cambrian explosion.

Abiogenesis

@kellyjay said
You voice there isn't a materialistic answer to some questions; a line is crossed. Science cannot explain everything; there is plenty of fields science utilizing measuring and testing simply have nothing to do with, so it is out of its depth. To believe it can is scientism, which is not too much different from any other belief system; its dogma is not to be questioned or consequences follow.

Interesting.
Name a few things that Science can’t explain and which, therefore in your view, have to be attributed to a god.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Has science made God irrelevant?

On the contrary, science, particularly revelations about the complexity of the cell and DNA, is exposing the theory of evolution as the fraud that it is.

@pianoman1 said
Abiogenesis

Oh really.

That’s shown how life came from non-life, something came from nothing and consciousness came from mindlessness?