Is God Dead? Part 2.

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Roughsoul1991

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Is God dead? Part 2.


Friedrich Nietzsche couldn't help but admit the reality of a world without God.


Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?


Are we not plunging continually backwards, sidewards, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? On the brink of infinite nothingness. No hope but a continuing closing in of infinite darkness.


Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his attacks on Christianity. Voltaire also once admitted,

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."


A world without God would be a world without true justice, without law and order, relativism will reign as those in power push their personal humanism and idealogies that match their desires of the flesh.


To chase these desires that contradict the Words of God, they must in return try and defeat the idea of God. But if they truly follow that idea all the way through, then you will find the words, if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.


Because without God they must admit good and evil doesn't exist, anything metaphysical doesn't exist, justice is only in the eyes of who is in power, hope only falls into eternal darkness, the evil get the same end as the good, everything remains in a materialist worldview, no one can know the truth but only pieces, laws are only to oppress the freedom of all who are surviving to be the fittest and live the best life before the eternal nothingness comes barging into the individual's life.


Without God we become uncivilized and carnal minded. The desires of the flesh become life. And for all who even utter the words of God is dead, will turn around and live their life stealing the very ideas from God in order to debate against God. Using logic and reason to debate, when logic and reason are metaphysical. Or when some great evil occurs in the world they judge it as terrible but yet teach that objective morality doesn't exist.


No longer could we know up, down or what direction to go as we plunge the culture into internal chaos.

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I agree with everything in this thread but...

maybe we need to move it into our forum for 19th century continental philosophers.

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On the fence about Nietzsche.

I can't "hear" him...I can feel his music but can't hear his words.


It can cause a rift but doesn't dictate a causality. He was groping at something...to which I say I see but I do not hear.

It is enough to know him and factor in his thoughts into the equation...



Somewhat poetic but you can't "kill the Lord". It's a thought out there that vibrates against me. It's something that has been personally shown to me and I reject it. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world!
 
Darwin really did throw a spanner into the works …
thank God for the great Pentecostal Revivals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which brought back to the Christian West
and to the world a direct experiencing of God's power - praying in tongues; miracles; healings; blessings; answered prayer.
Enormous revival giving to untold thousands and thousands the Spirit of truth and power to counteract the followers of
Darwin, Nietzsche, Blavatsky and others …
The rise of Darwinism (both biological and political), atheistic existentialism, Marxism and Fascism, and Theosophy - all challenged
and proved to be dead human philosophies of no merit against the wonderful and powerful Pentecostal ministries (with their divine
healing) of John G. Lake (U.S.A.) and Smith Wigglesworth (U.K.).
And here we are today in the 2000s and Pentecost is still going strong … these signs shall follow them that believe.