How do you distinguish between the belief in God and the occult?

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I never said that. You are so intent on proving your superior intellect that you are incapable of listening to the other side and understanding what he said. Instead, you throw up a straw man and argue with yourself, just so that you can feel smarter than everyone else. Meanwhile, everyone else just rolls their eyes as you revel in your self righteousness.
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you made this statement and you think rational people are rolling their eyes at me. lol:

As soon as a "brilliant" scientist claims to be a believer, he automatically becomes someone of "no credible intelligence".
 
not one of you bible thumpers has been able to make a rational defense of the question asked by the op:

"How do you distinguish between the belief in God and the occult? "

If “faith” is a prerequisite in a belief in order to see the truth of the belief, being if there were evidence there would be no need for “faith” in any particular belief.
All supernatural beliefs require “faith” in its truth, being there is no evidence proving any particular belief.
So it must be the “faith” itself that dictates what is true.
Therefore every one of the worlds religions are true, being they all rely on the “faith” of the believer to see its truth. -Unknown
 
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why is it that so called christian are the ones who so easily resort to profanity? you, jem, 666 all bible thumpers and some of the crudest people on et. just saying.....


cognitive dissonance — the intellectual crisis that occurs when a failed belief system or philosophy is confronted with proof of its implausibility. ...
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It's not cognitive dissonance it's exasperation at your insistence that I defend a position you created(wished) for me to have and blithely disregard all my efforts to correct your error.
 
God emerges out of and in times of "need" but not so often out of nothing. Content men do not seek spiritual relief;they're too busy having fun. :)
 
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It's your decision, man. You asked, and I gave you the answer. What have you got to lose? Other than your precious, precious pride, of course? :D
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You're mistaken, I didn't ask you for religious/Jesus advise.
 
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you made this statement and you think rational people are rolling their eyes at me. lol:

As soon as a "brilliant" scientist claims to be a believer, he automatically becomes someone of "no credible intelligence".
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I'm curious as to what you think I meant by that statement.
 
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." --Thomas Jefferson

Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out. 'This would be the best of all possible worlds' if there was no religion in it." -- John Adams
 
Einstein believed in a God, albeit an impersonal God, not one that you would pray to to win the lottery....

And I bet he was smarter than all the posters in this thread. :D
 
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Einstein believed in a God, albeit an impersonal God, not one that you would pray to to win the lottery....

And I bet he was smarter than all the posters in this thread. :D
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Are you positive he believed in god?
 
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Einstein believed in a God, albeit an impersonal God, not one that you would pray to to win the lottery....

And I bet he was smarter than all the posters in this thread. :D
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Are you sure he was smarter than me? :D
 
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