[shawnyar217]

I have a (simple) question to all THEISTS:

If you believe god created you, what name do call that god by? Jesus? Allah? Yahweh? Buddha? Zeus?

Theists, talk amongst yourself. If you ever settle on one name for god, then maybe we atheists will start taking you more seriously.

Logically, if you didn't create yourself:

1) Maybe a god created you. 2) Maybe something else created you. 3) Maybe you weren't created at all. (Ex: Maybe the matter and energy in the universe have existed forever.)

As an atheist, I'm humble enough to admit I can't pick #1, #2, or #3 conclusively.

[TrevorJ]

By that logic, all theories would need to be proven down to the detailed fundamentals before deemed worthy of discussion. It's like saying you have to determine the make, model and age of a car in the parking lot before you are allowed to assert that (any) car may exist in the parking lot.

But, as I have said before, I agree with you in that I don't feel the real truth of the matter can be proven externally. I choose to believe in God, but I have no 'proof' scientifically speaking.

[lst]

I can only speak for myself, and this is the way I see it (but this is already Faith):

"God" is defined this way: the only one not caused by anything else.

So, if God is the only one not caused by anything, but simply cause of Himself, nobody can reach God, if He doesn't allow to be reached.

So, the only possibility for us to know something about God is that He deliberately decided to communicate Himself to us.

From this premises, it's clear that there can only be one real Religion, and that all the other ones are simply negations of some parts of the real one...