Yes, my faith in God is very important to me in regards to intellectual pursuits as it enforces discipline and sobriety. The natural sciences deepen my faith and love for God and reverence for His masterful creation.
Being a Muslim is what allows me to apply the potential of my mind. I don't use any intoxicants, avoid degeneracy, and have a religious motivation to succeed and help my people. I credit Islam for my lifestyle and give all glory to God for anything I achieve.
Islam confirms the Gospel and the Monotheism commanded by Jesus Christ, who worshiped God and not himself. It is the First Commandment. To be a Muslim is to follow and obey Jesus Christ.
>>16720227 (OP)
I believe there is a higher power that we humans cannot yet fully understand, but I've long become jaded to the notion of an active and benevolent god.
>>16720992 >a higher power that we humans cannot yet fully understand
So you believe in math since its the higher power that we sort of understand to make representations and successful predictions about the future, but not yet fully understand it?
>>16720227 (OP)
Yes. I believe that Jesus Christ is God the Son, that He died for our sins, rose from the dead on the third day, and that by his blood I am justified and that my sins are forgiven.
I love Jesus so much bros. Thank you Jesus.
>>16721017
Fuck yea, time to sin my ass off and bathe in the blood of my enemies since some demon child negated all human sin while encouraging the proliferation of wacky blood rituals.
>Everyone claims they are the best, accusing others of being the devil or heretic to kills (Hindu and Buddhist claim that Jésus was a Yogi, but Jésus was the son of yawhé, the one God who's against idolatry) >Everyone has his own "holy book" >Tribalism >Absolutism >Scriptures twisted many times. (How many Bible versions ????) >Instead of being homogeneous divine force, religions are divided by committing war and chaos within themselves. >BLOOD EVERYWHERE. >Me not you. >Critical Thinking is from the devil, because God is superior.
God is ONE, like physics, mathematics, astronomy, geometry, sounds, ect. We cannot rewrite or modifie a common mathemical fact like 1+1 = 2. But we can modify scriptures to please a certain category of people.
1+1 = 2, was a common example, of how numbers cannot be modified. Humans have seen what they see without interpretation or modification like religions. There is a force who block any modifications, in any math/physics, unlike religions.
>>16720227 (OP)
That's a complicated question. It depends on what you mean by "God". You see, it helps no one to be reductive. I believe that that we are here implies to some degree that there are forces larger than us. Now, we can get into the semanticalities. [smokes a pipe] The very notion of belief itself can be rhetorically whittled to the bare nub of its meaning.
I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading some of my literature?
>>16721065 >1+1 = 2, was a common example, of how numbers cannot be modified.
But they can be since in digital logic 1+1 =1 instead.
>1 is 1. Unity is Unity, not duality.
Ok, but when you use digital logic the unity is still a unity after the operation 1+1 remains a unity, not a duality because in digital logic 1+1=1 instead.
>>16720237
Jesus did not worship anyone, he prayed to the Father but prayer is not always worship, it is a means of communication. He was a subject of worship, but never gave worship to anyone else. It's difficult to say that "to be a Muslim is to follow and obey Jesus Christ" when Islam views the vast majority of Jesus's teachings as being corruptions.
>>16720227 (OP)
I like this question, because I get to say "no" and then start laughing at you. What need have I of faith?
Belief? Really? Step the fuck up and find God.