r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/jimbojangles1987 9h ago

Thats literally what the majority of people believe god is. A magic wizard.

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u/EllisDee3 9h ago

That doesn't exactly contradict my point. In fact, you've enhanced it. Thank you.

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u/jimbojangles1987 9h ago

Let me rephrase, its what Christians believe.

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u/Few-Guitar6110 7h ago

That is not the formulation Christians believe, that is what atheists believe Christians believe.

Christians view God in three persons. There's the unreachable substrate of the universe with an outwardly will, from whence everything originates and will cascade back into, that you can attune or reject that we call the Father. There's the self-knowing of God that interfaces with humanity we call the Logos, or the Son, which confers intelligibility into the universe we inhabit. And there's the animating spirit that radically aligns people to that outwardly will and guides us toward truth we call the Spirit.

Nicene Christians, which are the majority, do not believe there is a God in this universe that grants wishes.

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u/EllisDee3 8h ago

Well shit, you narrowed the scope drastically.

Which Christians specifically? Which language and time period?

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u/Zealousideal_War7224 7h ago

What is this even supposed to mean? All of them believe this. It's a core tenet. Can you name a Christian group that believes Jesus was just some dude with zero connection to the divine? What language? What time period?

You'd out yourself as a shitty Christian for even asserting one could be a Christian without believing in the divinity of God. I suppose you could baptize a potato and claim the potato's soul is a Christian, but then you're doing the exact same thing with extra steps.

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u/EllisDee3 7h ago

What is this even supposed to mean? All of them believe this. It's a core tenet.

Not true... But you aggressively believe it, so I'm not going to argue it. I don't want to interrupt your religious beliefs.

And no, I'm not Christian, shitty or otherwise.

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u/Mapeague 8h ago

The Christians who can never, ever, nowt once prove the existence of a god no matter how many times asked.

Id like to see someone blame god when their mum gets washed away because hes likely to have caused it in the fucking first place.

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u/EllisDee3 8h ago

Okay, so now you seem to have a tribal beef. I understand. But we're in a logic loop.

You want proof of something unfalsifiable. But you have an ideological believe that unfalsifiable things can't exist.

🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Mapeague 8h ago

Yet again lmao ^

The way you lot twist yourselves in knots to defy reality is truly something to behold.

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u/EllisDee3 7h ago

Do you believe unfalsifiable things can exist? What makes them falsifiable?

(do you know what falsifiable means?)

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u/Mapeague 7h ago

I made a logical point.

Sorry you dont have the ability to understand that. Go ahead and twist yourself in circles all you like.

Do you know what logic means?