I would like to welcome you to the blog that has been set up to facilitate the discussion about God and religion generally at UWS (The University of Western Sydney in NSW, Australia).
This discussion will be run by Campus Bible Ministries, a student group that runs on all the campuses of UWS. (The website can be found at mycbm.org.au.) However the discussion is open to anyone who wants to ask a question or make a comment. As long as you are reasonably polite in the way you write we will allow your post to stand and do our best to provide a reply.
We hope that this blog helps you in your quest to find out more about God.
Richard
Hello all,
ReplyDeleteI noticed this dialogue is administered by the CBM at UWS.
Will there be any non-christians invited to give their opinion at talks?
Additional questions I have are:
Will the possibility that there is no god be considered or discussed?
AND
Will there be room for discussion as to whether a belief in god is good?
Hi Chris, thanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteOur public forum on Tuesday and Thursday will give a presentation about the topic 'Is God really good'. While there will be interaction with various 'new atheist' / non-Christian ideas, the presenter is a Christian. After his talk he will be willing to answer questions / discuss any issues that arise.
The main theme of the topic will be whether God is good. The question about whether belief in God is good is reasonably closely related. Depending on time it may be possible to discuss the 'does God exist' question, although I expect it will be at least partially addressed in the talk. Of course the goodness of God to some extent presupposes the question of God's existence, although it is interesting that the argument regarding the goodness of God impacts a great deal on the argument for or against the existence of the God of the Bible.
If you are interested I would be happy to start another thread (ie. write another post and open it for comment) on the topic.
Thankyou Richard.
ReplyDeleteAs you have probably gathered, I am an atheist.
Thankyou for your suggestion. Alas, I get very frustrated with threads about the existence of god because they get flooded with knee-jerk responses. It isn't the same as intellectual, 1 on 1 discussion.
At the risk of sounding fearful, I will await a more balanced forum to interact with than CBM. I hope you understand.