I've lots of Ideas about God and his existance, but still I'm confused about some factors for proving his existance and got some questions which sounds logical, for this I've decided to know about your ideas, please if you believe in God or not, give me your reasons about it!
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I will tell you this, as humanbeings we all question. It is natural for us to be curious and have a "need to see it to believe it" attitude toward most major things in life(small stuff too I guess) & I have found myself question everything, all the time, in everything I did. In this lifetime we all can agree on one single factor and that is that we will never truly know an answer to everything we question. And yes it all comes down to one thing and that is the "F" word, Faith! I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had a very close all in my life, in a car accident, maybe test results, maybe a major surgery(or be it a family member or friend we are close with) and the second we escape that close call, we get this very warm sensation in our whole body that consumes us with this feeling and what do we say before anything else "THANK GOD". I truly believe its because on some level we all know there's something more. The bible is confusing for a lot of people to understand, I still don't but even It says there are many religions and we weren't given the right to judge, that for only the Almighty to do, but at the end of the day when we're left as confused as we were when we started, just close your eyes and listen to your heart. You'll be surprised at what you can teach yourself by just feeling what's already there. That's how I know that God is always with me, he tells me in the sunshine, in the winds, the rains, the rainbows and in the eyes of my 2 beautiful sons. I'm far from a religious person and don't want to come off as such. But I just believe what I believe and its a peace I pray everyone gets to experience in their lives, if you just stop asking why and just open your heart and just listen. Everything else will happen to follow, not by accident (its all a purpose!)
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I will tell you this, as humanbeings we all question. It is natural for us to be curious and have a "need to see it to believe it" attitude toward most major things in life(small stuff too I guess) & I have found myself question everything, all the time, in everything I did. In this lifetime we all can agree on one single factor and that is that we will never truly know an answer to everything we question. And yes it all comes down to one thing and that is the "F" word, Faith! I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had a very close all in my life, in a car accident, maybe test results, maybe a major surgery(or be it a family member or friend we are close with) and the second we escape that close call, we get this very warm sensation in our whole body that consumes us with this feeling and what do we say before anything else "THANK GOD". I truly believe its because on some level we all know there's something more. The bible is confusing for a lot of people to understand, I still don't but even It says there are many religions and we weren't given the right to judge, that for only the Almighty to do, but at the end of the day when we're left as confused as we were when we started, just close your eyes and listen to your heart. You'll be surprised at what you can teach yourself by just feeling what's already there. That's how I know that God is always with me, he tells me in the sunshine, in the winds, the rains, the rainbows and in the eyes of my 2 beautiful sons. I'm far from a religious person and don't want to come off as such. But I just believe what I believe and its a peace I pray everyone gets to experience in their lives, if you just stop asking why and just open your heart and just listen. Everything else will happen to follow, not by accident (its all a purpose!)
I agree. "Be STILL and know that I AM God. That tells me we just need to be still and quite and listen to our heart and that is where we find God. Pushing religious doctrine and trying to get others to believe that our god is THE god is counter productive. It causes strife and discord.
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I totally love and agree with your answer. It was respectful and fair. You were not pushing your beliefs or agenda on anyone. I would love to know how you came to your decision to not believe in a god.
Thanks for recognizing that. I've been accused of the opposite. But like you, I have no real problem with faith, my concerns are organized religion and its institutions, esp those which proclaim a need to adhere to a literal interpretation of the Bible - any bible.
While I believed in God early on, mostly it was a social conscript - no one I knew didn't. But Mom let me opt out of Sunday school when I said I didn't like it. I don't remember if I told her (we prob didn't have that conversation then), but part of the reason was the recognition of inconsistencies and contradictions. (Who did Cain marry and who was in Nod? Who did Noah's family members marry to repopulate the world? Of whom is God jealous?) As I got older, the questions continued and my break with organized religion came when the minister railed against Communism in his Sunday sermon instead of sticking to religious topics (I was in my early teens). With all the many problems I saw in organized religion I became an 'agnostic.'
The more I studied how the world and nature worked, the more irrational I deemed the concept of a god until I realized I never really did believe in such an omnipotent, onmiscient being.
I will never scoff at faith, but I will challenge anyone who tries to claim that everyone has to believe or that everyone must follow their religious rules of conduct.
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What questions! All you've done is make statements...in the main disagreeing with why people believe.
My reason for my belief has been posted in previous posts, I see no reason to re -iterate
That post, my opinion remains unchanged.
The argument still stands.....you cannot dis-prove the existence of God and I cannot prove Gods existence...... And quite frankly I don't feel the need to do so.
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What questions! All you've done is make statements...in the main disagreeing with why people believe.
My reason for my belief has been posted in previous posts, I see no reason to re -iterate
That post, my opinion remains unchanged.
The argument still stands.....you cannot dis-prove the existence of God and I cannot prove Gods existence...... And quite frankly I don't feel the need to do so.
My bad. I was responding to so many post that I actually combined yours and another by accident. So sorry for the confusion.
My believing that science/biology could be responsible for the nature you described is not an anti-god statement. I actually believe in God. He resides in my heart and soul. I have no desire to prove or dis-prove God to anyone and have not ask you or anyone else to prove it to me.
Your post was asking how could someone NOT believe when you look at all these things in nature. My point is that if you are using that as an example of proof, it was not a slam dunk example.
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Dear Morteza, it doesn't take long to see the existence of God, when you wake up in the morning and hear the birds wake with the dawn, what a wonder to behold.
The bible says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made,
Psalm 139:13-15
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
God has a plan for your life, but until your spirit becomes alive to God, you cannot see or even enter the Kingdom of God.
Jesus said, You must be Born again.
This is a real experience, if you are obedient to the Word of God and turn from your sin, (we are all sinners in need of a Saviour) accept Jesus as your sacrifice from sin, (we are saved by the Grace of God, not by our own works).
Ask God to fill you with His Holy Spirit, and He will give you, not only power over sin, but a new tongue to praise Him with.
Then get baptised by full immersion, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, to wash away your sins.
If you can get a Bible, read Mark 16. John 3. Ephesians 1-2, Romans, all of it, and James.
Then go back and read the whole New Testament.
Jesus died for you too, but then He rose from the dead so that you could receive eternal life.
Not only for you, but to any-one that would call on His name.
Just ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you, and send some-one to tell you more.
I know that you may have a mistrust of Christians for what has been done in the name of Christianity, but don't let evil men deny you from the inheritance God has got planned for you.
May the peace and love of the Lord Jesus Christ rest upon your soul.
Peter.
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I believe in faith. It brings mankind together. Religion, on the other hand, appears to separate man through difference in beliefs. If man is made in Gods image I would fear to meet a God with the capacities of hate and ego and greed. Further I don't accept the word of God through any man. Man is subject to corruption and the power of influencing others always leads to corruption. If God wanted to speak to me it seems unlikely he would use a middlman that is subject to the temptations power implies. As yet I've had no epiphanies or lightning bolts appear in my vicinity. I think the more likely understanding is that God is a universal entity made up of everything in the universe and existing eternally. I'm sure to such a being, the short time man has existed and the fact that he operates just like a virus in that he wastes resources until they are gone and then moves to a new area of resource, would appear to such a Being as a zit on the face of a tiny backwoods planet and would heal itself by its own destruction quicker than it would take for God to do anything about it. Therefore the synopsis is: the universe is healthy except for one small outbreak that will cure itself through natural extinction. The dinosaurs existed longer than we have.
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