do you belive in god?

Question

prsonally i dont, but id like to hear some more views on it. - im not trying to insult anyone, im just intrested

Answer 1

no, neither do i. i think religion was started to control uneducated people way back when, to put fear into them.

Answer 2

I do. I have no reason why I should not.

Many great men today such as professor Steven Hawking, make repeated reference to God in his book a "brief history of time". Albert Einstein also believed in God.

I have serious misgivings about the big bang. Upon discovery of gravity, Isaac Newton concluded the universe must be infinite for the cosmic bodies not to attract each other and form one big body. The infinite argument would mean that the gravitational forces from different directions are in balance.

From the observations of Hubble, we came to conclude that the universe is expanding. The main reason for this is observed red shift. An expanding universe should only have started from a singularity. However, every singularity has an event horizon. This is a sphere beyond which any matter travelling "upwards" from the centre of the body even at the speed of light would be pulled back.

The universe starting from one point would mean the greatest intensity of gravity possible. Our current universe would not have escaped such gravity no matter how big the bang.

Secondly how did life on earth start from dead matter? Aren’t dead materials more stable than live ones? Isn’t this against the law of entropy?

Answer 3

Yes I believe in God.

I don't think that everything around us happened by chance and that there is no more to life than one life.

I don't believe that religions are the cause for most wars.

I do believe that many take the guise of religion for their own ulterior motives.

I do believe that there are other religions which are bogus and some which although appearing different from others do lead to the same God. Some religions offer basic training whereas others give much deeper understanding, similar to the differences between infant schools and universities.

I do believe that one religion and the scriptures provide the "university level" understanding of the purpse of life, the universe and all that surrounds us. That religion is Vaisnavism (an ancient root of Hinduism) and the scriptures are the Bhagavad-Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam.

The Bhagavad-Gita teaches one how to recognise their true identity and the difference between good and evil. The Bhagavad-Gita contains five topics: the identity of the soul, God, karma (laws of action and reaction), the material nature and time.

The Srimad Bhagavatam contains description of how the universe was created, the purpose of life, descriptions of God, various fields of knowledge and also prophecy.

Answer 4

I think that people believe such unbelievable crap because they NEED to believe in a higher power. Also, from when i was a kid i noticed that the families that went to church regularly were also the ones that beat their children and were generally not nice people, or "sinners" as the religious belt would say. I reckon theres a relationship between how big a "sinner" you are and the number of times u go to church or just pray - to ask for forgiveness of course!!
If i were the world president (might apply when g w bush resigns) i would ban all religion as i believe it is the cause of so much suffering - look at the muslims - those poor women! How can anyone think they are righteous and treat women like that? 70 virgin brides? lol. I cant begin to describe the pig-headedness that implies. All religion and i mean all should be banned.

Answer 5

Do you believe in what you can't see? At school you may have performed an experiment designed to prove the existence of a magnetic field. It may go like this: Sprinkle iron filings on a sheet of paper. Then place the sheet over the magnet. When the sheet is vibrated, as if by magic the iron filings bunch up near the magnet's poles and form into the pattern of the magnetic field. If you did that, could you actually see the magnetic field? No, but its effect on the iron filings is plain to see, giving you convincing proof that magnetism exists.

More of this story right here! http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/6/15/article_01.htm

Answer 6

Read 2 little stories:

1) A wizard named Bob found a tennis ball. He waved a magic wand and suddenly a lot of highly evolved life forms appeared on it. He called it creation. The ones he had created changed the wizards name to "God".

2) A child left a tennis ball outside. He found it 2 weeks later and some mould had appeared on it. He found it 2 months later and the bugs and mould had grown and changed on it into larger species.

Which story is the more believable. Im not saying the earth is a mouldy tennis ball, but those who question evolution just leave a tennis ball outside and you will see bugs and mould grow. You wIl NOT see a wizard wave a magic wand and the mould suddenly appears. It grows over time.

Answer 7

Yes I belive in God. God is not different from us. God means positive energy that is gives joy and us happy. Truth is power of God.
I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion( Like christen, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Parshi etc), by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Yes, I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness which knows no adjectives, no boundaries; which knows only freedom of the spirit, silence of your being, growth of your potential; and finally the experience of godliness within yourself - not of a God outside you, but a godliness overflowing from you.

Answer 8

The fallacy of atheism is this: To assume that you know whether or not a God exists is to (mistakenly) assume that you are intelligent enough to comprehend a being that is far beyond what the human mind is capable of comprehending. In comparison, it would be like trying to explain advanced mathematics to a cockroach.

Perhaps we're not supposed to know whether or not a God truly exists? Perhaps it is a faith-based system for a reason?

Some of the smartest people on earth believe in a form of creationism. Einstein was one of them.

Answer 9

I'm undecided about god. I did believe in him, not in a going to church every Sunday way, but i suppose in a 'taking for granted thats its just the way it is' kind of way (if you understand).
However, I was at a funeral last year, it was my dads and i sat in the church, saying these prayers and singing these hymns praising god and thanking him..and then i wondered what the hell i had to praise and thank him for. I was 34 and he'd taken my dad away....was that something i was meant to be thankful for ?
So no, i really don't believe in god and i know the happy clappers will probably come and say he went to a better place and he's happy, but he was ok here thanks.
Saying that, i do hope that he can still see me from where ever he is and that he knows i love him and miss him every day.

Answer 10

yes, how else would everything have become what it is? say the big bang theory, scientists say that it started when an atom exploded. so, if the earth or the universe didn't even exist then how did that atom exist and why did it just randomly explode?

Reasonable answer: God created the atom, caused it to explode, and so the earth is now in existance.

Anyway, I've always believed in God, and so thank you for being respectful to everyone else who does.

Answer 11

One of the most interesting things I've learnt on Yahoo Answers is that I'm an Ignosticist. That means I don't care if there is a god or not. I think finding an answer for this question is irrelevant for life. I knew I felt that way, but here I learnt there was a name for that.