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BUT WHAT GOD ARE YOU REFERRING TO ,THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND BELIEFS SO YOU CANNOT GO WITH JUST ONE GOD ..THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THERE GOD IS THE ONLY ONE . THEY ARE NARROW MINDED AND ONLY SEE THEIR BELIEF AS THE ONE TRUE BELIEF ,SO WITH SO MANY BELIEFS AND RELIGIONS HOW CAN THERE BE ONE GOD IF THERE IS ANY GOD OR GOD'S AT ALL .
2006-07-02 18:02:39
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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First we need to determine which God we are talking about here. Are you referring to the real God, the unconditionally loving God who we are all a part of? This is the one Jesus was talking about when he said the kingdom of God is within you. The one who is our dearest friend and closest companion.
Or are we talking about the angry little judgmental God that lives on some far off cloud called heaven. The one who seems to be more concerned with our errors than he is with our successes? You know the egocentric needy little God that always wants people to worship him. The one who is always unavailable because he is only a fantasy? You need to specify if you want a real answer
As for the second part of your question, Yes something happened that made me feel his presence. I was an atheist then one day I had a sort of a vision of a distant relative that lived over a thousand miles away. I convinced myself that it was just a case on an overactive imagination. Three days later I got a call telling me that he had gone into a coma and died the same day that I felt I had been contacted by him. I can honestly say that this changed my life completely. I felt like God had gone out of his way to help me find my way home. This is why I get angry when people talk about the judgmental God. The love I felt that day made me realize that God would never even think about judging or punishing anyone for any reason.
2006-07-02 17:54:50
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe that God exists because of the complexity of life. It is absolutely normal to believe that we have a creator. So much so, that the Bible says that only fools say there is no God.
You mentioned feeling God. It reminded me of a tract I came across years ago called the Four Spiritual Laws. There used to be an illustration in the front of it...a train consisting of three parts. The engine was facts, the coal car was faith, and the caboose was feelings.
As wonderful and important feelings are, just like train...we can't run on feelings alone. In fact, the train could run fine without the caboose.
When I became a Christian, I placed my faith in the fact that Christ was sinless, that He died on a cross, that His death was, is, and always will be able to forgive my sins forever, that He rose from the dead and that I have eternal life as a gift from Him. Does this make me feel good. Most of the time, yes! I still get "bed head" attitudes, whine and complain at times, but those feelings cannot change the fact that I am a Christian.
2006-07-12 23:36:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Sir Tomas Aquinas was a Christian but he was also a natural theologian. Meaning that he preferred to use nature as a method of proving God's existence. Along that vein of thought I believe in a CREATOR. meaning that the universe in all it's complexities works in such a simple logical way that it could only be created by a Divine being (or entity). I don't think that this Entity (we can call it God) is necessarily aware of us on this little planet. But should God scrutinize the universe closely there is nothing that God couldn't be aware of (should God choose to be aware of it). I feel the presence of God every time I look up at the stars or at the wanderings of an ant or feel the warmth of the sun on my face. I feel God's presence with every breath I take.
It is why I choose to do good things - not for God's sake but for goodness sake (besides, [according to the bible] if you do good things just to get into Heaven then you won't get into Heaven. You have to have the will to do good because it's the right thing to do - not because God says so).
2006-07-02 18:17:33
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answered by iamhermansen 3
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Ok, I am a christian, I was baptised when I was a preteen. Over the years I have let my religeous upbringing kinda slack. I haven't been to church in years, done some things I probably shouldn't have, then 2 1/2 yrs ago I come down with the flu bug that was killing people, along with it I had a strep infection and a sinus infection with abscesses. Over night it all went into my bloodsystem, they call it SEPSIS. The dr.s said if I had gotten to the E.R. minutes later......I would have been dead, I was in the process as my parents got me there. I was in a coma for 11 days, the first 5 of which they wouldn't tell my parents if I was going to make it or not, they would just say "If we are still here next visiting hour, we are doing OK" After I had awoke from the coma I was laying in my hospital bed one night, I had looked out this same window for 3 weeks but this night was different, I saw up high what appeared to be an open door,it was just a bright,bright light, and down lower appeared another open door, except it looked like nothing but fire.
To me, that was God's was of telling me I needed to change my life. I had to make up my mind, Heaven or Hell. I had come minutes from death, and he was letting me know, a change was needed.
And I have changed, I'm reading my Bible. But thanks to all the different meds I'm on for all the ailments as a result od the SEPSIS I have problems getting to sleep at night and every sat. I say I'm going to church tomorrow, but I sleep right through my alarm. Oh well, I'm studying my bible.
2006-07-14 19:05:14
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answered by creeklops 5
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Since nobody else has truely proven God to you I will give you my 4th proof of God.
I have given my top 3 already if you go through my answers, but my forth isn't bad either. (Not as good as my first 3, but still very good). I have all kinds of proof, probably around 15 points.
Ok, before I begin let me tell you a bit about myself. I am all religions that loves to study everything. I am very open minded, but I don't believe every word in any Bible or what others tell me without proof.
With this being said I will tell you some facts in history. If you don't believe me you can look them up.
First our galaxy was drawn in detail well before we had the technology to accurately draw it. In other words size of planets, distances, how they circle the sun, ect. ect. This wouldn't be anything if it was only 100 years before the technology, but it was dated back over a thousand years before so. Yes, these drawings are in verious places drawn in caves and on the side of some land (I believe there is an example in Arizona drawn by ancient Indians, not sure if it was Arizona but it was in that general area.)
2. Metal work Did you know that metal was found in some pyamids connecting some of the blocks together. This type of technology wasn't discovered until around the late 1800, so how is it in ancient pyamids.
I could go on and on, but I won't. Instead I will show you the three things that could have caused these things and get rid of two.
1. futuristic travel
2. Aliens
3. God
The 4th is obvious, but if some people were just "ahead of there time" then others would have picked up on the technology and it would have been more all over the place then it is now.
1. Futuristic travel. To me this is a stretch, but I can not really rebute it. Maybee in the future we will be able to travel to the past, but wouldn't that cause a paradox. I mean before we have the ability to do so we needed to have lived in the past and present. Right. So is there a different past that we do not know about? One that didn't have these advanced technologies that we see in the past?
2. Aliens, yes I suppose aliens could have done these things but then you have a whole new creation therory. See if you say aliens creaed us, then you have to ask who created them, ect. ect. Again I can not actually prove that it wasn't aliens that did these things, but you would have to ask the question where did they come from?
3. God; In researching numerous religions I have found out that God, Goddess, ect. ect. gives some people insights. In other words he could have shown them how to do things before there time. As for the creation of God look to one of my other answers.
This proof is simple; How did they have technology to do these kind of things well before the technologies was found?
2006-07-02 18:51:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes,
1. It makes as much sense to me as evoltion or other theories make sense to other people.
2. Science backs up creationism just as much or more than it does anything else.
3. I feel in my heart that I was created with a purpose, more than just a purpose of surviving and breeding.
4. I've felt the precense of God in my life. Sorry there are just some things you can't elaborate on with a limited amount of space.
5. How else are the laws of nature broken. Miracles.
This may not be proof for somebody who doesn't think there is a God, but I'm convinced.
2006-07-02 18:04:00
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answered by plebes02 3
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No. I am convinced there is no god or gods. There's no evidence pointing toward the existence of a deity, and there's no reason to suspect that such evidence may exist which has yet to be found. I believe that the existence of the cosmos and everything in it can be explained by natural processes, not all of which are fully understood as yet.
And no, I have never "felt the presence of god", even though I was raised Catholic and spent quite a lot of time in church and church-related activities.
2006-07-03 00:58:04
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answered by ? 7
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Well, I am constantly asking myself wheter or not I believe in Him, yet I find myself praying every night. It is normal to doubt. We have a choice to wonder. It is free will. When I start to doubt, I always remember the incident when I was an awkward adolescent and Ihad a less than caring father. I prayed for angel. I mean I literally got down on my hands and knees and prayed. The next school year I made a best friend who is a sort of kindred spirit and we are friends to this day. There have been times when I need someone and she was always there. For me that is the angel that I prayed for.
2006-07-02 18:03:04
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answered by Anonymous
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I do believe there is a higher being, but I've never felt it. I know there has to be because everything is to perfect to be cast away as an accident (example, the thing about if the earth was "one inch, or whatever, tilted this way, we would all be burned up.) I also believe a lot in science, but when science ends, god takes over.
2006-07-02 17:58:31
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answered by Mandi 6
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yes i believe in God...he has always been there for me...when my daughter was 4 and she was very sick she was put in the hospital. i never left her side i stayed there 24/7... she was on IVs and she coughing so bad she sound like a seal and she couldn't keep anything down.she was having trouble breathing,.she was taking a nebilizer every four hours around the clock and she was put on steroids...when we brought her home from the hospital.. she was still real sick and i still was getting up every 4 hours for her meds. i prayed real hard and i know u aren't to make deals with God but i did i was desperate, i asked the Good Lord that if he get her well and never let her have another asthma attack i would always take my daughter to church and i kept my promise and today God has kept his promise too,,,,Oh yes i very much believe in God
2006-07-02 18:21:45
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answered by Starbright 3
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