2006-07-18 07:18:10 · 23 answers · asked by whatwouldjesusdo23 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i do.......
2006-07-18 07:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by DivaStar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Penn Jillette's Essay from National Public Radio (This describes how I feel better than I ever could):
Morning Edition, November 21, 2005 · I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?
So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.
But, this "This I Believe" thing seems to demand something more personal, some leap of faith that helps one see life's big picture, some rules to live by. So, I'm saying, "This I believe: I believe there is no God."
Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something.
Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
2006-07-18 14:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by Majickegotrip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God
2006-07-18 14:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe in God
2006-07-18 14:27:00 · answer #4 · answered by Yzma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Rocks!!! I am a Believer!!! I am a Believer!!!
2006-07-18 15:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Joe & Nick Lover ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God.
I believe in Jesus, who is God.
I believe that God became flesh and dwelt amoung us.
I believe that Jesus and God are the same.
John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."
I believe that Jesus came to save His people from their sins.
Mat 1:21 "And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins."
I believe that Jesus is God.
Isa 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
interesting that this was written 720 years before the birth of Jesus.
I believe that there is no other name given that we must be saved by.
Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved."
what name is that?
Acts 4:10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--
Jesus is the Name of God.
John 17:11 "And I am no more in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, the name which Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as We are.
What name did God give Him. His own!!!!! OLAY!
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2006-07-18 14:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in a higher power, but not in the way/sense that Christians do.
2006-07-18 14:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by xenomorph_girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to believe in a God that has not yet been proven to exist.Where would your illogic end?
2006-07-18 14:51:51 · answer #8 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do and He is real. Have a good day. God Bless.
2006-07-18 14:21:43 · answer #9 · answered by Agent Smith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I definitely do. Praise God!! He saves sinners!!
2006-07-18 14:23:22 · answer #10 · answered by redeyedtreefrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God....... why do you ask?
2006-07-18 14:21:55 · answer #11 · answered by Thumper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋