Is there god?

Question

i've got friends who are strong believers and friends who are very non-believers.

I have seen the arguments to both sides. but still i'm still not sure of either side.

what makes you believe/not believe in god?

Answer 1

I'm an implicit atheist, I don't believe there is a God.

Implicit atheism is for the people who need a worldview that is the most accurate they can. Why is this? Implicit atheism is about basing your beliefs on the evidence, and since there is a lack of evidence for God, we have a lack of belief. It says that there MIGHT be a God, and simply no evidence for him, but it is not agnosticism (Which is more similar to deciding we cannot know the truth).

It is not a belief that there is no God, as belief is based on evidence, and what we have is an absence of evidence of God, not evidence that God does not exist.

My beliefs would change if more evidence comes to light.

There are a number of other beliefs, but before I get into them, a word about how is a good way to choose your belief:

1) Don't, whatever you do, make it out of fear. Don't believe there is a God out of fear of hell if you don't, and don't convert to atheism on the chance that you will ruin your one shot at life by having someone else tell you what to do all the time

2) Kindly remember to check your beliefs against who you want to be, a good rule to follow is 'Do to others as you would have them do to you', and if your beliefs require you to do something unpleasant to people, then you are not in the right belief.

Ok, now the beliefs:

A) Main religion. You can be more certain in your faith at the price of trusting some preacher or such more, and your own observation less. Pick a happy medium is my advice, if you take this one.

B) Agnostic: Just decide that no-one will ever know if there is a God, and choose your beliefs, most likely because they fit your worldview, or some other reason is possible.

C) Deist: Everything is God!

D) Spiritualist: (Some objects, nature, or ceremony) is God!

E) Implicit atheist: The highest chance of accuracy you can get, but it takes a long time to think through. Basically, you try to use as few assumptions as possible, and in time this can decrease to no assumptions.

D) Explicit atheist: Declare there is no God. From here I would advise deciding a few things like:
- Religion is a comfort to others let them have it
AND
- You have one shot at life, do the best you can!

Different ones suit different people. A lot of moral framework has been made already in the big religions, but you have to be careful of how wrong decisions by those in power are magnified, whereas in atheism you either have to work out your own arbitrary, or if you are a science nut like me, attempt to rederive them empiracally. That takes a long time.

As a deist or spiritualist, you get all the feeling of some deep religious connection without so much baggage, which is what some people want.

I wish you luck!

Have a great spiritual journey!

Answer 2

God is a powerful concept, probably the most powerful these days next to money. And religion is the drama built around this concept. Humans don't have answers to everything, we only have questions. So at this point God and religion can be used both positively as well as negatively.
Positively? First question the religion, figure out what's right and what wrong, try to adopt the right and discard wrong. Use the religion to help you find the answers to your questions. A same question may have different correct answers and only one or few of them suit an individual, so its upto each individual to find the best answer for him.
However, the problem occurs at the first step. Many people don't question it scientifically. So this is what happens ... read below:
Negatively? We have lots of questions, but very few answers. So instead of doing our homework, many want to hear the answers from others (example: Yahoo answers **wink). And there are some smart people out there who can make stories about God and religion (because you already gave up, and will most probably believe a story without much questioning) and make them look like real answers. If those stories are good, may be its OK, but most such stories are manipulative and in my opinion are not worth it.
Finally, I believe that God is a concept and not real. But if this is going to make you feel better, then God bless you. :-)

Answer 3

When you think about God you should think about the being of ABSOULTE PERFECTION. A being that is not like anything. He is not in any form that our brain can realize now, He is not and never was a human. He is The Greatest, and The Most Wise and Merciful. He is the Light of the Heavens and Earth. If you are able to realize this Great Being, then you are starting to believe in Him.

Those non-believers are still inprisoned in their 5 sences. They image God in a certain shape, maybe like an old man or a strong human, and here comes the weakness in their faith and hence rejecting the idea of God or assuming it to be a fictious idea.

Since God is Most Wise He has created logic for humans, I don't think that the concept of logic has ever been explained through materialistic theories. The question always remains... Why is our logic and way of thinking the way it is? Why are we -humans- born with these built-in morals of good and evil, why do we implicitly know that any action should have a causer, and that it is imposible, for example, for a highly complicated computer to suddenly pop up infront of you from complete nothingness, and if this popped up computer idea is a rediculous idea, then why do we accept the pop up of the whole universe from complete nothingness without a creator?!

Throughout centeries, humans did not have the idea of athiesm! They knew deep inside that there must be a creator of some kind. They worshipped stars, animals, sculptures, and even certain human in an attempt to discover and full fill their human instinct. Why do we figtht this basic instinct ?! Now after the discovery and advancement of scinece and technology, humans grew vain, they discovered a way of moulding their spirit into materliastic things to be able to touch with their hands and to see with their eyes because they were and still prisoned in their 5 sences trying to "please" them. But ironacly, they ignored the fact that even the basic elements of scinece is not to been seen or touched. Electrons have never and will nevere be seen, and are not touched, gravity and all kinds of energy are also the same way. They failed to realize that their sences can fool them more easily through their night dreams when they live an entire scene where they eat, drink, see, and even practive love in an illusive scenario!

In the end, I would like you to "see" deep inside yourself and to seek the truth from your heart as our Prophet once said. Don't be decepted by your vain, we humans are nothing in this vast continually expanding universe that orbits inevatabily around its Creator!

Answer 4

There is no God but the One True God (Whom mankind call by many names and they get confused with those names).
Whether we know or not, whether we accept or deny, whether we believe or don't believe, God is still the ever-living and ever-loving God. All the Greatest Personalities such as Moses. Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, The Bab, Baha'u'llah, successively confirm this fact in their Holy Books.
Through the recorded history (about six thousand years), we learn that these Divine Messengers of God selflessly sacrify their lives and their all to provide mankind with the most perfect education to raise mankind from barbarism to higher and higher civilizations.
Here and there, now and then, due to wrong use of the divinely endowed free-will, some small part of mankind ingore God or act against Him, but His loving kindness and His divine education mightily and gloriously remain
Almost all the Holy Books have been put on the Internet (and no Antichrist can destroy them). They are now at the easiest access to men everywhere; this shows evidently that God still exists and His eternal Cause still continues to enable men in building an ever-advancing civilization on earth (and might be on other worlds of His).

Answer 5

After a heavy down pour, do you get to smell the air free from pollutants? Before a rain storm, do you see a rainbow? If you have a good friend you love a lot - why do you love that person? Yes there is a God because without him - you would not know the simple wonders of simple things on earth.

Answer 6

The fact that you can believe or not believe in such a thing insists that the concept exists but the definition of it is disputed. So how do you define god?

Your parents.. your teachers.. your friends... your priest/minister... everyone but you! Everyone but you makes you believe in god. Because you should know that it's a choice. And if you choose to believe in it, then you should probably think about defining what it is, rather than believing it because of what everyone else thinks god is.

Answer 7

actually!!! It replaced into something more effective formal, yet I used to confer with Him even with the clarification and because I kept ahead to my own ambition and needs, at the same time as He gave me avertisements I kept none and did my way going into further and extra trubles! Into an end, interior a deep depresion, He kept my existence (!!!) the very 2d I left away of all my deep needs... There, empty heart, i replaced into packed with God's undemanding and Peace and Love - an total New existence, a clean body, a clean creative and prescient over the past and the destiny :) :) :) certain, he's my Saviour!!!

Answer 8

I am a non-believer of god. For me, God is just an idea; he does not exist if we will stop thinking about him. He is a mental being, whose existence is dependent in the mind of the subject. Hence, i strongly believe that god did not create man, but man creates god. Since nobody has proven the existence of god by facts, I can conclude that God does not exist after all.

Answer 9

God exists. Thats the accepted perception. It is also believed that God is in our hearts and guides all our actions, thoughts and deeds. People some believe that He exists and some do not. The point i want to say is that never doubt Him. If i try to have this conviction in me then there is nothin i cannot achieve because God guides me throughout whatever i do.

Answer 10

God is like Visa...He's everywhere you want to be!

P.S. I believe in God because it's better than feeling like I'm alone. For example if I'm alone when I die I want to pray and feel comforted and die in peace knowing that at least God is with me. I use God to boost me up, make me fearless. I'm 22 and still scared of the dark but I can go into any dark place as long as I feel that God is with me and I'm not alone. I use my faith as a shield against my fears and it makes this short and mortal life a little easier to live.