A chance to explain and defend what you believe.?

Question

Do you believe in a diety/creator figure? Summarize why/why not in a reasonable format.

Not just "no, because i dont believe in santa claus either" or "yes, because i have faith and can just see it all around me"

those are cop out answers. really think about WHY


by the way, i asked this once before, and people seemed to think it was a homework question and ignored me. its not homework just because my questoin was written in a sensible format. I'm a married homemaker and not a student. So many people talk about their beliefs, I am just trying to get them to do more than just attack others blindly, but actually examine and share the reasons why they believe what they do

Answer 1

I believe that the God of Israel (the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) created the universe in six literal days between six and ten thousand years ago. I believe in the Biblical account of mankind outlined in the Bible.
I believe that about two thousand years ago, that same God became flesh (in the form of Jesus), died for the sins of mankind, and rose from the dead as the sealing sign of the New Covenant. He sent the Holy Spirit into the world to convince men of sin, convict them of their sin, and lead them into righteousness and truth.
I believe that God has revealed Himself to man in three forms - Father, Son, and Spirit.
I believe that the Bible is Holy in origin and sanctified in nature that God is able and has preserved His message for all who will seek Him.

Why? Over the course of time, millions of witnesses. Through knowledge and learning, the sciences only continue to prove Him, not disprove Him (see my 360 for more details). Through history, Jesus has affected the lives of more men, women, children, nations then any other leader, and His irrefutable claims of Divinity place Him as Man above all other men. He has inspired innumerable songs, poems, books and writings. Men have laid down their lives rather than forsake testimony of Him.

Who am I to go against so great a cloud of witnesses?

Answer 2

I do not believe in a creator or diety.

I have come into contact with too many people of vastly differing faiths to be able to believe any one of them. I feel it is foolish to think that there is only *one* way that a person should live her life, when six billion people each believe theirs is that *one* way. Odds are against one being right and the others all being wrong! I choose to focus on the similiarities of many differing faiths -- the "golden rule" for example, which appears in some wording or another in almost all belief systems.

I see no evidence to prove to me unquestionably that there is a god who created and runs the universe. I hear many arguments pro and con that make a good deal of sense to me, but crumble upon closer examination. I have encountered nothing that cannot be explained by science, even if I am not smart enough to understand all of it perfectly.

I have also never had a personal spiritual revelation that would cause me to believe in a higher power. I know many poeple have experienced an "awakening" or some other great event that they attribute to god calling them, or have recovered from a disease through prayer... I have never experienced nor witnessed anything of the sort which, again, could not be explained by science.

Answer 3

Yes I do beleive in God, I'm not sure exactly who or what He is other than I beleive that something bigger than myself has interveined in my life when i prayed to Him, I go to a church that beleive in God and have been a Christian for years but recently things went a little bad in my life and I realized that I only beleived in God because the church told me to and so I stopped being a Christian and decided to become a drunk instead, as you can imagine things did not go so well for me with that decision but the thinking was well if God is not real then what is the meaning of life? and I couldn't come up with any answer other than for nothing so enjoy life, do what you want cause it means nothing anyway. This sucked and so I started praying that if God was real He would intervene in my life, but I didn't really think He was, I felt that I was holding onto futile hope because I needed an out of my mess, but I prayed anyway and things have been coming more and more together and I do feel that God is real, I have looked for solid proof, and if you look there are things that add up, the bible is fairly historically correct, the fact that bioligists say that at one point it seems humans had a very small gene pool adds up with what the bible says. The fact that they have found whale skeletons inland where there is no water adds up with a flood story, I can't think of it all right now but if you look you will find evidence, but the reality of it is a relationship with God is not really a tangible thing, it is something you know when you have but you can't really explain it to others.

Answer 4

In am Wiccan. I came to it after many years of religious study. I rejected The Big Three of monotheism because frankly, as much as they protest to the contrary, there is no significant place set at the table for women. Women, to a greater or lesser degree, are second class citizens in a patriarchy ghetto when it comes to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. But, it took many years of not finding anything that provided true equality before I discovered Wicca. I guess that was my personal version of wandering in a desert wasteland before discovering the spiritual path that would quite literally change my life.

Wicca is polytheistic. This aspect of the path usually scares monotheists away. They cannot conceive of more than one god let alone accept the idea that there is an equal and just as powerful goddess. So why? Why does this ring true to me where the others have fallen flatter than a pancake?

I makes sense when you look at the world around you. Life cannot exist and reproduce itself without a male and a female. Both are equally important and vitally necessary when it comes to life regenerating itself. So if you think there is the possibility of a deity creating the universe itself, why would this deity create something that is directly counter to the thing being created?

When we create, whether that creation is a painting, a piece of music, an apple pie or words on a page, its something that comes directly from us. It is a reflection of who we are and how we interpret life. Art is not life. Art is a reflection of life. Given that both a male and a female are necessary for the creation of life, why would that not reflect back on the original creation?"

There is, in my humble opinion, more than one god and more than one goddess. All can be viewed separately or as part of the greater intelligence that moves the universe.

Answer 5

Well...the Q is a rather extensive Q to answer. To explain what one believes is to ask them what their experiences are and how they happened. What one believes will be different than what another believes because we all have different belief systems. We are all like snowflakes, we are all different.

Now, lets talk about you. You say you are married, but a homemaker? No, I believe that you are more than a homemaker, you probably are more of household engineer, or an executive, like the CEO of the house you live in or something like that. I believe that you are concerned with what others believe and are asking this Q because you want to see what others actually say they believe.

What I would like to caution you on is this: People are only going to tell you what they think you want to hear. They will not tell you exactly what they really believe and therefore expose to you who they really are. So, take everything with a grain of salt. Even those really good answers that tickle your ears, beware.

Answer 6

I believe in the Supreme Being, the Creator , and the Almighty God. I believe in the the Holy Trinity; one God in 3 persons. Not to believe is being irresponsible and oblivious to the truth. Just look at us. There must be a Powerful God to create all creatures, great and small . The universe, the order of things.why the sun comes out in the day and the moon at night. To understand the Holy Trinity is just like folding the American flag into three folds. It's compose of the God, the Father or Eloihim, God, the Son or the Word of God and God, the Holy Spirit
Then when you reopen or spread the flag, you realize there's only one flag.

Answer 7

I believe in Jesus and the bible and this is a belief that I have come to after looking into a lot of different religions, philosophies etc. I always found it hard to believe that we came from nothing and after looking into this I discovered that evolution was only a theory and I became interest in intelligent design etc. Despite what many people would like others to believe you do not have to commit intellectual suicide to become a christian and there are many highly educated people who have faith in God.

The bible for me provides answers to lifes questions and when seriously studied there is historical evidence for the authenticity of the bible and an intelligent faith in Christ.

I find my faith to be intellectually, emotionally and spiritually satisfying and since putting my faith in Christ I have seen supernatural evidence of his existence through personal experience and word of knowledge.

My faith brings meaning, purpose and significance to my life.

Answer 8

Mrs.Mama21,
It may be your attitude that comes out to people, you seem to have control issues.

Knowing the God that I know takes more than just belief, a book, and religious observance. It also takes the Spirit of God. Jesus said, My sheep know my voice." And I am one of those that make that claim.

I believe all that He did, and I believe in the promises that He gave. I believe in the prophecies concerning all that was prophecied about. WHY? Because the first thing to understand is that I could not know, He was revealed to me in the spirit.

So all those that want God to prove that He exists, won't get it. If in their heart they seek Him, it's Him that is calling them, as He did me.

I am not defending my beliefs to you, neither do I defend what I believe, but I do love God, and so I spread His word. I told you this because you seemed to lack information, and I gave it to you just now.

Answer 9

I believe in a creator God because I am a created being which has been given gifts of rational thought and awareness.
This is mirrored/confirmed in life as a child acknowledges the reality/existence of a mother.

Answer 10

I used to think that the whole idea of the God afterlife stuff was a bunch of nonsense, then this happened to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don